About Me

I have been coaching since I was 14. My heart has always been a coach.  I have coached professionally in the US, Finland, Sweden, Costa Rica, Spain and most recently Cyprus.  My experience ranges from players that are 4 year olds to national team players, both boys and girls from all over the world. This includes everything from football schools to academies to non-profit organizations, individual trainings and I have been named the head coach in two top leagues both in Sweden and in Cyprus.  I have also played professionally in the US, Finland and Sweden and have had the honour to play and coach some of the best female players in the world. Football has given me an education, job, a chance to travel, life long friends, and most importantly "the DREAM”. I want to not only live the great dream but spread it. I want to make my vision come to life and pass it on. 

Follow me on this amazing journey that has a lot of twists, turns, being lost, being found, bumps in the road, stops of greatness, a road of sorrow, a road of joy, a road of passion, and jumps...  

"Come to the edge. 

We might fall. 

Come to the edge. 

It's too high! 

COME TO THE EDGE! 

And they came, 

and he pushed, 

And they flew. "  

I want to continue to jump and continue to fly. Thank you to all that have given me the courage to jump and to fly! 

The Rockefeller Tree

Sitting in the conference room in front of my team I turn on my power point and the first thing I show my players is a picture of my         family’s half lit Christmas tree.   My players looked at me like I was crazy… (this happens often but now I know I have their attention.) 

I told them every year we would take out our box of lights and have to untangle them and every year we would plug them in and only half of them would be on… My family and I would search for this missing light; this light affecting and turning off the others.  

** One of my players told me later on that when I showed this picture she really thought I was crazy... and really wondered why she was looking at a picture of my half lit Christmas tree before practice. 

I went on and said we are all connected; connection is one word I use often as a coach. If one “light” is off it could affect the others… Others could turn off but, if one light is willing to turn on and bring energy it will indeed turn the others on and this light will spread to make a beautiful tree.

If you spend your time on the wrong energy this could happen…. 

How can you turn your light back on or turn your teammates light on? We are all connected like this circuit. How can we make our light bright both as an individual and as a team?

I don’t/never want to rely on 1-2 players. Every player has a weapon and I want to find the way to connect them, where everyone plays each others best foot; an environment where the individual lifts the team and the team lifts the individual; where everyone makes each other look good.

I said, if your light is off then it could possibly effect other lights… It could be like my families Christmas tree lights where sometimes the one light that is off affects nothing, half the tree, or the whole tree… I don’t want a half lit tree.. I want a fully lit beautiful tree.. 

I want to find that BEAUTY… I want to BUILD and CREATE the CONNECTION. Something so great you can`t take your eyes off it.

The players now understand the meaning behind my Christmas tree.  I have had the honor to coach many amazing players but one player I am thinking of when it comes to being a light is a German player I had in Skellefteå; Michelle Wörner.  Michelle is now playing in Damallsvenkan for Djurgården. This young player makes you question the laws of physics at times with what she can do.  Sometimes I ask myself “how does she do what she does?”  She brings an element of surprise to fans, coaches, and teammates when she plays which makes her appealing to the eye; a light both on and off the field.  When this light is on and connected it spreads not only to her teammates but it brings joy to everyone around watching.  Michelle is the “Christmas tree in the Rockefeller Center”