TONY WAITERS: Branching out from coaching soccer to writing about the game that he has been associated with, it seems, forever. THE THIRD Annual North Vancouver Recreational Tennis Tournament was hast to more than 325 players who patiently waited out two days of rain to complete matches spread) over most of North Vancouver's 15¢ tennis courts. The tournament owas held June 17-24. sponsored by the North Vancouver Recreation Commission, Rucanor and Time Out Sports. WOMEN; Under 25: 4. Audrey Tan; 2. Regina Gock. 26-35: 1. Shelley Ledingham; 2 Christina Bebeh, 36-55: $. Elaine Richardson; 2. Evelina Zanotto, O66-plus: 1. Marjorie West; 2. Ruth Doole. MEN Under 28: 1. Dirk Mohrmann: 2. Richard Yee-hung. 26-38: 1, Jeff Stipes: 2. Kelly Gordon. 36-45: 1. Warren Quentin Brown. 46-55: 1. Peter Walsh: 2. John MeEachern. §6-60; 1. Lubo George Frauensicin. GV-65; 4. Ast Phambulton, 2. Paul Borck, 66-plus: bo Miroslas Hermann: Lore; 2. Chobo; 2, 4 NEWS photo Cindy Goodman Rain delay didn’t dampen NV tourney 2. Frank Gartaes, Open: J. Craig: Kincaid-Sotith: 2. Gree Haywood. GIRLS Under 12: 1. Martina Bermath: 2. Martina living. Under do: 1. Rebeous Husain: 2. Sarah Collings, BOYS Under 10: 0. Kamil Kazssura: 2. Brett Grueter, Under §2: 1. Albert Chen: 2. Mith Grueter. Under b4: 1. Ramy dalati. Uniter 16: b. Andy Trastin: deff Anderson. Under 8: 1. brance Abruezese: 2. Kevin baw. Albert: Chen: 2. ts Wednesday. July 3, 1991 - North Shore News - 13 Speer 2 National soccer coach also publishes books on the game THE NAME Tony Waiters is one of the more well-known names associated with the game of soccer in Canada. During the late 19705 and early 19805 the 54-year old West Van- couver resident ran the former Vancouver Whitecaps of ithe North American Soccer League (NASL) and even took the team to victory in 1979 when the Whitecaps managed to win the coveted NASL Soccer Bowl] in New York. In Vancouver, it’s not every day that thousands of people jam the Vancouver International Airport to welcome home a winning sports team. But that was the case when the Whitecaps defeated Tampa Bay to win the Soccer Bowl, Waiters currently coaches the Canadian Olympic soccer team and the Canadian National team, But aside from having a suc- cessful career in soccer, there is also another side to the man who By Surj Rattan News Reporter promoting his book, so he bought the rights to it and began selling it on his own. He managed to sell about 7,000 copies. “Soccer’s an unusual type of business,’’ Waiters says. ‘‘You wouldn’t go to Coles or W.H. Smith to buy a soccer book; you'd be lucky to find one there. “Ll started selling directly to soccer assaciations."” In 1986 he took time away from his full-time job as coach of Canada’s national soccer team to concentrate on his new company. And, admits Waiters, he had some doubts about what he was doing 44 /[t was a bit of a gamble because I’ve never been on my own before. I was trained as a teacher initially in England and then got into professional soccer. 99 was born in South Port, England — a side not many people may be aware of. Waiters, you see. is also an author. In fact, Waiters is also a publisher. In 1982, he formed a company called Tony Waiters’ World of Soccer Lid., which is involved with publishing books about how to teach the game of soccer. Among the books Waiters has authored and published are: Coaching to Win: Soccer for the Young Player. Coaching Youth Soccer; Coaching the Team; Teaching...Offside (which he co- authored with Bob Evans, a former NASL referee) and Coaching 9, 10 and I! Year Olds plus Coaching 6.7 and 8 Year Olds; two books he co-authored with Bobby Howe, former coach of the NASL's Seattle Sounders. But writing and publishing books about soccer is not some- thing Waiters decided to jump in- to overnight. He’s been collecting material on the subject for the last 10 years, the amount of time it took him to produce his first book. “The reason why the first book was 10 years in the making was because back in the United Kingdom [ was the English Youth team coach and [ had been asked by a publishing company to do a book. “They wanted to ghost (write) it; bring sameone in 20 hours a week to write it. E didn't like that idea so T wrote the outline for the book and told the publishers that I was not prepared to go through that process and also [ didn't have the time.” says Waiters, fle began writing the book on his own in ‘bits and pigees’” and when the finished product was released it sold) about 4,500 copies, But Waiters didn’t chink the publishers did a good job of in the beginning. “It was a bit of a gamble because I've never been on my own before. | was trained as a teacher initially in England and then got into professional soccer. I've always been an employee and the paycheques came in regular- ly,”’ Waiters says. “You might get fired or moved around but at least you’re not having to make it financially on your own. So the next four years, up to 1990, were as traumatic as I've ever experienced. “Being a rookie in the business world, you have to learn fast or you don’t survive.’’ Once his company got off the ground, Waiters began to spend some of this time coaching youth soccer and volunteered to go on the board of the West Vancouver Seccer Club and help them with their program. He says he was happy to work with the coaches of the 12 to 18- year-olds but initially didn't know if he wanted to work with the pee wee soccer players. But all of that soon. changed and Waiters found himself actually enjoying working with the pee wee would-be soccer stars. Part of the program he has de- veloped for the young players in- cludes working on the field and then working in the classrooms with ‘soccer workbooks’? which he has recruited people to help him with. When working with the pee wees there is, says Waiters, only one rule to follow: to tiave fun. “They go on the ficld and it's mainly a round of three-a-side game, and the kids can have fun with that because they get plenty of kicks at the bail. Then they go into the chissroom where they do a number of fun learning activi- Hes."