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RedNation and Phillip discuss the Ottawa Fury and their inaugural year in the North American Soccer League, his career as a coach and Technical Director and his upcoming participation as a clinician at the 2015 National Soccer Coaching Conference.
Audio Interview:
Phillip Dos Santos is the Ottawa Fury Technical Director. He holds an “A” License from the European Union of Football Association (UEFA) and has developed strong relationships with many professional European clubs. He holds both Canadian and Portuguese citizenship and is fluent in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
After a short career as a footballer at the semi-professional and professional level in Portugal and Mozambique, Dos Santos developed a huge passion for coaching football and moved to Canada in 2004. He has experience at both the provincial and national levels. He has previously held head coaching positions at the Quebec National Training Centre (NTC) program and several Quebec Provincial youth teams. Phillip was mostly recently the Technical Director of the Lac St Louis region in Montreal; a region with 27,000 registered players.
Dos Santos is also a well-respected staff coach with the Canadian Men’s National Program. He is presently the assistant coach of the Canadian Men’s U20 National team as and also coached the Canadian team at the 2013 Francophone games in Nice, France.
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