Soccer player becomes coach
By Camilo H. Smith (Pocono Record)Lee Clewell travels 45 minutes from Wilson Borough to give his sons a chance to get soccer lessons with Dario Villafana.
It's the basics, getting a feel for the ball that the elder Clewell hopes will help his son Benjamin, 18, when he goes out for the team at Northampton Community College in the fall.
Like the Clewells, other kids come to benefit from Villafana's training on a pitch perched high in Mountain View Park.
It's a small, reasonably priced soccer club that teaches fundamentals with an eye on building a large training system under the team name FC Ulindi. The "FC" stands for "football club" as the millions of soccer fans worldwide have come to know.
The program started as a free clinic offered through a local church, but slowly, it's becoming more structured with weekly practices.
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