| 2008 SCA NORTH Tryout & Club Information |
| Tuesday, 15 January 2008 | |
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SCA is the most progressive and player development oriented club in Northern California. SCA presents an all-inclusive total soccer education for all players and parents. Come join the fun and enjoy the best soccer experience around. So if you want to play SCA sign up today using the easy to use online form. Click below on the read more link to access the form, find out tryout dates and to learn more about SCA's soccer programs. Our SCA North Program is a Total Soccer Education For U9-U14. The initial season for SCA North will feature tryouts for boys and girls teams in U9, U10 and U11 age groups. Ultimately, SCA will only form teams up to age U14 under the SCA North umbrella. If there is significant interest in the U12-U14 age levels this upcoming year, SCA will also consider forming SCA North teams in those age levels this spring. Please click here if you are interested in SCA North for U9-U11. For U12-U14 age groups tryouts and teams will be based in Petaluma unless there is enough interest to form SCA North teams. To tryout in Petaluma click here.Our ClubSonoma County Alliance (SCA) was founded in 2001 for the U15 – U19 age groups. SCA is rapidly developing into one of the top soccer clubs in Northern California. Since it’s beginning in 2001, SCA team’s have had successes in local, state, regional and national competitions and the club has been very successful at placing its older players into college programs. The club is dedicated to combining individual player development and team development, with the goal of preparing players for the next level – high school, college or senior soccer.Our PhilosophySCA teams play a common system: 1-3-4-3 or 1-4-3-3. Our style of play is based on attacking soccer, wing play, and using our goal keeper as a sweeper. We focus on good ball circulation (possession) in order to create chances and press to win the ball back when we do not have it. Our focus on developing a young player’s mastery of the ball and mastery of 1v1 situations will allow your player to continue to be successful through the older age groups. This belief in educating the younger age groups in mastery of the ball and 1v1 duals frees our coaches from the pressure of winning. Although winning remains a goal, our long term view places individual development before winning until the older ages where winning becomes an important part of the developmental process.Our Staff
SCA has some of the finest soccer educators in Northern California. Our staff holds 6 USSF National "A", 4USSF National "B", 3 USSF National "C", 3Dutch Trainer II (5 month course in Holland) and one German National "B" license. The staff also has over 20 years of combined coaching experience at the District, State and Regional levels of ODP. The staff has 3 coaches who are with the US Club Soccer ID2 program. In addition our staff has 7 coaches who have coached at the college level at 7 different colleges. Our staff’s commitment to being open to learning, improving constantly, working together and placing player development as our primary goal benefits our players immensely. These shared qualities and goals insure your child is trained with the most current training ideas and drills by our staff who embraces a positive coaching philosophy. Finally, the cooperation between our staff is unmatched benefiting your child’s soccer development immensely.Staff by January 21st. Our Training Program
SCA’s “Total Soccer Education Program” concentrates on developing player’s T.I.P.S.
Using our curriculum SCA staff trains the player’s T.I.P.S. according to their age level. Our ScheduleWhile concentrating on individual player development we carefully design our team program to insure teams are exposed to the proper level of competition spread throughout the season - with breaks at appropriate times. Believing the best players spend the most time with the ball our yearly schedule has been developed to spread out travel events, minimize the amount of time and money spent on travel, yet still expose our teams and players to the appropriate competitions necessary in the development of each age group. We strive to have all our teams play at the appropriate level of competition. Training Camps and Street SoccerIn addition to regular team trainings we utilize Training Camps and Street Soccer, which are planned into the schedule to insure players spend more time with the ball under the watchful eyes of our quality staff. Our Team Training Days insure all teams are trained in our club philosophy, with appropriate up to date training methods. They allow us to have additional hours training the teams to ensure proper development. Street Soccer is a program through the summer and fall. These days are scheduled for players to show up and simply play 4v4 up to 7v7 games with SCA supervision. All of these events help develop our players, teams and contribute to the overall club atmosphere we are striving for SCA. Hoek ExperienceSCA is very excited to offer its players a program with international experience. During the past three years the club has presented its players the Frans Hoek Experience. Frans is considered one of the top soccer clinicians and soccer educators in the WORLD. His method and philosophy was developed from his years at AJAX of Amsterdam and the Spanish powerhouse FC Barcelona. Both these clubs are known around the world for their youth player development systems. All the SCA teams work 5 days with Frans and his staff as they help develop our players, teams, coaches, directors and board. This camp takes place each June at Sonoma State University and is exclusive to SCA. This experience can also include opportunities for all members to travel Europe for short or long periods. Frans introduced the popular skills coach from PSV Eindhoven Pepijn Lijnders 3 years ago. College Assistance ProgramSCA has a college assistance program (C.A.P.) that assists players in the college recruiting process. This program offers handouts, lectures, a college coach panel, website recruiting profiles, team meetings and individual assistance. The staff is full of former student-athletes and current and former college coaches. The program also assists players who wish to attend college and may decide not play soccer. We feel the most important thing is the player moves on to a higher level of education after high school. Club Training
At least once a week all the SCA North teams will report to one training facility. Utilizing one facility, on these club training days, brings all the teams, players, coaches and technical staff together creating a fun and educational, club atmosphere. These days will be used to help develop our teams by emphasizing team tactics or individual technique under the guidance of our head technical staff. This format allows us to move players from team to team, positional training, inter-club scrimmages, top younger players training with older teams, speed and strength training, and classroom sessions. All of this is done within the common club system and formations. Finally, these trainings allow our players and teams the opportunity to be exposed to the entire staff.
Goalkeeper Program
Matt Bernard our Director of Goalkeeping in one of the finest goalkeeper coaches in Northern California. Matt has been the Goalkeeper coach for SCA and San Juan for the past 4 years. While with San Juan SC he worked as the Goalkeeper coach for American River JC in Sacramento. The past year he has been the Goalkeeper Coach for Sonoma State University where he was an All-American Goalkeeper and the starting GK for the 2oo2 National Championship team. Also, last season Matt was invited by US Club Soccer to train the ID2 players at Regional Camp. The past 6 years Matt has been able to work with Frans Hoek the greatest goalkeeper coach in the world at the SSU Hoek Live-in camp. SCA is proud to have the best goalkeeping program in this area. TRYOUTS
U9-U11 SCA NORTH GIRLS February 28th, 5:00-07:00PM MARCH 8th 12:00 - 2:00PM
MARCH 8th 10:00AM - 12:00 Tryouts are at Wilson Ranch Soccer Park, 7955 Cameron Dr, Windsor, CA (map) SCA Age Group Information
Your age group for the season is determined by your age as of July 31st. U18 player is 17 on July 31, 2008 U17 player is 16 on July 31, 2008 U16 player is 15 on July 31, 2008 U15 player is 14 on July 31, 2008 U14 player is 13 on July 31, 2008 U13 player is 12 on July 31, 2008 U12 player is 11 on July 31, 2008 U11 player is 10 on July 31, 2008 U10 player is 9 or less on July 31, 2008 U9 player is 8 or less on July 31, 2008 U8 player is 7 or less on July 31, 2008
Questions?
If you have questions about tryouts please contact, Josh Sterling (email
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), Director of Coaching (707-285-2279).
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