Soccer Shepherds

New York

Our goal is to shepherd talented young soccer players in inner city New York throughout the trials and tribulations of youth and young adulthood while using the sport of soccer to motivate and guide them towards a better life.

Using the connections and resources available to us, our specific aim is to make a positive difference in the local communities of upper Manhattan and the South Bronx by providing aid and support to soccer playing boys from these areas. Whether via professional soccer or higher education, the end game for those that come through the Soccer Shepherds program is to achieve balance, happiness, and financial stability in adulthood through one's talent with a soccer ball.

"Now reminiscing about my whole career, I have a whole different appreciation for the game itself. It has evolved to be more than just a game. It's been a teacher of life."

- Michael Jordan

The opportunities are out there; the world is waiting for you. Fulfill your potential.

We are based in Harlem, NY.

Omar Sarr '99 signs pro contract in Senegal

February 17, 2021  /  William Caverly

Omar Sarr, a twenty one year old Senegalese defender from Harlem, has signed his first professional contract with AS Pikine of the Senegal Premier League. Pikine are one of the largest clubs in Senegal, currently competing in the country’s top division.

Sarr is another West African player to come through KidSuper Samba and earn a professional soccer opportunity. The Harlem native has been with the club since it’s founding in 2017, joining as a seventeen year old high school senior and now departing as a professional soccer player at age twenty one.

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Omar Sarr

AS Pikine (Senegal)

Abdoulaye Diallo '98 and Ousman Sillah '94 sign in Greece for 2019-20 season!

October 31, 2019  /  William Caverly

Last month, September 2019, two Soccer Shepherds players from Bronx, NY traveled to Greece to sign with clubs for the 2019-20 Greek football season.

Abdoulaye Diallo, age 20, returns for his second season in Greece with a new club, Panserraikos FC.

Ousman Sillah, age 25, begins his European soccer journey with Pangytheatikos GC.

Both young men are of West African birth and origin (Diallo, Guinea) (Sillah, Gambia), but reside with their families in Bronx, NY, and played for coach Will’s KidSuper Samba AC team before making the jump to European football. Soccer Shepherds is immensely proud of both young men, and honored to be able to provide these opportunities. Diallo returns to the city of Sérres, in northern Greece, while Sillah ventures down to Gythio, a small, picturesque seaside town in southern Greece.

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Abdoulaye Diallo

Panserraikos FC (Greece)

Ousman Sillah

Pangytheatikos GC (Greece)

Abdoulaye Diallo '98 signs pro in Greece!

January 09, 2019  /  William Caverly

Abdoulaye Diallo is a young man that all those involved with the Soccer Shepherds program are extremely proud of. Born in 1998 in Guinea, Abdoul and his family moved to New York in the mid 2000s. After stints playing with Manhattan SC, Oakwood SC (CT), and a postgraduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall, Abdoul attended ASA College in Brooklyn before playing for coach Will’s KidSuper Samba AC team during the 2017-18 season. In August 2018 Will and Abdoul traveled to the city of Sérres in northern Greece, where the then-19 year old Diallo was offered his first professional contract by Apollon Paralimniou FC, a team currently playing in the Gamma Ethniki, the third division of Greek soccer. After the finalization of his visa, Diallo will make his professional debut for his new team this month, January 2019.

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Abdoulaye Diallo

Apollon Paralimniou FC (Greece)