Clarkson Sheridan Soccer Club - Mississauga, ON

The Clarkson Sheridan Soccer Club (CSSC) is constantly working to provide, from it's perspective, an efficient youth development programme (from 4 to 16 years of age) who wish to achieve important milestones in soccer.

These goals may be scholarships, or what is of great interest to us lately, a path to professional soccer. Which we are well aware, is not easy to achieve, especially in this part of the world.

Although it has been a great undertaking, our club has implemented a serious soccer development programme with consistent, clear and concrete objectives and without short cuts.

Our development programme was designed for the medium to long term. This is really where one achieves a higher level of performance and allows young athletes to build a strong base, something we feel is missing in other Canadian soccer programmes. That's why we've made a commitment to offer something different.

Recently, our partnership agreement with the Toronto Croatia SC - of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) - and our connections to prestigious soccer institutions in Argentina and Uruguay, young soccer players will have opportunities which previously did not exist; they will have incentives and real, solid goals to which they can strive.

• Soccer development programme year-round (from November to September the following year)
• Several training sessions per week:
  
  • Children 10 to 12 years: 3 training session and 1 game
  • To 14 years: 4 training and 1 game
  • To 16 years: 5 training and 1 game
• Soccer sessions children between 4 and 9 years of age, focusing on the development of the fundamentals of soccer.
• A training programme customized for different stages of development and maturity.
• Physical assesment using sophisticated equipment - measuring speed, strength, VO2 Max (indirect maximum consumption of oxygen) quantative assesment by anthropometry (soon to begin)
• Seminars on Nutrition and Psychology for players and parents.
• Individual and team technical training as it applies to soccer.
• Planned annual training following a set path depending on the time of year.
• Physical Education Programme (fundamental motor function development) for children at early ages.
• Participation in some of the most important youth competitions in North America (United States and Canada).

Our programme was developed by our Technical Director:
Juan Cruz Real (former professional soccer player / professional soccer coach)