Book Private Soccer Lessons with Coach Donavin

At a young age I played with Rush for 1 year before leaving to play with Beach Fc for my first year of advanced and 2 years of travel. I would then leave to Spain as part of an elite travel team called CEFA we trained with Real Madrid and Barcelona coaches while playing numerous teams and only losing 1 game making our record 7-1. After, I would leave Beach Fc and play for VB City making their academy 1 team which we made a name for ourselves by being number 1 virginia for our age group, during my time with VB City I would play for 2 other teams ODP and VB City/DC United elite travel team. Both teams helped shape me into a leader and playmaker not only while being on the field but on the bench as well if I ever was pulled off. My final year playing I left VB City to play for ODSC Thunder, we beat some of the best teams. Golden Ball and Beach FC red.

My training is mainly focused on dribbling, touches, fast movement, and quick thinking, I strive to help your child achieve all of those. I can help raise your child's skill level above from what they thought was their limit for their age.

Training can range from about 1hour to 2hours if needed or wanted. As soon as you arrive you should immediately get hydrated and stretched out. My idea is that I shouldn't have to tell them to stretch our their body, unless they're a very young age. Warms are simple, 5 cones are set and the child will do about 5-6 warm ups with and without the ball to get their body moving and ready. First set of drills i do is a 4 cone passing drill where kids work on one touch passes, touches, and laying the ball off. After that is a 4 cone movement off the ball passing, 3 players will be at 3 cones with one cone being open, once a pass is made someone should always be moving so that player with the ball has someone to their right and their left. About a 2-5 min water break depending on how hard they worked. Next is my dribbling drills, 2 cones with a player in between both, they must use 1 foot at a time created figure 8's dribbling around the cone. After is reactions with different 2 different colored cones, a player will stand at a set cone that's in the middle but behind the 2 cones, I will call out a color the player must run to that cone where I will pass the ball to then and they must give a 1 touch pass back then back peddle to the starting cone and so on. 2nd to last is a drill to help improve touches in the air as well as settling the ball, all I'll do is toss the ball in the air and the child must settle the ball and bring it to their feet then explode out of the boxed area to help with quick thinking and keeping their head up, I will have different colored cones on the outside so if they take the ball out and run into that cone, they must give 5 push ups or sit us as punishment for keeping their head down and running into another "player". Lastly is a cool down of stretches followed by 5-20 push ups and sit ups depending on age.

Tommy Carter, I started out as a very bad player who couldn't touch, dribble, or even pass properly until my parents discovered Tommy Carter founder of CEFA (Carters Elite Futbol Academy). He trained me privately and within 2 days of his training I became the best player on the field. He taught me how to keep the ball close to my feet, how to dribble without taking too big of a touch, how to shield the ball from the opponent's as well as training me to shoot the ball with power and from far distances. He even showed me how to be a leader on the field, how to take control of situations and enhance my critical thinking.

I'm not hard to work with, as long as you show me respect, I will give you the same amount of respect back. I do have a small disability being Type 1 Diabetic but you shouldn't have to worry about that affecting the way I will train your child. As far as coaching, I'm the assistant boys soccer coach for Larkspur middle school, ive trained my boys in ways they haven't seen on their clubs outside of school, my coaching brought them up to beat a team they haven't beat in the 40+ years they've been open as a school, that being Landstown middle school.