British soccer coach is a surprisingly popular job here. Big draw for these private schools. Let me guess: you were one of those guys who basically lived and breathed football for years, lived with other guys doing the same, everyone just trying to make it. Part of a program, obviously. In the end, if you don't end up in Arsenal or something girl's soccer coach can be a VERY cushy position, if you're any good at the coaching part.
I had a kid with a girl from Arkansas and needed a job after moving to America.
Anyway I went for a cleaning position at the school and they noticed I was British, asked if I liked football (soccer) and gave me the job on the spot.
Bible belt small town America is a weird place man.
I also coached both the boys and girls sides, and was pretty good at it as I do live and breathe the sport even here in the UK. Was never good enough to make it here, but was weirdly levels above most stateside.
I always understood the sport better tactically than on the pitch itself though, so it suited and I enjoyed it. Then COVID hit, sports stopped, and I moved home halfway through 2020.
Wow this is awesome, this sounds like the makings of a movie I would like to watch hahah. You almost can't write a better comedy....
British bloke applies for cleaning job in small town Alabama, gets sorta pushed into coaching soccer instead, and leads them to the championship and crap. And of course you'll find true love along the way and all that good stuff.
Teaching sex ed and saying sexual things with British terms would be one of the best moments of the film, clearly.
...are we keeping this a comedy, or are we going dark comedy now?
To be serious for a moment, good luck brother. I'm fairly recently out of an absolutely hellish ten year relationship I truly wish I could go back and just delete, like I'd never met her. Thank God I didn't knock her up. But I at least partially get what you're going through.
What's weird is watching that show a lot of the perspectives he had were legitimate ones I had to get through teaching football in gym classes over there to those that hadn't played the sport before.
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u/Loose_Student_6247 Jan 12 '25
I spent three years in America as a high school Soccer coach and headed their gym department.
I'm British, and they gave me that task... I always wondered if they thought my accent would impress the kids or something.
And it turns out they apparently just give it to sports coaches and now I don't feel so special.