HOW WE STARTED
KIDSMOVE started in 1999 with the desire to bring a thoughtful and joyful experience to children between the years of three and seven who have never played soccer before. KIDSMOVE started as a soccer class for local children with a focus on healthy physical activities and a positive first encounter with team sports. KIDSMOVE continued for 13 years, adding other sports such as baseball and basketball and teaching over 1,000 children in the Park Slope, Brooklyn between 1999 and 2012.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
A child’s first introduction to competitive sports needs to be positive, affirming, confidence-building, fun, and accessible. Our aim is to create a healthy, creative, joyful, and skilled soccer player. We focus on building the players’ abilities on principles of physical education, biomechanics training, fundamentals of soccer technique, and the joy of the game. A creative and skilled athlete is built on the synergy of player and team. We teach, coach and lead from a team first approach. This creates a healthy foundation for lessons learned from sports and life.
JAMES FOWLER, PT ACSM
FOUNDER
In 1999, James developed KIDSMOVE to teach sports in a positive environment. Over the last 7 years, James has also coached Varsity Soccer at Notre Dame High School, leading the team to two New York City Catholic Intersectional City Championships in 2015 and 2016. “The James Approach,” a movement re-education program, is another of James’s achievements and was created to help high level amateur and professional athletes improve movement efficiency and body awareness. In 2002, James founded James Fowler Physical Therapy, a center where therapists and wellness specialists help not only athletes, but any individual, learn body mechanics and achieve greater body awareness.
DAYNA GOLDBERG
SPORTS EDUCATION EXPERT
Dayna has been educating elementary school children in Brooklyn for 19 years. She grew up in a family of soccer players and coaches and started playing soccer herself at the age of three. She traveled all over the US and Canada with her championship club team and was a freshman varsity starter in high-school. A knee injury prevented Dayna from playing college soccer, but she continued her passion for the game through coaching at Island Trees Soccer Club. Dayna began working with KIDSMOVE in 2006 and brings the perfect combination of being a highly skilled elementary school teacher and soccer background of 30 years to KIDSMOVE.
JOAO PAULO RONCOLI
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Coach JP played soccer from 1980 until 1992 in youth soccer clubs, after which he joined a semi-professional club as a center defender. At 21-years-old, JP entered university, where he played soccer until got his Bachelor Degree in Physical Education & Sports. In 1998 he became a Soccer & Futsal Coach. JP has been coaching in the US since 2010 at Travel and Premier Soccer Clubs and running several Soccer and Futsal Clinics. Qualifications: USSF “C” License, Soccer Coach - Brazilian License, Futsal Coach - Brazilian License, Brusa Soccer - Educator Lever “C”, BFUT - Educator Level “4”, NSCAA Goalkeeping - Level 1 & 2.
MICHEL GENTILE
SPORTS EDUCATION EXPERT
Michel has been a group leader for KIDSMOVE Soccer since 2004. He has combined his love for soccer and his exquisite teaching skill to bring a dynamic energy and unique expertise to our program. Michel is a flautist, composer, and improvist who have been teaching music for almost 25 years. His teaching portfolio includes New England Conservatory, Wellesley College, and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Michel teaches music to over 500 children in New York City. He takes special pride in his work in the public schools and his work with preschoolers with special needs at the Helen Keller School for the Visually Impaired. Michel unique understanding to education aids all children of abilities.
