The Mississippi Soccer Channel

When a coach inherits a pretty good program and takes it through a growth journey, they tend to end up being all the better for it. Hinds Community College Men's coach Robert Gardner did just that. He took a quality Hinds program and turned it into an institution of high expectations. Just Google his team’s performances over the past few years, you’ll see a steady rise in winning percentages as we...

Players are always influenced by their coaches, and some of those players turn into the coaches who then start the cycle all over again. One such coach is Jackson Academy's Phillip Buffington who has a storied playing career and an incredible influence inside the Mississippi Soccer circles (Seriously, almost everyone knows "Buff" as they call him). In Episode 3, Phillip Buffington walks us through...

Mississippi has a rich history when it comes to soccer. In this early episode, we talk with Dickens Fournet, a St. Joe and Mississippi State alum who took part in the state's first ever high school all star game.  Dickens is now a CPA with GranthamPoole in Ridgeland, Mississippi, but the beautiful game has taken him all over.  See more of what Dickens talked about at www. MississippiSoccerChannel....

We're officially kicking this thing off. Host Robert Chapman gives a little bit of an overview of what his vision is for this new project.  The plan for this, here podcast is to host as many conversations as possible with the people who have helped make soccer in Mississippi what it is today as well as those who are shouldering its future. You can find the Mississippi Soccer Channel on Facebook an...

Here we go with a new project aimed at building bridges across the massive network that is Mississippi Soccer. Stay tuned for more!