Brad Wylde
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 Executive Director
As Executive Director, Wylde oversees the player development, guidance and coaching responsibilities for all children under the CSA soccer program.
Wylde joined the former South Charlotte Soccer Association as Executive Director in 2005 and has grown the organization from a thirty team club to over 190 teams competing in all levels of play. In 2008 and 2009, Wylde coached the club’s first US Youth Soccer Regional Championship team and took the team to back-to-back Regional Championships and two appearances in the USYS National Championships.
Wylde is an associate National Staff instructor under the National Coaches Association of America, teaching state, regional and advanced regional courses in the Southeast Region. He is also a former NC Olympic Development state team coach.
Wylde has been influential in the growth of youth soccer in and around the Charlotte area, having created a club that now has a presence in several counties around Charlotte. Charlotte Soccer Academy is one of only two organizations in NC and SC to offer all levels of play available under the US Youth Soccer structure. In addition to the successes on the field, Wylde oversees the day to day operations and business sector of the Club. He has connected some of the cities’ most reputable corporations to CSA through CSA's Sponsorship program.
Wylde was a standout player at Catawba College and an NSCAA All American; he was a 5 year professional player with the Charlotte Eagles, SC Shamrocks, and Carolina Dynamo. Following his playing career, Wylde served as Assistant college coach at Catawba while obtaining his MBA.
Wylde is fully qualified under the NSCAA, UEFA B license and in 2012 completed his UEFA A license through the Union of European Football Associations which is one of the highest coaching awards in the world.
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Mark Thornton
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 Director of Operations
Thornton is a native of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, having relocated to the US in 2000. As a young player, he played with Sunderland AFC and Ipswich Town. In 2000, he received a scholarship to play soccer at Appalachian State University (ASU). Thornton was a four-year starter, a two-year captain and All-Southern Conference and All-South selection during his career at ASU.
After graduation from ASU, Thornton was hired in 2004 as Technical Director of Coaching for Concorde Fire Soccer Club in Atlanta, GA. During his 4 years with the club, he also became Director of Coaching for Academy (U9–U12 boys and girls) and also Director of Girls U13–U18. In 2008, Thornton was hired by South Charlotte Soccer Association as a Director of Coaching. He is also an assistant coach for the North Carolina ODP program. Thornton currently holds his USSF "A" License.
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Steve Gummer
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 Director
USSDA Boys Program
A native of England, Steve played English semi-pro soccer for more than ten years, and spent fifteen months with Switzerland’s FC Vernier. He has also coached within youth academies attached to several professional clubs in England and Switzerland, including the English FA School of Excellence.
Steve originally came to the US as a staff coach with International Soccer USA and progressed to National Camp Coaching Director. Prior to being named USSDA Boys Director at CSA, he was the Executive Director of Coaching at Smyrna Soccer Club in Atlanta, Georgia.
Prior to the position at Smyrna SC, he spent fourteen years at Cobb FC before taking a key role in the forming of Southern Soccer Academy, a club formed by the merging of four Atlanta-based clubs and was very inspirational in the SSA partnership program with Chelsea FC from the English Premier league. He served as the Director of Coaching at Cobb FC, then Director of Soccer at the newly formed SSA, followed by holding the Technical Director position.
Steve has served as a GA ODP Head Coach, a US Club id2 scout, and a USL Super Y National Camp Staff Coach. Steve Holds a Current UEFA “B” and a USSF “A” License, and is a Coerver Coaching Licensee, and a Youth Diploma Instructor.
Over the years, Steve's teams have enjoyed great successes on the State, Regional and National stages. Players benefit not only from his coaching, but also from his long term relationships with colleges and coaches across the US which help student-athletes continue their careers in college.
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Philip Poole
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 Director
USSDA Girls Program
Goalkeeping Program
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Richard Butler
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 Director
CSA Youth Academy Boys & Girls
Butler is a native of London, England, and relocated to the United States in 1987, having received a scholarship to play soccer at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) where he was a four year starter and two year captain of the team. Butler graduated from UAB in 1992 and moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. He was the Director of Coaching for the Williamsburg Soccer Club from 1992 until the summer of 2006. During his time there he took the club from four travel teams to a full service club offering programs for four year olds to Under 23 players and older with their Premier Development League team, the Williamsburg Legacy. From 2001-2006 Butler also served as the head coach of the Legacy reaching the playoffs in five of the six years he was in charge.
Butler holds a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Premier Diploma (NSCAA) and in 2007 was named a National Staff coach for the NSCAA.
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Patrick Daka
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 Director
Technical Development Program
Daka was invited to join the coaching staff at the now Charlotte Soccer Academy (CSA) in 2004 (formerly South Charlotte Soccer Academy), and has gained considerable experience coaching both boys and girls teams up to the Classic level. His teams have been successful in nationally ranked tournaments.
Daka is the Assistant Men’s Coach of USL-Pro League’s Charlotte Eagles Soccer Club and a former Eagles player. He played professionally for 17 years beginning as a high school senior in Zimbabwe and is a recipient of numerous team and individual accolades including Collegiate Male Athlete of the Year in the Western conference and various top scorer awards. Daka currently holds the NSCAA Advanced National Diploma, NSCAA Director of Coaching License, USYS National Youth License and USSF "B" license.
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Dan Dudley
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 Director
Tournaments
Dudley is a former collegiate standout at Catawba College and a three year professional player with the Carolina Dynamo. A former 3 year Men’s Assistant Coach with High Point University and former 4 year Women’s Assistant Coach with Catawba College, Dudley comes to CSA from FC Carolina Alliance where he served as Director of Coaching for six years.
Also a member of the NC Olympic Development State Team Coaching Staff, Dudley is fully qualified through NSCAA, holds a USSF A’ License and has a (MSS) Master’s in Sports Science from the United States Academy, Alabama. Dudley is also the Director of Coaching for CSA-Uptown.
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Peter Broadley
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 Player Development & College Recruiting Director
Peter Broadley, previously the Executive Director of Coaching for FC Carolina Alliance in Concord NC and Cape Fear Soccer Club based in Wilmington NC, the third largest club in NC, has over 36 years of extensive soccer coaching and managerial experience including a 22 year span in Collegiate soccer. He has coached players at NAIA, NCAA DIV I, II, and III and in October 2014 Coach Broadley was inducted into the UNC Greensboro Athletics Hall of Fame. He won 2 Division III National Championships as an Assistant with UNCG in 1986 and 87 and gained his first College Head coaching position at Catawba College in 1990. While at Catawba College his teams won 5 SAC 8 Conference Championships 2 NAIA Area Championships and reached the NAIA National finals on two occasions in 1990 and 91. Most recently from 1998-2007 at Div I High Point University his teams reached the Big South conference final and semi-finals twice and several of his players achieved conference honors and went on to tryout with professional clubs.
Broadley has been a staff coach with the NC Olympic Development program since 1986 until present and served on the ODP South Regional staff overall for 7 years. He is the Boys representative on the NC ODP Steering Committee and head Coach of the 2004 Boys age group. In 1997 Broadley was asked to join the NSCAA National Academy staff and was made a Senior Staff member in 2006. He has served as the NSCAA Regional Technical Director from 2002- 2010 and currently teaches courses for coaches on a Regional and National level. In 2009 Coach Broadley was awarded the Mike Berticelli Excellence in Coaching Education Award at the NSCAA National Convention. He has served as Director of National level courses at many sites across the US during the last 10 years and as a staff coach has helped many coaches with their careers in coaching or helped them to improve their coaching of youth players towards success in soccer. Broadley and his wife Susan have four children and all have attended UNC Universities.
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