The OSA News Bulletin

OSATv TouchLine With Carrafiello, Brown, Mrabure, Milton & Flores

VAUGHAN, ON – Anthony Totera’s guests on this week’s TouchLine include:

• Al Carrafiello – OSA Board member representing Hamilton & District Soccer Association, on some of the costs involved in playing soccer in Ontario which are a reflection of the choices made by players, parents, coaches, managers and administrators at grassroots, club, district, regional, provincial and national levels.   
• Javon Brown & Ejiroghene Mrabure – Ontario U14 Boys Team members, on being named to the provincial team, their training and psychological preparations to face the world’s soccer “magicians” on the 2010 March Break Tour to Brazil, the challenges faced by high performance athletes trying to balance school, personal time and soccer training, and the importance of coaches, focus, family, role models and opportunities to play against top-level international competition in the pursuit of soccer excellence.
• Daniel Milton – Ontario U14 Boys Team goal-keeper, on how he first ended up playing between the uprights, his experiences and successes playing with the Ajax Soccer Club, his feelings about representing the province in international play, GK training and research in preparation for Brazilian shooters, penalty-kick blocking, role models, the importance of family and community support and his aspirations to play for Canada one day.
• Ruben Flores – OSA Region 2 and Ontario U14 Boys Coach, on his transition from playing professionally in Mexico to coaching in Canada, the focus on winning versus long-term player development and the importance of his U14 Boys Team experiencing the culture of soccer in countries like Brazil. Ruben started as a volunteer in Erin Mills and worked with teams in Brampton, Woodbridge and Burlington. He holds a Canadian National "A" Licence, USSF National "A" Licence, Brazilian National "A" Licence and Mexican National "A" Licence. Ruben has an extensive professional playing background in Mexico as well as experience in Italy, Canada and the USA. He played for 14 years professionally and was most recently the Technical Director for the Burlington Youth Soccer Club. Now invited to be part of the coaching staff for the OSA as a provincial coach and Head Coach of the Region 2 program, Ruben is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, English, French and some German which helps him understand and develop players coming from different backgrounds. Passionate about “The Beautiful Game”, he is a true believer of developing FUTBOL players at the younger age levels.

TouchLine welcomes input from the Membership and public at large:

• Submit topic suggestions via “Channel Comments"
• Provide feedback in the video’s “Comments” box
• Email suggestions & feedback to touchline@ontariosoccer.ca

OSATv TouchLine is part of the OSA`s expanding web-based communication services which include:

OSA Website | OSA News Bulletin | OSA Discussion Forum | Play Soccer
OSA News Live | OSATv | OSATv TouchLine | OSA Twitter | OSA Facebook