Youth Academy
Our SFSC Youth Academy is COED for grades K-6.
Our goal is to help our youngest players foster a love of the game!
Campers will thrive with our Individual instruction, daily soccer curriculum, world cup day, short-sided games, and scrimmages each day. Also included are after lunch soccer-themed enrichment activities throughout the three weeks such as art, Soccer story-time, and other fun!
SUMMER 2024
DATES:
Session 1: JUNE 10 - 14
Session 2: JUNE 17 - 21
Session 3: JUNE 24 - 28
Session 4: July 8 - 12
Session 5: July 15 - 19
HOURS
9AM to 4:00PM
*Checkin up to 15 min prior
$585 FULL DAY
Location.
SAN FRANCISCO - TBD
WE HOPE TO FIND OUT ABOUT FIELD LOCATIONS MID FEBRUARY
CHECK OUT OUR UC Berkeley LOCATION FOR FUTURE CAMP OFFERINGS
Join Leonard and his Cal Staff and Players on campus at UC Berkeley for a unique on campus training experience.
Daily Schedule
San Francisco Soccer Camp follows a general schedule daily and weekly, but these schedules may change if we find unforeseen opportunities awaiting us.
Daily Schedule
8:30 Early check-in if needed
9:00 Camp Starts - Pep Rally
9:20 Technical Skill Training
11:15 Mini games
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Enrichment activity
1:15 Camp Pep Rally
1:45 Skills measurement
2:30 Scrimmages
3:30 Team meeting
3:45 Camp Pep Rally
4:00 Pick-up
Weekly Focus.
Individual
All of our staff members are trained and certified through the Positive Coaches Alliance. The training helps our staff gain the tools to coach while instilling a growth mindset in each camper so that they focus more on their individual improvement/growth and less on competition and results. Also, in order to incorporate the theme of “Self” we include individual art projects and throughout the week will talk about their own personal soccer stories as they relate. Art is limited to 30 minutes, so there is still plenty of time for soccer! The coaches and campers spend time during circles sharing information about themselves and also about their soccer story in order to start building relationships with campers. Also, we have a short reading time (about 5-7 min max) focused on learning about professional players and their soccer story and the impact they had both in soccer and life.
Team
EACH POD HAS A TEAM FOCUS and works together to achieve common goals. Each pod comes up with their own team name and team chant. For art this week we are use 30 minutes per day to collaborate with one another to design something spectacular! We are still reading for about 5-7 minutes and are learning about different teams in the book 5 of The World’s Greatest Clubs (World Soccer Legends).
Futbol as a WORLD Sport
This will be our World Cup-themed week. Campers will learn about different countries and their cultures and how soccer has helped bring people together from all over the world.
POD POINTS & STICKERS
Each of the individual days of the week is also broken down into a Character Skill and a Soccer Skill. Throughout the week campers can earn Pod Points for their groups when they display one of the Character Skills or Soccer Skills throughout each day. Pod Points can also be earned for working towards improving their soccer juggling (Juggle Master) or from a creative soccer skill (Joga Bonito).
At our camp, each coach carries a red and yellow card like a referee. At San Francisco Soccer Camp these cards are only used for positive acknowledgment. So when a camper is shown a red or yellow card it’s because they are earning one of the following Pod Points (which are given out in the form of a sticker).
The stickers are intended to be earned and meaningful and the coaches provide a speech at the end of the day where they acknowledge the campers who received yellow/red cards, they recap the reason the sticker was earned and issue the sticker.