{"id":477886,"date":"2026-02-16T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477886\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:10:08","slug":"current-future-soccer-coaches-attend-youth-clinic-in-winnebago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477886\/","title":{"rendered":"Current, future soccer coaches attend youth clinic in Winnebago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WINNEBAGO, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; Crossroads Community Church partners with the local park district to offer a clinic to help coaches be successful with their athletes on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rich Sparling led Sunday\u2019s clinic at Winnebago Middle School. He\u2019s a USA certified coach who has more than 40 years of experience at all levels of soccer. He also served as commissioner of the Women\u2019s Premier Soccer League for six years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Those who attended heard and learned from Rich on how they can develop and raise young athletes to become excellent adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His son Rich says the way coaching impacts a player will impact who they can become.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAlthough we want to see players become better at the sport that they are playing, most importantly we want to see them grow up and become adults who are excellent in their communities,\u201d said Rich. \u201cExcellent husbands, fathers, mothers, wives, excellent employees, excellent business owners. That\u2019s our greatest goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIFR. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNEBAGO, Ill. (WIFR) &#8211; Crossroads Community Church partners with the local park district to offer a clinic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,32503,561,82,193733,19054],"class_list":["post-477886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clinic","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-winnebago","tag-youth-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477886","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=477886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}