Overview
Ages: 6-8
Practices: 2 Nights a Week (1hr each practice)
Games: Once a Week on Saturdays
Registration Cost: $135 per season
Uniform Cost: Included
Seasons: Separate Fall (Sept-Nov) & Spring (Apr-June)
Details
Our U7-U8 4v4 program is designed to develop players' technical skills and help transition players (and parents) into travel soccer. With 2 practices during the week and scrimmages against other towns on the weekends (usually Sat mornings), the players in this program develop their soccer skills faster and are better prepared when they move up to 7v7, whether it be in our travel or in-town recreation program.
While there are no scores and no standings kept, these scrimmages are setup in a festival style for which multiple towns and teams all go to a centralized location and play 4-5 ten-minute games, rotating after each, in order to give the players experience playing against a wide array of opponents at different skill levels.
The 4v4 program also focuses just as much on team dynamics as it does with individual training. As a result, players will start to learn some basic fundamentals and concepts around soccer positions, the importance of spacing, working together and communicating, and much, more. The players in this program will be playing together as a single team, against other towns, similar to that of the older travel teams (U9-U14). The hope is that most, if not all of the players in this program will move up together and continue playing in our travel program, all the way until they get to High School.