This is the third of a three-part series from a recent interview with Kevin Payne, the CEO of U.S. Club Soccer. This portion focuses on Payne’s view of the soccer coaching structure in America, and on the coming U.S. Soccer Federation presidential election.
Part 1: The state of the American soccer landscape after the men’s national team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup
Part 2: The difficulty in getting rid of the pay-to-play culture in American youth soccer
The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
On the high cost of coaching licenses in the United States, and the general financial costs associated with working as a soccer coach:
We support what they’ve done to make those licenses much more rigorous.