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From Justin:
I will start by saying that I am currently a Junior at Caldwell College on the Men's Intercollegiate Soccer Team.  I am now 20 years old and I began my career at the Barrens Rec Level nearly 15 years ago with my father as my coach.  I have been playing soccer in the Barrens Rec League and Travel League since U-5 to U-14 for the Vipers under Steve Laumann, Randy Babcock, and Cliff Everett (my father).  During my first travel soccer league, I was only 9 and played under Randy Babcock at the U-12 level.  After, the Barrens Leagues, I played for the York United North Stars under Steve Corrieri and captained every season of play up to U-18. During this time, I played for my High School Varisity Team and lettered all four years. I was named captain in my Junior and Senior years and received MVP under Dan Campasino. 
 
Recently, I returned from Germany to play in the Oberliga (Bezirksoberliga to be technical depending on which region your team is from) for TSV Marktoberdorf, which is a Semi-Professional team in Marktoberdorf, Germany.  I played for the First and the Second Team under Trainer Norbert Schmidbauer.  It was an amazing experience with intenese levels of training and match sessions. I lived in Marktoberdorf for nearly Six Weeks (Month and a Half) and played in 10 games. I am now registered with that team and am able to return and play, which I plan on doing in the near future.  The training sessions were rigorous with practice three times a week if the team lost the previous match that weekend and two times if the team won the match.  The style of play was very organized and tactical, much more so than soccer in the United States. Therefore, with the organization came less fitness and more off the ball movement.  Either way, their fitness came from match play or playing in the training sessions and not just running to run.  The crossing and finishing was extremely fine tuned as that is a big part of soccer at high levels in Germany.  Possession was also a key factor to my teams success in which they finished in the top five of the league beating the derby/rival team FC Kaufbeuren. 
 
Soccer in Germany is a way of life, even though it has so many leagues that offer a salary, soccer is still viewed as if money wouldn't even be a factor as well as the politics.  They play soccer to play soccer and bring a high morale and a good team spirit for every game.

FC York will be hosting a D-License USSF Coaching Course during March at the York Learning Center (former Central York High School).
Click here for more details or contact John Schleicher or John Fellenbaum to register.