Vikings FC
Senior Skills Academy
For the Spring season all players, including those wanting to play on a Competitive or Tournament team, must sign up for the Senior Academy program.
**There will be THREE Evaluation Sessions and all Academy players must attend all of them to be considered for Competitive or Tournament teams.**
**Evaluation sessions will be on Sat- Feb 8, 15, and 22**
Players must attend ALL THREE sessions to be considered for Competitive or Tournament teams.
There will be no other evaluations sessions for Competitive and Tournament teams.
After evaluations, invitations will be extended to select players to join a Competitive or Tournament team. Those who accept to join will pay an additional fee.
Those players who do not make a Competitive or Tournament team will continue in the Senior Academy program.
Those who do not want to continue in the Senior Academy program may request a refund. A refund of $100($125 minus $25 evaluation fee) will be credited back to your method of payment.
There are three levels for our Senior Academy.
Senior Skills Academy teams($125)-Teams may change during the season to insure competitiveness. Age groups are u10, U12, U14. This program is Coed.
Senior Skills Academy Sessions are on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 5:30.
Sessions will begin on Tuesday, March 11. Senior Academy Saturday Games begin March 22.
Competitive Rec teams($125+$50=$175)—These teams play games in the City Rec league at Sage Park. They will also play against other teams from area clubs. Age groups are u10 boys, u10 girls, u10 coed, u12 boys, u12 girls, u12 coed.
Tournament teams($125+$325=$450)—These teams will play in local tournaments and against area club teams. They may be multiple games per weekend. Age groups are u10 boys, u10 girls, u12 boys, u12 girls, u14 boys, u14 girls.
Competitive and Tournament teams will begin practices on Monday, Mar 10.
Practices are on Monday and Thursday nights at 5:30.
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.
