Educational Summer Schools and Sport Summer Camps

Project Elite
Soccer Academy

Run in conjunction with
Watford Football Club.

This will be the 16th year of the our International Soccer Academy and we are delighted to be continuing our relationship with Watford Football Club which proved such a success in 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011.

They take full control of the coaching programme which again combines the excellent - and unique - mix of soccer and English.

The Elite Soccer Academy is designed for those who play regular soccer to a good standard and it is an intensive course. It will be available as a 1, 2, 3 or 4 week programme. For those who do not play to quite such a high standard, we strongly recommend the English PLUS Soccer option at Wymondham (July & August), Brecon (July) and Cranbrook (August). See Project's main summer school brochure for more details.

The Elite Soccer Academy offers a really high quality programme with top level coaching. We have welcomed football loving youngsters from the USA, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Finland, Switzerland , Spain, Morocco, Israel, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Latvia, Mali, China, Cameroon, Namibia, the Maldives and the UAE. The youngsters gel as a group through the games, tournaments, skill sessions and simply through the communal living; this has resulted in some notable victories for Academy teams in the matches organised against local English club teams.

The goal

The aim remains very much the same:
to help all participants appreciate the different
dimensions that the game has to offer.

The aim remains very much the same: to help all participants appreciate the different dimensions that the game has to offer. They will learn through skill sessions, DVD presentations (where appropriate), team games and through making new friends from all over the world in a social soccer environment. Boys and girls alike will appreciate that football is fun and truly an international game.

The fundamentals of soccer will be taught in addition to the roles, positional play, teamwork, ball control, team and individual techniques and the essence of fair play.

The weekly programme is laid out elsewhere but the course covers intensive skill sessions, small sided as well as full side competitive games, video/lecture sessions, goalkeeping teach-ins as well as visits to well known stadia. Subject to age range/groups, there will be games against the Watford Academy sides. We will also endeavour to arrange a visit to a pre season professional game (as an optional extra/supplement).

Coaching Staff

As in 2011 we will be using the Watford Youth Academy’s Coaching staff who will handle all the coaching.

We hope to receive visits from some of the Watford Senior team and we will try and arrange visits to Watford's training ground to watch their senior side in pre season training.

Dates

	START DATE	FINISH DATE
Week 1	July 4th	July 11th
Week 2	July 11th	July 18th
Week 3	July 18th	July 25th
Week 4	July 25th	August 1st