Ashu Saxena, Patrick Gilliam, Eboni Christmas, Jason Neumann & Tiffany Van Hoose Pres by. LeagueApps - 5/2/24

We have another great show meeting five wonderful people playing different, yet pivotal roles in this game we love – soccer …We kick off the show with a visit from the chair of United Soccer Coaches API Coaches Community – it’s API Heritage Month – so it was good to catch up with Ashu Saxena … After Ashu, Michael Kodama from the United Soccer Coaches continues to introduce us to amazing member of the Faith Based Coaches Community and that includes the head coach of the Wheaton College Women’s Soccer Team Patrick Gilliam who will run a fascinating book club this summer geared around faith … Our 3rd guest is not a coach – but she is an amazing woman who has found a place where she belongs in soccer as a fan, as a media darling working with the stars of the The Shea Butter Podcast and a person who cares about other people even if they don’t look like her – talking about Eboni Christmas – who also has a great name by the way … Finally – we end the show the way we have been ending a lot of the shows meeting a mentor for the new 30Under30 class – this time we meet a man who has done a little bit of everything in our game and also does a little bit at every Philadelphia Eagles home game – Jason Neumann, who by the way several years back won the esteemed Mike Berticelli Award – Jason is great on today’s show and he sets us up to meet another member of the 30U30 class and now a high school soccer coach at Abilene High School Tiffany Van Hoose.