| Fall 2007 U11 Boys Academy Info! |
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Head Coach-Greig Munro-Goalkeeping Director PLAYING BACKGROUND- Greig grew up playing the beautiful game in his native Scotland. In 1999 he accepted a full scholarship to play at Birmingham Southern College. During his time there he was named an “All-American” once and an “All-Region” player twice. PLAYING BACKGROUND- Greig grew up playing the beautiful game in his native Scotland. In 1999 he accepted a full scholarship to play at Birmingham Southern College. During his time there he was named an “All-American” once and an “All-Region” player twice. COACHING BACKGROUND-Greig is currently the full time goal keeping director for the club. He started his coaching career at Ross County FC in Scotland before moving to the US. He has also has previous experience coaching in Wisconsin and Michigan. He moved to Atlanta with Challenger Soccer where he worked with the Roswell Santos and also taken several teams from the Buckhead YMCA to a number of tournaments in the U.K. Greig also works with the Atlanta Silverbacks Youth Summer Camps program. He holds the UEFA C License (Level II), the NSCAA National GK Diploma and the NSCAA National Diploma.
U11 ACADEMY BOYS 2007-2008 AGE GROUP PROFILE
The U11 age group is a transitional period in the academy program is we go from the 6 v 6 format on a smaller field to the 8 v 8 format on a bigger field. Emphasis continues to be on individual player and skill development with a high concentration still on being able to master the ball. At U11 however we start to introduce tactical play and teaching players how to play as units on the field and aid in their decision making process. As with our U9 and U10 academy, all training sessions will be conducted by a professional coach in a professional environment. Our goal, as always, is to create a training environment that is both challenging and rewarding for the boys. At this level players are now broken out into Gold, Blue, White etc. and grouped according to ability. As this is still academy there will be player movement amongst the roster at the discretion of the coach keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is the development of the player.
TRAINING: All players in the U11 academy player pool will train at the same time. However there will be days where teams are separated at training at the discretion of the coach. For the fall of 2007 our training times and days are tentatively set for Tuesdays & Thursdays from 5:30pm-7:00pm. There are also other opportunities to do extra training by attending a skills clinic. We offer at no extra cost a fast footwork clinic, a shooting clinic and a goalkeeper clinic. The two team training days are mandatory while all skills clinics are optional but highly recommended. Training for the fall season will begin the week of August 6th and run through the week of November 5th.
GAMES: Starting the weekend of September 8th through November 10th we will play between an 8-10 game schedule. We play academy friendlies whereby no scores or standings are kept, keeping in line with the academy philosophy of the U.S.S.F. Travel is required as we play half of our games at the Whitlock complex here in Coweta and the other half in and around the Atlanta area matched with other clubs such as ASA Extreme, Concorde Fire, AFC Lightning, AFU, Peachtree City Lazers, Henry County Thunder, TYSA Triumph and Gwinnett Soccer Association just to name a few. We play the majority of our games on Saturdays however there may be the odd Sunday afternoon game or a Friday evening game with one of our local neighboring clubs.
Tournament Schedule :( subject to change) FALL 2007 AFC Lightning Fall Challenge-August 11-12, Fayetteville, GA
SPRING 2008 Concorde Classic-February 2008, Atlanta, GA
COST & IMPORTANT DATES Registration Fee $840.00 per year includes training fees and preseason camps
Fall Season Training Begins week of August 6th, 2007. Ends week of November 5th. |
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