The Cleveland Cobras Premier Soccer Club is owned by Sean (Coach Mac) and Leslie McNamara. Coach Mac is the Director of Coaching for the Cobras and the Mayfield Youth Soccer Community. His soccer coaching experience is extensive, earning the English FA Coaching Badge and the USSF ‘A’ License. Throughout his career, he has coached several National and State Championship teams. Although now retired, he taught British Literature at Mayfield High School for 30 years, where he remains as the Boys’ Head Coach. Leslie, his wife, is a native Cleveland girl and a proud graduate of Collingwood High School.

The actual Cobra Soccer Club was founded in 1990, and during the early years, the club went under the guise of different names. In 1993, the name was officially changed to the Cleveland Cobra Soccer Club, which has remained the same.



The Cobra Soccer Club is particularly proud of its coaching staff. The Cobras

employs a licensed staff with experience at the club, high school, university,

Regional, and USSF National levels. Specific Coaching Information can be

obtained from the Coaches page .

This Latin phrase defines the Cobra approach to training and development. “Nothing but the Best is Good Enough” describes the Club’s preparation, player development, and training approach.

The Cobra Premier Soccer Club provides programs for all ages and playing

abilities. Each program is carefully designed to suit the players’ needs and

requirements. We aim to develop and advance a player’s skill and technical

knowledge and stimulate the player’s understanding of individual and team

positional play. The coaching staff of the Cobra Soccer Club takes great pride in

the individual work spent on technical and tactical player development.

We focus on pushing the individual’s comprehension of the game to a higher

level. We focus on rigorous technical and tactical training sessions. We are highly selective and looking for players with potential, those who want to be the best.  Cobra Soccer Club consists of players who have the desire and motivation to improve their game and want to play at the premier level, and aspire to play collegiate soccer. These players succeed at the Cobra Soccer Club.

This Latin phrase defines the Cobra approach to training and development. “Nothing but the Best is Good Enough” describes the Club’s preparation, player development, and training approach.

Team placement is based on fitness, technical ability, tactical understanding,

personality, and dedication to the game. Not necessarily in that order. Contingent on the skillset, teams train together if the levels of play are commensurate. If they are not, teams train by themselves. Everyone gets the same training. However, the training sessions are structured around the team's level of play. So, greater emphasis may be placed on technical ability and applying the skillset rather than just a player's understanding of executing the technique. More focus on specific tactical knowledge may be needed so the sessions will be geared around that. Training sessions, as they should be, are fluid and very often structured around the weakness exposed in the last game played. We play in North and South Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and sometimes Kentucky.

The club culture revolves around my beliefs. The emphasis has to be based on

learning. Players know that although I like a laugh, I am deadly serious about

player development in the game's technical and tactical areas. I do not tolerate

messing around, and my expectations of the individual are high. I expect players to be respectful, and I expect players to be excellent students of the game, excellent students in the classroom, good sons and daughters, and the best friends one could have. One of my beliefs that is non negotiable is that the

players understand that at all times the Minimum Requirement is Maximum

Effort.

Players must understand that dreams without goals are just dreams. As a Cobra player, the goals set must be attainable, and once each achievable goal is achieved, a higher attainable goal must be set to build up to the actual realization of the dream! Remember, attainable goals are the building blocks toward the fulfillment of dreams.

Cobra coaching staff works tirelessly to prepare the players to play and compete at the best colleges and universities nationwide. After over three decades, players have secured hundreds of thousands of dollars in soccer scholarships. The Cobra players know the importance of keeping a high G.P.A., another door to college placement.

Finally, the Cobra Soccer Club constantly strives to bring every player to the

highest level of play they can attain. Not every player will achieve the collegiate

level of play; however, every player will receive detailed technical and tactical

instruction to be their best.

For a full list of schools where Cobra players have attended, see our College Commitments page.

National championships are extraordinarily difficult to obtain for any club. The Cobras are fortunate to have won two national championships in recent years, 2017 and 2019.