Cirovski spent much of his youth playing soccer, but he was always drawn to coaching rather than pursuing a career as a professional player. He was inspired by the impact a coach has on people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n
Still, he spent some time creating a career as a player. He played college soccer for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1981-84. After graduating, he played for the Milwaukee Wave and the North York Rockets from 1986-87.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cirovski says his coaches helped mold him into the person he is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m an immigrant that came from the old Yugoslavia, which is Macedonia, and we didn\u2019t have a lot,\u201d Cirovski said. \u201cSometimes, coaches stepped in to help me have a better life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coaches have tremendous effects on shaping their players on and off the field. Alex Nitzl, a standout midfielder for the Terps from 2020-24, commended Cirovski for being someone his players can always talk to.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter what it is, if it\u2019s something personal, if it\u2019s something soccer-related, school, whatever you want to talk about, I know for sure I can always go talk to him and be completely honest about it, even if things aren\u2019t going the right way,\u201d Nitzl said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cirovski spent much of his youth playing soccer, but he was always drawn to coaching rather than pursuing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-447197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}