Who We Are
Purpose-Driven Soccer Camps… Spoudazo is Greek for “Make Every Effort.”
The Vision
Spoudazo Soccer Camps are a nationwide system of highly-specialized soccer camps, where about 80% of our time is spent teaching and coaching high school soccer players how to master very specific skill sets and small-group tactical play. The other 20% is spent learning how to understand and present what the Bible really says about character, effort, excellence in both life and in sports.
The Mission
The Mission of Spoudazo Soccer Camps is to provide soccer enthusiasts and student athletes with the technical skills, tactical awareness, mental mindset, and proverbial (Biblical) character traits necessary to be an ever-improving soccer player. A second mission is to graduate soccer players and coaches who are equipped to travel to World Cup venues during the 2026 World Cup and explain the Gospel.
The World Cup
In 2026, the United States, Canada, and Mexico will host the most widely-watched sporting tournament in the world.
Spoudazo Soccer Camps, clinics, and private training sessions for serious soccer players and intern coaches will develop soccer enthusiasts to be missionaries prepared to travel to all 16 World Cup venues and share the Gospel in the cities and at the parking lots surrounding the stadiums. There will be 48 different nations represented at these 16 venues and our missionaries will include many bi-lingual Christians traveling to the venues to present the gospel to their linguistic brothers traveling from abroad for the World Cup.
The vehicle for raising up these well-prepared missionaries will be Spoudazo Soccer Camps, at which youth soccer players ages 12 through 18* will receive excellent soccer training as well as introductions to Jesus Christ for non-Christian youth and ongoing Disciple-making for Christian youth regardless of church affiliation. Young men and women will come to Christ, existing believing young men and women will get fired up for service and spiritual discipline in their lives. II Peter 1:3-11 will be applied both to soccer mastery (for coaches AND for players) and for embracing God’s Word.
* Soccer players ages 19-24 who want to attend to prepare for 2026 can apply as an intern and pay a significantly reduced rate. See FAQ “What about college players who still want to get better and also want to be trained missionaries for the World Cup?”
Leadership
Joey Gorman, Metro Director & Co-Founder
Coach Joey Gorman is both the Metro Director for North and South Carolina Spoudazo Soccer Camps, as well as the overseer for “Quality Control” for all Spoudazo Camps nationwide.
Coach Joey brings to every camp his own high-level playing experience, his training methods based on both being trained and training others to play at the highest possible skill levels, and his soccer-business experience in training coaches and young players how to train others efficiently, effectively, and excellently.
Joey Gorman’s playing experiences include four years of Varsity play at Faulkner University (Montgomery, AL) as well as two summer seasons with NPSL teams (Myrtle Beach Mutiny, Buxmont Torch), the highest level of amateur play available for college players in the off-season.
He has coached Charleston Collegiate School Boys since 2018, gradually increasing their tactical and technical play to the point where they were State Finalists (runners-up) in 2022 and State Champions in 2023.
Joey is currently the Technical Director for the Mt. Pleasant Recreational Soccer Technical Training Program, in which he both has his own group of players as well as oversees the 6-7 Charleston Battery players that coach in the program. He is also Chaplain for the Charleston Battery as well as chaplain for the local Impact City Soccer Club.
Coach Joey Gorman earned his first USSF National Coaching License in 2011.
Wayne Pirmann, National Director & Co-Founder
Wayne attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he played soccer all four years. Immediately upon graduation, he coached high school soccer in Connecticut while also playing for “Wallingford Portuguese American Club.” During that two-year stint, he was selected to the Connecticut All-Star Team.
Wayne moved to Michigan in 1974 to coach and teach at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Finding no soccer camps to work in, he started his own, called Michigan Soccer School Inc. Over ten years of operation, over 10,000 young soccer players attended his summer camps, and over 1,000 soccer coaches (adult teams and youth teams both) attended the Michigan Soccer Coaching clinics under the authority of the USSF and MSA. During these years he attended the USSF National Coaching School and earned the “C,” “B,” and “A” licenses. Coach Wayne has a reputation of caring for the developmental progress of every individual under his tutelage. He coached at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, and was Director of Development and Indoor Coach for the NASL Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 1979-1980.
Coaches
Brian Contreras, Coach
Brian played for Loyola University in Chicago as well as for pro indoor team Denver Dynamite. He holds the USSF National “A” Coaching License.
Kevin Hay, Coach
Kevin was a three-year starter at Shawnee State University (Ohio).
Ryan Parsons, Coach
After playing four years at perennial NAIA powerhouse Fort Lewis College, and two years of starting in the midfield for the Colorado Rapids Reserve Team (MLS) Ryan earned his USSF “B” Coaching License in 2015.
Sample Day
Arrived and signed in by 8:55 each morning.
Making the effort to become a better soccer player leads to understanding and presenting the Gospel more effectively.
Ben Pirmann, Charleston Battery (USL)
It’s time to “Make Every Effort”.
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