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Coerver® Colorado provides the finest in-depth soccer skills training. Building on the world-renowned Coerver Method, our camps and other programs represent the cutting edge of player training and development.
Coerver Colorado programs are devoted to promoting superior 1v1 skills, a dynamic first touch, accuracy and power when striking the ball, mastery of the small group situations which are the building blocks of team play and effective soccer habits.
All Coerver Colorado programs follow a detailed, written curriculum, filled with activities which are proven to be challenging, effective, and enormously fun. | Over 1100 Campers already registered for 2012 Coerver Colorado Summer Camps(Nearly as many campers currently registered for 2012 Summer Camps as of all of 2007) “LET’S GET BETTER”2012 Littleton – Westlands Summer Camp SOLD OUTA Limit of 200 Campers has been set at the Littleton Camp to ensure all players and coaches have the proper amount of space needed to compete all curriculum’s activities, T-Xgames and the 5-3-1 Challenge. A wait list has been established for the Littleton Camp in the event of any drop outs. Please contact Ed at 720-255-4911 Coerver Colorado Camps – June 11 -15th with space available in all levels below: - Parker – Grandview High School
- Fort Collins - Warren Park
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The 2012 Coerver Colorado Parker Camp Location has been finalized.Coerver Colorado’s Parker Camp will be held at GRANDVIEW HIGH SCHOOL June 11th – 15th. Mighty Mites (ages 5-7), Regular (3 Levels ages 7 – 13) & Advanced 1 (ages 14-17) Curriculum’s will be taught.
Spring F.O.G. (Footwork and One vs. One Games)Spring “F.O.G.”PLUS SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM ___ 5 Sessions, 6:00-7:30, Ft. Logan (3/23, 4/13, 4/20, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18-Make Up) ___ 5 Sessions, 6:00-7:30, Kickers Clubhouse, Golden (3/23, 4/13, 4/20, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18-make up) – Fort Logan and Denver Kickers Clubhouse – - – - – - – - – - – - - Learn More Spring Ball Magic & Super Skills Coerver Colorado Team Super Skills/ Ball Magic Training consist of sets of 5-10 sessions led by Coerver Colorado’s Master Coaches. Sessions include foot skills, ball moves, 1v1 play, developing a dynamic first touch, technical work on striking the ball, and developing effective soccer habits. Call for Registration 720-255-4911.
|  | | Coerver Minute March 2012 | | “I never did more technical training than when I was with the National Team.”- Tisha Venturini – World and Olympic Champion. |
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| Teen Players Benefit From Continued Skills TrainingTisha Venturini’s description of training with the Women’s National Team is a lesson for us all. Teen players need to work on their skills just as much as when they were younger. Our Advanced and Elite camps provide that training. The curriculum requires players to use existing skills faster and under greater pressure, sharpen skills that are weak and add new skills, too. These fast paced programs are very challenging. In addition, there is a strong emphasis on being bold, daring and even outrageous in the use of those skills. It’s why Coerver Colorado has more older players in these programs than any other Coerver affiliate. The players just get better and better. A stand out addition to the 2012 Advanced & Elite Curriculum came from this year’s NSCAA coach’s convention. Learn more about the ideas taught in a session by Albertin Montoya, U17 Woman’s National Team coach and coach of two former Coerver Colorado regulars, in the story below. | Final Days to receive the EARLY2012 10% Discount on 2012 Coerver Colorado Summer Camp enrollment.er before March 31, 2012
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| 2012 SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULE An Interview with U17 Woman’s National Team Coach Albertin Montoya About 8 years ago a group of boys and girls began coming to our summer Camps. Being the same age they were grouped together. Over the years they returned again and again, always finding themselves learning and playing together. Many of them would say that they their time with the camp group to anything else they were doing in soccer. They would also ask every year, “When can we work for Coerver?” Most of them now do. Our campers will recognize their names: Tommi, Maddie, Dakota, Sawyer, Haley, Rachel, Vicki. Two others from that group, Morgan Stanton and Arielle Ship, have yet to make it to the staff. They are currently focused on earning spots on the U17 Women’s National Team, which will compete for a World Championship this year. Both are in the final 24 player pool for the qualification tournament in March. At the Coaches Convention we had the opportunity to watch a training session conducted by the U17 WNT’s coach, Albertin Montoya. In a conversation afterwards, he highly praised the skill level of those two players. U.S. Soccer interviewed Coach Montoya at the time of his appointment as coach. Here are some highlights: Coach Albertin Montoya: Obviously we’d love to win a World Cup, but my first goal is to develop these players to become better technically and keep them productive as they advance up through the (National Team) age groups. We’ve fallen behind on the technical and tactical parts of the game. I’ve been asked to come in to help us develop our younger players, help us have better technical players when they go up all the way to the (full) National Team. Every training session with our U-17s we’ll spend at least 30-45 minutes on cleaning up their game technically. Our passing needs to be better, the pace of the pass, right foot, left foot, the way they receive the ball, the way they take the touch away from pressure. We can’t just count on a bad touch and then use our speed to get to it. It’s no longer about athletes that can run a 40-yard sprint faster than anyone while not putting much thought behind what they do. We’re now looking for players that see the game, understand the game, study the game, and that’s the message that we’re trying to send to the clubs and coaches. We’ve got a challenge here. There’s a lot of pressure for club coaches and coaching directors, too, to produce winning teams and not necessarily produce top quality players. Development has really taken a back seat. That’s unfortunate…(continue reading) | For information onCoerver Training visit720-255-4911 | March Madness: Coerver Colorado held coaches clinics all over the map in the month of March. The first weekend started off with a bang as two Coerver teams conducted coaches clinics in Grand Junction and Cheyenne, WY and successfully expanded the Coerver Colorado horizon. In mid-March staff attended Colorado state coaching courses and five new staff members gained their D and E level coaching licenses. In March’s final weekends our staff will be holding clinics in Edwards, CO and Casper, WY as well as leaping into SPRING F.O.G. Training. Do not miss the shot to take advantage of the 10% EARLY2012 discount, register before March 31st. Coupon Code EARLY2012 The 1st week of F.O.G. begins Friday, March 23 at 6pm. Fort Logan and Denver Kickers | |
An Interview with U17 Woman’s National Team Coach Albertin Montoya Obviously we’d love to win a World Cup, but my first goal is to develop these players to become better technically and keep them productive as they advance up through the (National Team) age groups. We’ve fallen behind on the technical and tactical parts of the game. I’ve been asked to come in to help us develop our younger players, help us have better technical players when they go up all the way to the (full) National Team. We’ve said it would be great to win a U17 World Cup, but it’s not good enough now to just rely on our athleticism (like) we’ve always (done). We have to take a step back and make sure we spend more time on the technical part of the game. Every training session with our U-17s we’ll spend at least 30-45 minutes on cleaning up their game technically. Our passing needs to be better, the pace of the pass, right foot, left foot, the way they receive the ball, the way they take the touch away from pressure. We can’t just count on a bad touch and then use our speed to get to it. It’s no longer about athletes that can run a 40-yard sprint faster than anyone while not putting much thought behind what they do. We’re now looking for players that see the game, understand the game, study the game, and that’s the message that we’re trying to send to the clubs and coaches. We’ve got a challenge here. There’s a lot of pressure for club coaches and coaching directors, too, to produce winning teams and not necessarily produce top quality players. Development has really taken a back seat. That’s unfortunate. But there are club teams that are producing some special players and if we can get the message out that ‘hey, that’s what we are looking for now,’ the Xavi’s of the world and the Messi’s, the type of players that can play. I’ve been looking for those types of players that have that combine athleticism with a soccer brain. I call them soccer junkies. They’re passionate. They love spending time with the ball. We keep stressing that and it just makes for a more enjoyable game. These types of players relate to each other. They enjoy keeping the ball on the ground. We want the club coaches to realize that those are the type of players that are making national team camps. We look to see how committed they are to being the best that they can. It’s a lifestyle that you choose, and that’s something that I’m trying to get across to these U-17 players. We all make sacrifices (in order to play for the U.S. U-17s) and you’ve chosen a path that’s very special and that very few can do. You need to take pride in doing that. That’s what it takes to play at the pro level and in a World Cup. I’ve seen first-hand what players (at those levels) go through, and now I want to try to pass this on to these youngsters that have so much potential. It’s all about the choices they make in life and on the field. It also needs to be reinforced over and over again how important it is to watch and learn from the game. They are starting to understand that it’s such a great way to learn and how just watching the game helps you understand the players’ roles and positioning. We are trying to get it across that you have to be a student of the game. It’s not only what you do on the field. You have to watch the games. It’s not just good enough to show up and play. We’re way beyond those times. We’ve seen a great improvement from January (2011) to now. The players feel it. They see that it’s not going to be so much of a direct game and counting on our size and strength. It’s going to be more of playing with a purpose, and there’s going to be thought behind everything we do. It’s extremely important that if this is how we’re going to play, we stick to it. It’s only going to make these players better in the long run. If we’re not successful in winning a World Cup but we get some good results and play some good soccer, I think that at the end of the day I’ll be very pleased. If people are starting to talk about how great a team the U.S. is and about the type of players we are producing at a young age, then I’ll be pleased. That’s my goal, to produce great soccer players. | |
