Tony has been coaching in Atlanta for more than 14 years and has numerous successful seasons at the State, Regional, and National levels to his credit. Tony is also an Olympic Development Program (ODP) Head Coach, a Region three (ODP) Staff Coach and a GSSA Coaching License Instructor. Before arriving at NSA, he was the Director of Coaching for Concorde Fire Soccer Club. As a player, Tony signed with West Bromwich Albion FC, a first-division professional soccer club in his native England, at the age of sixteen. After playing there he moved to the U.S. In 1994, he played for Life University in Georgia, where he played four years before graduating with a BS in nutrition in 1999.

Rich Mealey, Recreation Director
(UEFA B License)

Judas Kinchen
(USSF A license)

Judas Kinchen played three years at Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama and one season of semi-professional in Iceland. He has fifteen years of coaching experience at different levels, including Recreational, High School, Club and ODP. He has been the Assistant Coach for men and women at Auburn University and for women at Southeastern Louisiana and Ohio Universities. He is currently the Head Coach of the girls’ team at Norcross High School.

Jerome Samuels is from Kingston, Jamaica, and began his international career before the age of 16 on the Jamaican Youth National Teams. Jerome has represented Jamaica at the U-17, U-20, U-23 levels. He has played professionally for Harbour View F. C. Jamaica, Real Mona Jamaica, Nott’s County F.C. in England, Village United F.C. Jamaica, and the Atlanta Silverbacks F.C., USA.

Jerome is currently an assistant coach at the # 1 ranked NJCAA men’s soccer program at Georgia Perimeter College.

Pancho Ugarte
(USSF A License)

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Vince has coached at Duluth High School for the past 7 years. In those years, the Varsity girls coach since 2007, the Duluth Men’s program went to state playoffs in all but one year, making it to the state Semi-Finals twice and the State Championship once. This past season he took a position as the Varsity Women’s Head coach of the High School program.

He began his club coaching career at Norcross Soccer Academy in the Junior Select Program. He comes to us from the Forsyth Fusion Soccer Club where he trained several successful girls and boys elite teams.

He currently holds a National Youth training license along with a USSF ’B’ License. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Georgia and a Master’s Degree in Social Science Education from Piedmont College. Vince is a staff coach on the 96 Georgia Girls ODP Pool.

Stafford Zeon has been involved in U.S. Soccer at many levels of the game. As a teenager, he played club soccer in Georgia in the 80s and 90s. He was nominated to the DeKalb County All-Star team in both his junior and senior year and selected to the Georgia High School All-Star Team in his senior year. After high school, he played NCAA Div I soccer for Alabama A&M University and NAIA Div I soccer at Berry College. He was the second leading scorer at A&M as a Freshmen and was All-South and All-American at Berry College.

Stafford trained and coached high school boys and girls in the Atlanta area and is currently a club coach at Norcross Soccer Academy. He has coached players from ages ranging from 6-19. In 2002, he was selected Georgia Youth Soccer Association Girls’ Coach of the Year.

Rudy Clarke
(USSF C license)

Rudy was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in Birmingham England. He played on the professional circuit for eight years and has been involved in youth soccer for the past twenty years; coaching in various age groups with various team successes at state and local levels. Rudy’s greatest satisfaction is teaching the kids all the techniques of the game and observing their growth through their yearly developmental successes and accomplishments.

John Drummond 
(Scottish Football Association A, USSF C license)

John Drummond is from Scotland where he played his first professional game at the age fifteen. He played two years for Raith Rovers FC, a professional team in Scotland, and five months for Millwall FC, a professional English team. Before that, John was the National Youth team captain for two years (U14 & 15). Having been in the US since 2001, John has attended Georgia Perimeter College and Piedmont College where he was a three-time All-American tallying 86 goals and 76 Assists (247 Career points) in 75 Collegiate games over four years, and graduated with a BA in Sports Marketing. He also has coached four seasons at Centennial High School (Varsity Girls) and was Piedmont College Asst. Coach Women for three years. He will be returning to coaching youth at Norcross for his eighth year. He has been married to Shirley, his wife, since 2000, and has a little girl Maisie.

Cory Garner is from Anniston, AL. He went to Norcross High School and then to Georgia State University. He started playing SELECT soccer at the age of eight for TYSA and then went to Datagraphics. FROM the age of fourteen, he played with a private club named Dempseys FC. He played ODP and semi pro indoor soccer in the "SISL" League where he coached for four years and trained for two years. He has been coaching with Norcross Soccer for five years. Cory was married to Laurell, his wife, in the summer of 2004.    

Mark Tonner
(USSF C License)

Mark is a native of South Africa and has been living in Atlanta since 1994, he has been a very successfull coach with Concorde Fire and coached teams at State, Regional and National levels. Mark is a dedicated coach who gives great attention to technical training. Mark Played college soccer for Life University and graduated in 1999 with a BS in Nutrition.

He is married to wife Partrica and they have a daughter Calvine. 

Bryan joins NSA from Los Angeles, CA where he was the Director of Coaching for Paris Saint-Germain Soccer Club (French Ligue 1) and Boys Coaching Director for Arsenal Soccer Club in Alta Loma, CA (Voted Top Boys Program By Soccer America) . He started his coaching career as part of the prestigious Sereno Golden Eagles and Slammers FC soccer programs. Coaching primarily Coast Soccer League (CSL) Premier teams, he has placed numerous players on United States National Teams, various professional club rosters and various Division I college programs. While in California, he was a West Region (IV) ODP staff coach. Bryan previously played professionally with the Arizona Cotton (USISL) and Arizona Sandsharks (CISL). Additionally, he holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

Rich joined Norcross in the Fall of 2009.  After playing at North Georgia College, Rich began coaching select teams for over 20+ years beginning with the Roswell Santos back in the Fall of 1987.  Rich has many years of experience coaching both boy and girl select teams at every age and every level.  In addition to coaching, Rich has been a USSF Certified Referee for the past 20+ years.  As a coach, he currently hold both a USSF National "D" License and the USSF National Youth "Y" License.

Billy Coxhead has coached at Norcross Soccer for 4 seasons, coaching multiple teams each season and developing strong players in the Recreation program. For the Fall 2005 season, he has shifted his focus to two teams in NSA’s SELECT program. Billy is the Wesleyan School’s High School varsity boys’ coach since 1999. As a result, the 2001 and 2002 Wesleyan teams made the state final four, and the 2005 Wesleyan team made the state sweet sixteen. Additionally, former Wesleyan players, coached by Billy, are currently playing at St. Johns, Rutgers, and Wofford. FROM 1986-88, he served as the High School varsity boys’ and girls’ soccer coach at Durham Academy in Durham, NC. In 1987, Durham Academy boys’ team made the state final four. Additionally, the Durham Academy girls’ teams won back-to-back state championships in both 1987 and 1988. A highly-competitive player himself, Billy was four-year letterman, three-year starter, and captain his senior year for Davidson College, a Division I school near Charlotte, NC, FROM 1982 to 1985.

Sergio Magana
(USSF National D license)

Before joining Norcross, Sergio spent 2 years coaching at Alianza Soccer Club (ASC) at both the state and regional levels. He played a crucial role in assisting ASC in attaining regional premier league status. During this time, Sergio also served ASC as director of the youth boy’s division, U10 through U18.

With his family originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Sergio’s professional experience began with playing in the youth division of Club Atlas where he soon made his way up to the top level team. Before Club Atlas, Sergio played Georgia Youth Soccer with the Mustangs in Dekalb, GA.

Andy joined NSA in Fall 2008. In addition to coaching and training youth players at NSA, he is a Physical Education teacher, soccer coordinator, and Head Junior Varsity soccer coach at Notre DameAcademy in Duluth. Previously, Andy served as the Athletic Director and Head Varsity soccer coach at BrandonHallSchool in Atlanta. Born and raised in Essex, England, Andy came to the US to study coaching and Physical Education at Elon University, NC. Andy is a certified personal trainer. He played both soccer and rugby throughout high school and college.
 

Paul originates from Warrington, England and came to the United States to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Paul was both an athletic and academic All-American and garnered both conference and regional player of the year awards. Having played one season in the USL A-League with the Syracuse Salty Dogs, he returned to Embry-Riddle as the assistant coach for the men’s program. During his three years as assistant coach the Eagles won three conference titles, two regional titles and attended the NAIA national tournament all three years. Paul also coached at Ormond Beach Youth Soccer Club in Florida. He currently has both his NSCAA National and Advanced National Coaching Diplomas, and has a Masters Degree in Aviation Management.

Matt Humphries
( FA Level 2 )

Matt comes to NSA after spending 2 seasons coaching at Buckhead FC in their Academy program. Since graduating from the University of Cardiff (UK) with an honors degree in Sports Management and Coaching, he has been an integral member of the Challenger Sports, British Soccer Staff here in the South East. Matt is 25 years old and originally from Cheltenham England. He played for 3 and a half years whilst at University and also for a Club Team in my home Town. As well as being a soccer coach for three years at Challenger Sports, he also worked with U9, U10 and U 12 teams in the UK and has also worked with two high school teams during this time.

Felipe Quintero
( Goalkeeper Coach )

Rodrigo Rios