FORMER Fairfield High student Jimmy Petruzzi has returned home to reignite soccer in his old school.

Petruzzi developed his talents at the Australian Institute of Sport, playing in the same teams as Harry Kewell, Paul Okon and Christian Vieri.

Unfortunately injury brought a premature end to his dreams of representing Australia.

To his credit, Petruzzi never gave up the dream, embarking on a career in training and coaching, associating himself with clubs like West Ham, QPR and Crystal Palace.

David Dias – Coach
An ex- Angolan international football player has played for African Nation in 1996 in South Africa. In 1996-1997 he played for World Cup Qualifiers for France 1998.
David Dias has also played in Portugal as professional footballer in a Sporting Lisbon Youth Team, he then went to Torreense F.C League 2 were they were the winners. He then played in F.C Maia in the championship. He stopped playing professionally in 2000.
Since retired playing David has come to England and has been involved in Rochdale Football in the community and also in Roftra he has assisted in co-ordination of sporting events and coaching session within deprived estates in Rochdale. He also has been involved in Bury F.C for nearly 3years now; he is currently working at the Bacup Borough FC and Pro-vision Academy North West where he works with Jimmy Petruzzi. David has also made a lot of progress by building his own academy which is called DD Football Academy which takes place at Soccer Village on Tuesday’s and Saturday’s. He has used his talent as a coach across spectrum of age groups we cover from 7 to 18.
He has also won the Manchester United Tournament Football in the community under 10’s and this took place in 2007. He won the Roseball Tournament with Bury FC’s under 10’s.
David has been nominated Coach of the year twice and this year he has been nominated for the third time at Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards.
David worked with many young kids that they never had a career in Football but they are now in Football Clubs. For example one of the players Travis is playing in Blackburn Rovers under 15, Puria who is now playing in Sheffield United under 16, Nuno who plays for Bury FC under 14’s, Musalam play’s in Bury FC under 15’s.
David cannot guarantee that you are going to be at the finest Football Clubs, but he will do his best for you to be the best.
David has also worked with Manucho Goncalves a angolan international,whom is an ex-Manchester United football player,who is now playing in Valladolid in Spain.

Jimmy Petruzzi

In 2006 Jimmy received the highly commended Coaching Award for International & Domestic work.
Jimmy’s background is in sports performance and communication. He studied Sports Science & Sports Psychology in Australia, America and the UK. As well as being a highly qualified sports coach in several sports disciplines he has studied NLP and Hypnotherapy since 1993, using the techniques as an athlete and coach to great success. He is an internationally renowned performance and conditioning coach specializing in the areas of physical, mental preparation

But in 2006, Petruzzi travelled to the World Cup in Germany as the conditioning coach of the Angolan soccer team. Last Friday, the fanatic was spreading the soccer bible in his old school.