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District ODP Coordinator: Kamal Della (soccertrainer@aol.com, 925-413-4656)


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What is ODP?

The Olympic Development Program is a national process for identifying and developing the best youth soccer players.  The process promotes players to the U.S. National Teams, which represent the United States in international competition, such as the Youth World Cup and the Olympics.

The main ODP objective is to identify, evaluate and train highly talented male and female youth soccer players.  As part of this national effort, the CYSA ODP is dedicated to developing the highest level of youth soccer.  This objective must be achieved in an atmosphere of integrity, fairness and impartiality.  The player's physical and cognitive skills and attitude must be the only criteria for the program.  The procedure to achieve this objective must be approved by the CYSA Board of Directors and must not conflict with any US Youth Soccer or United States Soccer Federation (USSF) policies.

The secondary objectives are to:

  • Evaluate and select players in each ODP age group for a State pool of players from which State Team players are selected.

  • Advance the soccer skills of players in each ODP age group.

  • Provide competitions for State Teams in each ODP age group.

 

While individual leagues or districts may have additional objectives for their local programs, those objectives must not adversely affect the success of the ODP.

ODP participation does not mean that players do not participate on their club team.  ODP participation, whether at the District, State, Regional or National level, is concurrent with club team participation.  The advantages outweigh any conflicts this might pose

 

ABOUT ODP:

ODP, which is open for tryout to all players at the District level, provides the ultimate experience and training for the players selected. District III ODP players compete against players from other districts within CYSA-North, ultimately leading to the selection of state, regional and national ODP players. Each year several players from all over CYSA-North (including many District III players) are selected for national boys and girls teams.  This program opens numerous opportunities for our youth players.

District III ODP tryouts start in May of each year, while the state tryouts are held in December of the same year. Regional camps are generally held in June or early July.

Troy Dayak
 

1992 Olympian

4 time National Champion

Head Coach, California Cougars, Professional Indoor Soccer

Technical Director, Livermore Youth Soccer League

CYSA-North Hall of Fame 2005

"I have great memories of my first experience with the Olympic Development Program!  It was my first time competing for a position on a team without having my own father as the coach.  It was nerve racking waiting for that letter to arrive in the mail announcing if I had made the ODP team or not!

I was 13 years old and I can still distinctly remember  that I had a family dinner at a Chinese restaurant and inside my fortune cookie it read "you will receive good news in the mail soon." 

The very next day I received the letter congratulating me on making the U14 ODP Team.  I still have that fortune in my soccer box today!  3 district teams, 5 Regional, State and National Teams , and 2 junior World Cups later I finally reached my dream - playing in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Spain.

Thanks ODP for getting me started."  -- Troy Dayak


IMPORTANT MESSAGE:

If you missed tryouts contact directly the appropriate head coach

 

District III ODP Coaches Assignments 2008

BOYS

POSITION

2008

PHONE

E-MAIL

U13 B

HEAD COACH

RON CHELL

510-459-3922

Goalcoachchell@aol.com

“96”

1ST ASST.

TBD

 

 

 

2ND ASST.

 

 

 

U14 B

HEAD COACH

MANOLI MANDELENIS

925-784-5497

mcmsoccer@yahoo.com

“95”

 ASST.

WES WONG

925-786-8288

weswong01@gmail.com

 

 ASST.

 

 

 

U15 B

HEAD COACH

ILIA PETROV

925-803-9226

iliasoccer@hotmail.com

“94”

1ST ASST.

STEPHEN HARTLANS

925-918-3433

coach_stephen@sbcglobal.net

 

2ND ASST.

 

 

 

U16 B

HEAD COACH

DAVID MAHABALI

510-790-1593

dmaha@aol.com

“93”

1ST ASST.

LARRY THOMPSON

510-676-3750

coachlarryt@sbcglobal.net

 

2ND ASST.

 

 

 

GIRLS

 POSITION

2008

PHONE

E-MAIL

U13 G

HEAD COACH

KAMAL DELLA

925-413-4656

soccertrainer@aol.com

“96”

1ST ASST.

LENNY LUN

916-212-7888

coachlun@yahoo.com

 

2ND ASST.

 

 

 

U14 G

HEAD COACH

TREVOR RODD

925-997-7444

IRandTR@aol.com

“95”

1ST ASST.

PETE SCHULTZE

415-652 0144

pschultze@pastap.com

 

2ND ASST.

JOHN

 

 

U15 G

HEAD COACH

MARCO DI TANO

415-310-3781

marcoditano@yahoo.com

“94”

1ST ASST.

LARRY EVEN

 

larryjeffeven@yahoo.com

 

2ND ASST.

 

 

 

U16 G

HEAD COACH

JOE CAMBRA

925-785-3887

joecambra@yahoo.com