DHD Soccer was established to provide qualified coaching instruction to youth players who want to improve their play at the recreational or competitive level. Typically, youth players are exposed to coaches who also are just learning the game. These novice coaches, who are essential to all organizations, are enthusiastic and filled with good intentions. They often neglect the fundamentals, however, and as a result bad habits set in.
DHD Soccer addresses these issues by exposing youth players to training methods that have been successful around the world. Our program is a blend of methods that are presently used at the youth academies in Europe, interspersed with techniques taught by US Youth Soccer and the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. It is all designed to help the players grow in confidence as their skills improve. As their confidence
DHD Training Goals
Fun. The number one reason people play soccer is that it is fun. Once it stops being fun, they stop coming back. Our goal is to make every training session enjoyable for the player. By blending fun into sessions that are informative and instructive, each player will have an opportunity to progress at his or her own level. Every training session is designed to maintain the players' interest and concentration so that they are stimulated both mentally and physically. As the program progresses some players will take the training more seriously than others, but they all will share a common bond—they enjoy playing soccer.
Fundamentals. Our focus is on developing the three main fundamentals needed as a soccer player; technique, tactics, and decision-making, without neglecting the importance of physical conditioning. Each fundamental requires a separate thought process, and together they provide the tools necessary for developing into a complete soccer player. It all starts with technique, for without technique, there are no tactics. Tactics pertains to situational play as it relates to the rest of the team. Decision making is the difference between being in the supporting cast and having the leading role.
So Why Choose DHD?
Since our inception, DHD has always focused on teaching the fundamental skills. We do our best to instill a good foundation of the basic skills: dribbling the ball, receiving, maintaining possession, passing, and movement off of the ball. Our progrm involves repetitive activities to give the players a good foundation from which they are encouraged to adopt practice routines of their own to further develop their skills. By building on the skills from one week to the next, the players get to gradually improve over the course of the summer and are more likely to retain these skills than if they attended a one-week soccer camp.