LEARN HOW TO
COACH
THE FUN WAY

Soccer players may get all the glory, but behind every great player is a great coach. 

And behind every great coach today stands a deep fraternity who dedicated decades to supporting soccer’s long climb from obscurity to becoming one of the major sports in America. It was an uphill battle, fought persistently and creatively to overcome a public perception of soccer as “foreign,” “aloof,” “snobby,” or simply “odd.”

This is a story of individual and collective action, of coaches coming together to improve the sport and expand its reach. From coaching methodologies to standardizing rules, improving the play on the field, and the perceptions beyond it, persistent coaches were instrumental in creating the game played and watched today. ‘Relentless’ tells the landmark and previously untold stories of resolute coaches, their love of the game, and how they transformed the sport in the United States.

I have cited and aligned names associated with elevating various facets of U.S. soccer. Still, there are other coaches whose names resonate in their locales as movers and shakers of the game.

Karl Dewazien – Putting the FUN in Youth Soccer

By the book’s end, it is hoped that Karl Dewazien, while not a household name in the game’s history, will also be appreciated for his contributions to our country’s soccer ascendance.

One of his contributions was writing, copyrighting, and publishing in each of his books since 1980 the “Modified Laws of the Game” for U-6, U-8, U-10, and u-12 age groups, which, with some editing, were mandated as a National Program by U.S. Soccer in 2017.

He was asked to define what unleashed his soccer passion. Dewazien harked back to his post-World War II experience. “I want children to have a childhood I never had through the enjoyment soccer offers.”

To that end. Karl holds to a long-range belief which his motto:
“The Outcome of our Children; Is Infinitely More Important. Than the Outcome of Any Game; They Will Ever Play!”