Welcome to Soccer Season 2005/6!

Welcome to the 2005/6 Season!
This year the U11 Girls move up to the Super-8 category of soccer (8 per side). This means we carry more players per team and play on a slightly large field. We also start to play a modified offside rule ... specifically, the girls can be offside (normal rules) only in the defenders 1/2 of the field (vs 1/2 the field). This will help the girls transition into the full-field game starting in U-13.

What are the goal of the coaches (Brad and Mafalda) this year??
- technique and skills
- skills and techniques
- some agility and fiteness training
- skills
- techniques
- position of play (i.e. where positions should be playing in a game)
- some tactics
- and of course some FUN!!
Did I mention skills and techniques? :-)

Why are we still working on the basic skills and technique? Because without technique there can be no tactics. (I stole that quote from a great English coach). What this means is that if the girls do not have the basic skills (dribbling, passing/receiving and shooting) then we would be wasting our time teaching them about tactical play.

Go Gorge!