TOP Soccer Program Overview

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The 'Four-Corners' development model is a staple at all TOP Soccer practices, providing players at all ages with a highly-structured and efficient practice plan resulting more touches of the ball, more repetitions per drill, and a more engaging practice experience. Players will be placed in small groups and rotate through all stations during the practice time, usually spending between 10-12 minutes per station. We believe in spending a lot of time on the fundamentals of core skills; footwork, shooting, ball control, passing, and competition, ensuring all players have a strong base of skills before introducing more advanced concepts.

Game-Based Learning Environment

It's no secret that kids like to play games, whether it's on the playground, in the backyard, or on the soccer field. In fact, games-based learning has been shown to be one of the most effective ways that kids learn. By using games to teach soccer, we can teach kids to execute skills based on their environment, which is called the 'practice-to-game transfer'. Skills cannot be solely learned in isolation, but must be reinforced by making decisions, and ultimately by making mistakes. For any situation that occurs in a game of soccer, we are able to use small-area games to replicate it, provide kids with more reps of that situation, and provide instant feedback and teaching. At all practices we incorporate at least one small-area game station, which can take the form of activity-based games (ie. freeze tag), skill-based games (ie. shark & minnows w/ balls), and role-based situational games (ie. Attack-Defend-Attack game).