{"id":47246,"date":"2016-08-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-san-francisco-deltas-name-marc-dos-santos-as-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T22:09:38","slug":"san-francisco-deltas-nombra-a-marc-dos-santos-como-su-director-tecnico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/san-francisco-deltas-nombra-a-marc-dos-santos-como-su-director-tecnico\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Deltas Name Marc Dos Santos As Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN FRANCISCO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 17, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The San Francisco Deltas announced to fans this morning that <span class=\"xn-person\">Marc Dos Santos<\/span> will be the club&#8217;s first head coach.\u00a0 Dos Santos brings over a decade of coaching experience to the Deltas, having developed players at both the professional and amateur levels in the US, <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Mozambique<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211;\u00a0Marc Dos Santos | Building to Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DRZ5hu0MtIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/DRZ5hu0MtIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160816\/398488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160816\/398488<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Marc&#8217;s track record of success and experience developing players with a winning mentality is initially what motivated us to reach out to him,&#8221; CEO of SF Deltas, Brian Andr\u00e9s Helmick said.\u00a0 &#8220;However, after spending time with him and his wife Marie, it became abundantly clear that his values overlap perfectly with ours.\u00a0 He is a risk taker and is open to innovation; he values honesty and transparency; and despite all of his success, he has remained truly humble and kind.\u00a0 We feel incredibly fortunate to welcome Marc and his family to <span class=\"xn-org\">San Francisco<\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos joins the Deltas from his head coaching role at the Swope Park Rangers of Kansas City.\u00a0 Dos Santos formerly served as head coach for the Ottawa Fury&#8217;s inaugural season in 2014 and led them to the Championship Final in 2015 where he was named Coach of the Year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to be named the head coach of the Deltas,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Marc Dos Santos<\/span>. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in clubs all over the world and I believe this is different.\u00a0 I believe we&#8217;re going to be able to bring players that want to be part of the city, part of the organization.\u00a0 I believe the team that is behind this has a new way of thinking, so this makes me believe big time that this is going to be a successful story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos began his career in <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span> and Mozambique.\u00a0 In 2007, he was hired by his hometown team, the Montreal Impact, to lead the club&#8217;s reserve team, Trois-Rivieres Attak FC.\u00a0 Under his leadership, the team won the 2007 Open Canada Cup and became 2008 CSL National Division champions, which led to him to being named the Impact&#8217;s assistant coach and then their head coach.\u00a0 With Dos Santos, the Montreal Impact won the Canadian Championship in 2008, reached the Quarterfinals in the 2008-09 CONCACAF Champions League, and won the USL First Division title in 2009.\u00a0 His appetite for new challenges led him to move to <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span> in 2012 and coach FC Primeira Camisa (U-20&#8217;s) and SE Palmeiras (U-15&#8217;s), culminating with a Copa do Brasil U-15 championship and then a head coaching position with Desportivo Brasil.\u00a0 He then returned to <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> in 2013 as the head coach of the Ottawa Fury.<\/p>\n<p>A dual citizen of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span>, Dos Santos holds a UEFA &#8220;A&#8221; coaching license and is fluent in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese).\u00a0 He and his wife Marie have three children.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos will remain with the Rangers through the end of the season.\u00a0 He will officially join the Deltas in October. The SF Deltas expect to hold tryouts in November.\u00a0 The first pre-season game will take place in <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 2017<\/span> against the San Jose Earthquakes. <\/p>\n<p><b>About the SF Deltas: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The SF Deltas is an American professional soccer team based in <span class=\"xn-location\">San Francisco, California<\/span>. The club was founded in 2015 by a diverse group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, and the team will begin play in <span class=\"xn-chron\">February 2017<\/span>. Home matches will be played at Kezar Stadium, formerly home of the <span class=\"xn-org\">San Francisco<\/span> 49ers. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfdeltas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.sfdeltas.com<\/a>. Follow the Deltas on Twitter and Instagram at @sfdeltas and Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sfdeltas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/sfdeltas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg0c72left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg0c72left\" title=\"San Francisco Deltas Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"San Francisco Deltas Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20160325\/348172LOGO\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160325\/348172LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160325\/348172LOGO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN FRANCISCO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 17, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The San Francisco Deltas announced to fans this morning that <span class=\"xn-person\">Marc Dos Santos<\/span> will be the club&#8217;s first head coach.\u00a0 Dos Santos brings over a decade of coaching experience to the Deltas, having developed players at both the professional and amateur levels in the US, <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Brazil<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Portugal<\/span> and &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deportes-y-recreacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}