Anas (16) and Raady (16) are the new “dad trainers”

Haugerud’s 2010 squad was completely without adult coaches this fall. Then four teenagers intervened. Youth coaches can be the savior in clubs lacking mums and dads.

Toes and fingers ache silently in the November storm on Haugerud IL’s artificial turf field. But not with the G2010 guys on the red team.

They have icy red cheeks and beads of sweat on their foreheads. Coaches Anas Jabran (16) and Raady Hirsi (16) drive them hard between yellow, blue, orange and red cones.