Brazilian Skills Skool

The central philosophy of Brazilian Skills Skool is to encourage youth soccer players to spend more time working individually with the ball to develop their skill level and overall technical ability. All our structured training has this in mind and at our training almost all the time will be spend with a ball at your feet.

Our program uses the unique and special characteristics of the ball as a development tool for progressive player development. For developing quick feet, close dribbling and passing skills we have found nothing better than using Futebol de Salao ball. Players at Brazilian Skills Skool spend roughly two-thirds of their time working with a size three Futebol de Salao ball and the remaining third with a conventional ball working on areas such as long range passing, heading, shooting and game-like situations.

Our primary objective of the program is focused on fully developing the technical skills of each player. Technical skills from basic to complex are broken down to fun learnable phases for players and then these skills are demonstrated and re-enforced until the players become accomplished at performing these skills first as individuals with the ball (no pressure) and gradually against other players (limited pressure) and later in games (direct/full pressure).

We believe that not enough youth soccer players spend enough time training on their individual technical ability, they may spend enough time playing games, but generally players don’t spend enough time on their skills and thus at Brazilian Skills Skool we have a full curriculum for players from 6 years old to 18 years old whereby an increased duration of actual time spent training and working with the ball is a crucial element in our work.

At Brazilian Skills Skool we strongly encourage the ethos that it is vitally important for children to become good people before they can become good soccer players. This is something that we full believe in and in the future we hope that people will take notice of this as much as the fantastic technical players that the program is developing.

Skills Badges

This scheme has been introduced to reward players for their hard work and clearly identify and re-enforce successful player progression. We hope that this concept gives the players the encouragement to fully develop their potential and to push back the boundaries of what is expected to be possible with regards to sporting ability. The scheme is graded from level one blue award through to level five gold award. All players within the program must start at level one and will progress at their own individual rate as the program develops.
  • Level 1 Blue Award
    • The introductory award is aimed at providing all players within the program the foundation of skills needed to progress through the awards scheme.
  • Level 2 Red Award
    • The second level of the awards scheme challenges the players to have progressed the core skill, which they have learnt throughout level one. The players now have to complete the core skills with an increased degree of accomplishment and must have mastered more skills within the curriculum.
  • Level 3 Bronze Award
    • The bronze award recognizes players that have performed at a good level of proficiency in all core skills.
  • Level 4 Silver Award
    • Players that have achieved this award have been recognized as players that have worked extremely hard to progress their skills and who possess a very high level of technical ability. Players will be able to execute all core skills at a high level as well as master the majority of the associated skills introduced in the program.
  • Level 5 Gold Award
    • Players that gain this award are regarded and represented as possessing technical excellence. Players that achieve this award have given themselves the best chance possible of developing a career in soccer at the highest level. Any player achieving this award will be a master of the ball and their school, parents, piers and Brazilian Skills Skool should be extremely proud of their achievement. Without doubt, this level is extremely difficult to achieve and all players aspiring to achieve this award should combine regular training with participation at their Brazilian Skills Skool.
  • MVP Award
    • This award comes in a form of certificate only, which can be awarded to players that work very hard or display fantastic attitude but perhaps are not going to achieve the technical elements of the program.

 
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