Manny Sobral founded the North Burnaby Boxing Club with a partner in march 2004. Since then the club has grown to 125 members and has won more than 20 championships including bronze, silver and golden gloves, Alberta golden gloves, Tacoma golden gloves, BC Provincial Championships and Canadian National Championships. He is also the coach of our scholarship recipient Robert Couzens, as stated a three time national champion.
Manny has also taught in the Burnaby school system, and in 2007 was named BC’s boxing coach of the year.
His background in coaching comes from experience. He was a three time Canadian amateur champion, competed at the 1988 Olympics and as a professional, compiled a 29 win, 2 loss record as Canadian super welterweight and IBO world super weight championship.
