Book Private Soccer Lessons with Coach Assem

I am a compassionate, motivated, and highly organized soccer player with a strong drive for success. I’ve played professionally and semi-professionally in the US and abroad for clubs like Pyramids FC, Ittihad Alexandria, Mpls City, Sporting Alexandria, and Wadi Degla FC. I also had the chance to represent the U20 Egyptian National team in 2019. In high school at St. Paul Central, I earned numerous honors, including being a Mr. Soccer award finalist, Star Tribune All-Metro First Team, Pioneer Press Player of the Year, and MSHSL All-State First Team. I believe in the opportunities soccer offers and, as a coach, I’m dedicated to showing players how hard work and consistency lead to success. I’m a skillful player, resilient under pressure, and goal-oriented, with a strong work ethic that I instill in my coaching philosophy.

As a coach, I focus on personalized development by understanding each athlete’s strengths and areas for improvement. Through private, one-on-one sessions, I create tailored training plans that address technical skills, tactical understanding, and physical conditioning. Through understanding the type of player o am dealing with I can identify certain aspects of their game to refine and improve based on their position.

A typical session with me consists of high-intensity and detail-oriented work. Athletes can expect to be guided through a full professional warmup up and mobilization and engage in speed & agility drills to activate the muscles. My soccer drills consist of working on aspects of building game awareness, technique, first touch, dribbling, passing, heading, and shooting. I also have the capacity and freedom to provide something extra to the athlete if they wish to work on a particular aspect of their game or position. I like to structure my drills around game situations and try to make them as game-realistic as possible so that when it comes to games, the drills used in training feel second nature and give confidence in preparation. I encourage athletes working with me to provide maximum effort to focus through every one of the sessions and push them past their comfort zone because, in this way, they will see improvements.

I've had many great coaches in my career, it would be difficult to single out one. However, one common trait that all these coaches had was implementing a style of constructive criticism, motivation, and giving leisure to a players to be creative and develop their own way of playing. Providing a blueprint of the way to do something, but not restricting the athlete to solely operate in one particular way.

I am very passionate about helping players fulfill their potential and develop their skills. One thing about my coaching philosophy is that I encourage creativity and freedom for the player to discover and evaluate different game situations by thinking outside the box. I believe that there is not a 1 set in stone correct way to operate. Players to me should not be programmed to only do something a certain way because that lacks creativity and in my opinion inhibits their true potential. I supply certain instructions and feedback to the player but encourage the player to find solutions to different problems in their unique way as well. To me I want players to be ok with making mistakes. In fact, if players are not making mistakes, then they are not trying hard enough. Because it is through those moments of error in which we grow and develop.