Technical Skills Camp for Elite MS-aged (GU12-14) Soccer Player
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Anonymous
| Any thoughts on elite soccer camp (local or sleep-away) or clinics for middle schoola-aged soccer player? Looking for technical skills development with players of similar quality. |
Anonymous
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In that age range, I think the best summer camp my daughter (DA/ECNL level) did was the most advanced Coerver camp (called COE now). We never did an HP Elite summer camp but have always been impressed with them when she did those in other seasons.
Boy or girl? |
Anonymous
Agree on Coerver. Daughter in DA now did Coerver and said she learned a lot. |
Anonymous
How about boy's? |
Anonymous
I meant U12-13 boy |
Anonymous
| OP here. Looking at camps for girls u12-u14. |
Anonymous
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Get a private coach to work with them who will hold them accountable for doing the work on their own.
We did the camps, they are all the same. Kids waiting in lines groups too big to accomplish anything. We had 5 1.5 hour sessions with a private high level coach and it was about the same price. |
Anonymous
| How much was the private coach? |
Anonymous
$75 per 1.5 hours up to $90. |
Anonymous
| Yep a private coach(one who knows what he or she is doing) is the best way. Camps are one size fits all. You will have kids who have problems with scissors and not juggling twenty times training with kids who have 15 moves mastered and juggling in the 100’s. When you start juggling in the 100’s, it opens up a hold new series of ball control drills. Teaching them to the less development player is a waste of time because they can not do it and get frustrated. While the more advance kids are bored. |
Anonymous
| Which is why I asked about elite camps. |
Anonymous
Those so called elite camps have those differences in their group of players. |
Anonymous
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Elite Camps, Academy, Camps etc are all the same. They have no way of knowing who is qualified to be elite etc, it is just marketing. That is why we hired a private coach.
Look at the club web pages, find their highest level team and email the coach about private training. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, I tend to agree. We look at soccer camps as a way to keep our kids occupied and having fun in the summer, and didn't rely on them for player development. We had good experiences with Coerver camps. They do try to organize kids by ability, and the drills they do benefit players of all abilities. They used to do a World Cup SS game format that the kids seemed to really enjoy - teams were mixed ages/genders, but they tried to make the teams as even as possible. |
Anonymous
How is your kids technique? Can you tell which foot is the dominant foot? Does he or she need work being more physical, shooting with the left or right, working on touch, fielding and passing the ball under pressure, etc, etc, etc. If you have not done it, you do not how it can help. You can alway tell the kids who get it. Their technique skills increase allowing them to play faster. Camps are fun and you play a lot, but there is not much work on individual technique skills. |