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 Be The Best You Can Be
Upcoming events for the next 180 days
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 | Upcomming Soccer Camps |
 Our Summer Soccer Programs are for all levels of players who want to get more enjoyment from the sport of soccer. Training emphasis is on individual technique, team play, and sportsmanship. The program is specifically designed to provide players with the opportunity to improve their skills. Our goals for each student are to learn new techniques, to improve the ones they already have, and to make the best of their newly found skills with every team on which they play. These camps also serve as tryouts for our full time program.
Registration is now open; sign up early; we sell out very fast!
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| Tulis School Founder Goes Full Circle |
By Yvonne Zacharias, Vancouver Sun December 5, 2009
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Niall Cousens and Roman Tulis
(Photograph by: Bill Keay)
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From the Burnaby-based Roman Tulis European Soccer School of Excellence, players have gone around the world to fly across fields, flash the Canadian colours on foreign soil and make their mark. But it is Tulis’s latest export, a tall, strong player named Niall Cousens that has the Czechoslovakia-born coach awash with pride and reflecting on a career of growing European-style soccer players on Canadian soil. “It’s very difficult to get a Canadian kid into any serious soccer country because we are not considered a soccer nation,” explained Tulis, 54, during an interview in the Coquitlam home he shares with his wife, Danka.
In many ways, Cousens’s signing with Slavia Praha’s U-19 team has brought Tulis full circle.
It has brought back a flood of memories of his homeland and created a special bond between coach and player. There are many good soccer players in Europe, but in Tulis’s eyes Cousens is different. “He has been training with me for 10 years. He looks like a European player. That is very important.”
Such serendipity couldn’t come at a better time for Tulis, who is in the fight of his life against cancer. Tulis set up the trial for Cousens through a Slovakia connection. Such is the reputation of this coach who physically left what was then Czechoslovakia in 1987, but whose European soccer ties are still deeply embedded within him. Not that he picks up the phone for just anybody. Tulis guards his reputation in the soccer world as carefully as a crown prince guards his royalty. “When I pick up the phone, the player is good,” said Tulis. “I never send anyone who is not good.” Having relocated himself, he knows the type of adjustments Cousens is going through. Tulis has done his best to prepare his student.
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| Second Dana Cup for Tulis Boys |
This year’s European tour to Denmark and Sweden was nothing but a huge success for the U13 boys. At the Dana Cup Tournament in Denmark, they finished 1st in their group stage with 7 points (2 wins and a tie) scoring 11 goals and not conceding any. This was the second-ever Dana Cup championship for the Tulis boys groups. Going in to the “A” playoff matches, their 1st big task was in the quarter finals against Orgryte IS, 3rd largest professional club from Sweden. The Tulis boys played with a lot of heart and determination and scored on a free kick 25 yards from the net with only 3 minutes left in the 2nd extra time to win the game 1-0 and move on to the semi finals.
Later that same day, the boys faced a very talented home team from Denmark, F.f.I. which they beat 2-1 and found themselves in the final the next day against a very strong, high scoring team from Germany, STD Bremerhaven. The boys were able to shut down the German attack and the game was scoreless in regular time with the Tulis boys capitalizing on one of the few chances they had in the 3rd minute of the 1st extra time to make the score 1-0. They were then able to hold off the Germans for the final 17 minutes of extra time to win the 2009 Dana Cup. “What excitement in the stadium when the final whistle blew,” said team manager Andy Sulentic. “The atmosphere was electric; the boys will remember that moment for the rest of their lives!”
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| 2009 Players In The News |
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Colin Strechmann
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Marcus Haber - Marcus had a superb breakout year in British Columbia with the Vancouver Whitecaps. After returning home last season following a two-year youth career with Dutch Eredivisie side FC Groenigen, he appeared in every league game and earned the USL-1 Rookie of the Year award as well as the club’s fan favorite nomination. As of late December Marcus was in negotiations with Championship club West Bromwich Albion in England and was awaiting a transfer.
Kent O’Connor – Kent signed in September 2009 with Danish club Brabrand IF
Santiago Fernández - Santiago joined Puebla F.C. for the Clausura 2009 season, in hopes of helping the team not to be relegated to the Primera "A".
Kevin Harmse – Kevin scored his first goal for Toronto FC in the 2009 Nutrilite Canadian Championship opening game against his former team, the Vancouver Whitecaps, on May 6, 2009 at BMO Field. Harmse was traded to Chivas USA on June 24, 2009
Colin Strechmann – Colin, who plays forward for the SFU Clansmen, received the Player of the Year award. Colin, a senior, had eight goals and seven assists this past season and scored the game winning penalty kick goal in SFU’s final round national tournament win over Ohio Dominican.
Michael Nonni - Michael represented Canada at the 2009 CONCACAF Under-20 Men's Championship in Macoya, Trinidad and Tobago (Canada finished third in Group B).
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