| Fall 2007 U9 Boys Academy Info! |
Head Coach-Paul Costick Boys Director of Coaching
PLAYING BACKGROUND- Paul is from Southampton, England where he was groomed as a young player in the Southampton FC academy. He went on to play professionally for Peterborough United (1996-97) and Reading FC (1997-1998). In 1999 he accepted a scholarship to Wingate University in N.C where he was named both all-conference and all-region. In 2003 he was voted MVP at the SAC Conference Tournament in 2003. Paul is married and resides in Peachtree city with his wife Lauren.
AGE GROUP SYNOPSIS
The U9 age group in academy is where players start to foster a love for the beautiful game. It is the future of the Cannons select program. For most players and parents this is their first introduction to a structured soccer environment having made the transition from recreation soccer to Academy. Training sessions are lead by the professional coaches running professional sessions. The academy focus at U9 is on ball mastery and technical ability. We are not concerned with wins or losses or building of teams. Our focus is on individual player development. We will meet this objective by creating a player pool. Establishing this player pool will allow us to train together and give us the flexibility to put players in different situations always with the development of the player in mind. We will create a training environment that is both challenging and rewarding for the boys.
TRAINING: All players in the U9 player pool will train together. 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. There will be no set rosters during the fall season. Rosters will be mixed as evenly as possible with talent equally distributed. In the spring season however kids will be placed on their game day teams according to their skill level and ability at the discretion of the head coach.
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
COST & IMPORTANT DATES Registration Fee $700.00 per year ($350.00) includes training fees and preseason camps
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