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Team Camp Overview

A Red Bulls team camp is one of several summer camp opportunities that are offered to players within New York and New Jersey. Organizations and individual teams have the opportunity to host a soccer team camp in their local community. Team camps are offered for youth soccer and high school programs. Camps consist of five days of intense level soccer training.

Team Camp Soccer Curriculum - Topics Covered

The New York Red Bulls understands that every team has its own unique training demands. Therefore a flexible curriculum approach is offered, so that selected topics can be extensively covered and revisited based on the team’s ability level and rate of progress. There are five core building blocks that make up the team camp training week. Central to each area is:

(1) Maximum ball contact
(2) Conditioning with the ball
(3) Team building

Overview of Topics -

Based on the teams ability level, training topics will be taken from each of the relevant building blocks:

Building Block	Topic
Motor Skill Development	Movement based activities to promote the development of motor skills Ball related activities to promote physical literacy and technique familiarity
Technique and Skill Development	Dribbling, turning, running with the ball, receiving, passing, shooting, crossing, heading, closing down, tackling
Individual Tactics	1 v 1 attacking, 1 v 1 defending, decision making, transition
Group Tactics	Combinations, runs off the ball, playing to targets, creating space for others, when to possess and when to penetrate, angles and distance of support, interchanging roles. Attacking numbers up, switching play, transition, exploiting width, counter attacking, speed of play, denying space, staying compact, defending numbers down.
Team Tactics	Possession, changing the point of attack, attacking from the flanks, speed of play, counter attacking, numbers up/down situations, playing from the middle third to the final third, playing out of the back. Zonal or man to man defending, high and low pressure defending, midfield defending, slowing the play, defending from crosses, systems of play, restarts.

The following video shares an example activity from our team camp curriculum

DAILY TEAM CAMP SCHEDULE

A team camp runs for five (5) days, three (3) hours per day, below is a breakdown of a typical day:

Section	Time	Theme	Key Points
Warm Up	15 Mins	Ball Mastery	Main focus is to maximize ball contact One ball per player to develop skill
Main Activity	75 Mins	Skill Phase	Focus on one main theme per day Technical application to skill mastery High frequency of repetition and variety Techniques introduced on a scale from non opposed to fully opposed
Skills Challenge and Break	15 Mins	Competition	Individually based technical skills challenges
Conditioned Activity	45 Mins	Game Related	Small sided group play is the typical organization Conditions added to reinforce the application of skill Activities to goal with many attacking and defending opportunities
Match	25 Mins	Free Play	Session ends with a competitive scrimmage
Debrief	5 Mins	Homework	Review of daily topic and homework assignment

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