Kentucky Awards for 2000

The Kentucky Youth Soccer Association Awards recognize outstanding achievements by Coaches, Players, Referees and Administrators in advancing youth soccer in the state.  

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Boys Coach of the Year

Eurosport Boys Coach of the Year Claudio Maldonado  Javanon Soccer Club Under 15 Boys

KYSA Eurosport Boys Coach of the Year - Anyone who has spent any time within the Kentucky soccer community is aware of the numerous efforts and amazing achievements of Claudio Maldonado. 

Coach Claudio Maldonado receives the Eurosport Coach of the Year award from two of his players at the Awards Luncheon as State Youth Administrator Milt Koger and President Perry Alexander watch.

This award is given for his most recent dedication to the Javanon '85 boys team, which he has coached for five years. 

This year, his team won the Snickers Region II tournament. Noting that soccer is indeed, Maldonado's entire life, 

Coach Maldonado with his team receiving the metals for winning the U15 Regional Championship in 2000.

Charles and Paula Main said in their nomination letter than while they are very grateful for his influence on their sons as a soccer player, they are even more appreciative of his influence on the boys as a man. 

"He balances the enormous commitment of time and energy he has made to our sons with the demands of his career as a research biologist on the staff of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. 

At the very same time he was deeply involved in the preliminary research for Louisville's hand transplant team, he was also making time to help out boys solve with problems finishing within the 18-yard line . .

Coach Maldonado with his team on the fields in Lawrence, Indiana for the 2000 Snickers Midwest Regional Championships.

He has taught them to be sportsmen, to play hard but to play fair. He has taught them to win with grace and to lose with dignity. He has taught them to strive without rancor and to achieve with acrimony. 

He has taught them that for all the rewards winning brings, it is to play as well as you can that is most important." Maldonado holds a national "A" coaching license, the highest awarded. 

Congratulations, Claudio and thanks for all of your hard work