Tryouts 2016

LENEXA Soccer Club Tryouts 2016

Premier Soccer Tryouts.

What: Premier Soccer Tryouts. 
Dates: June 11 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am.
               (Registration starts at 8:30 am). 
            June 12 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am. 
               (Registration starts at 8:30 am). 
Location: Electric Park (East of 435 off of 95th Str: 9299 Loiret Blvd/Lenexa/KS/66219).
 Ages: Exclusively for girls born in the years 2004, 2005, and 2006. 

Free Pre-Tryout Camp: Monday, June 6th at 5:00 pm (If rained out: June 7th at 5:00 pm).

No need to pre-register for Pre-Tryout Camp or Soccer Tryouts. (Onsite Reg).

Philosophy: There is no need to spend thousands of dollars on club soccer especially during the player’s early years.  The player needs to be taught the fundamental soccer skills:  moves, passing, finishing, shielding, trapping, etc.  These technical skills are integrated into team tactics as they get older. There is no need to pay club fees and high coaching fees for this type of training.  You just need a coach that pays attention to detail and has a passion for the teaching the game. 

 Are you tired of paying so much money for your daughter’s $ports?

Coach Mike started out coaching soccer when his girls were growing up and has continued to coach premier soccer for 15 years now. His 3 girls went on to help St. James High School win 3 State Championships in soccer.  Several of his players have gone on to become successful in not only soccer, but other sports.  

Yes, you are allowed to play other sports with this club! In fact, I encourage it. Specializing in one sport so early in life can lead to injuries and a higher burnout rate later.  Several of my past players have become some of the best cross country/track runners in the city for their high schools; others have run in college, some of them have gone on to play college softball.  Several of my past players were or are currently starters for their high school soccer teams at schools like St. Thomas Aquinas, St. James, Mill Valley, SM West, Olathe Northwest, SM Northwest, Lawrence, Free State, Washburn Rural, and Topeka Seaman.  Several players have gone on to play soccer in college.

Mike Feldkamp’s Bio:

Lenexa SC Director of Coaching
NSCAA Advanced National Diploma (USSF "B" equivalent)
NSCAA National Diploma (USSF “C” equivalent)
NSCAA Goalkeeping Level I Diploma
USSF National "D" License
BLS certified/NCT certified in Nuclear Cardiology
NFHS Concussion Certified
Virtus Certified
15 years coaching premier soccer
Have taken several quality teams to State Cup:
Two teams made the semi-finals in State Cup.
My oldest daughter’s team won State Cup 
Our current 04/05 team (Minions Academy 05) plays D1/U11 at Heartland. 

Coaching Fee:  $30 a month only.  (No extra club fees, hidden costs in uniforms or with registration, etc.).    I have a real job so I am not doing this for the money like “Professional” coaches earning money for a living under “Non”profit status.  My teams play for about a third of what other teams p(l)ay for in most clubs.  Yet, they are able to compete and play at the same level of soccer because this isn’t nuclear science.

Please bring a ball, shin guards, cleats, and water to camp and tryouts. Thanks

Mike Feldkamp / 913-593-4197

Laurent Denis's Bio

NSCAA Advanced National Diploma (USSF "B" equivalent)
NSCAA National Diploma (USSF “C” equivalent)

15 years coaching premier soccer

As a coach, Laurent has been known to develop and turn around Youth teams since 2003. Laurent coaches soccer for the love of the game, enjoy teaching all aspects of the game and sharing the passion of soccer.

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Why juggling is important?

As in any other sport, the recipe for success in soccer is equal parts talent and preparation. There is not much we can do about talent, but there is a lot we can do to prepare.
It is important that the boys spend a lot of time playing around with a soccer ball. No matter what positions they play, it is important that they have a high level of "feel" for the ball, and feel comes from nothing else but accumulating experience with a ball on your foot, not to mention their thighs, chest and head, and hands if you are a goalkeeper.

And the best to do it is: JUGGLING.

Juggling is one good way to develop ball feel. But even better is kicking the ball against a wall and playing rebound in different ways. The best thing about this is most players enjoy it.

Although it's simple, juggling is one of the best ways to improve ball control. It only takes a few minutes of training a day, but it produces noticeable results.

Step1: Pick the ball up and hold it out in front of you.
Step2 Drop the ball to your feet or thigh and kick it back up into the air. Use the base of your big toe to make contact with the ball.
Step3 Catch the ball with your hands after kicking it once. This is the basic movement behind juggling.
Step4 Drop the ball to your feet again and kick it twice before catching it. You can use the same foot for both kicks or you can alternate feet. Alternating is a good idea during training, because it strengthens your weak foot.
Step5 Count the number of times you kick the ball up before it hits the ground. Practice juggling until you can beat your record.
Step6 Master the basic juggling technique before trying more advanced moves. There are dozens of freestyle soccer moves that build on this basic technique, but you need a solid training foundation to do them well.

Player Expectations U10:
•Players confident enough to take risks with the ball in training and game situations
•25 juggles in one minute

Player Expectations U11:
•Passing/receiving for distance
•Striking the ball with both feet
•50 juggles in one minute

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La haine 2

Vivant le football tous les jours - je fais souvent le parallèle de la vie avec le football. Les enfants sont perdus dans cette jungle car il y a des inégalités.  Tous ne sont pas nés égaux mais ils devraient tous avoir les mêmes chances.

La réalité n’est pas comme cela. Un exemple – mon fils fait les essais pour être pris dans un club, 100 enfants viennent, il est sélectionné pour le 2 tour – ils en gardent 35 – mais il n’avait aucune chance au départ. Inégalité. Ils ne savaient pas son nom, ils n’avaient pas fait de recherche alors comment peuvent ils sélectionner un gamin en les faisant jouer 11 vs 11 pendant une demi heure ? – il n’a jamais eu le ballon. Injustice alors on cri. J’ai ce sentiment. Mon fils doit l’avoir surement. Va-t-il aller casser dehors ? L’idée m’a traversé d’y aller moi-même ! D’accord il n’a pas fait un très bon essai mais j’ai le sentiment qu’au départ, il avait perdu avant même d’avoir commencé.

 Alors imaginons les cités, les parents qui laissent leurs enfants dans la rue. L’enfant quitte l’école, vie dans la colère, l’injustice. Comment résoudre l’inégalité ? Communisme ? Capitalisme ? Socialisme ? Je pense que la philosophie du communisme était la mieux mais encore le problème n’est pas la philosophie, c’est l’être humain qui est vénal.  

 La haine de l’autre. La jalousie de l’autre. En grandissant, les voyous étaient mieux habilles que le petit bourgeois. Le manque de civisme de tous les jours, il suffit de regarder les gens en conduisant. La haine des religions – Comment ne peut on pas devenir raciste aujourd’hui ? L’Angleterre, la Suède, la France – c’est dramatique.

 Enfin le foot est une représentation de notre vie en société. Elle n’est pas jolie et il faut avoir la foi pour survivre. Je l’a perd de plus en plus en vieillissant.

Enfin cela ira mieux demain comme on dit. 

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La nourriture

Je ne sais pas comment les Francais font pour oublier leusr racines et leurs cultures - me dire que la cuisine Francaise est representee par le couscous et le burger, c'est bien triste. Mettre sur le compte que la nourriture Francaise est en declin parce que les restaurants vendent des mauvais produits, fait parti du probleme mais pas entierement.

Every where it is the same story. A family of 4, can feed their family with burger, coke for $10. If they want to go to the grocery store and buy fresh food, it would cost them more. And the kids won't like it. Both parents are working a full time job, and nobody cooks anymore.

27% less of consumption of wine in France because people don’t want to spend the money to buy a bottle of wine in a restaurant and there is the police too. 45% of kids are overweight in France. In Bordeaux, there are more wine bars opening today. Why? Because young people prefer to buy a glass of wine and share a cheese plate. Cost = 15 euros for a nice “soiree”

My point is that you can’t blame the restaurateur to buy industrial products instead of fresh. It is the same problem as for a family. Food Cost = 30 to 33 % of gross sale -So the average 45.5 % of gross sale is gone for above too. Rest 54.5 % of gross sale is spent on :  Rent, Electricity, insurance, garbage, telephone , accounting, employee's salary, misc).

So La Cremaillere with 325k of sales is having 888E benefit! Yeah! Imagine the salary of the owner – I will say between 40-60k if he/she is good. To find out, you can buy their bilan!

As culture, France is not about couscous or burger. Watch “les escapades de PetitRenaud” – now I could take you to some nice bistrot in Paris but the price won’t be $8 – it would be more….

After it is all about what we want. If you want good food, you have to pay for it – if not, you do like the Americans – fast food… That is what the French are doing… It is sad because I grew up with my mom cooking everyday for us… Smell good in the house all the time, fresh food, healthy food, well prepared with love…

Even good bread is hard to find. Would you get up at 1am and work until 5pm? I won’t! Nobody wants to do that anymore except few of them… We are creating tours to take Americans around France to show them some great restaurants, artisans and the beauty of France. http://www.globalculinaryescapades.com/

My wife wants to participate to David's chocolate tours!

Support your locals – don’t blame them.

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La tactique

Depuis que j'entraine - je me suis toujours posé la question par rapport a la tactique. Es ce que la formation d'une équipe est elle si importante?

Je ne suis pas un professionnel et comme tout Français j’ai joué dans un club à Bordeaux. En arrivant aux US, j’ai commencé a jouer indoor puis j’ai commencé a entrainer des enfants. N’étant pas professionnel, je me suis éduqué et j’ai passé mes diplômes d’entraineur. Aujourd’hui apres 10 ans, j’ai une Licence National Diploma de la NSCAA.

J’ai demandé autour de moi sur la question de la formation. A mes yeux, le foot moderne est vivant et plein de mouvements. Les athlètes sont devenus plus rapides, plus forts, plus techniques et surtout plus grand ! Il suffit de voir l’équipe de France. Par rapport a la formation, un ami m’a répondu que la formation a un effet phycologique sur les enfants – cette réponse m’avait bien plu. Si on regarde l’Espagne, par exemple contre l’Uruguay, on voit bien Fabregas perdre le ballon et tout de suite mettre pression sur l’adversaire… Voit on cela avec nos bleus ?

Ma philosophie est que l’athlète se bouge sur le terrain car il est motivé et en forme. L’Espagne domine aujourd’hui car les joueurs sont très techniques, protègent le ballon et travaillent en équipe. Voit on souvent un Espagnol dribbler comme Ribery ? Moi je ne vois pas sauf dans les derniers mètres.
Donc je pose la question a un professionnel – es ce que la formation 4-3-3 ou 4-2-2 est si importante ? Ne doit on pas essayer de faire une bonne soupe avec les ingredients qu’on a.

A moins que je n’ai pas tout compris, mais la France a joue avec un 4-2-1-3 - Pourquoi mettons Cabaye en #6 alors qu’il joue plus souvent en #10. Pourquoi ne mettons pas Valbuena en #9 aulieu de Benzema et celui-ci en #10 ?
Enfin moi je n’y connais pas grand-chose !

Pour ce qui est de la MLS et Beckham. Je suis d'accord avec votre fils. Au debut, il se cachait - puis il y a eu la motivation de rejouer pour l'angleterre. Et la, les 2 dernieres annees... il m'a impressione!!! Stephane Auvrey (D2 Nimes) me disait qu'ici c'etait plus physique et moins tactique. Alors voir Beckham se bougeait le cul comme il l'a fait les 2 dernieres annees, a mes yeux s'etait impressionant. Maintenant a t il une motivation? Je doute.... Donc a Paris, il ne fera pas grand chose sauf du marketing.
Et vous etes bien conserve vous meme! Je ne pourrai pas en dire autant!

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