EDUCATION PROGRAM

Sharing best practices, sessions delivered for this diploma will highlight purposeful experiences related to club culture, expansion, planning, mission, values, curriculum, social media, governance, board management, risk management, medical/mental health support, and conflict resolution gained through executive positions at youth clubs in the United States. 

The Youth Academy Director Special Topic Diploma focuses on the administrative roles and expectations for current and future youth academy directors. In this diploma, the “youth academy” would use the player development initiatives associated with small-sided play and the use of the build-out lines for U9 and U10. Designed for recreational and competitive youth club academy directors, sessions related to this diploma will offer valuable tools and processes for planning, running, and evaluating all aspects of their youth academy including administrative duties, curriculum development, parental engagement, and developing an appropriate environment for the development of the youth player. 

The Women’s Game Special Topics Diploma will host sessions offering a wealth of information on the history, development, and trends in the women’s game around the world. Attendees earning this diploma will obtain advice for coaching female players to excel on and off the pitch, as well as education around the evolution of the women’s game, and behind the scenes insights from professionals. 

Created with the notion that the modern coach needs to lead their team and staff, but also need to be a conduit between all parties within an organization, the Leading Up and Down Special Topics Diploma will focus on building relationships, opening lines of communication, and thinking big picture. Coaches have the influence and power to lead an entire organization in the right direction, and through the ten sessions offered within this diploma, attendees will explore setting and conveying standards, effective and individual communication, and leadership across multiple planes of hierarchy within an organization. 

Este diploma, entregado en español, abordará los Principios del Juego, el uso de los componentes del juego para diseñar sesiones de entrenamiento efectivas. Cómo liderar a los jugadores individualmente y en equipo, tanto dentro como fuera del campo. Entrenamiento por medio del juego, cómo identificar y utilizar momentos de enseñanza. Cómo organizar y estructurar un equipo, y el la organización del fútbol juvenil en los Estados Unidos.

The Urban Soccer Diploma is a unique collaboration between United Soccer Coaches and the U.S. Soccer Foundation that provides tools to coaches working in non-traditional soccer settings. The diploma was conceived out of the need to reach coaches that were not being served by the typical coach education pathways. These coaches work for community-based soccer organizations that serve low-resource communities, and often either do not charge a fee to participate or charge players a nominal fee. This can also mean that they do not have access to high-quality playing facilities or the means to afford typical league fees and new equipment from season to season.*

Sessions in this diploma, instructed by Jeremy Toyosa and Danielle King, include:

• The Youth We Serve
• Principals of Great Coaching
• 6 Step Practice Method for Children in a Non-Traditional Setting
• Skill Based Activities for Children in a Non-Traditional Settting

*This diploma only has sessions on Sunday