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Year Long Soccer Course

Ascoli Soccer Academy is the only Soccer School that organizes Annual Soccer Course, giving the opportunity to all young foreigner football players to play soccer in Italy under the guide of professional coaches with UEFA/FIGC license and to be enrolled in professional and semi-professional italian teams.
The Year Long Soccer Course that is our main soccer program, represents a worldwide iniziative and consits in a combined training of soccer and education created to emphasize and enhance the technical skills and abilities of young players with the goal of let them apply in a very intense period of training that allow them to acquaint themselves with Italian soccer and professional methodologies.
During the Year Long Soccer Course, Ascoli Soccer Academy Managers, will evaluate the technical abilities and skills of each soccer player to plan a future engagement in a professional team. The possible engagement of the players is subordinate to the rules of FIGC (Italian Football Federation) regarding the Player’s Card.
Futhermore during the Soccer Program, Ascoli Soccer Academy will schedule 2 official tryouts for professional teams, that will be attended by all the participants to the Year Long Soccer Course.

Length

There are two kinds of Year Long Soccer Course, different in commitment and lentgh:

• The “Annual” Program with a duration of 9 months (from September to June) that coincides with the opening and closure of the scholastic and academic year
• The “Monthly” Program with a duration of 1, 2, 3 or 6 months that can be attended in during any period the regular sportive season

Soccer Activities

Players enrolled in the Year Long Soccer Course improve their tactical and technical skill participating to an intense training program that foresees 5 sessions of more than 2 hours per week. During their stay in Italy the players have the opportunity to confront themselves with professional and semiprofessional football clubs and to participate periodically to games versus teams of different categories.

With tactical game in Italy the players will be coaching weekly to improve their tactical and technical skills. During these sessions and linking to the personal training plan, the players should develop tactical and technical skills to allow them compete and increase their tactical presence on the field. Practice makes perfect with every individual player. Each week the players will be coached not only in the complexities of the game but also the simple elements of the game to ensure individual improvement and performance. Simple repetitive practices such as the professionals in the Italian game take part in; using examples from games they have been involved in and the professional game in Italy.
Following on from the lectures regarding Italian Game, the group will be coached as a team. Each week they will prepare for the following game and work on the tactical side of their game together, looking at shape, movement, set plays, defending and attacking as a team and phase of play, using examples from games they have been involved in and the professional game in Italy. These sessions will expose the participants to the highest level of football coaching available in the country.

In case of players with an homogenous age, Ascoli Soccer Academy, compatibly with the rules of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), engages itself to let the football players participate to the Youth Italian Regional Championship.

At the end of the program Ascoli Soccer Academy will give a Report of technical evaluation.

Education

Hower the Year Long Soccer Course is not just soccer, it provides more then technical education. A player for being complete can not leave aside the educative and cultural aspects of his development. During the stay in Italy players must improve their educational and cultural formation, first of all learning the italian language. All players will be enrolled into an Italian scholastic institute.
A tutor constantly allow the students to satisfy their own needs and necessities, helping them to familiarise themselves with the Italian language and to integrate into a new country. All these conditions that have been imposed by Ascoli Soccer Academy, are a guarantee for the participants and for their families.

Accommodation

Depending on the educational choice, Ascoli Soccer Academy provides different kinds of accomodation. Boarding School for those attending the High School and apartments for those attending the University.

University – College

Players that attend the prestigious University for Foreigners of Perugia, a public Institution famous all over the world for the quality of the courses, lodge in apartments located in the centre of the city.
Athlets are provided with all kind of assistance: public transport tickets, student card (which allows students to save money on meals), periodical cleaning of the apartments and insurance policy which guarantees the National Sanitary Assistance.

Boarder - High School

The participants enrolled in High School lodge in the Convitto Nazionale di Assisi, located in the lovely town of Assisi “the City of Saints”. In the Convitto players can lodge, attend high school and eat in a unique structure. The accomodations are comfortable and periodically cleaned while the facilities (PC laboratories, multimedia classrooms, library, tv room, sports facilities, teather and other recreational spaces) offer the possibility of fun and cultural growth. Participants lodge in rooms of max 3 beds with their personal desk and closet and eat in a common dining hall.
The tutors provide 24 hours of supervision and assistance (including medical assistance), at the same time they assure that the rules are respected.
Finally the transportation is provided by a local bus agency that collaborates directly with Ascoli Soccer Academy. Every day the agency with a bus takes players from Convitto to the soccer trainig facilities. 

Soccer Equipements

Ascoli Soccer Academy will provide a soccer uniform composed of every exigency for the players during their staying in Italy. The kit is composed by many accessories for the entire seaon:

Tipycal weekly program

The program established for the football players that attend the Year Long Soccer Course is developed to put them in the best situation to follow a period of athletic and educational preparation finalized to reach the goal of the project. The following program can change depending on the competitive engagemets of the players.

As part of the course we endeavour to introduce the students to places of historic and and social importance in the centre of Italy. So once every term the players will be brought together at the weekend for a full or half day excursion or activity to see more of Italy and once again to aid their bonding as a team.

These activities may include:
Countryside walks
Stadium tours
Serie A and B match