Matt Kagan Reviews

Matt Kagan was the head coach at Oregon state while I was there. He was a horrible coach. He was a super intense coach, which actually a lot of us appreciated, but he was so unprofessional, and manipulative. He told us we “weren’t allowed to get injured” and told us we shouldn’t ask to go to the doctor. There was one instance where I was getting my blood drawn after my soccer obligations were over for the day in the summer time. I did this because I got a MRSA infection in my knee (due to not being able to see the doctor). He called and my roommates and demanded to know where I was. He called me while I was in the doctors office multiple times. Then at practice, he screamed at me and told me “he needs to know where I am at, at all times”. He almost got into a fist fight with our assistant at the time, getting in his face, screaming “I WILL SEND YOU HOME TO YOUR FAMILY”, as he was from the south. He tried to get the players kick the injured players off the team if they were on scholarship since they weren’t being “useful”. All he did was scream at you. He lasted two years at Oregon state and got fired as a head coach. He has no room coaching in womens soccer. He can’t handle the pressure, and honestly, didn’t have that much soccer knowledge. We did better the year he took over just due to him having higher expectations of us, which again, we liked that piece, but the way he went about it was awful. He did a lot of horrible things that I won’t put on here. He is now a goalie coach at WSU, lol.

Matt Kagan got fired from Oregon State. When he came on at Oregon State, he brought a very intense energy which the team responded well to. However, he treated players very poorly. He told players that were injured to their face that they did not matter, he tried to make players get other players on the team to quit, and more. During a practice one time, he got in the assistant coach's face at the time and they almost started physically fighting. He was the worst coach I have ever had, and OSU made him quit. He doesn't know anything about being a goalkeeper and he is the goalkeeper coach at Washington State. He is a guy that didn't have much of a playing career at all, and decided to become a coach, which is totally fine- you don't have to be a great player to be a good coach. But, he treats players very poorly and has a very big ego. He told players at Oregon State that we were not allowed to be injured. If you were injured, you got into trouble. He is an abusive coach and has no room in the women's game.