Dusko Rosic – Director of Coaching
Dusko Rosic has been the Director of Coaching and Player Development for the Burlingame Soccer Club since 2003 and is one of the top coaches in California. He became a professional coach in Europe in 1995, after the conclusion of a successful professional career with several Yugoslavian clubs, played first division of Junior League in Serbia and got selected to play for FK “Red Star” – Belgrade youth team. He holds both the US Soccer Federation National “A” license, and the highest level of FIFA coaching license from Europe. He has a wide variety of coaching experience that includes coaching youth teams in Yugoslavia and working at the ODP level with Steve Sampson, the former U.S. National Team coach. As a very talented young coach he got selected to work in the Yugoslav Soccer Association at the youth program and selections.
Coach Dusko also holds a Masters degree in Sports and Physical Education, specializing in Soccer Education. His masters thesis defended at University of Belgrade was: ”The influence of mobility of young school age boys to the success of realizing the elements of soccer technique.”
Since his hiring, Dusko has moved the club and its coaches forward into a more focused developmental program. As Coaching Director, Coach Dusko has created one of the best coaching programs on the San Francisco Peninsula, by placing special emphasis on matching the needs of players in each age group to the coach’s strengths to bring the most out of all the youth players in the program. Dusko works with his coaches on implementing Club curriculum for individual age groups within the Club and encourages his coaches to attend coaching forums/workshops to stay current on coaching methodologies. As a result of this Club’s focus today is on youth player development issues for over 35 youth teams. Also, Club had more than 20 players that played in our program and made to the different College soccer programs in a last couple of years. Most of them got partial or full college scholarship.
Dusko is in charge of directing club’s youth Academy and promoting, developing and organizing Premier Soccer Camp, recruiting players and running Club tryouts. Dusko and his coaching staff have led the establishment of the most advanced specialized training program on the San Francisco Peninsula Clubs, which is offered at no cost to Burlingame Soccer Club players. This training program includes goalkeeper/striker training, agility/speed training, and core strengthening programs to prevent injury.
Juan Porras
Juan Porras has been a Senior Coach in the Burlingame Soccer Club since 2003. He developed both his love for the game of Futbol and world-class ability by playing on the streets in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At a very early age, his soccer talent was recognized, and the renowned Club Athletic Velez-Sarsfield recruited him to play for their youth divisions through the first team of his age of 18. Juan also played for San Lorenzo de Alamagro, Club Athletic Old Boys and C.A. Los Andes in Argentina and AguasCalientes F.C. in Mexico’s 2nd division. After retiring from his playing career, Juan spent two successful years as the Vice President of the Aguas Calientes F.C. team.
Juan is a well-respected coach who has trained two American prospects to the professional level, using techniques he learned while playing in Argentina. He holds a U.S. Soccer Federation’s National “C” coaching license and was awarded the Robert McNulty Award as the outstanding coaching candidate at the United States Soccer Federation Coaching School in 2006. He now wants to make a broader impact on American Youth Soccer by showing them the great impact playing and training in Argentina has on a player’s development.
Juan is also Director of Operations and Development at Premier Soccer Camps and Academy and he is a co-founder of Futbol Abroad, a program that provides American soccer players the opportunities to live and train in world class facilities in international Futbol environments such as Argentina and Mexico.
Luciano Fusco
Luciano Fusco has been a Senior Coach in the Burlingame Soccer Club since 2003. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he started his first soccer steps and gained his passion for the game. He played professional Futbol for six years with Club Atletic Hurricane (Argentina) and played second division in Mexico as well as in France as his foreign playing experience. He also played for first team of Chivas – USA at the Texas Pro Soccer Festival in 2008.
He holds a NSCAA “B” Advanced National diploma. Luciano is holder of Bachelor Degree of Science (Sport and Physicial Education – Exercise and Movement) from San Francisco State with emphasis in Exercise physiology and fitness. As part of his practical work for that degree, he established the Burlingame Soccer Club’s coordination and agility program and is specialized in conditioning program for older age group in Burlingame Soccer Club.
Luciano is a passionate advocate for the game and specializes in sharing his passion for the game with the younger players. He is expert in making program for young players to develop their basic psychomotor and coordinative skills related to proper soccer development.
Luciano is involved in running Players Development Program called “PDP selection” organized by NorCal league.
Luciano has also been a key coach for Dusko and Juan’s Premier Soccer Camps creating the program and bringing his variety of abroad soccer experience.
Mike Varas
Mike Varas has been a Senior Coach in the Burlingame Soccer Club since 2005. As the son of an emphatic Chilean soccer enthusiast, Mike began playing competitive soccer at the tender age of 9 years old, and became a promising talent while playing for the 3-time State Cup Finalist and nationally ranked World United Futbol Club in Los Altos, CA. His accomplishments at the youth level included representing the United States at the World Professional Futsal Championship in Russia, being a U14 NorCal State ODP team selection and consistently leading his club and school teams in scoring. Mike went on to play four successful years for the University of San Francisco Division I Men’s soccer team, winning the 2005 West Coast Conference Championship. After a year of playing in Chile, Mike returned home to become a well-respected youth coach dedicated to realizing his dream to expose American Youth Soccer players to the wonderful soccer passion he enjoyed in South America.
Coach Mike holds a BS in Accounting from the University of San Francisco, where he was named to the West Coast Conference Athletic Honor Roll multiple times. He also holds the U.S. Soccer Federation’s National “B” coaching license and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Advanced National Diploma.
Mike Varas also spends his time as co-founder and President of Futbol Abroad whose mission is to enable competitive American soccer players to live and train like professional footballers.
Simon Cook
Simon Cook has become Burlingame Soccer Club coach in 2009 coaching on the boys side. Simon holds the NSCAA Premier, Advanced National and National Diploma’s as well as having completed the USSF B coaching license and European equivalents. Simon graduated from the University of Manchester (2003) with a BSc in Business and Sport Psychology. Simon is a Head Coach for the Cal North State ODP program and has also spent time on District and Regional ODP Staff.
Simon is currently the Director of Coaching for Sunnyvale Alliance Soccer Club, the Head Coach for Mountain View High School’s Girls Varsity Soccer team, a State instructor for the NSCAA and is the National Technical Director for UK International Soccer Camps.
Before becoming a coach Simon played Semi professional soccer back in the UK as well as playing 3 years at the University of Manchester.
Josh Davis
Coach Josh Davis joined B.S.C. in 2009 and holds his NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and US Soccer Federation D license. Coach Josh is also an Assistant Soccer Coach at Cañada College in Redwood City where he is an alumni to the men’s soccer program having earned All Conference Honors in the 1997-1998 season. Coach Josh was an all league soccer player at Burlingame High School and enjoyed a men’s elite amateur playing career in the C.P.S.L and S.F.S.F.L before entering into coaching. Coach Josh lives in San Mateo with his wife and daughter and has been a business owner in our community since 2001.
Alonso Davila Lourenco de Lima
Alonso was born and raised in Minas Gerais, Brazil, then lived in El Salvador for five years before moving to the United States. His first organized and uniformed soccer experiences were here in the United States, but he played other forms of soccer way before then. Whether on the street with neighborhood children using bricks for goals, or taking penalty shots against his cousins using the gate at his grandmother’s house for a goal.
He joined Burlingame Soccer Club in 2008, fell in love with coaching and has strived to improve ever since. In the beginning he had the opportunity to assist the knowledgeable and experienced coach Luciano Fusco with his youth teams. After gaining more experience at the youth level, he chose to do an internship with coach Juan Porras, who specializes in the older teams.
Alonso holds a level 2 diploma for the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) as well as an NSCAA Junior Level VI Diploma. He is currently a student at San Francisco State University, getting his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with an emphasis on child and adolescent development.
Nemanja Colovic (Goalkeeper Coach)
Daniel DeGeer
Since 2008, Daniel has coached very talented teams at different age groups through his former club, Westside Metros Soccer Club in Beaverton, Oregon. Training both boys and girls has helped him develop as a Coach. Daniel’s coaching career began with assisting the very successful U18 WSM Internationals and working with the WSM Youth Development Program. Over the past 3 years, he helped build a solid relationship between the new Tualatin Metros Soccer Club and Westside Metros Soccer Club. As Head Coach for the Tualatin Metros Rage for over 3 years, he successfully improved and developed a mid table U-11 Rage team to recently winning the 2011 Oregon Premier League’s U14 Premier Division. As Assistant Coach to Chris Thurley, he worked closely with the 5 time state champion U-18 Boys WSM Premier. The Premier recently won San Diego Surf Cup, U-17 State Cup, Northwest Champions League, and were quarter finalist at last year’s Dallas Cup.
Over the past four years, Daniel held several soccer camps and individual and group training sessions to help vastly improve the development of each individual player. Through his training techniques he was able to help a significant amount of young athletes reach their next level. Daniel is extremely passionate in this area of development.
Daniel played the majority of his youth at Westside Metros. During his career he won four state championships. Playing varsity four years at Tigard High School winning all-state/league awards along with the Oregon ODP, helped him get to the University of San Francisco. There he played four years competing at the Division 1 level in the West Coast Conference along side fellow Burlingame Coach Mikey Varas. Daniel received his BS in Business Marketing and after receiving 1st Team All-WCC his senior year, he was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy. He finished his career playing with the United States National Futsal team helping them get to the FIFA Futsal World Cup.
Craig Dillie
Ann-Sofi Garman
Ann-Sofi Garman was born in Sweden and came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1992. She got her first soccer coaching license in Sweden. The highlight during that period was being under the tutelage of Roy Hodgson, presently the coach of England’s National Men’s team. In Sweden, Ann-Sofi coached both girls and boys for five years.
Ann-Sofi started playing soccer when she was 7 years old. She played amateur league soccer for her home team Fellingsbro G&IF and in Stockholm and San Francisco for years.
Ann-Sofi joined the BSC in the Spring of 2013 and got her F-license so she can coach in USA. She is very excited to be coaching again and to be working for the Burlingame Soccer Club.
