Members of the Cobar Junior Soccer Club got to attend training sessions with ex-Socceroo Gerry Gomez, an experienced coach and football educator, on Friday af-ternoon and Saturday morning in Cobar.
Gomez headed up the IM Team who con-ducted the sessions which catered for players of all levels and were a great opportunity to learn some new soccer skills from a profes-sional player.
Costa Rican-born, Gomez, is a former Asso-ciation football player who played in Austral-ia’s National Soccer League for Sydney City, Marconi, APIA-Leichhardt and Parramatta Eagles.
He also represented the Australian B Soccer-oos in 1985 at the World Series Club Tourna-ment.
While at Marconi, Gomez was on the win-ning side in two grand finals, in 1988 and 1989.
Towards the end of his 14 year playing ca-reer, Gomez founded a football coaching busi-ness, the Sydney Soccer Football Academy, which focuses on building the skills of young players, preparing and introducing them to elite level competition.
He has also coached a range of schools and football clubs teams, including the Sydney Olympic Open Age side.
During his career he has acted as Head Coach of the East Zone team; the UTS Wom-en’s Program; the Eastern Suburbs Youth League; and the St Josephs and Redlands teams.
He’s also coached with the Under 13/14’s Soccer NSW Regional Excellence Program and the Soccer NSW Regional Excellence Program Girls Youth.
During his Cobar training sessions, Gomez concentrated on skills development in the four core skills areas: striking the ball (demonstrating short and long passing, shoot-ing and crossing); first touch (how to control the ball with all allowed body parts); 1v1 (demonstrating a variety of different moves, feints and acceleration techniques to get past and away from an opponent); and running with the ball (at speed with a lot of pace, ‘dribbling’ the ball in tight areas which includ-ed techniques for also protecting the ball and changing direction).
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