| Key Clinicians Scheduled for the 2010 NSCAA Convention |
 Ulrike (Uli) Ballweg
German Women’s National Team
An assistant coach for the German Women’s National Team, Ballweg was an assistant under Silvia Neid and helped lead Germany’s side to the title at the 2004 U-19 Women’s World Championship. A former player for SC Klinge-Seckach, SV Schlierstadt, SpVgg Hainstadt and Badische Auswahlspielerin, she played in the German Cup Final in 1996. She began her coaching career in 1989 as a player coach for Klinge-Seckach. In 1998 she began a nine-year stint coaching with the Hamburger Soccer Association. In 2002 she was named an assistant coach for the German U-19 Women’s National Team, a position she held until 2005, when she was elevated to an assistant with the full National Team. In that role, she helped the German side to the 2007 Women’s World Cup title, the bronze medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the 2009 European championship.
 Dick Bate
English FA
Widely recognized as one of the leading coach educators in England, Dick Bate has become a favorite among NSCAA Convention clinicians. Currently a member of the English FA’s staff, he has global experience in coaching and instruction. He has been the Technical Director for two countries (Malaysia and Canada) and has coached at Hereford United, Leeds United, Nott’s County and Sheffield United in addition to stints with various England youth teams. He led a side to the title at the 2001 Nordic Cup and the U-18 team to the championship of the 2003 Lisbon Tournament. He received the UEFA A license in 1973 and the UEFA Professional license in 2002. His efforts in coaching education have led him to conduct courses in Europe, Asia and North and South America. He is the author of “The Sweeper and Coaching Advanced Soccer Players,” published in 1999.
 Bill Beswick
Noted Sports Psychologist
Bill Beswick is a leading sports psychologist who has specialized in the achievement of high-level team performance. His background includes a master’s degree, school and college teaching and being coach of the England Basketball team that won the 1982 Commonwealth Championships.
For the past 15 years Beswick has focused on soccer, working at Derby County, Manchester United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland football clubs in the English Premier League. He has international experience with the England U-18 and U-21 squads and as team psychologist with England National Team.
His Book “Focused For Soccer” (published by Human Kinetics) was one of the first to explore the psychology of soccer and has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.
 Romeo Jozak
FC Dinamo-Zagreb Academy Director
Jozak was appointed Academy Director for Dinamo-Zagreb in 2008, marking a return to a club he is quite familiar with. In 2001-02, he was an assistant coach for Dinamo’s first team, then took over the reserve team in 2002-03. From there, he accepted a post with the Libyan National Team, where he was the head coach for the U-15, U-17 and U-19 teams. He returned to Croatia in 2006 as an assistant coach with NK Osijek first team and head coach of the club’s second team, where he remained until rejoining Dinamo.
Jozak holds the UEFA Pro license, as well as a master’s degree in kinesiology and a bachelor’s degree in physical education from University of Zagreb.
 Raymond Verheijen
Internationally-known soccer conditioning expert
Verheijen is known throughout the world as an expert in soccer conditioning and fitness. He is highly respected both as a presenter and on the training pitch, having worked with the KNVB, the Korean Republic and Russian National Teams under Guus Hiddink, as well as extensively throughout Europe with FC Barcelona, Zenith St. Petersburg (2007 Russian champions), Chelsea and Manchester City.
He holds degrees in exercise physiology and sport psychology from Free University Amsterdam and is the author of “Conditioning in Soccer,” published in 1996, and “Periodization in Football,” published earlier this year by the Royal Netherlands Football Association.
 Howard Wilkinson
Former English FA Technical Director
Wilkinson is chairman and founder of the League Managers Association. A qualified teacher, he holds a B.Ed and M.A. He has also played for Sheffield Wednesday, Boston United and Brighton & Hove Albion. He went on to become the coach and then player-manager at Boston United before taking his first full managerial role at Nott’s County in 1982. From 1983-88 he was the manager of Sheffield Wednesday, where he established his reputation as a manager. His first season saw Wednesday win promotion to the First Division and they were still there when he left four years later, having achieved a high of 5th place in 1985-86.
His greatest success as a manager came after moving to Wednesday’s Yorkshire rivals Leeds United in 1988. The team won the Second Division in 1989-90 after the signings of Gordon Strachan, Mel Sterland, Chris Fairclough and Lee Chapman. Leeds won the last championship of the old-style Football League First Division in 1992. He also guided Leeds to the Charity Shield in 1992, beating Liverpool 4-3 at Wembley. Soon after leaving Leeds, Wilkinson was hired by the English FA to act as its technical director, overseeing coaching and other training programs at all levels of the game. While in that capacity, he managed the England team on a caretaker basis in 1999 and 2000. Following this he acted for a time as the permanent coach of the England Under-21 team.
To date, Wilkinson is the last English manager to have coached a team to the English league championship title. |
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