Getting Started
Let’s get you caught up…
Here’s the process you need to follow for Enrollment, and to be prepared for our Open Academy sessions.
Registration
Website
Onboarding
City Soccer App
Enrollment
At the Fields
Registration
Website
Onboarding
City Soccer App
Enrollment
At the Fields
Stop 01
Registration
Complete the Registration form on the website. This is necessary for all players before stepping on the field, regardless of program, age, or stage.
What to Expect
City Soccer is a community academy, not a competitive club.
Our motivation is helping local soccer by improving and informing players and families. By empowering you, your rec, club, or school program should also improve.
Our sessions unlock players by building understanding, technical proficiency, and desire to play the game. Players of all levels attend City Soccer for a fun challenge and accelerated development with peer players.
Sessions are offered all week, just about every day of the year. Every player begins with Intro and Orientation sessions, before joining in full sessions.
Parents are welcomed to observe. Only players, coaches, and designated personnel may step onto the playing and training areas. We take this very seriously. Anyone breaking that rule should expect to receive a request to get off the field—-friendly or abrupt. Repeat offenders will be asked to leave the property, possibly have membership canceled. Teaching players is more important to us than your membership fee. Please do not bring animals inside or around the gates.
Schedule changes and cancellations are very rare, but sometimes necessary. We understand that many families use the programs as a lifestyle resource and routine, while others drive a great distance to train with us, so we remain as steady as possible. Any updates or announcements will be communicated directly through the City Soccer app. Please enable notifications.
Remember when you were a little kid…
A board-game was a toy. You and your friends would pull out the box and have fun with the pieces. You didn’t read instructions. You did what you wanted to do. You made it up as you went along. It quickly became a scattered mess. Whatever happened, it all counts as playing.
Eventually, you learn what the board is for. The pieces have names, roles and ways of moving. You began to understand. You still had a favorite piece. You do not consider how the pieces might work and navigate the game together. Then, you may realize more. The combos provide options and openings, structures, swaps, trades and turns. You may start to see a bigger picture. This changes how you think about the board, and each piece. Individual parts and favorites are less significant than the plan. You begin to understand how to play the game—-with others.
In this way, soccer can be compared to chess, while soccer is more complex. All the pieces are free to move at once, and each has its own thought process.
To truly play the game, the pieces must be equipped with better understanding. Many soccer players never pass the first stage. Or, they graduate to a focus on their favorite piece, the current move, a single point or a few. It all counts as playing. But the players are not truly playing the game. Let alone with others.
We are here to help you see the full picture, to understand a really play the game. Our training is built on concepts and principles that allow players to make better decisions in a game that is always moving and changing. What we teach is crucial for players in the United States. Even for very experienced late-stage players, there is a lot to learn.
Player in our sessions can achieve a high level, together. This is possible when everyone shares an principle understanding. This is less possible when new players jump right into a full session; the full-picture and process is disrupted for everyone. The orientation period provides every player the introduction, information, and foundation they need to join in, keep up, and contribute productively in the sessions.
It is our goal to get players ready, and move players up as soon as they are ready. Orientation isn't about holding anyone back, but setting them up to realize and succeed.
Ready to Join?
Complete our registration form and we'll get your player placed in the right program.
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