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BVSC Grassroots Program
Join our inclusive grassroots soccer program designed for players of all skill levels. Play for fun, make friends, improve your skills, and be part of a thriving soccer community. The perfect balance of competition and enjoyment.
Develop passion through fun, engaging, age-appropriate activities
Build core skills: ball control, passing, receiving, shooting
Introduce positioning, space recognition, basic game principles
Enhance coordination, balance, agility, and movement skills
Foster teamwork, cooperation, and communication
A space where all players feel welcomed and valued
Children play soccer to have fun with friends
First and foremost, soccer must be FUN. We use play-based activities and imaginative scenarios to keep young players engaged and excited.
Every player deserves quality coaching and multiple touches on the ball.Minimal stand and waiting in lines. Maximum engagement.
Activities match cognitive, physical, and emotional development. U8-9 focus differs from U10 approach.
Building love of the game and a solid foundation, not early specialization or winning-at-all-costs mentality.
Technical, tactical, physical, social, and emotional growth integrated throughout all activities.
Certified coaches at every session, with smaller player groups
The four station model maintains engagement, maximizes touches on the ball, minimizes waiting, and ensures quality coaching. Each group of approximately 10 to 15 players will experience 4 stations per session as follows:
Game application & understanding
Focus: Applying skills in game context, decision-making, problem solving
Fun, dynamic, competitive
Progression: Simple games to complex
Examples: We will play possession style and competition style games, with zones, transitions, rewards, conditions, and restrictions. A variety of formats will be used between: 2v2, 3v2, 3v3, 4v3, 4v4, 5v4, 5v5
Ball Control & Skill Development
Focus: Ball mastery, 1v1 and dribbling ability, passing & receiving, shooting/finishing
Opportunity to learn the basics and improve your toolbox and refine your skills
Progression: Simple to complex techniques
Examples: Passing patterns, dribble relays, shooting drills, 1v1 duels, soccer tennis
A game realistic situation in a specific moment of the game designed to enhance the tactical knowledge and game understanding of our players
Focus: Giving our players the ability to solve problems in recognizable game situations giving them real framework to apply what they've learned
Game real tempo, competitive sets
Progression: Increase the difficulty of the challenge or reduce it depending on the success of the primary theme
Examples: Build up vs. pressing activity, Chance creation vs. Team defending activity, Intro to set pieces
Opportunity to express yourself and apply what you have learned during the session
Have fun enjoy the game and try new things
Be Brave!
✓ Maintains engagement through frequent activity changes
✓ Every player gets ball touches at every station
✓ Minimal waiting—minimal lines
✓ Splits large groups into manageable player cohorts
✓ Each coach focuses on quality over quantity
✓ Players experience technical, physical, and game-based learning
✓ Physical Literacy & Movement is a subfocus at all times! We are always looking to build: Speed, agility, strength, balance, coordination, explosivness, acceleration and deceleration
Block 1: May - June
Block 2: August - September
Players have the option to register for each block separately
1 training session per week
U8 (2018)
U9 (2017)
U10 (2016)
U8-9 - 5v5
U10 separate - 7v7
Open rosters & Fair Playing Time
No scores/standings
Block 1
Dates: May 4 - June 25
Cost:
$300 - 8 practices & 8 games
2 training tops included
Location:
Memorial Grass Field
100 Sunset Boulevard
Training Days:
U8B: Tuesdays 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U9B: Thursdays 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U10B: Mondays 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U8-9-10G: Wednesdays 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Game Days:
U8B / G:
Sundays 6:00 pm
Memorial Grass Field
U9B / G:
Tuesdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
U10B / G:
Thursdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
Block 2
Dates: August 4 - September 27
Cost:
$300 - 8 practices - 8 games
2 training tops included
Location:
Memorial Grass Field
100 Sunset Boulevard
Training Days:
U8B/G: Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U9-10G: Sunday 4:15 - 5:15 pm
U9B: Sunday 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U10B: Sunday 6:45 - 7:45 pm
Game Days:
U8B / G:
Sundays 3:00 pm
Memorial Grass Field
U9B / G:
Tuesdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
U10B / G:
Thursdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
Block 1: May - September (July off)
Block 2: October - December
Block 3: February - April
Players have the option to register for each block separately
2 training session per week
U8 (2018)
U9 (2017)
U10 (2016)
U8-9 - 5v5
U10 separate - 7v7
Open rosters & Fair Playing Time
No scores/standings
Block 1
Dates: May - September
(break for July)
May 5 - June 25
August 4 - September 27
Cost:
$700 - 22 practices & 22 games
2 training tops included
Location:
Memorial Grass Field
100 Sunset Boulevard
Training Days:
U8B/G:
U8B/G: Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Saturdays 9:45 - 10:45 am
U9B:
Saturdays 11:00 - 12:00 pm
U9B: Sunday 5:30 - 6:30 pm
U10B:
Saturdays 11:00 - 12:00 pm
U10B: Sunday 6:45 - 7:45 pm
U9-10G:
Saturdays 9:45 - 10:45 am
U9-10G: Sunday 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Game Days:
U8B / G: Sundays 3:00 pm
Memorial Grass Field
U9B / G: Tuesdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
U10B / G: Thursdays 6:00 pm
Shamrock School
Lavallee School
De La Seignurie
Block 2
Dates: October - December
Cost: TBD
Location:
University of Winnipeg RecPlex
350 Spence St
Training Days:
U8-9B: TBD
U10B: TBD
U8-9-10G: TBD
Game Days:
U8B / G: TBD
U9B/ G: TBD
U10B / G: TBD
Block 3
Dates: February 21- April 26
(Exlcuding April 4&5)
Cost: $360 - 18 sessions
Location:
University of Winnipeg RecPlex 350 Spence St
Training Days & Times:
U8-9B&G:
Saturdays 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Sundays 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
U10B&G:
Saturdays 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Sundays 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
