Tony Awor
USL Academy Head Coach
Tony Awor returns for his third season as the head coach for Kings Hammer FC Cincinnati’s USL Academy team. As a youth player, Awor was a graduate of the Chelsea FC Academy in London. After playing professionally for one year with Brentford FC, Awor stepped into coaching.
Earning his UEFA B license, Awor has coached academy clubs at Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers (QPR) and Brentford. Following his move to the United States, he would coach at the collegiate level with Salem State University and spent time as Player Development Officer with the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer before moving to Cincinnati.
Alan Yost
Elite Boys Director
Yost has more than 17 years of experience developing players at both the collegiate and club levels. He holds a National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Premier Diploma.
Yost previously served as the head soccer coach at Capital University and just wrapped up his 11th year. Prior to Capital, he spent three years as the top assistant coach at Ohio Dominican University. He also previously coached club soccer for Ohio Premier Soccer Club. While serving on the girls coaching staff at OP, he led them to their first ECNL National Championship. Then on the boys coaching staff, his teams competed in the National League and were ranked inside the top 25 in the country and in recent years won the Ohio State Championship.
