Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays from everyone at SoCal Youth Sports. We hope have a fun, safe and joyful break. It has been an incredible first year for us and we are so grateful for you all and your involvement. We look forward to seeing you all in the New Year with all this to come…
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The Jamboree
To mark our first birthday, SoCal Youth Sports will be celebrating with our first Nanosoccer Jamboree! The Jamboree is a full morning of festival style soccer where our participants enter to play scrimmages, in teams, against other teams and children from inside and outside of our program.
Our purpose for the jamboree is to celebrate development of the children, and to further encourage their enjoyment for the game and engagement with the game.
What Is Nanosoccer?
Nanosoccer is a tiny version of the game, field size, teams the children would make and numbers played on the field. The children will playing 1 versus 1, 2 versus 2 and 3 versus 3 to best support their individual development.
With the youngest children being egocentric (limited awareness beyond themselves) nanosoccer is designed to support their development by creating a playing environment relative to their age, stage and psychological development. Nanosoccer is a more effective version of the, game from a developmental standpoint, than other larger forms of the game because we are:
- Increasing the amount of game time for your child
- Increasing the time on the ball for your child
- Increasing the number of touches of the ball for your child
- Increasing the number of actions (dribbling, protecting, shooting, etc) for your child
- Increasing the opportunities for your child to make decisions for themselves.
- Increasing repetition of failures & successes for your child
- Increasing the technical demands for your child
- Increasing the intensity and physical demand for your child
- Increasing the variability of movement for your child
Scores are not kept! There are no winners and losers. There is no league table, no championship or no all stars.
This is a development only mentality. The festival is to celebrate true development in children and build a love and affection for the game.
Children Ages & Game Formats:
- 4 & 5 Year Olds – 1 Versus 1 – 2 Goals – Teams of 2
- 6, 7 & 8 Year Olds – 1 Versus 1 + Goalkeeper – 1 Goal – Teams of 3
- 9 & 10 Year Olds – 2 Versus 2 + Goalkeeper – 1 Goal – Teams of 4
More information will be released over time.
How Does It Work?
Sign up as an individual and be placed in a team join a team already created or create your own team for the day. Each team will require a Team Liaison. The Team Liaison’s role is to manage the teams movements off the field to games and at games, support the fields coach with substitutions etc. If you are creating a team we will assign you as the Team Liaison initially. This is not a coaching assignment and no knowledge of soccer is required.
Play Up/Down Request
We are aware that children are in very different stages of development regardless of age, therefore we are giving you the option to play up and down*:
- For those who seek more challenge you can request to play up
- For for those who are new to the sport in their age group you can request to play down.
For more information or to discuss your spot at the Jamboree please Contact Us.
*Play Up and Down requests are subject to approval from our coaching team. Please email Matt via Matt@Socalyouthsports.com if you have any questions.
You can cancel up to 5 days in advance of the Jamboree on your Class Portal
Classes Return January 10th
Classes return January 10th, we already have so many of you signed up for the new year and can’t wait to be back on the field. As mentioned in our previous post, places are filling up fast! Public Group classes are now running at at least 90% in most cases, with classes on the weekends running at 100%. Please ensure the classes you have purchased you have set your dates early to avoid disappointment. As a result of this we have reduced Pay-Per-Class spots further so if you are registering like this again, do it early to avoid disappointment.
Sign Up For Classes
Choose one of the 1 hour Soccer classes on offer for children aged 3 – 10 years old.
We also offer private 1-to-1 and 1-to-2 classes for children under 18.
There are 3 types of classes to choose from:
Join one of our Public Classes currently taking place.
Start your own Private Group Classes with a specified day & time.
Request an Individual Class, a 1-to-1 class with a coach or 1-to-2 class with a coach and a friend.
Join a Public Class
Start a Private Group Class
Start Individual Classes
Private Group Classes
One way to avoid disappointment in not guaranteeing your weekly spot is to organise a Private Group Class with friends and family. We have made more spaces available during the week. We are not limited by these times if you have a request please contact Matt via matt@socalyouthsports.com
In our Private Group Classes, you are in control. Select your day and time and participants. Private Group Classes are a fantastic way to keep school friends and teams together during the off-seasons and receive greater specificity in the delivery of the program for each child. These groups are more efficient and impactful due to this greater specialization and consistency of participants
Current availability for Private Group Classes (Glendale Sports Complex):
Monday 5:30 pm
Tuesday 3:30 pm
Wednesday 3:30 pm
Thursday 3:30 pm
Friday 5:30 pm (Pasadena/Victory Park)
If you have any further requests for Private Group Classes for times other than those above please email Matt via matt@socalyouthsports.com
Easter & Summer Camps Coming Soon
We are in the very early stages of building and preparing for Easter & Summer Camps for 2022. We hope to have dates confirmed ASAP. The camps would follow the framework of our clinics but expanded for time and are designed to be centered on your child, working in small groups with a focus on enjoyment and engagement.
If you are interested in joining one of our camps, let us know by filling in the form below
If you have any questions please contact Matt asap via matt@socalyouthsports.com
Accessing Class Portal & Purchase Account
A reminder that when you sign up with us you receive two accounts (Class Portal & Purchase Account) in which you will need for the future.
The first and most important account is your Class Portal. When you sign up you are assigned a portal which is where all of your class schedules can be found and allows you to make amendments to your schedule. On sign up YOU ARE NOT given a password, in order to log in to the account please use the “Forgot Password” links to set a password to access your portal.
The second account you are given is a purchasing account, in order to sign up for new classes you will need to log into the website through the “Login” or “Account” options. You may also need to go through the “forgot password” process for this.
If you have any questions please contact Matt asap via matt@socalyouthsports.com
