Head Coach Allen Fortune
Dinner with California Odyssey Coaching Staff and
Bob Bradley and John Hackworth
559-905-3005
allenfortune@whccd.edu
Head Coach Allen Fortune and his Assistant Derek Lopez look forward to their second season with the Golden Eagles.
This will be Coach Fortune and Coach Lopez's second year leading the Golden Eagles Men's Soccer Program. Coaches are excited to have key returing players along with a great group of recruits to help the Golden Eagles build a strong tradition of soccer excellence.
Coach Fortune's Coaching Resume
US E/D State Coaching License holder
US Soccer Federation National Development Academy
2007-2008 Coach for 89 and 91's
2008-2009 Coach for 90 and 92's
Fresno Pacific University
1999 Assistant Coach- Jaime Ramirez Head Coach
2000 Assistant Coach- Jaime Ramirez Head Coach
2001 Assistant Coach- Jaime Ramirez Head Coach-GSAC Champions
West Hills College Lemoore Women's Soccer
2007 Assistant Coach- Rodney Ragsdale Head Coach
District 7 Olympic Development
2002 U15 Girls- Six Girls Invited to State Tryouts, Two Making the Team
2003 U15 Boys- Four Boys Invited to State
Professional Development League (PDL)
2003-2005 Fresno Fuego Professional Development League Player Evaluator
2004/2005 Fresno Fuego Youth Development Program U17 Boys Team (State Premier League)
Bullard High School
1995 Assistant Varsity Coach- Ahmad Tousi Head Coach
1996 Freshman Head Coach Undefeated League Champions
1997 Junior Varsity Head Coach Undefeated League Champions
1998 Junior Varsity Head Coach Undefeated League Champions
1999 Junior Varsity Head Coach League Champions -One Loss
2000 Junior Varsity Head Coach League Champions –Three Losses
2001 Junior Varsity Head Coach- Second in League- Two Losses
2002 Assistant Varsity Coach- Ahmad Tousi Head Coach
2003 Assistant Varsity Coach- Ahmad Tousi Head Coach-League Champions
2004 Head Varsity Boys Coach-Bullard High School
2005 Fresno Bee Coach of the Year Head Varsity Boys Coach-Bullard High School-League,Valley Champions 25-5-4- CMAC Coach of the Year,
2006 Head Varsity Boys Coach-Bullard High School- Undefeated League Champions, CMAC Coach of the Year, CIF Central Section Finalist 21-1-2
2007 Head Varsity Boys Coach- Bullard High School Undefeated League Champions, CMAC Coach of the Year ,19-2
2008 Head Varsity Boys Coach- Bullard High School League Champions, CIF Central Section Finalist, CMAC Coach of the Year, 27-2-3
Club Soccer-Bullard Soccer Association
1999 U16 Boys
2000
U18 Boys Premier League-Undefeated League Champions
2001
U11 Boys and U18 Boys
2002
U12 Boys and U18 Boys
2003
U13 Boys- U17 Boys, and U18 Boys
2004
U18 Boys- U15 assistant
2005 U17 Boys – Fresno Fuego Juniors, U11 Boys
2006
U15 Boys – Bullard United
2007 U16 Boys- Bullard United
2008 U17 Boys- Bullard United- Top 50 in the Nation (Best Ranking)
Soccer Career
I started my soccer career under Don Hawkins at Holland Elementary. Because of the work Don had done for this community and recreational soccer the recreational league in this area was given the name: Don Hawkins league.
Quickly I moved to the oldest competitive club in the valley, Cyclone Soccer Club. I played for the Cyclone club out of the Hoover district for six years. I moved to the Bullard district when I started the 7th grade and played for a former JV coach at Bullard named Andy Doris. My freshman year I was chosen to play varsity under Coach Ahmad Tousi. Tousi became my competitive soccer coach as well and in the summer of 1994, after losing in the semi- finals of Valley to West Bakersfield, Valley Premier won the under 18 division of the Dallas Cup. We suffered our first loss of the season to Germany but came back in the playoff match to beat them as well as Argentina and Czechoslovakia. I played my college soccer at Fresno Pacific University ranked tied for ninth in career goals scored all time and second in school history for most goals in a single game of play (5), all in the first half of the game. As my college soccer career was ending and I was asked to tryout for several Professional soccer teams but was not allowed to tryout because of health related issues. I got very sick the end of my senior year and I was placed in the hospital with a disease called Colitis. This disease would not allow me to follow my passion to the professional level. I was approached, during my freshman year of college, by my High School soccer coach and mentor, Ahmad Tousi, to be his assistant coach. That was the day I started coaching.
Since then I have been involved with FGYSL (Fig Garden Youth Soccer League) running their summer camp with an average of 95 attendees for two years, 2002 and 2003. After coaching as the freshman and JV team at Bullard High School I was asked to take the Varsity Head coaching position in 2003. Having coached in the soccer program since 1994 I have a great tradition instilled in me and try to give that to my players. In my second season as Bullard’s head coach (2004-2005) we won the central section title. It had been 18 years since Bullard was able to win the section. In 2008 I was asked to be a part of the coaching staff for a team that will be competing nationwide in a program set up by the US Soccer Federation. This program is really on a different level of anything I have been involved in and it has been exciting to be on the cutting edge of a sport I love.
Coaching Philosophy:
Discipline, Respect, Tradition, and Hard Work
I believe in instilling these values into our young men, giving them high expectations and challenging them to be not only the best soccer player but also to be the best person that they can be. I teach what I have been taught and know these lessons will not only help them to excel in sport but life.
“Far better is it to: dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those, poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight, that know neither Victory nor Defeat.’
-Theodore Roosevelt
Assistant Coach
Derek Lopez