Gabor Ganczer
(Head Coach)
SCIF’s Head Coach holds a Worldwide recognised UEFA ‘A’ license in football coaching beside his other degrees (UEFA ‘B’, Bachelor of Sports Management, Master of Communication).
Gabor has 18 years experience in all levels and many aspects of football.
During his amateur player career he has worked as a professional journalist for ten years and covered several European cup finals and the 1998 France World Cup.
He decided to turn towards coaching after he was a staff member of former international football star and World Cup winner Lothar Matthaus, next to him, for the Hungarian national team.
Gabor was the DoC of Diosdi TC and head coach of Hungarian side Istenhegy FC in Budapest and Media Officer of UEFA Champions League team Debrecen, before he relocated with his family to Australia and started his OZ football experience with Coolum FC’s Sunshine Coast Premier League team.
Following the highest European standards, our Head Coach has now designed SCIF’s development program and supervises the entire on-field operations to guarantee the best football education of the region.
Gabor is the head coach of the Sunshine Coast Zone’s U15 representative team which finished second in 2011 in the SE Queensland Junior Premier League. Gabor has won recently the Sunshine Coast Multicultural Award in Sports Category.
John Hatfield
(SCIF team coach)
John holds an FFA – C license beside his degree in Sports Science from Christ Church College Canterbury.
He was a teacher at Middlesbrough College and Coach in the College Academy between 1995-1998.
John Hatfield has a wide range International experience in football: he has worked in the USA as a coach of High School Teams Summers (1995-1998) and played and coached in Austria, Tirol 2nd Division (2001-2003).
He arrived in Australia in 2003 and became a player-assistant coach at Coolum FC 1st Div team between 2003-2005 and head coach between 2006-2008 (CFC was 1st divison winner in 2004 and runner-up in 2005).
John has gained experience in women football as the Sunshine Coast Ladies coach (2004-2006) and Queensland Ladies coach during their trip to China (2007).
John engaged himself with youth development since he started to run Squirts Program in Queensalnd (2004-2010) and he also worked as the Schools Football Development Officer for the Sunshine Coast (2005-2010) and head coach of U21s Sunshine Coast Fire FC 2009).
Richard Hambly
(Goalkeepers Head Coach)
Richard has been playing in goal since the age of 8, but in his early years in England did not have the benefit of specialised goalkeeper training and was very much “self taught.”
However by the age of 17 he was good enough to be selected to play for the England U18 schoolboy team. Richard played for Southampton Football Club where he was able to benefit from daily training with legend Peter Shilton, the England goalkeeper who won a record 119 caps for his country.
Richard then played at a semi-professional standard in England for the next 15 years before retiring from competitive football. However since moving to Australia in 2008 Richard has started playing again for Coolum FC’s Over 35s team, but his ineterest turned to handover his knowledge to the future’s goalkeepers.
Amber Aquin (U6-U11 Assistant Team Coach)
Alex Parry (U12-U16 Assistant Team Coach)
Our assistant team coaches are enthusiastic young football players who has a real passion in football and they volunteer to gain experience in coaching, training methodology and tactics.
