Micro Sign-Up Form
CLICK HERE to Download and Print
Holland Micro Soccer Program
Micro Soccer is an introduction to the sport of soccer with emphasis on fun and building individual skills. Players must be in at least Kindergarten to participate. Training sessions are offered on Saturday Mornings in the fall, winter, and spring. The program is run by a Nationally Licensed Coach and all trained Facilitators (volunteer parents) follow a documented curriculum and have taken a US Youth Soccer Training Module.
The program is designed to help children experience the fun of playing soccer using small-sided soccer games and developmental appropriate soccer activities. While they are having fun with the planned activities, the young Micro players will unknowingly develop the skills needed at an older age. Sessions follow specific activity plans each week so the kids have fun plus learn the soccer skills needed at older ages.
What is Micro Soccer?
Holland Micro Soccer offers children a fun and safe environment to learn to play soccer though age appropriate activities and small-sided soccer games.
Why Small Sided Games? Ask a child to do something, and they will remember it fifty percent of the time. Show them how to do it, and they will remember it seventy percent of the time. Have them do it, and they will remember it eighty to ninety percent of the time.
How do you learn anything by repetition? You do it by reducing the number of players on the playing field and the size of the field. Micro Soccer or small-sided games allows the player to touch the ball over and over again; solving the problems needed to play the game successfully.
Age Appropriate Activities: Children need to be successful to learn.
Asking a player ten years old or younger to play a position or formation is setting them up for failure. They do not have the technical or cognitive ability to do play a position successfully. Age Appropriate Activities involve games or activities where all the players are involved and the activity is appropriate for the player’s age group and development.
Appropriate activities for:
U6 (K & 1st grade) would involve a lot of psychomotor development games involving running, jumping, hopping etc. and dribbling activities.
U8 (2nd & 3rd grade) would involve lots of dribbling type games and some activities working with a partner.
Here are some of the reasons why the Holland Soccer Club believes our young soccer players will benefit by playing Micro Soccer:
- Because we want our young soccer players to touch the soccer ball more often and become more skillful with it! (Individual technical development)
- Because we want our young soccer players to make more, less-complicated decisions during the game! (Tactical development)
- Because we want our young soccer players to be more physically efficient in the field space they are playing in! (Reduced field size)
- Because we want our young soccer players to have more individual teaching time with the coach! Less players on the field and less players on the team will guarantee this! (Need to feel worthy…need to feel important)
- Because we want our young soccer players to have more, involved playing time in the game! (More opportunity to solve problems that only the game presents)
- Because we want our young soccer players to have more opportunity to play on both sides of the ball! (More exposure to attacking and defending situations)
- Because we want our young soccer players to have more opportunities to score goals! (Pure excitement)
These are the reasons why we support “Micro” in our youth soccer programs. The “Small-Sided” environment is a developmentally appropriate environment for our young soccer players. It’s a FUN environment that focuses on the young soccer player.
It just makes sense…doesn’t it?
We are working closely with the Webster Soccer Association in getting our Micro Soccer Program perfected to be fun and educational for all our kids and parents.
For our GPS and Mapquest Users…
Soccer Fields are Located behind Holland Middle School
Middle School Address:
11720 Partridge Road
Holland, NY 14080
Office: 716-537-8275
Soccer Fields do have Bathroom Facilities and a Concession Stand
