Pierre Barrieu
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Pierre Barrieu (Thionville, France) is an assistant and the current fitness coach for the United States Men's National Soccer Team.
With a wealth of experience at all levels of the sport, Pierre Barrieu has established himself as one of the premier coaches for soccer in the United States. After spending the 2007 major League Soccer season with the New York Red Bulls, he rejoined the United States Men's National Team staff in early 2008 after serving as the fitness coach from 2002-2006. He has also previously worked with the Under-23 and Under-20 Men’s National Teams.
Holding a Second Grade Federal Coaching Certificate, and a National Sporting Educator Certificate for football in France, he also holds a USSF Pro A License, he is a Certified Strength a Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association as well as a certified club coach by both USA Weightlifting and USA Track & Field.
While with U.S. Soccer, his credits includes participation in three FIFA World Cups, three CONCACAF Gold Cups (including two titles in 2002 and 2005) and the 2003 and 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. In particular, the fitness of the USA team was widely believed to have been an important factor during the historic run to the quarterfinals in Korea.The USA Team also reached their first FIFA final ever vs. Brazil in the 2009 Confederations Cup after defeating Spain, then the #1 team in the world. The US team went on to win their World Cup group the following year at the 2010 South Africa World Cup.
Barrieu also works as a National Coaching School instructor for the U.S. Soccer Federation, with a primary focus on the ‘A’ license. He is the author of the fitness curriculum for the U.S. Soccer coaching school (USSF National A, B and C Licenses), and developed the curriculum for the first-ever National Coaching License for Soccer Fitness in the United States, teaching the first course in January 2006 at the Home Depot Center.
Barrieu came to US Soccer from the University of Virginia where he spent 3 years as an assistant coach for the Men Soccer team.
He's been consulting with many MLS teams over the years: New York, Chivas USA, Columbus Crew.
He is the co-author of three books ”De l'entrainement à la performance” (From training to performance), 2008. “Entrainer les jeunes footballeurs” (Training youth football players)”, "Le foot en 7 langues" (Football in seven languages) 2009.
