Category: Club News

At Connecticut Junior Soccer Association’s club Presidents’ Dinner on January 29, longtime Beachside team coach and Goalkeeper Instructor Pete Doneit was named “Coach of Year.” In presenting the award CJSA Coaching Director Austin Daniels cited Pete’s outstanding work as a “teacher, mentor and role-model.”

Coach Doneit has led three Beachside times to five Ct. state championships in total, and his teams won the “Fair Play” award at the USYS Region 1 Finals 2007 and 2008.

He is also the coaching director and GK instructor for the Old Greenwich/Riverside Soccer program.

The U13 boys were honored with CJSA Special Achievement for tier hard work as U12s last user which culminated in their winning the Region 1 championship in July 2009. In presenting the award to the boys and their coach Gabriel Stan, Daniels described the team as a group of “fine young men would played the game with skill and style.”

U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley has named 30 players to the training camp roster including Beachsdie alumni Benny Feilhaber and Marcus Tracy that will begin gathering Jan. 4 at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

The group will prepare for the USA’s first match of 2010, a friendly against fellow FIFA World Cup finalists Honduras on Jan. 23 at The Home Depot Center. The match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel and Galavision beginning at 6 p.m. PT.

Benny Feilhaber (Aarhus-Denmark) is the leading cap winner with 30 appearances, the midfielder having started in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup final against Brazil.

Aalborg-Denmark striker Marcus Tracy will make his first appearance in a camp with the full team.