Episode 81: Interview with Eric Quill, head coach of North Texas SC

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

FC Dallas has arguably the best academy in Major League Soccer. Four players who came through its doors were on the 21-man U.S. roster at the U20 World Cup in Poland. The national teams at younger age groups are peppered with Dallas kids. And now those kids are getting professional minutes at the ages of 16 and 17 with North Texas SC, the franchise's gateway to MLS first team minutes. The coach of that team, which is 7-1-2 in USL League One, is Eric Quill, the guy who identified Chris Richards from near Birmingham, Alabama, recruited him to Texans SC, and took that team to a national title in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy playoffs in 2017. He just won USL League One coach of the month, and he joined the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on everything from the training schedule in Frisco to Nico Carrera’s confidence and whether Dante Sealy has the sauce.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuffed Podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and
0:06.1	Des Moines. We talk about U.S. L. Lead One affiliate. Yes today is Eric Quill, the head coach of North Texas
0:22.7	SC, the U.S.L. League One affiliate of FC Dallas.
0:26.6	He stands at the threshold between arguably
0:29.2	the highest performing MLS Academy in the country
0:31.5	right now and one of the best player kids first teams in the league.
0:35.8	The US U-S. U-20 side that just fell in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Poland included
0:39.8	four players with FC Dallas pedigree.
0:42.2	There will be more in upcoming cycles. Dallas is one of the places where the action is.
0:47.4	Eric, thanks for joining the pod. How are you? Good man, thanks for having me.
0:50.8	Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for being here. So let's start with North Texas, SC. What sold you on the job and what is the mission as you see it?
1:00.0	So what sold me the job is obviously the organization.
1:05.0	I've been, well I've played under the organization as a player back in MLS and also had the, you know, pleasure, but sometimes not pleasure of playing against the academy here for
1:16.4	the last six or seven years while I coached in Houston.
1:20.0	And I've seen the great work that they've done here, Bucci and obviously Oscar started originally and
1:25.2	Chris Hayden.
1:26.7	And so I've just felt like this organization's been trailblazing in the youth game and they've
1:31.8	done a really, really great job and it shows
1:33.5	the amount of players they've been signing to homegrown contracts and the processes
1:39.2	that are in place here so I spoke to Lucci. I've gotten pretty close to Lucci over the years
1:45.8	through our Academy Directors course and obviously coaching against each other. So when he moved
1:50.1	on to the first team he asked me to be a candidate to interview.
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