Steve Gummer brings a wealth of experience… as a player and as a coach… to his position as Coerver Coaching’s Director of Coaching for Georgia.
A native of England, Steve played English Semi-Pro football for more than ten years, and spent 15 months with Switzerland’s FC Vernier, in Geneva. He has also coached with youth academies attached to several professional clubs in England and Switzerland, including the English FA School of Excellence, the youth academy associated with the governing body of the English Football Association.
Steve first came to the United States in 1994 ) as a staff coach for International Soccer USA, a group based in Kansas City that organizes camps and tours to Europe with promising American youth soccer players. After two years with International Soccer, he was promoted to Coaching Director. In that position he was responsible for developing the summer camp curriculum and implementing the program throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States.
For the past 10 years, Steve has organized and directed Coerver camps throughout the State; and in April of 2011, he was named Coerver Coaching’s Director of Coaching for Georgia.
Steve is currently the Executive Director of Coaching for SSC, a highly regarded club in the Metro Atlanta area. In that capacity he has installed the "Worlds #1 skills teaching method" into his own club’s curriculum. In addition to his duties as the EDOC, he currently coaches the Boys academy teams at the club.
Prior to joining SSC in 2014 Steve spent 14 years as the Director of Coaching at Cobb FC and was a driving force in the forming of Southern Soccer Academy, a club made up of 4 different metro Atlanta Clubs, Cobb FC, Kennesaw FC, West Metro FC, & West Georgia FC. Steve acted as the Director of Soccer and then the club's Technical Director working with all of the staff and players on the club's technical development plan, and coach education.
During his tenure at the club he has graduated over 60 players who have gone on to become student athletes at Colleges all over the country.In addition to this four of his former players are now earning their living as professional soccer players in Europe and most recently Jack McInerney who now plies his trade with the Philadelphia Union in the MLS.
Steve has also served as a Head Coach for the Georgia ODP program, and is a US Club Id2 scout. His club teams have been very successful in adopting the “Coerver” method into their passing and moving style of play and over the years has won many USYSA tiles, including the prestigious Dallas Cup with his 92 Premier team, Both the 89, and 92 squads were USYSA Region III semi finalists on three occasions.
Steve holds a "B" License from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) along with a USSF "A" License. In 2014 Steve presented as a guest clinician at the NSCAA National Convention, along with this Steve has also delivered sessions at the National Coerver Coaching Convention held every January.