Florida Gulf Coast Dutch Lions FC- Interview

Their focus is the Youth Academy that works on developing youth players to a professional level. They have a very well put together team of coaches that enjoy being able to teach kids skills in hopes of them reaching professional soccer levels. I recently interviewed technical director and youth academy coach Vincent De Weger. Read on to see what he has to say about about this great organization that is the Florida Gulf Coast Dutch Lions FC.

 

 

FGCDLFC: The Florida Gulf Coast Dutch Lions is a professional soccer club in Cape 

Coral. We have a Youth Academy, Men’s team and Woman’s team. In our club 

we provide world class soccer with our Dutch and American coaches. All 

our coaches are licensed by the USSF or UEFA.

 

 

FGCDLFC: Our club started by the idea that we want to have a club in Florida, 

because it’s close to Europe (only 8 hours flight) and the conditions in 

Florida are incredible.

 

 

FGCDLFC: We train at Jim Jeffers Park in Cape Coral. The coming months we 

hopefully have some great news about a new complex.

 

 

FGCDLFC: We did research in Florida and we saw that the average age in Cape Coral 

in getting lower and lower and that the conditions to play soccer are 

phenomenal. We can play here all year around. Besides that the community 

is growning and big companies find their way to Cape Coral.

 

 

FGCDLFC: We have a Youth Academy for boys and girls from 5 years old until 17 

years old. We also have a men’s and women’s team for 17 years and up.

 

Besides that we have our FGCDLFC Trainingschool on Friday from 5.30-6.30 

at Jim Jeffers Park. We train everyone that’s joining there for an hour 

on the basic skills of soccer.

 

 

FGCDLFC: We have a fundraising event coming up November 19th at Fathoms Restaurant 

& Bar. Also on  Saturday we have something going on at Jim Jeffers Park.

 

For more information on the Florida Gulf Coast Dutch Lions FC make sure to follow them on Facebook or check out their website!