Blog for parents of young athletes

Of course, there is also the option of enrolling kids in a professional club’s academy. This automatically guarantees that they will be on the club’s radar and, if they perform well enough, they could be part of the team in their respective category and move up the ladder in the future. However, each alternative has its pros and cons, as…

Any high level or elite soccer player who wants to continue to level up their skills should consider signing up for a High Performance Soccer School. These schools aim to expose players to a highly competitive environment in which to test themselves, while also learning more advanced skills for their repertoire. However, the content, teachings and level of each school…

In Ertheo we know that choosing a soccer and English camp for our children is quite complicated. There are many campuses, with different levels of soccer and languages, in addition to the doubt and concern that arises when the option appears to send our children several weeks to England, a country with a different culture, although there are also programs…

Of course, there are differences in camp approaches depending on location. Europe is a continent where soccer is a traditional sport that has been played at the highest level for over a hundred years. In the United States, soccer is an emerging sport that has steadily gained popularity in recent years, but still has a lot of ground to gain…

Children’s and adolescents’ interest in sports can be as short-lived as their growth. As they go through different developmental stages, various factors can influence their perception of and participation in sports activities. Dropping out of sports in adolescence and childhood is a common phenomenon, and understanding its causes and consequences is essential for parents. In this article, we will explain…

Coaching youth soccer isn’t easy. Youth soccer coaches are responsible for developing their players so they can advance to higher levels as they grow and improve. While every coach has their own unique strategy and coaching style, survey results indicate that youth soccer coaches often overlook key aspects of player development. At Ertheo Sports and Education, we surveyed close to 40 soccer coaches…

In fact, traditional clubs such as Liverpool already have their own soccer academies and camps exclusively for women, with facilities of the highest level and all the necessary tools to exploit the maximum potential of the players. The English league is currently one of the most prestigious in the old continent and an unbeatable scenario to develop professionally playing soccer,…

Girls’ soccer training often represents a better experience for the players than coed camps, although each has different advantages that can be taken advantage of. As a result, there are more and more academies and soccer camps for girls that offer training sessions for girls of all ages. However, some institutions choose to offer coed camps and others offer camps…

The same is true of the world’s lower divisions. The United Kingdom has a large number of goalkeeping academies and camps that are responsible for training the goalkeepers of the future. In these camps, all the technical, tactical, reflexes, and free-kick aspects that goalkeepers must master in order to reach the highest professional level are trained. In addition, beyond soccer,…

In addition, it is a position that requires a great sense of responsibility and pressure management, since any mistake can cause an opposing goal and seriously damage a team’s aspirations of victory. For this reason, the world’s major institutions and clubs have special camps for soccer goalkeepers, reviewing all the knowledge and tools necessary to train elite goalkeepers. Logically, being…