Nenad Gorgiev – Regional Director / ASF Staff Coach
Nenad Gorgiev, a native of Macedonia, studied physical education at the National Sports Acadey in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has played professionally in Macedonia and semi-pro in Bulgaria and Italy. Nenad carries a New Jersey E License and has been coaching with Matt Driver since 2005. Nenad Won the 2007 ESSL as an assistant coach with the Atlantic Cape Community College men’s soccer team and the 2009 NJ State Cup as coach with the U16 Boys Gaetano Rage who also reached the Region 1 finals.
Barry Lynch- Regional Director / ASF Staff Coach
Barry is a Welsh native, he was a full time player with Newport County’s Professional Academy where he gained first hand experience of the day to day running of a professional soccer club, both from a playing aspect but also as a coach. Whilst at Newport County Barry was given the opportunity to train the Newport County Soccer school of excellence at the age of 17 where his love for coaching began. Barry came to the US in 2005 and has coached all over the east coast for the last 4 years, along with his experience in America Barry has played and coached at a high level in Britain representing his countrywhilst at Newport County and coaching with English Championship club Cardiff City as an Academy Coach. Barry holds a UEFA B License, FA Level 1 License, Brazilian National Futbol C License, NSCAARegional Diploma. His Philosophy is that “Every player regardless of age and
Jamie Scott – Regional Director / ASF Staff Coach
Jamie Scott has been involved in soccer for almost 20 years and has over 5 years of soccer coaching experience in both the UK and the USA. Born in London and raised in the South of England, Jamie played at College level and studied Leisure Marketing at Bournemouth University. Jamie holds an FA Level 2 coaching qualification and is also qualified in specialist Goalkeeping coaching. Jamie coached at English Professional Soccer Team AFC Bournemouth for four years as part of the Youth Development Program. Jamie has coached soccer to various levels ranging from 3-18 year old players in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware since 2007.
Stuart Gore – ASF Staff Coach
Stuart Gore brings his professional playing experience to the Atlantic Soccer Factory. As a player, Stuart was part of the youth team with Leeds United, helping them to win the FA youth cup. He has also represented the England national team at u16 and u17 level. Stuart then attended college here in the states at the University of Montevallo, after which he return to pro soccer with UD Lorca of the 2nd division in Spain. As a coach Stuart has been coaching with Luton Celtic soccer club and AFC Dunstable, where in 2007 he was given the position of “Head of Coaching and Player Development”. Stuart also served as the vice chairman of the Dunstable schools soccer league in which his team won back to back titles in 2006 and 2007, winning the league cup in 2007. He holds a UEFA B license, Level 2 in Futsal coaching and is a native of Dunstable, England.
George Hobbins – ASF Staff Coach
George Hobbins brings his professional coaching and floods of experience to Atlantic Soccer Factory. Hobbins has been in the USA all his life and has worked with in the local areas of South Jersey, some of the local clubs Hobbins has worked with include Washington Township Soccer, New Jersey State Youth Soccer, Camden County Collage, Overbrook Regional High School, Rutgers University, Gateway Regional High School, Audubon High School and most recently he was named as head coach of the Washington Twp Girls High School Team. Hobbins has a collected many awards on his journeys as Rutgers University coach of the year, National Junior College All-American Goalkeeper and Camden County College Charles Wolverton Award for an Outstanding Athlete. Hobbins holds a NSCAA Level II Goalkeeping Regional Diploma , and a U.S.S.F B License.
Steven Steinberg- ASF Staff Coach
Steven hails from Cherry Hill, NJ, where he started his soccer career with the Cherry Hill United Soccer Club at six years of age. For Cherry Hill High School East, he started on the varsity squad for three years. In his junior year, 2002, the Philadelphia Inquirer noted Steven as a “key midfielder” involved in the team’s runs for the State Cup Championships. Along with his high school team, Steven traveled to Germany in the summer of 2003 to participate in a series of friendly matches against the youth teams of several professional clubs. While doing all of this, Steven managed to play club-ball with the South Jersey Barons U-16 and U-17 squads and participated in the Super Y-League in 2002. He was featured on the all South Jersey squad for the Maccabi Games in Richmond, VA, then again in Miami, FL, and a third time in Philadelphia, PA. While studying Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College, Steven continued to play soccer intramurally for 4 years. To this day, Steven refuses to slow down. If you look hard enough, you can still find him playing local pickup games in the area. Steven is a USSF Licensed coach.
Julian Fernandez- ASF Staff Coach
Julian is a native of Galloway, NJ and brings a taste of local talent to the ASF staff. He has played for Matt Driver with many of his select teams over the years and overall has had an extensive and successful playing career in the South Jersey area. Julian was a stand-out player at Absegami High School where he was an All-Conference Cape Atlantic League Player. Julian moved onto the college level at Rutgers-Camden in 2007 before transferring to Chestnut Hill College where he is currently captaining the squad. He is a Two Time CACC All-Academic Team honoree at Chestnut Hill. Julian holds an NSCAA Regional Diploma and is in the process of obtaining his USSF D license.
INCOMING COACHES
Bill O’Neill
Bill brings his 30 years of playing and coaching soccer experience to the ASF team. Bill resides in Jenkintown, PA with his wife, Terry and their 3 children and is currently the Head Coach of the Abington Friends School Girls Varsity Soccer team. Bill was recently selected to the Southeastern PA Soccer Hall of Fame; he had an illustrious playing career that included honors at George Washington HS and Glassboro (now Rowan) University. At Glassboro, Bill captained the team to an NCAA Division III National Championship in 1990 in that same year he achieved All Region and All Conference honors as a 4 year starter at GSC/Rowan. His playing career continued in the professional ranks, after college, while playing for the Philadelphia Freedom. Bill has a Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern University in Early, Elementary and Special Education, Magna Cum Laude and currently holds a USSF D license.
Dan Platt
Dan comes to ASF from Guildford in the South of England; Dan specializes in Goalkeeping coaching and has been coaching for a specialist Goalkeeping School in the UK since 2008, while also coaching at local clubs of different levels ranging from 5-18 years old. Along with his goalkeeping licenses Dan also holds a FA Level 2 coaching certificate. At the age of 21 Dan has accumulated a lot of soccer knowledge and is looking to gain more experience to add to his promising coaching career by coaching in America. He has been a Goalkeeper his whole playing career, and as a Youth was at Chelsea FC, a few years after leaving Chelsea Dan was at Semi-professional club Walton & Hersham, who at the Goalkeeping Academy run by former Brentford and Crystal Palace Goalkeeper Les Cleevely.
Aiden Wassell
Aiden arrives at ASF with four years of coaching experience in the United States, previously working for one of North America’s premier summer camps for three years, Camp Winaukee. There, Aiden was the head of the soccer program coordinating for kids between the ages of 5 to 12 years old and last year Aiden worked for a coaching company in Boston, MA where he ran clinics and summer camps with a team of coaches. Aiden’s has also gained a lot of experience back in England working for the Football Development Team for Telford Council which involved coaching soccer to after school clubs and also working with the AFC Telford Utd youth team on a volunteer basis. Aiden holds a FA Level One and FA Level Two coaching certificate, he is also a graduate from the University of Wolverhampton, where he obtained his degree in Sports Sociology.
