Charlie Trout worked as a postman as well as video analyst also.
Every now and then, a certain American pronunciation slips through the net when 37 years old Charlie Trout speaks. Born in the suburbs of Nottingham, Charlie is thousands of miles from home.
Fast forward to the present day and a scenario beyond his wildest dreams played out in March this year, when Charlie became one of the youngest managers in international football after being named head coach of the Puerto Rico men's national team in March. Three months on and his side, with an average age of 21.8 are just one game away from qualifying for their first-ever Concacaf Gold Cup.
"I was a builder. I was a painter and decorator. I was a postman. You name it. I've done it," he says."I was an apprentice roofer as well. I carried tiles up and down a ladder all day. I wasn't the biggest lad so other apprentices were carrying eight tiles up a ladder and I was carrying two or three. And they were ripping me. So I'd try and do more. I nearly fell off the ladder on several occasions. It just wasn't for me. "Charlie also tried his hand at being a postman, although that only lasted for two weeks because he couldn't get his mail in on time."I was still out there at seven o'clock at night trying to go through my round," he laughs. "I was just trying everything that could offer some kind of balance with football and then finally, believe it or not, I landed a job as an aerobics instructor." I was running two or three aerobics sessions a day. "
Shortly after calling it quits on his career, one of Charlie’s old college teachers invited him over to his old stomping ground Lincoln to play in an organized game. After the full-time whistle, a scout approached him and asked if he wanted to study at the University of Illinois Chicago through a full-time scholarship. He remembers that decision-making process well. "I was 22, I had split with my girlfriend maybe six months before and was an aerobics instructor. I was just like, 'Let's just do it. Let's just have a go. If I didn’t like it then I'd just come home.’"
A midfielder by trade, Trout was a first-team regular for UIC in the Devitt NCAA Division One, which is the highest level of college football. A lot of people were watching at the time." Chicago Fire, who currently compete in the MLS, started to take an interest in not only several players from that team but Charlie himself. "He soon spent five years with MLS side Chicago Fire, a job which involved mentoring an U10 team for four years before passing them over to academy director Larry Sunderland, who was an important mentor throughout his time at the Fire.
On top of that, Trout stepped out of his comfort zone again and started a video analysis company. In fact, during this period, he was also working with the Puerto Rico national team after agreeing to help out then-manager Dave Sarachan, who remains a close friend.
Sarachan, a former United States assistant manager under Bruce Arena, brought Charlie into some camps to take a number of training sessions. Clearly impressed, he hired the Nottingham-born coach as his assistant before eventually moving on 18 months later. "Dave left and they offered me the job,"
Charlie says. "It was an opportunity I could not turn down. “Some people will say, 'Well, I did not realize Puerto Rico had their own team because they're part of America.' But football is growing massively here. We have young, eager, committed players that have a passion for the game. And even though football in the country is not top of their list of sports. It's growing. The love is starting to get there. "Trout may be from the East Midlands but this small island in the Caribbean has become a second home.
His ambition and drive to bring this nation together and realise its potential is admirable. He knew there was something special brewing when he first arrived. Now, he wants to take it to the next level – a summer in the Gold Cup.
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