About Soccer Skillology

Soccer Skillology is your online learning center for soccer.  We want to help guide the player, their parents, and coach through every stage of their development, helping them to explore and discover their own unique qualities and strengths.

Working diligently since 1997 to prepare players for their next stages of youth, college and professional soccer.  Our focus is on encouraging the development of technical mastery, creativity, athleticism, and leadership capacity to enable peak performance and greater enjoyment of the game. Our goal is to help the person develop into a complete player.

One who is:

  • Technically proficient
  • Tactically aware
  • Able to excel athletically
  • Mature, self-motivated, self disciplined, and self-reliant
  • A person of character
  • Emotionally strong and resilient
  • A Captain – (First learning to lead themselves – then to lead others)

 About Mike Kleinert

Summary:

1.  Technical Director (Director of Coaching) for the Delaware Youth Soccer Association (DYSA)

2.  USSF ‘A’ Licensed Coach

3.  NSCAA Director of Coaching Diploma

4.  Former professional player

5.  Guest of:

Liverpool Football Club, England (2000)

VFB Stuttgart, Germany (2006)

F.C. Barcelona, Spain (2009)

Olympic Lyonnais, France (2012)

SGV Freiberg, Germany (2012)

VFB Stuttgart, Germany (2012)

Training & Coaching Experience Timeline:

  • 2015:  Technical Director for the Delaware Youth Soccer Association (DYSA)
  • 2015:  Instructional and Travel soccer training programs with White Clay Soccer Club
  • 2012:  NSCAA Director of Coaching Diploma
  • 1997-Present: Owner and Operator, M.I.G. Soccer
  • 1997-Present:  Instructional soccer programs for the past 16 years at Ursuline Academy and Tower Hill School
  • 2011-Present:  Instructional and Travel Soccer training programs with Brandywine Youth Club
  • 2011: Instructional soccer program at Christ Church Pre-School
  • 2010: Region I ODP Camp Staff
  • 2008: Hockessin Frost U-18 Girls DE State Cup Champions
  • 2007: Hockessin Frost U-17 Girls DE State Cup Champions
  • 2007: Concord Arsenal U-18 Boys DE State Cup Champions
  • 2006: M.S.Y.S.A. Tactics Workshop on Soccer Fitness
  • 2006: Hockessin Frost U-16 Girls DE State Cup Champions
  • 2006: Concord Arsenal U-17 Boys DE State Cup Champions & Region 1 Fair-play Award Winners
  • 2005: Hockessin Frost U-15 Girls DE State Cup Champions
  • 2005: Concord Arsenal U-16 Boys DE State Cup Champions & Region 1 Fair-play Award Winners
  • 2003: Hockessin Frost U-13 Girls DE State Cup Champions
  • 2001: Awarded United States Soccer Federation ‘A’ Coaching License
  • 1996-1999: University of Delaware Women’s Soccer Assistant Coach
  • 1996: Delaware Girls High School State Champions (A.I. duPont)
  • 1995: Delaware Girls High School Coach of the Year and Sportsmanship Award Winner

Youth and Professional Player Experience:

  • 1993-1996: Professional Player – Delaware Wizards
  • 1990: Maryland ranked #7 nationally by Soccer America
  • 1990: USYSA Region I Champions and National Semi-finalists – Bethesda  Alliance
  • 1989: National Indoor Semi-finalists – Dundalk Post #38
  • 1989: Awarded Soccer and Academic Scholarships to the University of Maryland at College Park
  • 1988: Maryland ODP and Region I teams
  • 1988: Captain Calvert Hall H.S nationally ranked #4 by USA Today