Private Training

One of the most crucial components of a soccer player’s development is personal attention and care from a professional. Individual attention given by a professional soccer trainer is extremely valuable to the development of a youth soccer player because it allows the trainer to focus entirely on the needs of the individual rather than the group.

Coach Derek’s soccer personal training program is designed to provide individual youth soccer players with access to top-level trainer who carry out an in-depth personalized player assessment and intervention strategy based on the player’s existing strengths and areas in need of improvement. Derek is very experienced working with individuals and closely monitor players’ progress toward meeting their performance goals.

Personal soccer training can also be provided in a small group of up to 4 players. Individual training is valuable for the aforementioned reasons, but a small group of 2-4 players is also very effective because there are more drills and exercises that can be utilized through mini games.

Training Program Themes

Ball Control - Understanding soccer ball control and handling from the basics to advancing skills.
Ball Control Into Dribbling – Moving soccer ball control skills into soccer dribbling.
Dribbling – Understanding the core skills of soccer dribbling and exactly how we teach and learn them.
Speed Dribbling – The difference between controlled soccer dribbling and speed soccer dribbling.
Dribbling under Pressure – How to maintain possession and dribble while shielding.
Passing – Learning the core forms of soccer passing.
Advanced soccer passing – Taking our soccer passing to the next level with long balls and more.
Specialty passing – Learning the soccer banana kick, bending passes and more.
Understanding the soccer wall pass – The soccer wall pass and drills to improve.
Basic soccer receiving – If it is never taught, it will haunt soccer players for life.
Receiving with pressure - Learning to receive the soccer ball with pressure from defenders. From the front and the rear.
First touch in soccer - One of the key and essential soccer skills that must be learned.
Soccer throw ins – Teaching the right way from beginner to advanced players
Soccer Headers – Learn the basics to advanced. Learn the difference between offensive and defensive headers. How we teach the diving header.
Chesting the soccer ball – Often never taught the proper way. How to receive the ball and also control and take away.
Using the body to trap and control – A key fundamental that most advanced players lack.
Soccer Defending – From the basics to advanced, soccer defending is an individual skill.
First and second defender – Understanding the difference between pressure defending and cover defending.
Soccer Moves – How we learn and teach soccer moves, a step by step coaching and learning plan.
Soccer moves 1 by 1 – Each of the core moves shown performed in real time and in slow motion
Soccer moves field work and drills – Watch all levels of players working on moves, teaching sessions and drills.
Soccer Slide Tackle – Learning the 3 soccer slide tackles.
The scissor kick – All players love to learn the scissor kick and it is a skill that is often never taught.
Soccer punting – Very few soccer players ever learn proper punting form. A simple class to learn the right way.
Control soccer balls in the air and bouncing – Great players learn to settle a soccer ball, not juggle it.
Ball peek ball – Understanding what our eyes do on the field while we have the soccer ball. A learned skill.
The block tackle – How to be an aggressive winner of the soccer ball.
Over lapping runs in soccer – Often frustrating to learn, we teach the simple form and show drills to learn.
Movement and space on and off the ball – How to make players realize they must constantly move whether they have a ball or not.
Conditioning with soccer skills – Drop the laps and use soccer skills to get in shape