Soccer is a unique sport in which endurance, speed and agility are equally important. E.M.P. training will address these needs through:

•  A focus on proper running, jumping, landing and cutting mechanics to improve efficiency and reduce injury

•  drills to increase stride length and frequency, resulting in greater linear speed

•  plyometric training, resulting in increased lower body power

•  soccer specific drills focusing on change of direction, fast footwork, and 1 st step quickness

Instructor: Eva Popper, M.S., CSCS

SCU Women's Soccer Strength and Conditioning Coach

Played 4 years Division 1 Soccer for Pepperdine University

Each 1.5 hour training session includes:

Dynamic Warm-up

Core Strength Training

Neuromuscular and Balance Training

Linear Speed Training

Agility Training

Soccer Specific Speed/Agility Drills

Cool Down/Individualized Stretching Program

Contact: Eva Popper
Phone: 650.208.6285
Email: empopper@hotmail.com

U.S. TO FACE CHINA ON JUNE 2 IN SAN JOSE, CALIF.,

IN FINAL MATCH BEFORE SUMMER TOURNAMENTS

U.S. MNT Continues to Prepare for Gold Cup, Copa America;

ESPN2, Galavision to Broadcast Match Live at 5 p.m. PT

CHICAGO (February 26, 2007) — The U.S. Men's National Team will return to the Bay Area on June 2, 2007, to take on China at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, Calif., at 5 p.m. PT. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and Galavision, and will be available to fans online via ussoccer.com's MatchTracker.

One year after topping Japan, 3-2, in San Francisco, the U.S. will play in Spartan Stadium for the first time in four years in the team's final friendly before the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and 2007 Copa America.

Tickets starting at $22 will go on sale Friday, March 2, at ussoccer.com , all San Jose area Ticketmaster outlets (including Ritmo Latino and FYE) and by phone at 408-998-8497.  Groups of 15 or more can purchase tickets by calling U.S. Soccer at 312-528-1290 or obtaining a group order form at ussoccer.com . 

As a special benefit to VISA cardholders, a VISA-only pre-sale will be held between 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. PT on Thursday, March 1 through ussoccer.com. VISA, the preferred payment card of U.S. Soccer, is the only payment method available for this pre-sale opportunity. 

“The match against China is an excellent lead in to the Gold Cup," said U.S. MNT head coach Bob Bradley. "The fans in San Jose, and the Bay Area in general, have always been extremely supportive, and we're looking forward to getting our busy summer schedule underway with a good warm up for our regional championship.” 

The June 2 match will be the eighth meeting between the U.S. and China, and the hosts hold a 4-1-2 record vs. their guests. Three of the last seven meetings between the U.S. and China have been in the Bay Area, with the last meeting coming six years ago on Jan. 27, 2001, in Oakland as the U.S. won 2-1 on a Brian McBride goal and a China own goal. The U.S. also played China in San Francisco on Oct. 16, 1977 (2-1 W), and in Palo Alto on April 4, 1992 (5-0 W). In seven meetings, the U.S. has outscored China 13-6. 

Overall, the U.S. has a 1-0-2 record at Spartan Stadium and a 9-6-3 record in the Bay Area including last year's victory vs. Japan on goals by Taylor Twellman, Eddie Pope and Clint Dempsey. The last appearance at Spartan Stadium was a 2-0 victory over Wales on May 23, 2003, on goals by Eddie Lewis and Landon Donovan.

Along with three friendlies this spring, the United States will compete in two major championships this summer. The three-time champions will first try to defend their title against 11 other teams at the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, scheduled from June 6-24 in several cities across the United States.

Just a few days later, the U.S. will participate in the 2007 Copa America, the 12-team regional championship of South America, which will run from June 26 to July 15 in nine cities across Venezuela. The U.S. was drawn into Group C with Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia, and will kick off the tournament against Argentina on June 28 in Maracaibo.

U.S. MNT 2007 Schedule

Date                Match                                     Venue                                                                                     Result/Kickoff/TV                             Tickets

Jan. 20             USA vs. Denmark                    Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.)                                         3-1 W                                                   --

Feb. 7              USA vs. Mexico                       Univ. of Phoenix Stadium (Glendale, Ariz.)                                2-0 W                                                   --

March 25         USA vs. Ecuador                     Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, Fla.)                                    12 p.m. ET / ESPN2 & Galavision  More info

March 28         USA vs. Guatemala                  Pizza Hut Park (Frisco, Texas)                                                  9 p.m. ET / ESPN2 & Galavision    More info

June 2              USA vs. China                         Spartan Stadium (San Jose, Calif.)                                            8 p.m. ET / ESPN2 & Galavision    More info

June 6-24         CONCACAF Gold Cup          United States                                                                            TBD                                                     --

June 28            Argentina*                                Estadio Jose “Pachencho” Romero (Maracaibo)                       TBD                                                     --

July 2               Paraguay*                                Estadio Agustin Tovar “La Carolina” (Barinas)                          TBD                                                     --

July 5               Colombia*                               Estadio Metropolitano de Futbol de Lara (Barquisimeto)           TBD                                                     --

* 2007 Copa America in Venezuela

-- ussoccer.com --

Foundation and city team up to renovate community parks

Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, October 12, 2006

Children in San Francisco's Mission District need to come up with a new nickname for the soccer field at Garfield Square.

Long known as "el parque donde te rompes el pie" -- or "the park where you break your foot" -- because of its uneven natural grass and rutted surface, the field at 26th and Harrison streets debuted Wednesday evening with gleaming, smooth artificial turf, new goals, a picnic area and improved fencing, lighting and bathrooms.

As of press time, not a single foot was broken.

Garfield Square is the first one in an ambitious joint project by the nonprofit City Fields Foundation and the city to improve athletic fields around San Francisco. Children in the Bayview district will get a similar treat next month. Artificial turf is being installed on the entire athletic field at the Silver Terrace Playground, and a soccer field, new fencing, lighting and benches also are being added. A computerized reservation system for athletic fields around the city should be online by the end of the year.

"This is the first one in San Francisco -- not in Pacific Heights, not on Russian Hill, not on that side of town," Mayor Gavin Newsom told the crowd gathered at Garfield Square park on Wednesday. "It's here in this community."

That was long-awaited good news to the neighborhood's avid soccer players who said they long had to contend with a field consisting of lumpy dirt and sparse grass, along with the occasional broken glass, trash and syringes.

"It was all ugly and stuff," said Sergio Navarro, 12, who plays there at least three times a week. "I think it looks cool now. We never really get to have anything special and this is kind of our park. I hope everybody takes care of it."

Ashley Toledo, 10, came to the park with her dad and two sisters. She said the field used to be "all dirty and brownish" and that it's nice to have bright green grass. Her little sister, Emily, 5, spoke only in one-word sentences. Soccer, she said, is "fun." The park before was "ugly." And now?

"Beautiful."

After a ribbon-cutting ceremony, scores of children kicked balls around with some special guests: two women's teams, the San Francisco Nighthawks and the Black Queens of Ghana. The latter is here to play against several American teams in preparation for the upcoming African Cup and next year's women's World Cup. Their male counterparts ousted the U.S. men's team from the World Cup this year.

Fred Crentsil, the chairman of the women's team, said he likes the new field at Garfield Square a lot -- with the exception, maybe, of the artificial turf.

"I must say, we don't have it back home," he said. "I'm used to grass."

Formed last year, City Fields was the brainchild of Bill, John and Bob Fisher, the sons of Gap Inc. founder Donald Fisher. Growing up in Presidio Heights, the Fisher sons played soccer and baseball in parks all over the city. Now with children of their own, they're more aware than ever of the need for more athletic fields and for the improvement of existing fields.

They borrowed the concept of private-public partnership to improve athletic fields from the Take the Field foundation that has worked with New York City to improve 43 public school fields there.

"We started out trying to figure out what we felt would be a great contribution to San Francisco, and we just thought that was a great idea," said Bill Fisher.

It also was a worthwhile project in the eyes of those at the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. A 2004 assessment by the department found that to adequately serve children and adult athletes, the city needed an additional 27 baseball and softball fields and 33 soccer fields.

The partnership between City Fields and the city was approved by the Recreation and Park Commission in February. The foundation and the city then signed off on a memorandum of understanding authorizing the parks department to accept future gifts from the foundation as long as they were approved by the commission. The Board of Supervisors and Newsom signed off on the deal in May.

The foundation contributed $4.5 million to the projects at Garfield Square and Silver Terrace Playground, which were supplemented with $1 million in city funds. Bill Fisher said they'll continue improving as many fields as they can raise money to support.

"This is not really about us although we kick-started this project," he said. "It's about trying to get everybody to participate because we think it's just a great idea. We think it's a win-win situation for everybody."

Yomi Agunbiade, manager of the parks department, said he anticipates $60 million total, including $20 million in city money, being spent on renovating 12 to 16 facilities around the city, some of which will have multiple baseball or soccer fields.

The notion of a public-private partnership to improve athletic fields isn't entirely new to San Francisco. In 1999, then-Mayor Willie Brown and then-Supervisor Newsom proposed a plan to improve the city's ailing parks, playgrounds and recreation centers through a $100 million bond, which passed the following March, but also through encouraging philanthropic donations of millions of dollars annually.

As for the new nickname for the soccer field at Garfield Square, 11-year-old Christian Morales had an idea: "The Greatest Park I've Ever Seen."

For more information, visit www.cityfieldsfoundation.org .

E-mail Heather Knight a hknight@sfchronicle.com .

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/12/BAGB2LNCQC68.DTL

By DEBORAH FRANKLIN
July 18, 2006

 The Consumer

Emergency room statistics suggest that every day in this country, an estimated 23,000 people — athletes, stylistas in stilettos, middle-aged accountants in sensible shoes — severely turn an ankle, stretching and tearing the ligaments, tendons and neuromuscular connections that keep the jumble of bones in place.

Torn-up knees and dislocated shoulders get more press and sympathy. But doctors know that a bad ankle sprain is not only more common, but can be at least as far reaching in its effects. A broken bone usually takes weeks to heal, but the worst ankle sprains may require three months of rehabilitation.

Any wrenching turn that swells the ankle like a water balloon and leaves it too painful to walk on for a day or longer weakens the joint and primes it for more bad sprains and osteoarthritis years later, according to Dr. Bruce Beynnon, a biomechanical engineer at the University of Vermont who has spent decades studying knee and ankle injuries.

Dr. Beynnon said many athletic coaches used to routinely tell players after a sprain to “just walk it off.'' But, he said, “People who know the research on sprains don't recommend that anymore.”

In the hope of finding better ways to prevent such injuries and help them heal faster, Dr. Beynnon and colleagues have been looking for risk factors that may make some people more vulnerable to sprained ankles than others.

Their most recent findings, presented this month in Hershey, Pa., at a meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, suggest that men and women tend to have a different set of risk factors that should perhaps change the ways the two groups train if they want to avoid sprains.

“Basically, what they found was that for women, the risk for injury had to do with balance and strength in opposing muscle groups, whereas for men it's more often about range of motion in the joint,” said Dr. Timothy E. Hewett, director of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. “That's important and exactly what I would have expected them to find, based on what we're learning about sex differences in knee injuries.”

Statistics gathered in the 1990's by the National Collegiate Athletic Association showed that depending on the sport, female athletes were two to four times more likely than men to suffer a tear or other injury to the knee's anterior cruciate ligament, or A.C.L.

Dr. Beynnon and his team recruited 901 members of men's and women's varsity soccer, basketball, lacrosse and field hockey teams from several high schools and two universities in New England. Each student was put through a variety of tests to measure, among other things, laxity or “wobbliness” of the ankle, flexibility, and the relative strength of the muscles that help keep the hinge from rolling inward or outward in an off-kilter landing.

The researchers also measured the general alignment of the knee, ankle and lower leg, and the range of motion of each joint.

None of the students had suffered an ankle injury before the start of the four-year study or took any special precautions to avoid sprains. By require medical attention and force them to miss at least one game or practice.

According to the results, women might be best able to help protect their ankles by doing exercises a few times a week that isolate and symmetrically strengthen the muscles that roll the foot inward and outward, Dr. Beynnon said. In contrast, balance training and traditional stretching exercises for calves and the Achilles tendon that increase the ankle's up and down range of motion may be more useful for men.

Unfortunately, improved training will not be able to remedy all the differences that turned up between those who got hurt and those who did not. The women identified in the preseason screening as having extra looseness in an ankle, for example, were significantly more likely to go on to sprain it, as were the men who had undergone previous non-joint-related surgeries to a lower leg.

But Dr. Beynnon and others have found in previous research that wearing a lace-up ankle brace — a semirigid stocking without toes that is worn over the sock — can lend needed support to the lax joint and reduce injury in athletes who have that risk factor. Knee braces have not been shown to be effective in preventing a first injury, he added, “but we now know that bracing can help ankles.”

Interestingly, taping the ankle — a timeworn effort to guard the joints in many sports — may make an athlete feel more secure but offers little benefit, Dr. Beynnon and other researchers studying the problem say.

Dr. Mitchell Cordova, chairman of the department of kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, cites studies showing that the adhesive tape loosens during exercise, losing about 50 percent of its ability to stabilize the joint in the first 10 or 20 minutes of play. A brace, he said, stays tightly supportive much longer.

Dr. Cordova recommends the braces primarily as a part of rehabilitation for previously injured joints. Dr. Beynnon, however, is convinced that ankle braces may be useful in prevention as well, at least for those who have been told by coaches or doctors that they have “loose joints.” At his suggestion, Dr. Beynnon's two teenage daughters wear the braces when playing basketball.

The ultimate goal is not to recommend braces or special exercises for everyone, Dr. Beynnon said, but to figure out who is at risk and why, and then tailor a training program to produce an athlete who safely maximizes his or her physical potential. Dr. Hewett is already at work on simple screening tests that can be used in middle schools and high schools, with accompanying exercises on balance boards, for example, that could be easily added to the school weight room.

“We're talking about sort of a paradigm shift in training,” Dr. Beynnon said. “Coaches in most sports have never thought about this. They never get an athlete to work on isolating the muscles on the outside of the leg. The focus has been on running and drills that get you down the court or field faster to make more points.”

Whether the findings directly apply to older or less dedicated athletes, summer hikers and ill-stepping accountants remains to be seen. But Dr. Hewett is convinced that the exercises emphasizing balance, stability, flexibility and core body strength get more important as people age.

From the U.S. Soccer Communications Center:

U.S. SOCCER SPRING COACHING SCHOOLS TAKE PLACE MARCH 24-APRIL 1

Limited Space is Available; Don't Miss the Opportunity

to Earn a Nationally Recognized License, Learn From Some the Nation's Top Coaches

CHICAGO (Jan. 24, 2007) - U.S Soccer's National Coaching Schools have been providing high-quality coaching instruction for over 36 years, and this March you will have a chance to take your coaching education to a new level. The spring courses are set for the last week of March, giving every eligible coach a chance to obtain a nationally recognized “A” or “B” level license and increase their knowledge of the game.

• 2007 Spring Courses Application

The “A” and “B” License levels will take place from March 24 – April 1, 2007, at U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The Home Depot Center is an ideal location to hold National Coaching Schools as it is the nations' most complete athletic training facility featuring state-of-the-art facilities for professional athletes in soccer and other top sports.

Participants at U.S. Soccer's popular National Coaching Schools will have a chance to learn from some of the nation's top-level instructors, including current and former National Team, MLS and WUSA coaches. There will be field and classroom sessions every day, as well as field and written exams to test your knowledge with the best coaches in the country.

As always, space is limited for these select courses. Registration is underway, so apply now to ensure your spot. More information on the National Coaching Schools is available at ussoccer.com or by contacting the U.S. Soccer Coaching Department at 312-528-1219 or coaches@ussoccer.org .

Available National Coaching School Courses

School                                      Date                                                     Location

National “A” Audit Course       March 24 – March 30, 2007                The Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.)

National “A” License                March 24 – April 1, 2007                     The Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.)

National “B” License                March 24 – April 1, 2007                     The Home Depot Center (Carson, Calif.)

- Make sure to stay connected with CoachesNet on all the latest coaching news! -

From the U.S. Soccer Communications Center:

U.S. PARALYMPIC SOCCER TEAM TO HOLD OPEN TRYOUTS

Squad Looking to Expand Player Pool for

ParaPanAmerican Games and World Championship

CHICAGO (Jan. 24, 2007) – The U.S. National Paralympic Soccer Team will host an open tryout on Feb. 16-18 at U.S. Soccer's National Training Center at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

The three-day tryout will precede the team's first camp of the year. The upcoming year is shaping up to be a busy one for the team, with the squad competing in the ParaPanAmerican Games and the World Championship in 2007.

The tryout will serve to identify a larger player pool for the two upcoming competitions, as the ParaPanAmerican Games will take place in August, following the PanAmerican games in Rio de Janeiro. The World Championship will take place in November.

Interested athletes should email team manager Dana Schoenwetter at danas10@aol.com to receive necessary paperwork and logistical information.

To be eligible for Paralympic soccer, athletes must be ambulatory and have a diagnosis of non-progressive brain damage that is associated with motor control dysfunction such as Cerebral Palsy, traumatic brain Injury or stroke. More information about eligibility and the classification of athletes is available at usparalympics.org.

At the 2005 World Championship in Connecticut, the U.S. team finished in seventh place, qualifying them for the 2007 competition. Their ranking at the 2007 World Championship may influence the team's qualification for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in China.

Paralympic soccer is played seven-a-side on a smaller field and with smaller goals than non-disabled soccer. Each team plays with seven men using the International Federation of Associated Football (FIFA) rules which have been slightly modified to accommodate the disabilities of the athletes.

Course Location : Prague, Czech Republic

Course Dates : May 2 – 21.

Travel Dates : Leave US, April 30 – Arrive Prague, May 1. Return date would be May 22, or later, depending on individual

Course Tuition : $1,450 (1 – 7 coaches); $1,050 (8+ coaches)

Airfare : Am currently getting fares between $700 and $750 of several airlines (Air France, Lufthansa, SAS) through an internet website. Anticipate that these fares will not last long.

Lodging : Hotel Crystal; Hotel is directly opposite Charles University campus and therefore is the most practical place to stay. Hote cost is $50 per person, per night, double occupancy, including buffet breakfast. $50 x 21 nights = $1,050.

Meals : Cost of meals will largely be an individual item, however, food is still one of the cheaper commodities in Prague. Cost for lunch and dinner should not exceed $25 - $30 per day. Other food and drink is totally a personal calculation.

Incidentals :

Local Transportation : Prague is not a real large city with respect to the downtown and other areas where local travel is likely. The public transportation system in Prague is one of the best in all of Europe and consists of the Metro (underground), above ground trams (trolley system) and bus system. A one month pass is currently approximately $22.

Other Items : Most likely, everyone will want to attend a professional match or two. There are four professional teams in Prague which play in the Czech National League. Tickets are relatively inexpensive, but most likely, there may be no cost, either as a part of the course, or because Rudolf will make arrangements with the teams. As far as siteseeing, Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe with many wonderful attractions, museums, castles, etc., most without a charge, or very nominal charge at worst. The old part of Prague is simply a pleasure to walk through and mingle with the locals, most of whom speak some English and many of whom will be other Americans, as there are reportedly over 30,000 Americans in Prague, most under 35.

Evening Entertainment : Personal item, but will be no more, and likely much less than what you would spend at home.

The above represents what we have at present and should be a reasonably accurate reflection of overall costs for the course and three week stay in Prague. We do need to give Rudolf some indication of how many coaches are truly interested in this unique opportunity. If you are seriously interested in pursuing this opportunity, please contact either me or Graham as soon as possible.

Jerry May, 410-987-7898 (o); 240-461-5032 (c)

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE

FACULTY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT

soccer Coaches LicenCe "A" level diploma

Prague 2007

International programme

soccer coaching -

A -Licence diploma

Basic characteristics of the soccer coaching course

The soccer coaching course at A- LICENCE LEVEL features the second highest grade in soccer coaches education system organized by Football Association of Czech Republic .

and Charles University Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. This course is suitable for soccer coaches abroad with any certificate on basic coaching education. The programme of the course is focused on improvement of practical coach´s competence and knowledge for managing higher level youth teams, semi-professional and professional teams.

A communication language is english.

The programme of the course includes training of coaches in various aspects of soccer coaching, in addition supported by theory and analysis of contemporary professional soccer. It is completed by physiological, psychological and educational bases of traning and coaching soccer teams.

Extent of the programme

167 lessons (with 45 minutes per one lesson)

Organization: 17 days educational programme, the shedule can be adapted according to special demands of coaches´group attended, 2 days examinations.

Forms of study

Lectures, seminars, practical demonstrations, practical coaches´training, workshops, visiting clubs.

Technical supporting (equipments)

For teaching in rooms: video, DVD and computer presentation, overhead projecting on the large screen.

For practical teaching: grass soccer fields, sport hall, artificial playgrounds, athletics tracks, weightifting room, aerobics and fitness rooms, outdoor cross training area.

Teachers

Profi-licence soccer teachers and coaches, specialists, practitioners, and university teachers on sport sciences.

Demands on coaches

Full participation on all forms of lessons, written works on training plans and training units, passing three partial exams and the practical coaching exam, passing the final certificate exam.

Graduates gain the Certificate of the A-licence soccer coaching diploma.

Programme

soccer coaching - A-licence diploma

A) Specific program number of lessons

I. Theory of soccer game and soccer training

(lectures, seminars) total 64 lessons

•  Theory of soccer game - attacking and defending phase, characteristics of the individual and team game performance in contemporary soccer 6

•  Youth soccer training (6- 14 years old players) 4

•  Adolescent soccer training (15 -19 years old) 4

•  Soccer training in adult players – improvement of game performance in attacking and defending phase (tactics, technique), goalkeeper training 16

•  Fitness training and conditioning in soccer 8

•  Training session - structure, types, bio-technology approach 2

•  Planning of soccer training program: periodisation, training mikrocycles, meso-cycles, training through the pre-, the competition and the off-season 6

•  Preparating and coaching a team during a match 2

•  Evaluation of the individual and team game performance, observation and assessment of game performance of own team and other teams (skauting) 2

•  Training forms and methods, coaching styles, coaching activities of a coach during training session 4

•  Modern problems of soccer rules and refereeing a match 4

•  Women soccer 3

•  Soccer history, evolution of a game strategy 3

II. Soccer training - practice total 58 lessons

•  Training in youth 8

•  Training in adult players teams – orientated to various aspects of game perfomance of defense and offense 20

•  Fitness and coordination training, special movement training 10

•  Practical training of coaches 20

B) Bases of sport sciences connected with problems of soccer training

total 30 lessons

•  Sport and exercise physiology, physiology of soccer and training 10

•  Sport psychology - psychological problems of soccer training and coaching 9

•  Sport pedagogy - educational aspects of coaching 7

•  Medicine bases of soccer training - regeneration, massage, ergogenic aids and performance, nutrition and nutritional ergogenics 4

MARK YOUR CALENDAR – FUTSAL TOURNAMENT

is hosting a Futsal tournament,
May 26 – 28th , 2007
on the beautiful Campus of

www.ucsc.edu for location details

AGE GROUPS U10, U12 and U14 Boys & Girls

Registration Fee $350 per team

$50 non-refundable service fee is already included.

SPACE WILL BE LIMITED SO REGISTER YOUR TEAM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

To register go to http://eteamz.active.com/macsafutsal/

For More Information Contact:

FREE SOCCER COACHES CLINICS

Two Great Soccer Coaching Clinics In One Day

A free learning opportunity that can't be missed

Saturday March 3, 2007

Rain or Shine on Field Turf

At Garfield Square Playground and Park

26 th St. and Harrison in San Francisco

Goalkeeping Clinic 9 am to 12 noon

Speed and Agility Clinic 1 pm to 4 pm

District 1 Coaching of the California Youth Soccer Association and Sunset Soccer Supply will be conducting two free coaching clinics. The topics covered are two of the most requested clinic topics by coaches. The instructors conducting the clinics are experts in their fields.

These clinics are appropriate for all levels of coaching.

The clinics are free to all participants.

Goalkeeping

By Don Williams

From 9 am to 12 noon

This is a clinic for coaches and PLAYERS.

Speed and Agility

By Eva Popper

From 1 pm to 4 pm

This is a clinic for coaches ONLY.

For more information contact Toby Rappolt

toby@sunsetsoccer.com

Please see below for more information.

GOALKEEPER CLINIC

By Don Williams, USSF A license
Former "A" League GK coach with Bay Area Seals

Don has an A USSF license. He runs the Elite Soccer Skills Academy and is the assistant women's coach at Cal State East Bay.
He'll cover GK specific warm-ups, modern GK techniques, GK skill acquisition, proper falling / diving techniques, how to train from 1 – 4 keepers simultaneously with no standing around, and games to play with keepers to build skills.

This is a clinic for
coaches AND PLAYERS.

Clinic Details

Clinic Details

When:

Saturday March 3 rd , 2007

Where:

Garfield Square Playground and Park (26 th St. and Harrison)
San Francisco, CA 94110

Time:

9 am to 12 noon

Cost:

FREE

Sponsored By:

CYSA District 1
Sunset Soccer Supply

THE BUILDING
BLOCKS OF
Speed and Agility

A Clinic For Coaches

This clinic is for coaches only.

Presented by

Eva Popper

Master of Science in Biomechanics;

Strength and Conditioning Coach for

Santa Clara University Women's Soccer Team

Eva will teach you the basic principles behind speed and agility training specifically for your soccer players.

You will leave the clinic with a wealth of practical knowledge of how to help your soccer players maximize their speed and agility potential.

Eva is not only a strength and conditioning expert; she played Division 1 college soccer at the University of Pepperdine.

CLINIC TOPICS

DRILLS
Dynamic Movement Prep
Plyometric Exercises
      Linear and Lateral Speed Ladder Drills
Soccer Specific Agility Drills

This is a clinic for coaches ONLY.

Clinic Details

When:

Saturday March 3 rd , 2007

Where:

Garfield Square Playground and Park (26 th St. and Harrison)
San Francisco, CA 94110

Time:

1pm to 4pm

Cost:

FREE

Sponsored By:

CYSA District 1
Sunset Soccer Supply

Click here to download the flyer.

I am looking for a coach for our practice on Thursdays. Season with SFPAL from March to June and with SF Vikings from September to November. Our weekly practice is on Thursday from 4 to 5:30pm at Beach Chalet. Pay: $45 per practice. I can still take care of our games on Saturdays but I don't have the time on Thursdays. The players are from the Lycee Francais La Perouse and they are a fun group to work with.

Please contact Olivier Allegret - Coach, Blue Devils
-415-341-6403