Soccer is Fun will have its 2014 Soccer Summer Camps in June and July 2014.

Soccer is Fun will have its 2014 Soccer Summer Camps in June and July at Southern Village in Chapel Hill, NC. and Berryhill Private Soccer Field in Carrboro, NC. 8 to 13 year old players will have the opportunity to develop their technical and tactical skills during one of the 4 soccer camps coached by Coach Pierre Monnet. Each 5 days' camp (Monday through Friday) is a full-day camp structured around a curriculum covering the 4 developmental stages of a soccer player : (1) Master the ball, (2) Play together – Team, (3) Play against an opponent, and (4) Play within a system – Tactic.

This 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 covers both Technique (What & How) and Tactic (Where, When & Why), spending 60% on the specifics of Attack and Transition for 40% on Defense. Players will spend 20% of their time on Skills Education and 80% on Applying those skills in various conditions. 

A day at the 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 (not provided) break & 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.

Available dates are :
Session 1 June 16 - 20, 2014
Session 2 June 23 - 27, 2014
(no soccer camp the first week of July)
Session 3 July  7 - 11
Session 4 July 14 - 18

Each session has a minimum of 8 players, and a maximum of 12 players.

Each player gets a free "Soccer is Fun" Camp T-Shirt, and a Free "Soccer is Fun" Camp Soccer Ball is registration is completed by April 13, 2014.

This Session 1 and 2 of this camp are co-organized with the Southern Village Club of Chapel Hill, NC, and membership to this club is not required to enroll for the Soccer Camps.

For more information, send an email to soccer.is.fun.nc@gmail.com, with Soccer Camp in the subject field.