Vikings FC
Senior Skills Academy
Our Senior Skills ACADEMY PROGRAM is designed to not only teach soccer skills but to develop a love for the sport of soccer. It consist of weekly session of skills, drills, and games taught by our qualified staff. All of our staff coaches have completed U.S. Soccer's Grassroots Licensing Courses and are working toward or have attained their U.S. Soccer D license.
Academy students will follow USSF’s Play Practice Play methodology and philosophy where fun games and small sided action help teach players to build on their fundamentals while enjoying the activities in a fun game like setting.
Senior Skills Academy
Cost-$125
Junior Vikings--born 2015/16/17
Senior Vikings I--born 2013/14
Senior Vikings II--born 2011/12
For the Spring season all players, including those wanting to play in the competitive teams program, MUST sign up for the Senior Academy program.
All players will be evaluated during the first THREE sessions.
There will be no other evaluations sessions for competitive teams.
After evaluations, invitations will be extended to select players to join a Competitive team.
Those who accept to join will then pay the additional $50 fee for competitive teams.
For more information visit our Competitive teams page
Those players who do not make the competitive team will continue on in the Senior Academy program and be place on Academy teams.
**Evaulation Sessions will be on Sat- Feb 8, 15, and Feb 22**
Senior Skills Academy sessions will begin on March 8.
Sessions will be on Tuesday AND Thursday nights at 5:30
Sessions should last around 60 mins.
Senior Academy Saturday Games** begin March 22
Senior Vikings I/II Saturday games**—8:30
Junior Vikings— Saturday games**-10:00
**Games against local area Club Teams and Academy games on Saturdays.**
What is the Vikings FC Skills ACADEMY?
The idea for our academy style program is to reinforce the idea that soccer is not only skill based, but fun! After all, why would we even play a game if it’s not fun?!?! There are a lot of academies that put a lot of focus on competition at younger ages and while that can be fun and rewarding, laying foundations of strong core skills and developing a love and enjoyment for the game will better prepare players for competition level teams as they develop.
Academy students should expect to follow USSF’s Play Practice Play methodology and philosophy where fun games and small sided action help teach players to build on their fundamentals while enjoying the activities in a fun game like setting.
Real soccer skills will be taught and reinforced in the most fun way possible with each session hopefully concluding with small sided games and scrimmages to test out the newly acquired skills.
Sessions will be generally broken into three parts.
Play: Upon arrival. The most important part is getting players right into the action. When they arrive they will be set up with other players in their age group and jump right into the action with small soccer games that focus on the skill or concept being presented that day.
Practice: Now it’ll be time to reinforce an age and skill appropriate concept or skill for the day. One day might be defensive thinking while another could be focused solely on everyone’s favorite part, shooting!
Play: Finally, we will use our new skills in a game like setting, so players really begin to put the pieces together and use the skills they are learning in actual soccer scenarios. This is best done by playing soccer!!!
Our Vikings Academy Director, Dustin Wilson, comes to us from AFC Mobile, with coaching stops at the YMCA, Mobile City Rec, and Semmes Rec.
