Stuart Duffin is a former player at Bristol City Football Club which play in the English league. Stuart played from 1992-1995 at the Championship division level for “The Cherries”. Following his time with Bristol City, Stuart then played for Stafford Rangers F.C. in the English Conference League, until the end of the 1995 season. After that, Stuart focused his soccer and personal educational development in the USA.

Stuart studied at Hofstra University in New York from 1995-1999, where he received a soccer scholarship. While at Hofstra, he was America East Conference Player of the Year, 1997-98; Regional All-American 1st team selection, Fall 1997; All-America East Conference 1st team selection, Fall 1997 and 1998; Hofstra University Soccer MVP, 1996-97. Stuart’s 50 career goals still stands as school record.

From, 2001-2003, he played for the New York Freedom in the USL D-3 Pro League.

Since moving to Florida in 2003, his soccer career has mainly revolved around local tournament invites although a regular figure in the Copa Latina tournament in Miami. Stuart was voted MVP of the pre-Copa Latina tournament in 2009.

Since 2003 Stuart has been a member of the Mako Soccer Club professional training staff. There, he provided technical training for Mako Soccer Club recreational and select teams.

Stuart was instrumental in developing the Mako Soccer Academy, which is designed to develop young players technical ability from an early age. In 2013, Stuart became the Director of Coaching at Mako Soccer Club and successfully guided the coaches of the club to improve player development and performance levels. The club had its best years of competition at the younger age groups under Stuart’s leadership and also had 3 teams in the round of 16 of State Cup in 2015.

Coaching Highlights:
1992 –1994: Coached at the F.A. School of Excellence in Nailsea, England.
2002: Player Coach of the NY Irish Rovers. Winner of Long Island Soccer league and NY State Cup.

2004 thru 2015 : Head Coach at Mako Soccer club for boys and girls teams at all age groups with many State and National coaching achievements across 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 groups for both boys and girls teams.

2015: Appointed Director of Coaching at Mako Soccer Club

2016: Appointed Director of Coaching at Martin United Soccer Club U8 thru U12

2017: Appointed Player Development Director at Martin United Soccer Club Boys and Girls programs

Coaching Licenses:
NSCAA Advanced Regional Diploma

NSCAA National Diploma

USSF E license & Ex professional player waiver for USSF D License

Richard is responsible for all programs at Martin United. He is the President of Martin United Soccer Club and joint founder. “El Prez” has his bio available to view on the “directors” page.

Richard has developed players to understand the qualities needed to achieve successful experiences in soccer from grassroots levels thru to state level competitive events. He has coached teams at all age and gender groups at Martin United. Richard created the Martin United philosophy for player development and he is responsible for ensuring his coaches and trainers deliver that vision.

Richard leads the development of players in Martin United’s “Micro” player program for players aged U8, U7, U6, U5 and U4.

Richard will be start his USSF National C license in December 2018.

Coaching Licenses:
USSF National “Youth” License
USSF National “D” License

John was born and raised in the southern part of Germany bordering on France, he played for his hometown team of Maximiliansau before moving on to play for FSSV Karlsruhe which was in the Landesliga at the time. Prior to joining the service John spent a season with FV Lauda which made history by winning the Baden-Wuertemberg Amateur Cup which saw them gain an automatic berth for the DFB Pokal as the lowest amateur team. While in the service John was selected as a member of the All-Army team and his performance in the Inter-service tournament (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) warranted selection to the Inter-service team which represented the US at the 1983 Soldier Olympiad. He also played and captained Jackson FC in South Carolina to the Men’s state title in 1987.

While stationed in Germany John coached a U12 team and never looked back, he continued state side as an assistant to Heidi Ayers, one of the first female A-licensed coaches and they took their U12B to the state final. After relocating to Florida in 1991 John began coaching at Jensen Beach Soccer Club where he was responsible for the U15 and U16 boys program in 1995 he took the U15B to the Regional Div II final while the U16B went to the Div I final respectively. John joined the newly formed TCU in 1996 where his U16B won the state title that year. When he became Head Coach of the South Fork High School program in 1997 he joined Hobe Sound Soccer Club to help build the feeder program and has served as the Director of Training for the past five seasons. His teams have reached the Regional finals on six different occasions winning State on two of them.

Matt is a Martin United coach. He has a USSF E license and will be sitting his USSF D License in the summer of 2018.

After graduating University College Chichester with a BSc Sports Studies degree with coaching science, Matt moved to Long Island, NY, to pursue a career coaching youth soccer.

While in NY, Matt coached at the collegiate level in the NCAA Div II with the Molloy College women’s soccer team.

Matt moved to Florida in 2003 and has worked as a professional soccer trainer and head coach at Treasure Coast United (TCU), Mako Soccer Club, Jupiter United Soccer Club until 2016. Since 2016, Matt has become a valued member of the Martin United training and coaching staff. In tandem with his career as a professional youth soccer trainer, Matt is also in his 12^th year as the head boys’ soccer coach at Treasure Coast High School. Matt is currently a physical education teacher at Treasure Coast High School.

Raul Mejia began his youth coaching career shortly after retiring from playing soccer at Stetson University.

Coach Raul began his coaching education through Stetson’s youth program.  From 2010 until January 2017, Raul coached at FC Florida and AC Delray.  During his tenure he coached girls and boys u8 through u15.  Raul joined Martin County United in February 2017.

Raul holds a USSF National D License and is pre-qualified for his National C License.

Al is a coach for Martin United.

Al has been involved in youth soccer on the Treasure Coast for many, many years, not only as a coach, but also as an administrator. He has a wealth of experience that all those around him will benefit from. Al holds a FYSA D License.

Al will be coaching the 2010 Girls team for the 2018/19 season.

Chris is a coach for Martin United.

Chris has risen through the ranks at Martin United from volunteer parent, to assistant coach and head coach. He has been involved in coaching soccer for five years. Chris has a USSF E license and he will be sitting his USSF D License the summer of 2018.

Chris will be coaching the 2007 Girls team for the 2018/19 season.