Pele likes Youth Soccer in the US

Pele likes what he sees with the growing movement of youth soccer in the US.   Read the link below

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-pele-youth-soccer-20140402,0,3962184.story#axzz2z5MYKl5l

Spring 2014 New Coach Shirt and Badge Policy

New Coach Shirts and Coach Badge We distributed new Coach Shirts at the Spring 2014 Volunteer Coach Meetings on April 5th at River Park. For those coaches who attended the coach meetings on April 5th and received a coach shirt and coach badge.  Thank you for completing your certifications.   For those coaches who did not attend the coach meetings, please read the following and be sure that you meet the requirements below. Coach Shirt Requirement Coaches who are certified with AYSO Safe Haven and specific AYSO Coach Certification will have received a new coach shirt along with a coach badge.     The coach badge is specific to the age-division level the coach is assigned with Coach Certification completed. Any individual who has claimed to be a coach will have complied with the following : - 1) Completed AYSO Volunteer Form (Fall 2013-Spring 2014) - 2) Completed AYSO Safe Haven Course - 3) Completed AYSO Coach Certification by Age Division Wearing Coach Shirt All coaches who meet the above stated Coach Shirt Requirement are asked to wear this coach shirt as much as possible on Game Days.   Wearing the coach shirt on practice days / training sessions are beneficial to for oure region. Coach Shirt Pickup -     Saturday April 26th 2014 9am-12pm     Peterson Park South Fields     AYSO Staff Table For those coaches who did not pickup a coach shirt at the Spring 2014 Coach Meeting, please stop by the Peterson Park South Fields / AYSO Safe Table to pickup your shirt. Coach Badge At pickup, we will also provide you a brown envelope with your current certifications and a list of new certifications for you to complete.    In addition, a coach badge is provided to be placed on the shirt.     Additional instructions below. Any individual who has not completed the "Coach Shirt Requirement" does not qualify for a "coach shirt". ONLY Coaches who have completed Coach Certifications and meet the Coach Shirt Requirement can only wear this coach shirt.   This is a very important note and we as AYSO have a need to identify coaches at our game day locations who have completed AYSO Safe Haven, Coach Certifications and understand the AYSO Philosophies of Balanced Teams, Everyone Plays, Positive Coaching, Open Registration, Good Sportmanship and Player Development. Verification of Coach Certification    As a reminder, all certifications are completed and recorded in our AYSO National Database online at EAYSO. Therefore in order for you to have any completed certifications, you must have completed a volunteer form with AYSO and have completed AYSO Safe Haven.   All course certifications are recorded and maintained. We ask that all coaches become very familiar with EAYSO, AYSO Training Web Site and AYSO Course search for Course Registration. Coach Blog Note: This same email will be posted at the AYSO 183 Coaches Blog. Questions If you have any questions, please ask your Division Coordinator, Regional Board Member or Coach Staff / Administrator.

Thank you for volunteering with AYSO.

Spring 2014 Reminders

Spring 2014 Reminders 

     

We have reminders for the upcoming Spring 2014 Season. 

 

Spring 2014 Region 183 Calendar Saturday Game Days

• 4/19
• 4/26
• 5/3
• 5/10
• 5/17
• 5/26  (* NO GAMES MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND  *)
• 5/31 
• 6/7  
• 6/14 (** SOCCER FEST **)  

 

Same Team for Spring 2014 Season

We follow the school year with regards to the season(s) in AYSO. Your Fall Registration stays intact with your assigned team for the Spring 2014 Season.   You will need to keep in contact with your player's coach with regards to the Spring Schedule. Also please keep your soccer jersey, shorts, and socks with you for the Spring 2014 Season.

 

The team that you are assigned to in Fall 2013 is the same team in Spring 2014.  

 

 

Player / Contact Information

We understand that families contact information such as street address, phone, email addresses change over the winter break from time to time.   You'll need to be sure that you keep in contact with your team and AYSO Region 183.   There have been times where a family moves, changes email address, or phone number and does not inform their coach or the region of this change.    

 

Fall 2014-Spring 2015 "March/April" Registration

Yes, AYSO Region 183 does indeed have registration 6 months in advance of the next Fall 2014-Spring 2015 Seasons.       We ask that all families that are returning to AYSO plan on attending this event.   This is NOT a registration event for the Spring 2014 Season.  

 

Fall 2014-Spring 2015  

Registration Day 

March 29th Saturday 9:00am-3:00pm

St. Hillary's Church

Location: Bryn Mawr and California

5600 N. Fairfield

Concussion Training 

All volunteers and coaches are responsible for being certified at the current level that they are assigned to.   Safe Haven and Concussion Training Certification must be part of your volunteer certifications.   If you do not have these required certifications, please complete as soon as possible.

 

New Volunteer !  

All parents who are "volunteering" and "stepping up" will need to be sure that a volunteer form is completed with at least AYSO Safe Haven Certification. More certifications are required to coach and referee.   Please contact aysoregion183@gmail.com to complete volunteer form and certifications.     You are welcome to go to EAYSO to register as a volunteer at http://www.eayso.org.

 

 

Questions;

Please send your questions to your Division Coordinator.

4 Phases of Play

Here is a good article on describing the phases of play.    For those of you who are not familiar with this concept, you could think of it as a "mindset" of a youth player in soccer.  Although, most of us mistakenly think of the "phases of play" in terms of position such as "Defender" or "Scorer".     We tend to think of that since a lot of us watch or have participated in different sports.

Here, we have to break that "thinking" in terms of every player.

When you have the ball,  "everyone is attacking".   When you don't have the ball "everyone is defending".     However, depending as to where you are at on the field, do you as a player (or coach) able to recognize the "Principles of Play".     (see AYSO U12 Coach Manual).
  
http://coachingbadges.blogspot.com/2012/07/phases-of-play.html

Attacking Principles - Tika Taka Style

What is Tiki Taka ?

Source wikipedia: Tiki Taka is a style of play in football characterised by short passing and movement, working the ball through various channels, and maintaining possession.

In short... this is a precise level of play using the "Attacking Principles of Play" with posession, quick passing ( 1 - 2 touches ) with all players involved providing lanes for passing.

Watch this video first... 

Then watch this video here at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGuaQ1khn2k