CLEVELAND — Soccer became a universal language for one Ohio man who spent part of his childhood in Israel.

Now, Seth Rosky is passing on his soccer skills to kids in his northeast Ohio neighborhood. 

What You Need To Know

  • Seth Rosky, a college freshman, one day stumbled into the role of a soccer coach

  • It started out with teaching one kid, which suddenly grew to 30

  • This is the second year Seth's Soccer Camp has been open

He calls it "Seth's Soccer Camp."

Coach Seth Rosky kind of stumbled into the role.

“Everyone get a ball. Let’s go,” he said to his players at the start of practice.

The college freshman is 19-years-old.

“The best job I could ask for, you know," said Rosky. "Nothing really better than it.”

He wants to be a different kind of coach — one that's more relatable.

Last April, his mom asked him to help her friend’s son master the game, and that’s how Justin, 12, became his first trainee.

“If there’s like a game, he’ll come play with us,” said Justin.

Then came Drew.

“He’s cool. He’s fun. He’s not like the coaches that I used to have who just like sat on the side," said Drew, 12.

And before Rosky knew it, he was coaching quite a few players.

“I like all the games he creates. He’s very creative," said Aiden, 10.

Even his sister comes to practice.

“It’s not my favorite sport, but yeah, it’s fun to do it with my brother,” said Ariella, 10.

Word travels fast in grade school.

“Then they got their friends and they got their friends and just it sparked up into my camp, and I never thought I’d be doing this," said Rosky.

The kids kept coming and more kept showing up.

“He plays with us,” said Shayna, 11.

This is the second year of "Seth’s Soccer Camp."

“They like doing it, so we do it," said Rosky.

He said last year he trained more than 30 kids in small groups each week.

Soccer was Rosky’s gateway to friendship when he was ten and his family moved to Israel.

“That was the language there. When I moved there, I moved from America to there. I didn’t really know Hebrew at all, and I really had to learn Hebrew from them. It let me connect with a bunch of new people and without that I don’t know if I would have strived there," said Rosky.

He fell in love with the sport and continued to play when his family moved back to the Cleveland area.

Rosky said his future is in finance, but right now, he’s loving this job.

“I enjoy it. They enjoy it," he said. "What more can you ask for, you know?"

Rosky charges $15 an hour per player. The co-ed camp runs all summer long for grades 1-5 in the Wimbledon Road/Crafton Road Oval in Beachwood, a suburb east of Cleveland.