{"id":288834,"date":"2018-11-19T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=288834"},"modified":"2018-11-19T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:06:22","slug":"barry-gets-coaching-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/barry-gets-coaching-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry gets coaching post"},"content":{"rendered":"
The CNMI Men\u2019s National Team\u2019s Bo Barry, right, is being watched by a Shonan Bellmare defender during their training match in Japan in July this year. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After suiting up for the CNMI national team on several occasions, Bo Barry will try his hand at coaching, as he was selected to call the shots for a high school team in Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy and very excited for this new challenge,\u201d said Barry, who got the coaching post for the boys high school varsity team of the Howard W. Blake High School in Tampa. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel any pressure, it\u2019s more like of excitement,\u201d said the St. Leo University graduate, who had his debut with the Yellow Jackets last Friday as the squad played against Braulio Alonso High School.<\/p>\n

Barry acknowledged that as a coach, he now has more responsibilities and believes the things he learned and experienced from his coaches in the CNMI and in the collegiate ranks will help him in this new journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have had a lot of coaches and they all have prepared me for this moment. It makes me appreciate all the coaches that I had the honor to play under. It\u2019s more than what it seems\u2014coaches have a lot more responsibilities than I\u2019ve ever thought,\u201d Barry said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, CNMI men\u2019s national team head coach Michiteru Mita and MP United Football Club vice president Norman Del Rosario led the Commonwealth\u2019s soccer community in congratulating Barry for his new milestone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to congratulate Bo on his new career as a coach. I\u2019m also glad he started coaching right after he took the AFC C license course held in June this year. A coach needs to have a lot of practice to be a better coach. He has a lot of national team experience as a player. That experience would be good advantage for him to be a better coach,\u201d Mita said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope one day, experienced players like him will come back to the islands and coach our young players. They would be good role models for our young players. A national player who grew up here and went off-island to play soccer in mainland and then come back to the island and contribute to our soccer community, that\u2019s awesome. We need qualified local coaches to further develop our soccer program,\u201d the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association technical director added.<\/p>\n

For Del Rosario, who was also Barry\u2019s coach with MP United, he was not surprised to see the CNMI national team player becoming a coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cBo has this mentality of helping out young players and always thinking of how he can pass on his knowledge in the sport. Now is a great opportunity for him to do this and as a coach he will not only teach them about soccer, but also about brotherhood. We, at MP United, are very proud of Bo, as he steps into coaching and starts helping young kids become better players on and off the pitch and guide them toward being responsible members of the community\/school,\u201d Del Rosario said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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