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We provide professional soccer training for boys and girls from the age of 7 to 19.

Palm Beach Soccer Academy is a "Non For Profit" soccer club.

Current programs include partial day, full day and weekly clinics that start with an introduction to the game. The more advanced classes, depending on the skill levels focus on specific skills that include Goalkeeping, ball control, fitness, and team tactics. The academy currently has over 200 hundred of player of all levels attending annually. We offer summer, holiday and spring soccer clinics. Private coaching one-on-one sessions for both goalkeeping and out - field players are also offered.

Soccer, as with any organized structured sporting activity, has a proven benefit in the structured discipline, self-esteem building and physical development of children. It has the added proven benefit of helping children develop and improve social skills through team participation. With these factors in mind the following programs are just some of the activities the club will be developing in the future:

• Sports Conditioning
• Holiday Specialist Soccer Clinics/Camps
• Weekly Skill Development Training
• Local/Regional League Team Competitions
• Local/Regional Cup Competitions
• Professional Player Coaching Sessions
• Professional Exhibition Games
• Parents Invitational Competitions
• Inter Club Competitions
• Academy Award Programs
• College Trials Program (Qualified Candidates)

Proposed training programs to be conducted within each of the sport disciplines include:

• Summer Camp Programs, Holiday Camp Programs, & Team Training.
• Off-season/Pre-season training sessions geared toward professional athletes.
• Adult weeks, mini weeks, sessions, schools and retreats.

PALM BEACH SOCCER ACADEMY
Established 1996

COACHING AND PLAYER DEVELOPMENT MANUAL

U 6 – U 9 AGE OF FUN

U10 – U12 AGE OF TECHNIQUE

U 13 – U 14 AGE OF UNDERSTANDING

U 15 – U 16 AGE OF COMPETITVE MATCH PLAY

U17 – U 19

PREPARING PLAYERS FOR PROFESSIONAL / COLLEGE PLAY
INJURIES / LIFESTYLES

SETTING A HIGHER STANDARD FOR THE SEROIUS SOCCER PLAYERS

U 6 – 9 AGE OF FUN

COACHING SESSION 60 MINUTES

TWO / THREE TIMES A WEEK

ONE GAME PER WEEK 4 V 4 OR 6 V 6

EVERY PLAYER WITH THE CORRECT SIZE SOCCER BALL

PLAYERS ARE TAUGHT TO: DRIBBEL, TURN, PASS, SHOOT, TACKLE, HEAD, CONTROL, JUGGLE AND TO PLAY:
1 ON 1 , 2 V 1 , 2 V 2, 3 V 2,
3 V 3 , 4 V 4 , 5 V 5 , 6 V 6

PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY OF COACHING SOCCER

UNDERSTAND WHY CHILDREN PARTICIPATE IN SOCCER

A majority of the reasons children participate in sport are for intrinsic reasons. The top priorities are:
• To learn and improve their skills.

• To have fun.

• To be with friends

• To experience the excitement of competition

• To enhance their physical fitness

• To demonstrate their competence

Notice that the extrinsic goal of winning and beating others is not at the top of the list,

U 10 – 12 AGE OF TECHINQUE

• 90 MINS SESSION THREE TIMES A WEEK
• 1 GAME PER WEEK
• MANDATORY EACH PLAYER HAS A MINIMUM OF 350 TOUCHES ON THE SOCCER BALL PER SESSION EACH PLAYER AS A BALL 15 MINUTES WORKING WITH THE BALL.
• ALL PLAYERS ARE PUT INTO 1 V 1 , 2 V 1 , 2 V 2, 3 V 2 , 3 V 3 , 4 V 3 , & 4 V 4 SITUATIONS IN TRAINING AS PART OF WHAT AND HOW PLAYERS MAKE DECISION.
• “PLAY YOUR SELF OUT OF TROUBLE” & THINKING ON YOUR FEET.
• WE FINISH WITH A 20 MINUTE GAME 6 V 6 OR 8 V 8
THE FIVE STAGE MODEL FOR LATE SPECIALIZATION SPORT

STAGE 1 THE FUNDAMENTALS (10 - 11 years old)
We are concerned with the coaching and sometimes teaching of the game and for that we must start as to: beginning and that means the fundamentals of technique. Technique is not an objective by itself, but a tool to increase the enjoyment and success of the game. Balyi refers to this stage as learning the -ABC's, agility, balance, co-ordination and speed through fun and good coaching. Player's must learn to master the ball because without this basic ingredient it is very difficult to move on to more complex and challenging aspects of the game. At this stage players should be encouraged to participate in other sports to gain life long skills as a safety net for if they drop out of the Academy program.
'The game isn't over until we have learnt from it'-Bill Beswick 1996). In the same way as we learn at school or in the playground players learn by doing.
An old Chinese proverb encapsulates learning:,
What I hear I forget
What I see I remember,
What I do, l know.
For learning to stick it, has to be internalized', you have to make it your own. To achieve that, you must be actively involved in a series of tasks that lead you to the heart of the skill. (J Rogers 1989)

U 13 – U 14 AGE OF UNDERSTANDING

• 90 MINUTE SESSION’S 3 / 4 TIMES A WEEK
• 1 GAME PER WEEK
• MANADATORY ALL PLAYERS HAVE AT LEAST 350 TOUCHES ON THE BALL PER SESSION
• ALL PLAYERS SPEND 15 MINS PER SESSION ON INDVIDUAL BALL SKILLS
• ALL PLAYERS SPEND 20 MINS PER SESSION TWICE A WEEK WITH FITNESS COACH
• WE FINISH WITH A 20 MINUTE GAME 6 V 6 OR 8 V 8

STAGE 2 TRAINING TO TRAIN (13 -14 years old)

During this stage young athletes learn how to train while enhancing the technical and tactical skills specific to football. Learning how to train takes in the ancillary aspects of warm-ups, cool downs, stretching, hydration, recovery and regeneration and mental preparation.

During competition the players will obviously want to win but the major focus for the coach is on player development. Competition is invaluable as it allows players to put into practice the training but too much competition distracts from the main aim of development. Therefore a competition, ratio of 25% to 75% training is recommended at this stage. This type of development will better prepare the players in the long-term as against those who focus too much on the evincing. The training to train stage addresses the critical or sensitive periods of physical and skill development.
(Athletes who miss this stage of development may never reach their full potential and those place too much emphasis on competition are in danger' of burnout in the later stages of their careers (Balyi 2001).

AGE OF COMPETITIVE MATCH PLAY: U 15 TO U16

• TRAINING 3 / 4 TIMES PER WEEK

• 90 MINUTE SESSION’S

• ONE GAME PER WEEK

• EVERY PLAYER AS AT LEAST 350 TOUCHES ON THE BALL PER SESSION

• ALL PLAYERS SPEND 20 MINS PER SESSION TWICE A WEEK WITH FITNESS COACH

STAGE 3 TRAINING TO COMPETE (15 - 16 years old)

The ratio of competition to training changes to 50-50 with 50% of training focusing on technical, tactical and physical fitness improvements and 50% devoted to competition-specific training. Players who are now proficient at performing basic skills learn to perform these skills under more pressure both in the games and training. A move towards individualization program’s can begin in the key areas of fitness, recovery, psychology, technique and understanding roles and responsibilities.

U 17 – U 19: AGE OF PREPARING PLAYERS FOR COLLEGE/ PROFESSIONAL PLAY LIFESTYLE & INJURIES

• ALL PLAYERS TRAIN 3 / 4 TIMES PER WEEK

• ONE GAME SOMETIMES TWO GAMES A WEEK

• ALL PLAYERS MANDATORY 350 TOUCHES PER SESSION

• ALL PLAYERS SPEND 20 MINS WITH OUR PROFESSIONAL FITNESS COACH TWICE A WEEK

STAGE 4 TRAINING TO WIN (17 UP)
This is the final stage of a player's preparation and the club will have a profile of each player covering his technical, tactical understanding, physical and mental abilities. There is now a shift to the optimization of performance through analysis, feedback and practice. Due to the higher intensity being placed on the player the necessity for breaks help to prevent physical and mental burnout. The ratio to competition.-.specific training/competition is swinging further towards 75% to 25% training.

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