Coach of the Week – Alex Moretti

Congratulations Alex Moretti, our latest Coach of the Week. Below is the email we received from Byron, telling us why Alex was so deserving of this award.

Jason,

I would like to nominate Alex Moretti coach of the Edmonton Drillers Youth Soccer Club U18 Boys team as coach of the week.

Alex took over this team over 2 years ago and has molded them into a highly competitive group of young men . The team had almost folded at the time Alex had taken over as coach and had been struggling to remain competitive in games . Since that time Alex has molded these now young men into a highly competitive team that recently won a silver medal at the Seattle Sounders FC Cup in July before losing to an all star team from BC in a close game.

Alex is a very supportive coach to these men and has a way of teaching and challenging them through constructive criticism and yet giving them confidence to strive to be better . He holds them accountable to themselves and their teammates . It has been reflective in their play over these last few years. Alex has continued to support these young men through challenges they have off the field as some of these boys are paying their own club fees in order to play soccer . Alex has sacrificed many things in his life to continue to coach these boys , including changing his work schedule to make practices and games as his job requires extensive travel , paying for his own tournament expenses in order that some of these boys can participate as well as missing his own family commitments as a father of 3 children himself. Alex has also done all of this without the support of an assistant coach which is extremely difficult to do in a team sport like soccer.

On behalf of the players and parents I would like to nominate Alex Moretti as coach of the week

Byron Prochnau

If you would like to nominate a deserving coach to be Coach of the Week, email gregor@theteam1260.com