Viterbo Soccer School of Excellence

Viterbo Soccer School of Excellence

High School Boy's Elite Soccer Camp
The Viterbo University Elite Soccer Camp is designed to be the most complete team pre-season camp in the region. The camp is aimed specifically at the best high school soccer players in the area and will provide the highest quality coaching to prepare each player for their upcoming season. The camp will feature game like practices and training methods resembling those used by top class teams from around the world in order to develop technique, tactical awareness, and decision-making. Players will be involved not only in small sided games and technical sessions, but also in daily 11 v 11 matches where they will be encouraged to adopt different tactics and formations in order to develop a greater understanding of the game.

Location: Viterbo Outdoor Athletic Complex
Date: July 27-30, 2009
Time: 9:00-1:30 pm (Lunch provided)
Cost: $150

Groups of 10 or more: contact Coach Lee about group discount.

Camp Details:

The camp will be ran by the Viterbo University coaching staff along with other guest coaches from college teams and academies in Great Britain.
Several Viterbo University soccer players will also among the coaching staff
The goal of the camp is to provide a player to coach ratio of around 10:1 allowing coaches to closely work with, and assess each player
Over the 4 days of the camp each player will receive over 16 hours of quality coaching. Considering the cost of the camp, this equates to less than $10 per hour for the cost of coaching. A bargain for the quality of the tuition received
Players will be provided with lunch every day and a unique Viterbo Elite Camp T-shirt in their own school colors.

Camp Format:
The 4-day camp will feature a complete team training session in the mornings with players broken into groups each working on a different aspect of the game. The afternoons will see players involved in 11v 11 game situations with their teammates in friendly competition against teams from other area schools.

Individual technique – Players will be encouraged to develop all areas of their technical ability, but above all they will learn how to use their technique in game situations. Players will learn how greater technique can create options for them within the game and how that can lead to increased tactical awareness and better decision-making.

Conditioning – Physical conditioning is a vital part of any players’ pre-season preparation, and will be touched on during the camp. Although there won’t be any specific conditioning sessions, it will be an intensive 4 days in which the stamina of players will be put to the test.

Small Sided Games – Players will be introduced to tactical ideas via small-sided games played under varying conditions. The objectives, rules, and dimensions are altered to encourage players to find their own success and to understand the consequences of the decisions they make. The coach gives advice but the game itself teaches the players.

11 v 11 games – Each afternoon the players will be divided into teams to play full field games. Teams will play in various formations and under different specific instructions as provided by the coaching staff. Players will be able to put new ideas and skills into immediate practice, and also develop a greater understanding of the tactical elements of the game.

Topics that will be covered over the 4 days include:

Passing and movement, and support play
Creating Space – as an individual, and as a team
Keeping possession
Attacking from wide and central positions
Combining to create goal-scoring opportunities

Crossing, Shooting, Finishing
Defending as an individual
Defending as a team
Attacking from set pieces
Defending set pieces
Systems of play, formations, and team tactics

Example of a Day at the Viterbo Elite Soccer Camp:

9:00-10:00am - Group Coaching Session 1	Warm up Session featuring passing, control, and movement off the ball leading into possession games designed at creating space as an individual
10:00-11:00am - Group Coaching Session 2	Team training; the focus of this session will be more tactical and may feature 3v3 games leading into conditioned 6v6 games to work on possession, defending as a team, and attacking as a team.
11:00-11:30am	Lunch and skill competitions
11:30–12:00pm - Group Coaching Session 3	This session will feature technical drills such as crossing, shooting and finishing.
12:00-1:30pm - Game Sessions	Teams will play two 45-minute sessions with different formations, and under tactical instructions that relate to the morning sessions

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