The Pittsburgh Elite Soccer Club has grown from the players and coaches who have been part of Hotspurs West for more than 25-years. The coaches have been providing quality training, developing players and sending numerous players to the collegiate level. Bill Pfeifer is our longstanding director of coaching. Bill has been coaching soccer for more than 25-years and he knows something about winning. Bill is the all-time wins leader among girls soccer coaches in Pennsylvania with more than 435 career wins. More than winning, Bill knows how to motivate, develop and make soccer fun for his players. Bill's training sessions force players to increase their speed-of-play, improve awareness as well as field vision. These skills greatly assist our teams in meeting our Club mission of player development and possession based team soccer.
Marcus Pollidore has more than 25 years of soccer coaching experience, which includes college, high school and club soccer. He is very active in youth soccer in the Pittsburgh Area at the Club level. Pollidore has also coached the Carlow University women's and men's soccer team for over 10 seasons. Marcus led the Carlow to a Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) regular-season championship and tournament championship in 2012. He was named the 2012 KIAC Coach of the Year. Under Pollidore, the women's team made two appearances in the USCAA National Women's Soccer Tournament and experienced three of the best seasons in program history, from 2012-2014. Marcus hold's a Bachelor's Degree from Long Island University-Brooklyn.
2023 National Coach of the Year article on Bill Pfeifer...https://tribhssn.triblive.com/moons-bill-pfeifer-named-national-girls-soccer-coach-of-the-year/