AIMED AT TOP SOCCER PLAYERS

Tony Waiters kicks off

ON JUNE 2 it will be exactly one
year since Canada’s historic World
Cup debut,

The same week the Canadian
Soccer League will become a reali-
ly.

But what has happened to
Canada’s former national soccer
team coach,Tony Waiters.

A year ago, the telephone at
Waiters’ West Vancouver office
was ringing off the hook. The
media were calling, not just in
British Columbia and Canada, but
from Mexico, Russia, France, Ita-
ly, Brazil, even Western Samoa.

Today, Canada’s only World
Cup coach is alive and well and
living in West Vancouver, exactly
10 years after arriving in Canada.

He stepped down following the
*86 World Cup to develop Tony
Waiters’ World of Soccer, his own
soccer company.

“It was a gamble,’’ he says.
“The easiest option would’ve been
to have cashed in on the publicity
by securing a lucrative coaching
appointment elsewhere in the
world.”’

World of Soccer features in-
structional courses for youth
players and coaches, development
of teaching aids and sales of
coaching equipment.

Waiters envisions a bright future

for local soccer.

“The young players of North
America,”’ he says, “‘could be as
good as any in the world.””

To help make that belief a reali-
ty, Waiters began by writing
Coaching to Win in 1985.

“Almost all coaches are willing
parents who take on the responsi-
bility (of coaching) — in spite of
limited coaching and soccer
background,’’ he says. ‘‘Terrific
people who do a tremendous job,
but they need help.”’

The Waiters summer program is
designed to help fill that need. It
will shift iato high gear in July,
when Waiters will conduct five
schools around B.C. and five in
the U.S. Nine of the schools will
be Schools of Excellence.

“Schools for the recreational
player do a very good job — for
the recreational player,’’ says
Waiters. ‘‘Youngsters enjoy
themselves in a healthy way and
there is absolutely nothing wrong
with that.”*

But the Schools of Excellence
are aimed at the top 30 per cent of
players.

“When I was a 15-year-old
player in England, I would barely
have made the top 30 per cent,”’
Waiters laughs. ‘‘By 22, 1 was in
the top one per cent in the world.”’

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