Webster 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 workingwith a partner.
- U10 (4th & 5th grade) would involve lots and dribbling and passing activities working in groups of three of four players.
For a list of programs see the Player Development Pyramid.
