Coaching
Coach Nic Nazon continues to foster development in SCU players
Twenty-six-year-old Nic Nazon, a former standout player, now helps promote the game in a different capacity, as he serves as coach of SCUs U-11 2012 Boys Pre-ECNL team. For Nazon, his current position is one he’s attained as he’s accrued experience, having initially started out coaching at the GFC Division 1 and 2 levels. “I…
Read MoreSascha Thein named 2022 FYSA Boys Rec Coach of the Year
Space Coast United’s Sascha Thein has been named the 2022 Florida Youth Soccer Association’s Boys Recreational Coach of the Year. Thein, who says she has been with SCU “going on nine years” will be recognized at an FYSA luncheon in Orlando on Aug. 6. “It’s always nice to be recognized for doing something that you…
Read MoreCoach Gary Miracle Inspires Space Coast United players
Merriam-Webster provides a definition for the word inspiration as “a person, place, experience, etc., that makes someone want to do or create something.” By that definition, there can be no doubt that 40-year-old Gary Miracle is an inspiration. Miracle, a father of four children, said he started feeling ill between Christmas and New Year’s Day…
Read MoreTwo Space Coast United coaches earn impressive accreditation
Two Space Coast United coaches have earned National Youth Licenses through U.S. Soccer. Scott Armstrong, SCU’s executive director of coaching and Willie Daffron, who coaches the club’s U-15 Boys team, both earned the accreditation after what both described as a rigorous process. “It was a really, really good process that takes you through the entire…
Read MoreSCU Wins 3 Awards at FYSA AGM
Space Coast United Soccer Club was honored at the FYSA AGM Awards Banquet on Saturday, August 12 when two of their coaches and one of their players were recognized for excellence and contributions to the sport. Allie Goff was named FYSA Girls Recreation Soccer Coach of the Year. Coach Goff has been coaching soccer since the…
Read MoreSCU Coach Goff Wins National Award
Allie Goff of Space Coast United Soccer Club, who won the Florida Youth Soccer Girls Recreation Coach of the Year in August, went on to be selected as the Southern Region and National Girls Recreation Coach of the Year. Coach Goff has been coaching soccer since the day her college career ended. She finds the recreational…
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