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Nightly Plan: Friday, June 26

6/26/2015

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Tonight's Announcements

Hey everyone - it's our last night together! We've had such a fun week with all of you and I hope you've had a blast as well! Some changes in scheduling due to our tournament so please read today's post carefully.
  • Tonight's theme: The Game!
  • Tournament Schedule: please read the instructions for tonight's tournaments within your divisions. You will receive a tournament schedule upon arrival to the field.
  • Evaluations! Tonight we'll start debrief with evaluations. It's really important to us that everyone fills one out as we value your feedback in our ongoing pursuit of making the program better!
  • Stay for debrief! Make sure you stick around for debrief tonight! It's our last night together and we'll hear final stories, give shout outs, and have a chance to give feedback on the program!
  • #soccernights - if you have pictures from the week, post them using #soccernights2015 so we can see them! You can also tag @soccer_nights on twitter and instagram !
  • Border Cafe - a bunch of usually ends up going to Border Cafe in Harvard Square after for food and drinks. Please join if you like!!

Tonight's Schedule

5:30PM: Registration, coaches warm up with kids
5:45PM: Coaching staff meets with Brian at bleachers  to go over tournament schedule
6:15PM: Large Group welcome  
6:25PM: Warm-ups & games in Division
6:40PM: Team Time #1 
6:50PM: Soccer Nights Tournament (in divisions) (include short team time #2 between rounds)
8:00PM: Team Time #3
8:05PM: Closing Large Group. Present “All Stars of the Night.” Teach Dance. Awards Ceremony.
8:25PM: Dismiss to divisions, sit by teams, pass out certificates, popsicles
8:30PM: Check out in teams
8:45PM: Debriefing in Divisions 
9:00PM: Final Group Debrief 

No Skill Tonight: Breakdown for Tournament

Tonight's Value: The Game!

Tonight we are going to be running a tournament within each group.  
  • Teams in the Green Division will each play three 12-minute games. The division will be split down the middle, with four teams on the bleacher side and 4 on the audio tent side.  Each Team will play the three teams in their bracket and then the tournament will end with a final between the top placed teams from each Green bracket (e.g. bleacher side champion and audio-tent side champion).
  • Teams in the Blue and Orange Divisions  will play five 7-minute games.
  • There will be 3 Minutes in between games to switch fields.  
  • Each game will need a coach as a referee.
  • Game size will be determined by coaches based on the number of players/ team (a good rule of thumb is 7 plus a goalie. 
  • After the group stage, we will determine who will play in the championship match as follows:  3 points for a win. 1 Point for a tie.  The teams with the highest score play in the championship game.  If two teams are tied in points, the participants will be decided by:
  1. Goal Differential
  2. Goals Scored
  3. Head to Head
  4. Goals Allowed
  5. Coin Flip

  • Division Leaders will keep track of the scores of the games and determine who will play in the championship match.
  • Division Leaders will also help organize who is playing whom.  Eg. A Plays B, C plays D, then A plays C while D plays B, then A plays D while B plays C.  
  • After the round robin portion of the tournament, we will host a Championship match and a Third Place Match.  
  • Field setup will be the same as the scrimmage portion from other nights of the week.  
  • Division Leaders will report the scores of the games as they come in to Coaching Director.  
  • During the championship match, all players from the division will surround the field and watch.  Parents will also be encouraged to watch the game.  
  • If the Championship match ends in a draw, it will be decided by a goalie-less shoot out from mid field. 
Team Time #1 (before tournament begins)
○      Recap last night’s goal
○      Set goal for the night!
■     possible goals:
●      during tonight’s tournament, we will work together to embody the four values (teamwork, perspective, perseverance, sportsmanship) and the four skills (passing, dribbling, controlling/throw-ins, finishing/defending)
           
Team Time #2 (during tournament, between rounds)
○      Check in on team goal for the night:
■     how are we doing so far?
■     what could we do to improve?
■     if we’ve already reached it, what could we add to challenge ourselves?


Team Time: #3 (end of tournament)
○      Check in on team goal for the night:
■     how did we do?
■     what could we have done differently?
○      What is something new you’ve learned or improved in during the week in  soccer skills?
○      What is something new you’ve learned or improved in during the week in the four values (teamwork, perspective, perseverance, sportsmanship) ? (have everyone share something either soccer or values related)

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Stories from the Field: Friday! 

7/11/2014

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I have a story from the blue division. Our team the blue dragons we were undefeated until the final game today. So our kids got a little used to winning and were sad about losing and there were some tears. But then a couple kids were like , you know what I learned this week? it’s not about winning. It’s about soccer and about having fun.
- Cara, Blue Division


One our players who at the beginning of the week his goals were , I want to win, let’s score two goals and that was his attitude for the whole week. and then today we had a rough couple of games. The kids were really struggling with losing… they were all really down. I wasn’t sure if we were going to come back or not. But then in the middle of [the scrimmage], the kid with the “let’s win” goals was like, “ I don’t care, I just want to play! We built off of that and then the team got really excited and we ended up winning in a shoot out.  So It was really great and the kids had a really great time in the end.
-Ana, Green Division


I think the coaches in the orange division did a really stellar job tonight. I’m a new face but you guys all really worked together well. We had a nice meeting at the beginning of the night to decide what we wanted to do. All the head coaches in the orange division really stepped up to the challenge tonight and made this tournament a really great, fun experience for the kids.
-Terry, Orange Division


We had a really great week with the 3 to 5 year olds. We played a lot of duck, duck goose. Last night I made up a new game where a tall person would hold a hula hoop above the kids and they would throw soccer balls into the hoop. It was really popular with the kids. Tonight we had 10 of them lining up to play it, and one kid was even like “ I want to duck it into the hula hoop!” It was a good week!
-Kai, 3 to 5 Year Olds


I had a Great week this week, this has been my first year. I had fun working the kids, I had fun working with Coach Keith, and I hope to do it next year.
-Justin, Crew



Tonight we made signs for the moms to support their teams. So we found out some team names, or some player names, or if we didn’t know we just wrote “BLUE” or “BRAZIL.: and that worked.  One mom in particular, her son was playing in blue division because it’s his first year. She made an amazing sign with a tiger for the Blue Tigers. The kid loved it; I happened to be walking by when the mom showed the sign to her son. He was in awe of the sign, jumping on his mom and hugging her. IT was really beautiful and cute. I came by at the end of the evening too and I told the kid his sign was hanging up on the bleachers. He said, “my mom made that!” It was a sweet little picture.
-Dani, Parent Pals


In 2008, soccer nights started. 2009, soccer nights came back. Which was a wonderful year. Every single year, it was a blast because of one person, who started it all. I wonder who it is. Stephanie! We should have a round of applause for Stphanie. 
-Aamir, Soccer Nights alumnus, Crew Member
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