Philosophy - Contact Graham at grahamramsay17@yahoo.com 

These Seminars will demand a lot from you both intellectually and physically,either side of the touchline-the pitch, the classroom and informal discussions.  Your playing ability is not as important as your enthusiasm to participate.  By experiencing and "seeing" the same pictures as your players, you will accelerate and develop a greater understanding of this great sport. 

Therefore, The Soccer School's motto sums up a large part of the philosophy behind these Seminars:

• I hear and I forget.

• I see and I remember.

• I DO and I UNDERSTAND.

They are very much DOING SEMINARS. 

The week-long workshop will demand a lot from you both intellectuall and physically.  You will be on the touchline as a coach, on the pitch as a player, and in the classroom as a student.  The Soccer School can offer a wide array of specialist clinics, lectures and discussion issues that effect our future.  These can be designed to fit your club's needs.  They can be half or full day in length.  They could even he held in the evening.

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Directing the Seminars

Directing the Seminars will be GRAHAM RAMSAY, the Executive Director of The Soccer School.  Graham, one of the leading coaches in North America, has been spreading the soccer gospel for twenty years.  He holds coaching licenses from England, Canada and the USA.  He was one of the first National Staff Coaches for USSF, assisting Dietmar Cramer.  His work has taken him to Europe, the Middle East, and many parts of North America, including colleges and universities-Hartwick, Brockport, USMA at West Point, William & Mary, Akron,Princeton; to assisting Bethony College to several NCAA Play-offs in recent years; numerous youth organizations-USYSA, AYSO, and state associations across the country from Florida to California, to helping clubs such as Annadale boys Club in Virginia to win the McGuire Cup in 1976.  Coach Ramsay is the author of many articles.  His books, "The Joy of Coaching Youth Soccer" and Skillful Soccer, are in their second editions.

Skill and Tactics Seminar

The aim of this Seminar is to offer coaches ideas and methods to make the coahing of skills and tactics both enjoyable and purposeful

Learning and appreciating the Skills of Soccer are the basis of the game.  This aspect of coaching is by far the greatest need in USA Soccer today, indead some from last year's Tactics Seminar now feel 'ready' to take the Skills and Tactics Seminar. It emphasizes that skils make tactics function.  The Seminar focuses on passing skills to promote attacking play. 

Skills and Tactics Seminar Timetable
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Sunday		2:30 pm Introduction & Welcome	1) Dribbling              2) Vision & Secisions
Monday	Short Passing	Long Passing	1) Long Passing       2) Pre-Season Ideas
Tuesday	Ball Control	Ball Control	1) Support in Attack 2) Indoor Soccer
Wednesday	Shooting	Shooting	1) Heading            � 2) Video Coaching
Thursday	Tackling & Pressuring	Goalkeeping	1) Goalkeeping         2) Open Forum
Friday	Open Session	Coaches Game
NOTE: Films will be shown daily to correspond with the topics covered. Features: Laws of the Game Quizzes.

Tactics Seminar

To participate in the course, coaches must either (a) have taken the Skills Seminar, or (b) must have coached at least five years, or (c) received special permission to participate.

The reason for the above requirements is that these Seminars need a definite amout of knowledge an expertise from participants.  They are aimed toward a higher level of understanding the game.

Tactics Seminar Timetable
	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Sunday		2:30 pm Introduction & Welcome	1)Passing                2)Coaching Methods
Monday	Support in Attack	Suport in Attack	1)Creating Space     (a) individually         2) Game Analysis (Part One)
Tuesday	Creating Space                (b) As a Team	Shooting	1)Shooting            2)Open Topic
Wednesday	Pressuring	Pressuring & Covering	1)Goalkeeping              2) Game Analysis (Part Two)
Thursday	Goalkeeping	Attacking from Wide Positions	1) Goalkeeping         2) Open Forum
Friday	Organizing Front Play	Open Session
NOTE: Films will be shown daily to correspond with the topics covered. Features: Laws of the Game Quizzes.