TRUSSVILLE UNITED SOCCER CLUB, our teams to win and have success, but I want serving a soccer community spread out over them to be doing it the right way,” he says. northeast Jefferson County and parts of St. While most of the club’s players come Clair County, has developed into a solid and from the middle to upper middle-class competitive club on the state level. Founded in neighborhoods in Trussville, McClane wants 2006, Trussville United has provided a quality to tap into the talent pool in the surrounding soccer experience for kids in Trussville as well communities and get them brought into the as such far-flung locales as Pinson, Springville, Trussville system at an earlier age to help Moody, and Pell City. While many Trussville make sure every child has every opportunity to teams have been successful over the years, reach his or her full potential. Nonserum sit, explitatem re eici si dolesse cumque enienes apicit aut et que con cus debitatusa new Director of Coaching Jeremy McClane is “I’m trying to not only market ourselves in dempedissit id modi ut aut hit inci tem nistectaque working to ensure the club’s future success. those areas to get younger players from the velique debit de simus, unt qui nonsequate voluptatur molorpore volorep eriande ligniminto McClane, a former member of the UAB Clays, the Moodys, Springville, Pell City, Pinson blam, eiuscia dicita aut in exerioratiam sus, Blazers soccer team, has coached at Vestavia and get them started early in our program to help voluptatur sinihitatem simet poremque natur remporempos aut eiur sunda qui aut hilia venisitiorro United and Director of Soccer Operations at them get better skills training from a younger UAB. He took over as DOC at Trussville United age,” McClane says. “That way, when they do in November 2015. His philosophy centers decide to try competitive travel soccer, they’re not on individual player development over team in a situation where they’re having to play catchsuccess. However, he believes winning should up but are right where they need to be.” be a byproduct to doing things the right way. “I do understand there are certain aspects to winning that are tangible. You can look at it and see a record. It’s easy to see the results and say we’re doing well. But, I’ve always felt that the strength of the club and your teams is not where your top players are, but where your bottom players are,” says McClane. If you can work to develop each individual player then you close the gap between where your top player is and your bottom player is, and you can start to develop overall soccer players.
Trussville United Soccer Club
Inside this spotlight: the club story · 2 team spotlights · 2 player profiles.
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Team
Blaze 03 Red
BLAZE 03 RED ONE OF THE MORE SUCCESSFUL GIRL’S TEAMS competing for Trussville United Soccer Club, the Blaze ‘03 Red is a talented and tight-knit group of young players with a bright future ahead of them. Like many of the
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Team
Fire 03
FIRE 03 THE TRUSSVILLE FIRE 03 BOYS TEAM IS A study in turnarounds. Made up of a group of talented individuals, the boys hadn’t learned how to work together as a team. Working as a unit was a major focus for new head coa
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Player
Gannon Osborne
Trussville United Soccer Club GANNON OSBORNE One of the leaders of the Trussville Fire 03 state champions is their goalkeeper, Gannon Osborne. Gannon, an eighth-grader at Duran Junior High in Pell City, was “crucial” to
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Player
Saylor Richard
Saylor Richard, a member of the Trussville Girls U14 State Cup champions, is a key player in the team’s success. Head coach Jeremy McLane says the seventh-grader possesses unlimited ability with a desire to continuously
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As printed in the January/February 2017 issue of Upper 90 Magazine, Alabama edition. Rosters and coaching staff reflect the time of publication.
