Armando Sanchez starts in his new position as Regional Women’s Excel (REX) Goalkeeper Coach

As an Alberta REX Goalkeeper Coach, Armando gets to train some of the top Elite female goalkeepers in Alberta.  The REX program works so that “players with a Women’s Regional EXCEL Centre who demonstrate their ability to meet the highest standards may move in the Women’s National EXCEL Program, presented by Bell….  Women’s National EXCEL Program is intended to maintain a ‘conveyer belt’ of players demonstrating the program’s highest standard attributes towards the Women’s National team”  (Women’s EXCEL Program: A Guide for Players and Their Parents online pamphlet). Alberta Regional  Women’s EXCEL players also get the opportunity to be scouted for professional teams, such as The Vancouver Whitecaps. (http://www.whitecapsfc.com/youth/post/2016/08/08/whitecaps-fc-partner-alberta-soccer-association)