Soccer
Why Soccer(Football)?
Soccer(Football) is the most popular sport in the world. It can be played almost anywhere on any flat surface. Children have learned to play the game with any tools available to them. Imagine if willing volunteers took on the challenge of creating opportunities for the children in your community to play in an organized league or camp. The game can be played at any time of the year, and indoors or out.
Upward Soccer(Football) uses small sided games to allow for as many children as possible to play, and to create a focus on skill development and team play. By using the set substitution system during games, each child is allowed equal playing time and equal opportunity for improvement. Sportsmanship and competitiveness is kept in proper perspective by additional rules unique to Upward.
Upward provides teaching tools and resources for the coaches and referees to help them minister to the children and families.
Soccer(Football) is something that everyone in the community can have a part in:
- Children can play
- Parents can coach and referee
- Older siblings can keep the time clock
- Grandparents can welcome spectators