Friday, December 21, 2018

Dear Soccer Families,

As you may already start to look for your children summer camps, you may consider our 2019 Soccer Camp this summer, hosted for its 9th year by Southern Village Club in Chapel Hill. Check out our program and curriculum, each session spread over 5 full days of soccer techniques and skills development will provide great development opportunities to your child to become a greater soccer player, and team contributor.
Sessions are available on the following weeks:  

Week 1    June 24 - 28, 2019,
Week 2    July 8 - 12, 2019,
Week 3    July 15 - 19, 2019,
Week 4    July 22 - 26, 2019


Each camper will get a FREE Soccer is Fun T-Shirt, plus campers completing registration before April 1st, 2019 receive a 10% Discount of Registration Fee (Payment must be mailed before April 1st, 2019 for the discount to apply).

All sessions are located at Southern Village field, and include access to the Southern Village Club facility including the pool for the campers. See below, or request the brochure for more details. For more information, or to register, you may also contact Coach Pierre Monnet [Soccer.is.Fun.NC@gmail.com or (919) 260-1511] leave message, or contact Southern Village Club [manager@southernvillageclub.com or (919) 969-8442].




About our curriculum: Learning soccer is a 4 stage developmental process:
(1) Master the ball,
(2) Play together – Team,
(3) Play against an opponent, and
(4) Play within a system – Tactic.

Our curriculum addresses all 4 stages with demonstration/teaching, drills and activities, including small sided games to reinforce the players development experience. Techniques will be practiced individually and in small groups throughout the week : dribbling/shielding, tackles/challenge, passing/shooting, receiving (ground ball, air ball), combination play, heading, goalkeeping. Each day we cover both Technique (What & How) and Tactic (Where, When & Why), spending 60% on the specifics of Attack and Transition and 40% on Defense. We will spend 20% on Skills Training and 80% on Applying those skills in various conditions.

 A day at the soccer camp:  
8:30am—10:30am : Demonstration & Individual Technical training session: Each session will be articulated around 5 periods: (1) Technical Warm-up: New technique & skill, focused on form & execution w/o pressure, (2) Small-Sided activity: Applying the new technique & skill with increasing pressure (time & space), (3) Expanded Small-Sided activity: Applying the new technique w/o restrictions on the opponents. (4) Match Conditioned Game: Applying the new technique in real game condition . (5) Laws of the Game while cooling down.  
10:30am—12:00pm : Individual & Team Tactical training session: The drills & exercises will develop the Principles of Play for both Attacking and Defending: Principles of Attack : (1) Penetration, (2) Width, (3) Depth, (4) Support; Principles of Defense: (1) Chase & Delay, (2) Depth, (3) Balance, (4) Compactness. Make field BIG (Attack) vs. Make Field SMALL (Defense)  
12:00pm—1:00pm : Lunch (bring bag lunch) & free time.  
1:00pm—2:00pm : Ball Mastery training session: Coerver’s moves, juggling, trapping, heading, shooting and ball mastery contests.  
2:00pm—3:00pm : Swimming (pool) or Pro demonstration & international pro soccer game clips analysis & discussion to exemplify the new techniques learned.  
3:00pm—3:30pm : Coached small sided game.  
3:30pm : Dismissal

Coach Pierre Monnet, member of the United Soccer Coaches (formerly National Soccer Coach Association of America), holds an USYSA / NCYSA E License / Youth Level IV (Advanced Youth) NSCAA, and will coach this soccer camp. He has coached youth soccer at various level from recreational to Classic travel teams for several years in the Chapel Hill, NC area, and now coaches for Junior Development Program at North Carolina FC Youth.

Thank you for sharing this information with your friends and neighbors, and get the word out, and benefit from a $10.00 referral discount for recommending a new camper who fully registered for an upcoming camp.


ENJOY and HAVE FUN with soccer this summer at our camp.

                                                                                    Coach Pierre Monnet