Spring/Summer 2016
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Owen McCarthy - Player of the Year 2016
In This Issue
U10 Girls - Spring 2016 Undefeated team
Welcome to Victory Soccer
Advantages of our Youth Academy
Season recap
Best Soccer Club 2016
West Ham United ID Camp
Brookwood School—Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
Welcome to Victory Soccer Club We recognize the demand for an organized Academy where players are valued and parents are partners. Victory Soccer Club consistently attracts ambitious players who have a passion for the game and a desire to be coached by qualified professionals. Our teams compete in the MAPLE league. It is important to note that Victory players will not have a direct conflict with town programs. In fact, players are encouraged to train and represent their town. Victory Soccer Club offers a structured, age appropriate curriculum that can only be found at the Top Youth Academies around the world. Ingrained in the curriculum is a well-defined Development program run by professional, dedicated coaches. With Victory, players realize their potential and are recognized for their commitment. The passion that defines the Victory philosophy is evident by spectators and club members alike. Players inevitably feel a sense of belonging and the camaraderie empowers our young players both on and off the field. Victory Soccer brings energy, excitement and success to young soccer enthusiasts and now it’s time for the North Shore to experience it!
Get the ultimate player experience Coach Taborda is a native of Portugal and has more than 26 years of soccer experience in professional leagues, playing 15 years in European clubs in Portugal and Germany. Coach Taborda has developed players around the World. From Portugal to Brazil, Angola to Miami and now in Boston. Coach Taborda applies his personal history to his 1-1 sessions, team sessions & programs. Each includes:
Fundamental training
Position-specific strategy
Focus on teamwork and interpersonal skills
Ball handling drills
Personal mentoring based on athlete's stated goals
Through Coach Taborda's guidance, you will get the ultimate player experience.
Victory Soccer Club Receives 2015 Best of Beverly Award
2016 Best of Beverly Award Victory Soccer Club Receives 2016 Best of Beverly Award Beverly Award Program Honors the Achievement BEVERLY February 18, 2016 -- Victory Soccer Club has been selected for the 2016 Best of Beverly Award in the Soccer Clubs category by the Beverly Award Program. Each year, the Beverly Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Beverly area a great place to live, work and play. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2016 Beverly Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Beverly Award Program and data provided by third parties. About Beverly Award Program The Beverly Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Beverly area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Beverly Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy. SOURCE: Beverly Award Program
Optimal Youth Soccer Development Model The game of soccer is one of the greatest gifts to humankind and is played by millions all over the world. Soccer in it’s current form has been with us for around 150 years now, but the evolution of player development, in most countries, has not kept pace with, the game itself, or many other aspects of life. A new player-centered model for development is necessary to achieve optimal results for all young children who play the game – that will enable them to reach their full potential. Soccer is a late specialization sport meaning that players cannot be just manufactured or cloned from the very first day. Firstly, they must be allowed time to develop the fundamental ABCs of agility, balance and coordination, then be exposed to a progressive program of age-appropriate learning and then in their mid-teens be prepared for competition. A good model respects the natural order of childhood development, taking the time to help them reach their full potential and to complete each logical stage of development in turn. The game of soccer, especially when played constructively is a very complex game for both the coach and the players. There are many decisions to be made, and many complex actions to be performed. The 11-a-side game that adults play is far too complex and difficult for young players, physically, mentally, technically, tactically and psychologically. While soccer coaching has gone through many fashions especially the physical and technical emphases, today, game intelligence - a proper understanding of the workings of the game, where players use perception, understanding and decision-making before finally executing the chosen action – is the key factor in both player performance and team efficiency, i.e. Success! The 10,000 hour rule – the time required for a talent to be fully developed – but just as important, if not more so, is the quality of the content, or curriculum in any such development program, and critically, that the young talent remains motivated to complete such an epic task.
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Victory Soccer Club 39 Dodge Street #110 Beverly, MA 01915 (202) 253-6166 info@victorysoccerclub.com Visit us on the web at www.victorysoccerclub.com
Training location: Brookwood School One Brookwood Road, Manchester - MA 01944
“.!I want to let you know how much we’ve appreciated this last
year. You have done an exceptional job with the club. The coaches, training, and atmosphere is everything we wanted and more. Over this last year I saw my son recover from an injury, regain his confidence, build his skills and fall in love with soccer again. Thank you.
Coaching Staff Sergio Taborda Director of Coaching Former Professional in Portugal & Germany U.S.S.F. National Coaching License
Daniel Bernal Murcia F.C. - Spanish League Royal Spanish Football Federation Coaching License U.S.S.F. Coaching License
Mohamed Elsayed U19 Egyptian National Team El Ittihad F.C.- Egypt League Boston Victory S.C.U23 - PDL U.S.S.F. Coaching License
Nick Welsch Univ. of Maine at Farmington (NCAA Div. III) 2009-12 Athletic Coaching Physical Fitness NSCAA National Diploma U.S.S.F. License
Ryan Dutra Portuguese F.A. U.S.S.F. Coaching License
Pressing on Soccer Does pressing still mean anything in modern soccer? Some teams like the Bayern Munich of Pep Guardiola or the Bayer Leverkusen of Roger Schmidt consistently apply this tactical cunning, especially Bayer Leverkusen, but overall, the trend of performing pressing seems missing in football today. This is because pressing is a defensive action that requires the use of a great amount of finite physical and psychological energy. In addition, players are increasingly finding it difficult to keep up their participation in pressing, simply because of the number of games they are required to play during the course of a season. However, pressing is an extremely useful tactical weapon on which to base our own team's defensive phase.
Develop and understand the goalkeeper in youth football by providing specific training: The Goalkeeper School. The need to adapt to the needs of modern soccer, where the goalkeeper takes a greater role in terms of their contribution, participation and involvement in the collective play of the team, has led us to concentrate on the importance of the teaching-learning process for the improvement of goalkeepers, in a specific and general way in terms of their training and involvement in competition, as well as for the improvement of soccer in general. We decided to establish the Victory Goalkeeping School, with the firm intention of providing the apprentice goalkeeper a specific training plan aligned with the specific requirements of this position: physical-conditional, technical and tactical, psychological and social.
U10 Girls Undefeated Coach Mohamed ElSayed—Coach of the Year 2016
Global Image Sports have formed a partnership with the Massachusetts based soccer organization Victory Soccer Club.
Thank you for your Passion for the last two years with Victory Soccer Club. Coach Daniel Bernal was Coach of the Year 2015 and took this U11 boys to new highs...
We wish all the best to him and his Family going back to Spain.
U14 Girls finished their season with a great group spirit and it was amazing to watch them play this season...
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ADVICE FOR PLAYERS: HONORING YOUR COMMITMENT Champions are champions, not because they are necessarily the most physically able or the most physically talented. Champions are champions because they honor their commitment. When they set out to do something they do it, without fail, without trepidation, without question, with certainty. That is why they are champions.
Commitment is imperative to become the very best soccer player you can be. It’s a vital mental quality on and off the pitch. While competing a soccer player needs to commit to their tackles, to their awareness and to their movement. They need to commit to the tactical plan laid out for them and need to commit to supporting their team mates as the game progresses. Away from the pressure of game play, a soccer player must commit to their training.
Commitment – Set Goals A champion carries certainty into every training session by having a defined set of goals to accomplish. These goals relate to the technical, tactical, mental and physical sides of the game. They are related to weaknesses that a player wants to improve and strengths a player wants to magnify. A champion is committed to improving. Committed to developing their soccer and committed to being a student of their game and the game. They don’t wait around for one of their coaches to set stretch goals. They break their game down into categories and arrive at training with a list of three or four areas that they want to work on. They take ownership. That is the commitment in training they need.
Commitment – Self Talk A committed soccer player has the inner voice of a champion – “Keep working, keep moving, keep playing, stay focused, on my toes, sharp, sharp, sharp”. They use their self-talk as a motivator, an instructor, an emotional leveller and a focus shifter. They talk to themselves. They don’t listen to themselves. They don’t listen to the voice that says “wait”. Wait isn’t a thought they pay attention to when it comes to the things they have to execute to improve their game. They don’t listen to themselves, they talk to themselves. They talk to “wait”. They talk firmly and loudly. “There is no wait, there is only do.” With those words they take action. They continue the sets in the gym. They eat like a champion. Sleep like a champion. Trains like a champion. They carries on playing when they’ve made a mistake or goes a goal down. They use their self-talk as an inner compass and an inner driver to keep on going. “Come on, one more set. Come on, keep focused. Come on, stay strong. Come on, forget that. Come on, focus on your own game. Come on, work harder.”
Commitment – Match Analysis A champion commits to a post game appraisal no matter the result. If they lost they don’t get too down – they just think about what needs to go better next time. If they won, they don’t get too up – just thinks about what they need to repeat in the next game. They love reflecting with objectivity. To do this, they ask. They take the time to ask others about what they saw – the good and the bad. Asks the coaches and their parents, friends and family. Of course they have a BS filter. They are not going to attend to everything everyone says, but things that make sense to them and things they recognise as perenial weaknesses, they attend to.
Commitment – Always A lack of commitment can rear its ugly head on a day-to-day basis. It’s that voice inside of you that says “shortcut”. It’s that voice inside of you that says “It doesn’t matter”. But it does matter. In soccer everything matters. From the critical essentials of training and playing to the less than obvious and on so subtle work on your mentality and mindset. A lack of commitment can come packaged as a feeling as well as a thought. That feeling reverberates around your body causing you to eat badly, shirk the gym, avoid the extras, ignore the analysis. That’s what a lack of commitment does. And it eats away at your ability. It diminishes your potential.
With every hour you lack commitment so your future self looks different. So your future rewards look different. So your future success looks different. So your future joy looks different. So the amount of games you play adds up differently. So your reputation looks different. Put commitment at the forefront of your game. 1,000 keepie uppies means nothing if you can’t and don’t honor your commitment for every facet of the game. Only then will you really know just how good you can be.
GoalNation’s columnist Dan Abrahams shares his insights and advice for success on the soccer field for players of all ages. A global sport psychologist and author specializing in soccer, Abrahams is based in England and works with professional soccer players in the English Premier League (EPL).
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