Smithsonian Soccer Academy proudly announces that it will begin personal, small group, and team training programs in September. This will allow us to provide world class training to Hampton Roads soccer players on a year around basis.

Mission: The Smithsonian Soccer Academy Technical Training Program is designed to challenge player’s physical, technical, cognitive, mental, and tactical capabilities in a fun and demanding soccer training environment. All core elements of the game of soccer will be trained in each of our sessions to ensure that players are capable of executing very difficult technical skills in a chaotic and pressured training environment.

Tactical Periodization:

Smithsonian Soccer Academy’s Technical Training Program will train individuals, small groups, and teams utilizing the tactical periodization model. The tactical periodization model is utilized by Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, Barcelona’s La Masia Youth Soccer Academy, and the German Soccer Federation (DFB). Tactical periodization simply means that a player must train the technical, tactical, physical, cognitive, and mental aspects of the game of soccer in each training exercise. In order to develop game intelligence and technical expertise a player must train in an environment where all these elements are trained at the same time. No pillar of the game is trained in isolation. The only way for a player to be technically brilliant in a game is by applying all these elements in training so they can execute flawlessly when under physical, mental, time, and opponent pressure. Therefore, every player that participates in our program will develop their technical abilities in a training environment that is relevant and as game like as possible.

Unique Training Environment:

Training technique in an isolated environment does not necessarily transfer to the chaotic, confusing, and physically and mentally pressured game environment. What makes our cognitive technical training environment unique is we will do our technical training in a systematically confusing and time, space, and physically pressured environment. A player, therefore, will develop much quicker than in a traditional training environment that only trains technique in isolation.

EVERY EXERCISE CONDUCTED AT EACH TRAINING SESSION WILL HOLISTICALLY DEVELOP A PLAYER’S TECHNICAL ABILITY IN A FUN ENVIRONMENT THAT WILL TRAIN ALL PILLARS OF THE GAME (TECHNICAL, PHYSICAL, MENTAL, COGNITIVE, AND TACTICAL).

Fee Structure:

Individual Training: $50 (60 Minutes)
2 Players: $60 (60 Minutes)
3 Players: $70 (60 Minutes)
4 Players: $80 (60 Minutes)
5-10 Players: $100 (90 Minutes)
Team Training: $120 ($90 Minutes)

For Additional Information:
Please call Kevin Smith (757-577-2351) or email him at diagonalrun@hotmail.com for further information. Training sessions can be scheduled at a convenient time and location throughout the Hampton Roads area.