After graduating high school he became involved with the health and fitness field, getting his Exercise and Fitness license from the American Council of Exercise and National Academy of Sports Medicine.  He works with adults and children teaching sports training both one-on-one and in groups.  In 2000, Mike and Jennifer opened Calle Fit where they run soccer clinics to many of the private schools in the Stamford area.

Today Mike works full time at Elite Health Services in Greenwich.  He is also the Strength and Conditioning Coach at for the Girl's JV team at his alma mater, Trinity Catholic.

Mike's involvement with SYSL as a volunteer dates back to when Jake first donned his cleats at age 4. As Jake moved through the ranks of SYSL House on to Travel, Mike followed his son and continued to volunteer his time.  However, Mike's really been involved with SYSL for over 30 years if you count him playing in the league as a child.

It takes a special kind of guy to leave his home country of England and come to the States to teach kids to play soccer.  Aside from all that infernal coffee (Ant prefers his English tea of course) and cold beer (its rumored the English prefer their beer at room temperature) he has to deal with all of us Americans, our politics and our Tea Parties. Despite the challenges, Antony is the Training Director for Quality Touch Soccer Academy working with Jason Segovia.

Antony, age 31, hails from Stoke on Trent, England.  As a player he played with the National Schools system, played with Stoke City F.C as a school boy and as a youth trainee with Crewe Alexandra F.C. A lower back Injury forced his playing days to be cut short. However, from, this injury grew opportunity.  Ant started his coaching career in the UK at the age of 18 years old.

Antony started coaching in the US 10 years ago. He coaches at all levels from Recreational, Travel, Premier and High School. Antony has coached throughout CT, in NY, NJ and travelled the East coast attending Nationally ranked tournaments with past Premier teams he coached. Sixteen of Antony's former players now play within the USSF Academy System for various clubs, all starters, with two of his former players leaving the US this year to play overseas in Italy and Peru with professional clubs in those countries.

Antony is truly a professional. His coaching certificates include The English FA coaching certificate, NSCAA National Advanced Diploma, Coerver Certified and Antony has designed and written the 3v3 Soccer Curriculum that Quality Touch Soccer Acadmey has all its players train through.

Antony currently coaches the U9 girls Hurricane team, the U10 boys Hurricane team and Co-Coaches the combined U9/U10 boys Select team with Jason Segovia here in Stamford.