Leif Tsolis
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 December 1976 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Liungen | |||
| Åssiden | |||
| Mercantile | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2001–2006 | Vålerenga (youth teams) | ||
| 2007 | Finnsnes (assistant) | ||
| 2008 | Røa | ||
| 2010 | Mjøndalen (assistant) | ||
| 2011–2012 | Flekkefjord | ||
| 2013 | Skarphedin | ||
| 2013 | Sandnes Ulf (junior team) | ||
| 2014 | Valdres | ||
| 2015 | Vålerenga Damer | ||
| 2016- | F.C. Mallorca Toppfotball Femenina | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 April 2015 | |||
Leif Tsolis (born December 7, 1976) is a Norwegian top coach in football.
Since the autumn of 2015, Tsolis has been the main trainer for the A-team and Top Player Developer at F.C. Mallorca Toppfotball Femenina (a club in
Spain). He has been Sports Manager at Mallorca Toppfotball (Full-time Academy in Spain) during the same period. At this time he has built a professional football academy for women and men, and Tsolis is the owner of both the academy and the club. He has two promotion on season in Spain.
By 2015, Tsolis was the head coach in the Norwegian Toppserien for Vålerenga Fotball Damer,[1] one of Norway's biggest and most famous football clubs. He was also a coach in Vålerenga's youth department for 6 years during the period 2001-2007, and this was where he started his coaching career.
In 2014 he was head coach and development manager in the Norwegian 2nd division for Valdres FK. In 2013, junior elite coach for the junior team at the Eliteserie club Sandnes Ulf and also worked at Wang Toppidrett Stavanger.[2]
In 2011 and 2012 he was a full-time A-team coach in Flekkefjord FK in the 3rd division, combined with the role of player developer and
coach developer.[3]
In 2010 he was assistant trainer and top player developer in the 1. division club Mjøndalen IF,[4] where he also was the in game coach for the 2nd team and had analysis tasks for the A team. In Mjøndalen he was a contact person against Norsk Toppfotball, Buskerud Top Coach Network and representative on national gatherings and international gatherings.
In 2008 and 2009 he was the head coach for Oslo Allianse FK, combined with being the head coach for Røa IL in the 2008 season.[5] In 2007 he was full-time employed in Finnsnes IL [6] as administrative manager, Project Manager for Sports City center and coach coordinator, combined with minor coach work at the A-team, B-team and J16-team.
From 2001-2006 Tsolis was the head coach for the U-group 2 in Vålerenga Fotball youth department on the mens side and a coach coordinator at the same time. He was also J16 coach for the inter-region team during this period.
In 2005 he started Scandinavian Football School, which was a 2 and 6 month football academy at Mallorca in Spain, for players of the age 16-23 years of age with ambitions to become top players. The football academy swapped name to Mallorca Toppfotball in 2016 and became a 9 month football academy, which offers students to play in Spanish league systems. Leif Tsolis founded at the same time a Spanish football club named F.C. Mallorca Toppfotball, which is affiliated with the academy. Tsolis has built up both the club and the academy, and is the owner of the projects. As a football coach, Tsolis has 8 promotions as head coach with his football teams, and the promotions has taken place both in Norway and Spain. He has none relegate as a football coach.
Through his career, Leif Tsolis also had roles as club president, chairman of the board, adminsitrative leader, general manager, sports director, development manager, sports manager, project manager, coach developer / coach coordinator, player developer, top player developer and business developer. In most of the clubs he has built up player development models and coach development programs. Throughout his coach career, Tsolis has trained and developed players at national and international level, and had daily responsibility and follow-up of players on the National A-team of Portugal, Switzerland and Norway, as well as national youth team players from nations such as Spain, the United States, Norway, Sweden and Albania.
Tsolis is a Norwegian, English and Spanish speaking football coach.
References
- ↑ "Ny hovedtrener på plass for damelaget" (in Norwegian). Vålerenga Fotball. 15 December 2014. Archived from the original on 14 April 2015.
- ↑ "Sandnes Ulf med ny juniortrener". Rogalands Avis. 9 February 2013. p. 19.
- ↑ "1. divisjons- trener til FFK". Fædrelandsvennen. 30 December 2010. p. 21.
- ↑ "MIF har ansatt spillerutvikler". Eikerbladet. 27 November 2009. p. 17.
- ↑ Mellingsæter, Hanne (9 April 2008). "Satser mot 2. divisjon". Aftenposten Aften. p. 19.
- ↑ Grindstein, Gunnar (13 December 2006). "VIF-mann inn i FIL Fotball". Nordlys. p. 36.