Thom Meredith's guest appearances

Thom Meredith

United Soccer Coaches Podcast

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Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Paul Gardner

Michael Lewis

Beau Dure

Joe Machnik

Keith Tozer

Bob Ross

Wes Bos

Julie Foudy

Kevin Egan

Drew Baker

Randy Hahn

Mike Lynch

Brandon Turner

Brad Miller

Dave Coleman

OwlTail

Talking Points:  Pushing beyond your limits Abstraction of Professions Junior Dev Traits Forest vs Trees Looking Under the hood Working with non-technical people Communication Quotable Quotes: “How do we make this possible? How do we achieve this?” - TM “There’s an aspect to be sure that you have the right person for the job.” - TM  “You don’t need to be a full-stack jack of all trades master of none.” TM  “The FE bar just keeps getting raised.” TM “You need to have people that can solve the problems that are not in the box.” - TM “Squarespace, Wix, other online editors are a fix for simple problems.” DG “I look for someone who is humble and hungry.” TM “[Junior Devs] may not know that you could just look under the hood.” - TM “Communication and knowing your audience is so important for a junior engineer.” - TM Notes:Kleykley.coJunior to Senior Communitycommunity.juniortosenior.io

Talking Points: <ul> <li>Pushing beyond your limits</li> <li>Abstraction of Professions</li> <li>Junior Dev Traits</li> <li>Forest vs Trees</li> <li>Looking Under the hood</li> <li>Working with non-technical people</li> <li>Communication</li> </ul>Quotable Quotes:<ul> <li>“How do we make this possible? How do we achieve this?” - TM</li> <li>“There’s an aspect to be sure that you have the right person for the job.” - TM </li> <li>“You don’t need to be a full-stack jack of all trades master of none.” TM </li> <li>“The FE bar just keeps getting raised.” TM</li> <li>“You need to have people that can solve the problems that are not in the box.” - TM</li> <li>“Squarespace, Wix, other online editors are a fix for simple problems.” DG</li> <li>“I look for someone who is humble and hungry.” TM</li> <li>“[Junior Devs] may not know that you could just look under the hood.” - TM</li> <li>“Communication and knowing your audience is so important for a junior engineer.” - TM</li> </ul>Notes:Kley <a href="https://kley.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kley.co</a>Junior to Senior Community <a href="https://community.juniortosenior.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">community.juniortosenior.io</a>

Thom Meredith - Partner, Director of Technology at Kley

Hank Steinbrecher

On this week's show we chat with Hank Steinbrecher, former Secretary General of U.S. Soccer on a variety of topics and hear stories from a lifetime spent in and around the game. We head back to the 2020 Convention in Baltimore as well to hear an interview with Thom Meredith. He shares stories from his time with U.S. Soccer including the 1994 and 1999 World Cups hosted in the United States.

Hank Steinbrecher and Thom Meredith, Pres. by TeamSnap 2-27-20

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Our World Cup fever has yet to break, and we spend this week reveling in some of the heretofore unexplored (at least on this podcast) nooks and crannies of modern-day American pro soccer history with one of its most unsung front office heroes.  In a career spanning over four decades, sports PR and event management executive Thom Meredith has proverbially “seen it all” across some of US sports’ most remarkable leagues, franchises and governing bodies – including remarkable (and sometimes dubious) assignments like: handling press for the woeful NFL expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976-77; managing communications for Lamar Hunt’s World Championship Tennis circuit of the early 1980s; and directing a litany of events for the fast-growing (and World Cup USA-fueled) US Soccer Federation of the 1990s.  But it’s Meredith’s work across some of the most exciting (and exasperating) teams of the late 1970s/early 1980s North American Soccer League – the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Washington Diplomats, Philadelphia Fury, and Dallas Tornado – as well as the enormously well-funded, but ultimately ill-fated Women’s United Soccer Association of the early 2000s, that really piques our obsessive interests. In this episode, we journey back with Meredith – the consummate professional soccer management insider – as he recounts priceless moments shared in the trenches with a veritable Who’s Who of the modern American game’s most indelible personalities, including: Shep Messing, Francisco Marcos, Al Miller, Phil Woosnam, Jim Karvellas, Seamus Malin, Alec Papadakis, John Hendricks, Timo Liekoski, Dick Berg, Tony DiCicco, Pele – and, of course, the incomparable investor-patron Hunt. We thank Podfly, SportsHistoryCollectibles.com, and Audible for their support of this week’s show!

Our World Cup fever has yet to break, and we spend this week reveling in some of the heretofore unexplored (at least on this podcast) nooks and crannies of modern-day American pro soccer history with one of its most unsung front office heroes.  In a career spanning over four decades, sports PR and event management executive Thom Meredith has proverbially “seen it all” across some of US sports’ most remarkable leagues, franchises and governing bodies – including remarkable (and sometimes dubious) assignments like: handling press for the woeful NFL expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers of 1976-77; managing communications for Lamar Hunt’s World Championship Tennis circuit of the early 1980s; and directing a litany of events for the fast-growing (and World Cup USA-fueled) US Soccer Federation of the 1990s.  But it’s Meredith’s work across some of the most exciting (and exasperating) teams of the late 1970s/early 1980s North American Soccer League – the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Washington Diplomats, Philadelphia Fury, and Dallas Tornado – as well as the enormously well-funded, but ultimately ill-fated Women’s United Soccer Association of the early 2000s, that really piques our obsessive interests. In this episode, we journey back with Meredith – the consummate professional soccer management insider – as he recounts priceless moments shared in the trenches with a veritable Who’s Who of the modern American game’s most indelible personalities, including: Shep Messing, Francisco Marcos, Al Miller, Phil Woosnam, Jim Karvellas, Seamus Malin, Alec Papadakis, John Hendricks, Timo Liekoski, Dick Berg, Tony DiCicco, Pele – and, of course, the incomparable investor-patron Hunt. We thank <a href="http://www.podfly.net/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Podfly</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/Sportshistory" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">SportsHistoryCollectibles.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Audible</a> for their support of this week’s show!

067: Behind-the-Scenes Tales from the Front Office with Thom Meredith