Thursday, 15 October 2015
WHAT WE OFFER
We provide skills coaching classes within Futsal, Street Soccer and Freestyle Football for boys and girls within our local area, great parties that incorporate the best of our coaching classes for children, special events working with some of the most exciting Street Footballers from the UK and further a field and the best Football Freestylers within the UK. Half Term Holiday clubs to keep your children active over the school half term holidays in a safe but engaging environment.
ABOUT US
Welcome to the Urban Sports Academy, this facility is the first of it's kind within this region and possibly the whole of the UK. It is dedicated to bringing the best skill development coaching available to children from the ages of 2+.
The facility molds together an exciting urban feel that allows the participants to go on a voyage of discovery as they learn to play and love the game.
What is Street Soccer?
Street Soccer is not something new it as been around ever since the birth of the game. But modern Street Soccer evolved on the local basketball courts of Amsterdam. With no where else to play, players would take to the local basketball courts to play in a relaxed environment, free from the structure and instructions of formal coaching.
When the players were kicked off the courts by basketballers they would fine a small area in which they could play 1v1 against opponents and play a game of Panna (Nutmegs.) The ultimate way to embarrass opponents using skills to force a player to try and take the ball and then Panna them once they opened their legs to try and make a tackle. These games would see a boom in highly creative movements being preformed. These 1v1 games would later become a Tournament sponsored by Nike called Panna KO.
Street Soccer Coaching
Street Soccer coaching aims to provide this kind of creative environment and facilitate a safe area for children to play and develop in. The pressures and rigours of formal coaching are highly relaxed. Players take part in a formal skill development section but are then encouraged to go on and adapt the moves they learn.
From there they take part in several games often in a 3v3 format maximising their chances to have time on the ball. They will also take part in problem games that allow them to learn the game through solving problems on their own. Coaches will ask questions and explain the games at the end but it is ultimately up to the players to solve the problems and often build the problems themselves.
Players also take part in 1v1 sections playing games such as Panna, these games help build a players confidence on the ball both and without it. They teach attacking and defending skills in the best way possible for players, by allowing them to learn through play.
What is Futsal?
Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indooes. Its name is derived from the Portuguese Futbol De Salao and the Spanish Futbal De Sallon, which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football". During the sports second world championships held in Madrid in 1985, the name Futbol Sala was used. Since then, all other names have been officially and internationally changed to Futsal.
Futsal is played between two teams each with five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper. Unlimited substitutions are permitted. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with reduced bounce compared with a regular football. The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.
Futsal is played within schools in Spain and Portugal. Holland also have a large Street Soccer approach to young player learning to benefit the overall game.
We highly recommend both Futsal and Street Soccer to be instilled in a childs programme.
What is Freestyle Football?
Many of the basic freestyle football moves that are seen today were preformed over 100 years ago by jugglers within circus performances and for many years these moves were still largely associated with juggling until around the 1980s when Diego Maradona was seen performing these skills on the side of the pitch. It is then links between juggling and football formed and popular Korean performers Mr Woo and Kaung Sun Min formed the new art form through regular development of freestyle training with a football. Through the 90's Mr Woo became a major pioneer in the development of football freestyle as he would perform audiences all over the world. Mr Woo would also star in commercials along side some of the greatest footballers in the world such as Ronaldinho which also helped boost the image of freestyling.
As street football boomed across Holland a boom in freestyle football would also begin a small boom as players either waited to enter the court or just weren't good enough to get a place on the street court they still wanted to be part of the great community bonds that were forged so they would spend hours developing freestyle juggling skills at the side of the court. As the years shifted into millennium it was then that freestyle football would find it's place and become it's own sport within it's own right. YouTube videos of a then young Dutch freestyler named Sofiane Touzani would go viral. These videos would go along way to inspire many people to take up the art form and freestyle football as we now know it began.
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