Archive for category: Grassroots

LTPD means a genuine emphasis at the early ages on individual skill development, and moving away from focusing on scores and winning and losing in those early years.

The Montreal Impact and Portland Timbers have been selected to join the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, The Impact U18 and U16 teams will join the Academy for the start of the 2012-13 season.

Durham College in Oshawa was the venue for the Under 13 and Under 15 Provincial Futsal Championships.

The last Ontario Indoor Cup Final weekend of 2012 was hosted at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan over the February 11-12 weekend. Four champions were crowned in the Under-13 and Under-18 Boys and Girls divisions. Click here for results from the entire weekend.

This new program will provide coaches with player-centered development tools and resources.

The Winstars Soccer Consulting and Academy focuses on professionally-centered soccer development, preparing elite players for U.S.- Collegiate and worldwide pro-league competitions.

All of these changes – as desperately overdue as they are – will take years and years and years to bear fruit.

After many long years of ineffectual stewardship, the CSA is now bringing in a sweeping blueprint for long-term player development (LTPD).

By recruiting players to join a club, a coach is essentially telling his current group of players that they are not good enough.

The 2011 edition of the Canadian Soccer Association National Championships crowned its champions on Monday.