What Should We Expect At Each Level?	Age Curriculum Training Guidelines - Tactical Objectives
Development Of the Youth Soccer Player	Age Curriculum Training Guidelines - Mental / Physical Objectives
Age Curriculum Training Guidelines	U6-U8 Age Appropriate ActivitiesU6-U8 Age Appropriate Activities
Age Curriculum Training Guidelines - Technical Objectives	U9-U12 Age Appropriate Activities
	U12-U19 Development Phases

WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT AT EACH LEVEL?

U8's:

• Emphasis on fun, excitement and play.
• Introduce players to eye-foot coordination.
• Introduce players to small sided-games
• Introduce players to soccer through fun games.

U10's

• Emphasize fun, excitement and play.
• Players should start feeling comfortable with the ball.
• Creative skills development.
• Elements of competition.
• Teach good sportsmanship.
• Teach how to deal with teammates and coaches.
• Develop leadership

U11's and U12's

• More structured skills development.
• Individual tactics.
• Defensively: don't dive in. Offensively: recognize 1 vs 1 situations.
• Small group tactics.
• Defensively: cover, bass side and goal side.
• Offensively: wall pass, overlap and support.
• Team tactics: playing your position.
• Teach them to deal with winning and losing.
• Teach them to respect authority.
• Teach them to listen and be coachable.

U13's and U14's:

• Structured skills development.
• Individual tactics.
• Defensively: Proper fundamentals, defensive fakes.
• Offensively: Aggressive in 1 vs 1, create space for self.
• Teach players to recognize and read game situations.
• Small group tactics.
• Defensively: Pressure-cover-balance, ball side and goalside.
• Offensively: Penetration-support-movement.
• Team tactics.
• Playing your position as part of a team.
• Taking over positions during the game.
• Create a winner's mentality.
• Stimulate initiative and self confidence.

U15's and U16's

• Continued structured skills development.
• Individual tactics: Understanding your role as part of the team, anticipate/read situations.
• Team tactics.
• Defensively: High vs low pressure defense, man for man vs zone, making play predictable, off-side trap.
• Offensively: Slow build up vs, direct play, movement to create space for teammates.
• Fitness.
• Results.
• Teach players to evaluate own performance.
• Set realistic goals.
• Show class on and off the field.

U17's to Premier

• Refining and sharpening of skills.
• Individual tactics: Receiving specific roles from game to game, understanding roles as part of the team concept.
• Team tactics: Being able to dictate the pace of the game.
• bility to play the "result".
• Show class on and off the field.

Development Of the Youth Soccer Player