Sign up to become a youth soccer referee – https://learning.ussoccer.com/referee/courses/available/6/details/7553

Got a license alredy? Sign up to referee here – https://www.fremontyouthsoccer.com/referees/

You may have recognized from the news, and your experiences on the field, but youth sports as a whole is in need of referees.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

Becoming a youth soccer referee has many benefits:

• Referees are paid very well
• You get to gain greater knowledge of the game
• An opportunity to be part of the rewarding process of youth sports participation
• Great opportunity to exercise, while watching soccer, and getting paid!

In addition to this, you get to develop your:

• Time management
• Communication
• Responsibility and Accountability
• Leadership

We look forward to seeing you on the fields this season.

We are incredibly excited to bring to you the news of our partnership with Net World Sports.

Net World Sports provide their FORZA soccer equipment internationally, with ‘relentless dedication to offering the best experience possible’, which aligns with our continued dedication to providing the appropriate athlete centered environment needed for the youth player.

Training equipment by FORZA can be seen at Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, and Football Association of Wales, to name just a few teams and organizations, and we are very honored to be the latest in using their products for our training purposes.

We’re back for the start of the 23/24 season, although never really left!

Following our summer break, we return with plenty to look forward to in the new season.

Competitive Soccer

The Competitive Pathway is underpinned by scientific theory, a modern approach to player development, with proven effectiveness from evidence based research. In contrast to traditional methods, our play centered and constructed learning methods provide a deeper and long term learning experience, an environment aligned to athlete centered learning.

Click to Join – https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/377474

Grassroots Soccer

Grassroots is the program that caters for the needs of the recreational player.

Youth sports has moved to overly structured sessions, stifling the individuals creativity limiting their problem solving ability, and turn youth sport in to an organized chore.

Click for More Info – https://www.fremontyouthsoccer.com/grassroots/

TopTekkers

TopTekkers is the leading platform for supporting player development when training at home. All Foundation Phase players will be receiving a free training account, and free entry to the first TopTekkers tournament in Northern California, hosted by Fremont YSC.

Click to Learn More – https://www.toptekkers.com/

Coach Education

Coaches must be lifelong learners, and we are fully committed to our continued education. This past Friday we were honored to be presenting our club structure and operations to Frans Hoek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hoek), one of the leading football professional in the world.

Later in the day the coaches engaged in a practical and theoretical education session on coaching behaviors, an area of coach development missing in formal education, where the gap between theory and application is evident at all levels of football coaching.

Thank you to the players for volunteering their time to help us put on our coach education session.

Parent Engagement

Being a program that proudly sits outside the craziness of youth soccer, our evidence informed and scientific research based program is different to others around. Theory is great is regurgitate, but it’s another thing to be committed to putting it in action.

Supporting the parents journey through youth soccer and sports as a whole. The youth sports industry is a thriving business model, making it difficult and challenging to navigate and fully understand. We are committed to the learning experience, not a league acronym or collecting air miles to the latest ‘elite competition’. Our engagement includes pedagogy, curriculum and session design, the importance of play, and supporting confidence

Recognize – Reflect – Adapt

Every season we ask for members feedback, and through thematic analysis we can see the trends and themes that help us make necessary adjustments. We recognize that the communication of ‘why’, and supporting parents understanding of youth development has not been good enough. Reflecting on the areas parents have most provided feedback on, we need to do adapt our engagement around the concept of ‘challenge’, and with internal education for coaches supporting delivery in alignment with theory. The following few points will address this briefly as an introduction, and a great article of a similar concept, click below.

https://changingthegameproject.com/getting-better-vs-getting-seen-the-conundrum-that-derails-many-promising-young-athletes/

• Youth sports is a learning experience, no different to learning anything at a young age.
• At its very foundation learning is guided by theory and learning principles, this drives curriculum and session design, specifically, we adopt the constructivist learning theory.
• Coaching, like all areas of expertise, develops over time, and there is a huge amount of literature on modern coaching practices that are best for youth athletes. However, coaches are slow to pick this up and continue to use more traditional methods.
• Age-appropriate learning comes from experiences, built on elements and concepts introduced at age-appropriate times, and is a long-term process for deeper learning ‘scaffolded learning’.

This leads to ‘CHALLENGE’

• Challenge comes from the constraints placed on the training practice.
• Challenge is both individual and team constraint led.
• Play activities drive great motivation in players and deeper learning opportunities, with challenge specific to game context.
• It is a longer process, but players learn, have fun, and deeper learning provides the foundations for late age performance.
• Play activities not only supports players, but also modern coaching practice in the delivery through guided discovery, questioning, and problem solving, all these are athlete led coaching behaviors, and in contrast to the traditional instruction and negative feedback process still prevalent in coaching and are coach centered behaviors.

Individuals learn, not teams, and the bracket or league played in is not ‘challenge’. In youth soccer, it takes one or two individuals to carry team outcomes.

Process driven coaching supports confidence, not winning and outcomes, these provide short lived levels of excitement, and not feeling of self-efficacy for continued self-determination.

The short term outcomes, focusing on league and competition names, and the inevitable bi-product of must win to maintain status, all leads to athlete burnout.

Click on the Video for a great parent resource and insight into youth sports participation

The Cost of Winning from Potential Pictures Inc. on Vimeo.