What’s on the menu?
Exactly what your player needs. With an experienced coaching team, high-intensity training environments—both mentally and physically—and a low player-to-coach ratio, we provide the individual attention that team practices alone cannot offer. Our focus is on developing each player’s individual brilliance to contribute to collective success.
Our top priority is challenging every player in the areas they need most while respecting their individual rate of growth. With more than 10 levels of training available, each player is placed in the environment best suited for their continued development.
Training Academy
You can expect your player to work on anything from first touch, technical passing/receiving, game IQ, speed of play, movement off the ball, and verbal communication. We’re here to create well-rounded players who’ve mastered “playing simple.”
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First Touch
Passing Range
Decision Making
Game Management
Increasing Game IQ
Position Specific Details
Spatial Awareness & Timing
Composure On & Off the Ball
Actions In & Out of Possession
Mental Endurance & Visualization
Verbal & Non-verbal Communication
Striking+Finishing
Designed to strengthen the striking techniques through proper body mechanics, repetition, and game scenarios. We’ll ensure the player has a good understanding of how to perform with proper composure and confidence in front of the goal.
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Speed of Shot
Accuracy & Placement in Goal
Proper Ball-Striking Techniques with All Different Parts of the Foot
Timing & Placement of Planting Foot
Power Through the Hip & Follow Through
Passing Patterns & Movement Leading Up to Goal
Goalkeeping
Focuses on the fundamentals in footwork, saving high/medium/low balls, and injury prevention. We “dive” into mental strength, situational awareness, and decision making. All the techniques in the world are great to have, but knowing which technique to use when and why is a mandatory element of our training.
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Distribution
Angles of Play
High/Low Saves
Footwork & Agility
Saving the Breakaway
Hand-Eye Coordination
Communication
Judgment on Crosses
Freestyle
Designed for players to expand their creativity and comfortability on the ball through large amounts of repetitions in dribbling sequences, learning new fancy foot skills, and dominating the 1v1.
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Lateral and Linear Footwork
Creative Turns
Using Skills at Speed
Creative Receiving Skills
Dribbling in Tight Spaces
Top Speed While Dribbling
Change of Speed While Dribbling
Dribbling Against Multiple Opponents
Building Confidence Through Technique
Speed/Agility/Quickness With & Without the Ball
Art of Defending
Improve anticipation, regain ball possession, and dominate the opponent. With focuses varying from defending a 1v1, proper use of the body to control space, defending in layers, etc., we guarantee our players will win on both sides of the ball!
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Cross-running to recover and protect goal-side
Banana runs to angle pressure
Engaging physical contact safely and confidently
Proper foot placement when pressing
Body positioning to control space
Understanding when to defend the player vs defend the space
Timing the moment to step or delay
Risk vs reward of pressing
Recognizing numerical and spatial advantages
1v1 battles
2v1 and 1v2 scenarios
Small-sided game environments
Foundational
Beginning with coordination and agility, we’re striving to gain total ball mastery. Players will start with learning skill movements in a static setting, then progress to using those movements “on the dribble” to learn going forward and the proper timing of when to use skill movements to successfully pass defenders. This sense of mobility with and without the ball should feel like second nature.
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Wide Base
Lowered hips
¼ Squat
Lateral and Linear Acceleration
Foot speed
Change in Direction
All parts of the foot dribbling
4 ways of movement
Basic Skills
1v1 with multiple options