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Head Coach: Rich Powell
Assistant Coaches: Scot Beattie and Chris Russell
Rich was born and raised in Nuneaton, England; a quiet town based in the midlands. He attended St. Thomas Moore High School and then went on to north Warwickshire and Hinckley College, where he completed a diploma in sport, before receiving his coaching badges and working with the English FA.
After obtaining his UEFA B licenses in England, under the FA, Rich was one of the youngest coaches in the UK to receive a UEFA B license, at the age of 19, and needed to gain more experience and coaching hours to be ready to step into a professional premier academy in England. As such, Rich moved across the pond to New Jersey to further his education in the game.
Rich started his career with Ashley’s soccer in 2006, which later became Soccer Domain Academy, and worked with their youth program and youth academy. He soon moved to the Berkshires in 2007 to lead Soccer Domain Academy in this area and became the director of the program. There, he was the director of coaching and helped create an elite training and coaching program to build professional training to work with players to better their experience in soccer and to create a pathway to collegiate soccer.
In 2014 Rich took a year away from America and traveled to Australia, coaching on the east coast with various clubs and then also worked with West Ham United with their ID program. He worked with the academy directors to identify players that were ready to step into a regional team and provide opportunities to try out at West Ham in England.
Coach Powell has recently started his own club and program in 2023 called United Soccer Group based in the Berkshire county area and supporting neighboring states. As both owner and leading director of coaching and development, he will oversee the development of players and programs to allow for a pathway into collegiate soccer. Coach Powell will also assist with programing for prep school players and build and offer teams at the elite level for Salisbury boys to attend showcase opportunities with the United Soccer Group organization on the off season.
His new venture is one met with excitement and focus; to build a competitive soccer program and give players the opportunity to follow their pathways to collegiate soccer.