our curriculum
The Nito soccer curriculum is carefully and specifically designed to emphasize, teach, and improve these crucial facets of the game of soccer:
Footwork & Ball Control Skills
Speed, Agility, Quickness
Technique
Shooting
Tactics
The game of soccer is fundamentally about a player’s ability to control the ball under pressure in a competitive environment. Players need to improve their footwork and ball control skills to be effective and efficient in obtaining maximum success in the game's challenging situations. Without these basic skills, the game's beauty is less prominent, and the players' creativity is restricted simply because they lack these essential skills.
footwork
Footwork is a player’s ability to do whatever they want with the soccer ball. It involves mastering maneuvers with the soccer ball using the different surfaces of the foot: inside, outside, laces or top of the foot, sole, and heel. Good footwork develops and improves confidence. It also enhances creativity and allows players to try and experiment with the different moves in soccer.
ball control
Ball control is being able to maintain consistent good touches on the soccer ball and being able to navigate through the different situational obstacles the game presents to players under constant pressure without losing the soccer ball. Good ball control skills will help young players improve their dribbling technique, build confidence, and teach players how to accelerate away from defenders.
Speed agility and quickness
At Nito Soccer, we believe that the physical, psychological, emotional, mental, and spiritual spheres collectively form a complete soccer athlete. Our Speed Agility and Quickness (SAQ) sessions provide athletes with a healthy environment where they can grow and thrive by perfecting existing skills or working on new ones. Our SAQ sessions help athletes develop and improve coordination, balance, efficient running body mechanics, physical fitness, and endurance. They also make players quicker and faster and improve reaction time.
technique
The technique addresses these types of problems. Technique is the most critical skill to have or develop in soccer. Without these basic skills, it is almost impossible to play the sport, simply because any movement a player performs with the soccer ball requires a good technique to be successful. This simple yet highly crucial skill single-handedly determines the most significant probability of success or failure in the highly competitive environment the sport of soccer introduces to players. A good technique enables players to pass, receive a pass, drill, and shoot more effectively and enjoy more success.
shooting
At Nito, we encourage and teach players the joy and satisfaction that scoring can induce and the confidence it gives the team as a whole. Even shooting technique is crucial in determining whether a player will sky the ball into orbit or ruffle the net behind the ball with cheers from families and loved ones. Therefore, we spend considerable time teaching players the proper technique, learning by repetition, and not moving on until every single player can perform a skill well.
tactics
There are thousands of decisions to make during a soccer game. In this respect, tactics instruct each player on a given team what to do in each of those thousand moments. This area of the game helps players know and understand their position on the field and, most importantly, teaches them what to do in the specific position designated to each player on the field.