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IMPACT

Using the programs solves problems in sport and society, in several impact-areas. A customized mix of programs is tailored to your situation, or to target specific outcomes in your area.

PATHWAYS

The model provides a clear and obvious path for players and coaches to participate and develop. It’s easy to get started and continue through the programs and levels.
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THE CITY SOCCER MODEL

How play-spaces are used is critical to a city.

A field is an important hub in the community, not just for exercising and socializing, but for the positive stir it can create in an area.

The City Soccer model improves the way playing fields provide service and impact a community. The programs allow for a lifetime of participation for all ages and stages of player and coach. There are many reasons that people play. The reasons change over time, even from day-to-day. Each program serves a different reason.

The model is unique because of the circumstances from which it came. Rebuilding a major city after a natural disaster means people need programming in all sorts of ways. We have a field…how can we help? Design & development has continued for over a decade.

There are many interests in local sport—clubs, players and families, but also community residents and associations, governing bodies and businesses. All of these stakeholders can be aligned by programs at a local field, designed with each in mind.

The model can work in any local area. It is adaptable. Mix and match programs along side a schedule of existing activities. The right local framework is found through the Planning process offered by Unite The Game Foundation.

When local play-spaces and people are maximized, benefits and impacts follow logically.

City Soccer Team

TEAM is a program focused on Performance.

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The TEAM program is where the model meets a traditional club or academy team.

The TEAM program and the POOL program work well together. Using both solves many common problems suffered by competitive amateur and semi-pro clubs—where a livable wage is not being paid to the players. Elite programming often operates under tight constraints of time, space, and funding. This often hinders the development or assembly of players. Many hurdles exist at these levels. The TEAM program provides stability and sustainability for elite groups on a limited budget, or to simply improve the model or business of the club.

The programs under the TEAM program can be seen a complete infrastructure.

More can be grown at home.

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Open Academy

Open Academy is a program designed for individual development in groups, as the game must be played. Technical, physical, mental conditioning are available and round out to leave a player prepared for tactics in the bigger game. Through Open Academy, education and graduation is made simple and accessible for all players and coaches.

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Open Play

Open Play allows players and coaches access to fun and free-flowing play, including dynamic warm up with a ball followed by games with other players of a similar level.

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Open Out

Open Out is outreach programming designed to offer benefit to participants, or to raise awareness and funds for a cause.

 

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City Soccer Pools

Pools is a program designed for advanced player development. Players are typically  invited to join a Pool after showing good performance—either graduating from Core City Soccer programs (Open Academy, Open Play, Leagues, Schools) or after being seen somewhere in the community. 

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City Soccer Leagues

City Soccer Leagues is a program designed for amateur players and teams to get what they really want.

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City Soccer Schools

City Soccer Schools is a program adapted from careful studies of school soccer program at all ages and over a long period of time, both at and away from City Soccer facilities. The program is designed to address many major barriers. 

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City Soccer Sounds

Sounds is a program designed for having fun and generating interest in the game, but also improving technical ability, coordination, and rhythm through music and a ball.

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Connecting the Field to Residents & Resident-businesses

City Soccer pulls together a community around the game; incorporating community organizations and businesses, as well as residents who may not have an interest to play.

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SOCCER & SOCIAL IMPACT

Designed over fifteen years, starting with a uniquely valuable circumstance of total need, and assembling a model that can be adapted and used by others.

Developed with careful consideration and understanding many key stakeholders in local sport, arriving at simple program-designs that solve several problems from each perspective.

Researched through the lens of key areas of SROI: HEALTHCARE, ECONOMIC, EVIRONMENTAL, COMMUNITY, ORGANIZATION and, of course, PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

It is an ideal approach for social determinants of health in communities, through sport.

PLAYER & LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

The model is also highly effective for competitive player, club, and population development.

Open Academy, alone, is a force for players and coaches to learn and develop. By combining the programs with other opportunities, an incredible model for developing players and coaches becomes available across a local area.

When all have access and none are held back, the difference is powerful. The proof is on the field.

 

 


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