Contact Yari Alnutt 858-349-0687 or email yari@nomadssoccer.org for information.

For boys and girls ages 4-6.  This program is a year round program that provides fun, fast-paced soccer-related games and activities for the newer players of the game. It develops motor skills, cognitive abilities and peer relationships and introduces children to soccer. Sessions are an hour in length at Kinsell Field (within the Hickman Youth Complex at 5100 Hickman Field Drive).

REGISTRATION FORM To Register please complete this form and fax to 858-630-3781  once we have received your registratoin form a coach will contact you with further instruction.  Feel free to come to a training session (1st session free).

Cost:  $10 per session (Checks only - make payable to NOMADS)

Overview: Too often kids starting out for the first time playing soccer are thrown in to a jersey, assigned to a team, put in front of a ball and the whistle is blown. A parent volunteer coach yells and screams at the kids to "pass the ball", "spread out", but all the kids know is that the ball needs to go in the net.  We have watched games where kids swarm the ball like honey bees to a flower, players running and scoring in the wrong goal, mom’s running along side their child holding their hands as they are play the game.  That’s not how to learn soccer.

Players at this early age can quickly learn to hate the game if they are hurt badly.  We had a child in a session this past month that was 4 years old. He dribbled a ball around cones like a star but when asked to put on a jersey he cringed and said that he hated soccer.  After further investigation his Mom told us that he played in a Spring league and was hit hard in the stomach during a game by a ball.  The child clearly enjoyed playing the game but was traumatized by the experience of league play.

All too often the Nomads receive requests to start a technical program that will teach kids how to play soccer from the most basic fundamentals such as which part of the foot to strike the ball, dribble and run with the ball properly and be a good team player. The Nomads new Little Strikers program has been designed to address this need and teach young players the
fundamentals of the game without the pressures of playing in a League. As the kids become more confident and comfortable with their ball control skills we will introduce them slowly to small sided games when the time is right.