Dave Simeone - Asst. Technical Director
Boys ’00 Head Coach
Dave Simeone brings 30 years of coaching experience, managing competitve youth-soccer programs, placing players successfully with top clubs and onto college soccer teams. He has been a state Director of Coaching, a national staff coach with U.S. Soccer Federation, a national coaching instructor, and he continues to instruct all NSCAA coaching diploma courses.
"I'm very excited about the opportunity to work with my good friend Eddie Henderson and the staff at the PSPL in an effort to move the game forward," said Simeone. "There is an abundance of progress we can make in developing coaches, programming and ultimately players as we work together with our member clubs."
Simeone comes to the PSPL from Cincinnati United Premier (CUP)-- one of the most prolific clubs at developing Midwest players for the collegiate and national levels. Simeone also directed the girl's program at Sereno SC (Phoenix) and helped to usher their move into the ECNL. Over his decades developing youth soccer talent, he has been known to identify a high standard of players for the college level and for the U.S. National Teams.
Simeone's coaching resume is extensive. Beginning in 1983, Simeone served on the state staff in North Texas with State Coach John Cossaboon and he served with Region III ODP while assisting with the men's program at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.
During this time, Simeone had heard about a talented young female player. She already had been gaining notoriety playing with the Notre Dame High School boys team. "At that time there was an absolute void of competitive youth soccer locally and to have a player emerge of the quality and eventual magnitude of Mia Hamm was nothing short of phenomenal," Simeone recalled.
From the beginning, it was obvious Mia was special, Simeone said, and while working with John Cossaboon and then U.S. National Team Women's Head Coach Anson Dorrance, "we got her on a track where she could reach the next level collegiately and with the U.S. Women's National Team". ​
During these ten years in North Texas, Simeone helped to guide top male as well as other top femle players onto U.S. National Teams. Among those were Nick Garcia, Jose Luis Buciagra, Joel Reddington, Carl Busey, Johnny Torres and eventually Clint Dempsey.​