The VPS Academy Pyramid (see breakdown on each tier below) has been designed to complement our Player Development Program that in recent years has produced two players to move forward to the national team pool for their respective age group. In listening to the needs of youth organizations we know that VPS can provide the SUPPORT, STRUCTURE, CONSISTENCY and CONFIDENCE to take your program to the next level.
Our process involves a ’needs analysis’ with your organization to come up with the best course of action to reach your goals. We then suggest organizational solutions and finally implement them though either seasonal clinic programs, VPS trainers, PDO’s or even your own full time DOC.
At VPS we have a full time Technical Department which means we are able to constantly keep up to date with the latest developments in soccer and are always adapting our ’living and breathing’ curriculum to align with the biggest and best in Europe and America.
Our player development clinics include:-
Team Clinics
Have an VPS Staff Coach work with your team for one clinic, a series of clinics or for the whole season.
Group Clinics
Bring the VPS Academy staff along to work with an entire age group at one time as a one-off or for a series of weeks.
SAQ Clinics
Speed, Agility and Quickness clinics to improve your athletes’ performance
Goalkeeper/Specialty Clinics
An often missed element of youth development e.g. our professional GK coaches can help make your keepers the best they can be!
Coach Development Clinics
VPS has its own age-specific Coach Development Clinics. These interactive Coach Clinic provide training for all levels of coaching. VPS has created detailed curriculums for each youth soccer age group to educate coaches in age-appropriate techniques, skills and games. Each curriculum provides age-specific technical, tactical, physical and psychological goals. These are available for U6, U8, U10, U12 and U14 age groups.
Additionally, VPS can offer Combined Coach & Player Development Clinics. In these sessions, VPS will work directly with a group of youth soccer players and their coaches, explaining the content of the session as it happens. The Coaches Clinic will be staffed by one of the senior VPS full time Academy staff and can take place at your convenience.
Match Analysis
We will watch your teams play, provide you with a written analysis of the game and then run a clinic the following week based on your teams needs.
Program Evaluation
Let us take the aggravation out of selecting your teams. We have a thorough evaluation program based on technical exercises and small-sided games.
Tryouts
We are available to run your tryouts based on your existing system to offer impartial Evaluations. We can also implement out own tryout procedure is to identify players and rank them accordingly so players end up in the team where they are challenged. Vermont Premier Soccer focuses on the four pillars of the game. Technical, Tactical, Physical and Psychological. The tryout is broken down into:
1) Individual unopposed technique (warm up)
2) Technical ability 1 v 1, 2 v 2
3) Small sided games 3v3 - 4v4
4) Large sided 6v6 - 8v8
VPS uses our qualified, professional coaches who have been through the staff training in order to fully understand what to look for in a young player.
Want to try all VPS Clinic Services??? Purchase a Full Time Staff Coach (PDO) for your town/group
Our PDO program has been developed after feedback from several youth organizations we work with who are looking for a more full time presence from VPS throughout the whole season. Typically the Program Development Officer is an VPS staff coach with over 3 years of experience within a youth soccer organization and is assigned exclusively to your program for an unlimited number of hours during the week. In a typical week a PDO can work with over 500 kids!! The PDO can run/ assist with all of the above clinics, work extensively with your coaches and much, much more. The PDO is available at one all inclusive rate. Any assistance from the Academy staff that the PDO may need would be all incorporated into the one price. Pro-rata options are also available (minimum of 4 weeks).
Clinic Costs
VPS provides the highest level of coaching and service to the groups with whom we work.
For youth soccer organizations that sign up for one week of camp (vacation or summer) the cost is greatly reduced. Other discounts may apply when you sign up for multiple clinic programs including; free coaches’ clinics with our highest professionally trained and experienced coaches, curriculum support throughout your program, free Goalkeeper/Striker clinics and much much more
We can tailor our player development program to suit the specific needs of your organization!
Through association with Adidas, your town can receive a free introductory coach’s Clinic. This is a great opportunity to see the VPS philosophy and the quality of our staff and curriculum first hand.
Next Steps
For any questions you may have on our Clinics, please contact Director of Football Paul Baber at [email protected] or call (508) 922 2456
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