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United DFC Fall/Winter 2023/2024 Program Descriptions
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October 10, 2023: U12A, U13-18 AA
October 10, 2023: U12B, U13-18 A, U13-18 B, Skills Centre, U10 & U12 Community
October 10, 2023: U15-17 AAA High Performance Program
October 10, 2023: Mini Program
October 27th, 2023: Senior AAA/AA
Mini Program
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The objective of the winter Mini Soccer Program is to provide our U4-8 year old players with a fun, safe, and enjoyable environment which allows them to explore and learn the game. The program is designed to incorporate lots of contact and time with the ball, and will emphasize fun, games, and physical literacy development. Depending on the number of participants, groups may be boys, girls and/or co-ed.
Age groups:
U4 born in 2020
U5 born in 2019
U6 born in 2018
U7 born in 2017
U8 born in 2016
Community Recreation Program
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This program is designed for players who are interested in playing pick up games once a week in a local gym rather than attending skills center practice sessions and festival games. Coaching will be at a minimum with a focus on playing games.
Age groups:
U9/U10 born in 2015 / 2014
U11/U12 born in 2013 / 2012
Skill Centre Program
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United DFC’s Skill Centre programs are designed to provide the players with a fun, social experience that continues to grow a love for soccer as well as teaching the fundamental and foundational developmental aspects of soccer.
Skill Centres are open to all players, including those that have not played soccer before! There is a capacity of 40 players per program based on our current club infrastructure capacity (facility time) and coach ratio.
Age groups:
U8/U9 born in 2016 / 2015
U10/U11 born in 2014/2013
U12 Pre-Performance Program
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The U12 Pre-Performance Program is designed for players who intend to graduate into the performance pathway with United DFC. This program demands more commitment from players in comparison to the community/recreation stream and is designed with the intention to develop players into our competitive stream of U13AA.
This program will consist of 2 x practices per week on turf at East Coast Varsity and Sunday games in the NSSL U12A division. The season will span from mid-October until March with a break in December. The United DFC pre-performance program is aligned with Canada Soccer’s Grassroots Standards.
Age groups:
U12 born in 2012
U13 - 18 B Community Program
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The United DFC B Programs from U13-U18 will compete in the Nova Scotia Soccer League (NSSL) 7v7 indoor league.
All United DFC Coaches will be properly qualified and on-boarded in order to ensure that we as a club adhere to the standards & principles set by Soccer Nova Scotia & Canada Soccer.
All coaches must apply to coach within this program and all applicants will be screened and reviewed in order to ensure that they meet all of the requirements of United DFC & Canada Soccer. These requirements include: the age-stage specific grassroots training/course, making ethical decisions, respect in sport, making headway and emergency action plan. These qualification standards can be found under the Coaching Qualification section of the Canada Soccer Grassroots standards, found here.
Programs
U13 B born in 2012 / 2011
U15 B born in 2009 / 2010
U18 B born in 2006 / 2007 / 2008
U13 - 18 A Competitive Program
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The United DFC A Programs from U13-U18 will compete in the Nova Scotia Soccer League (NSSL) 7v7 indoor league.
All United DFC Coaches will be properly qualified and on-boarded in order to ensure that we as a club adhere to the standards & principles set by Soccer Nova Scotia & Canada Soccer.
All coaches must apply to coach within this program and all applicants will be screened and reviewed in order to ensure that they meet all of the requirements of United DFC & Canada Soccer. These requirements include: the age-stage specific grassroots training/course, making ethical decisions, respect in sport, making headway and emergency action plan. These qualification standards can be found under the Coaching Qualification section of the Canada Soccer Grassroots standards, found here.
Programs
U13 A born in 2012 / 2011
U15 A born in 2009 / 2010
U18 A born in 2006 / 2007 / 2008
U13 - 18 AA High Performance Programs
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The United DFC AA Programs from U13-U18 will compete in the Nova Scotia Soccer League (NSSL) 7v7 indoor league.
All United DFC Coaches will be properly qualified and on-boarded in order to ensure that we as a club adhere to the standards & principles set by Soccer Nova Scotia & Canada Soccer.
All coaches must apply to coach within this program and all applicants will be screened and reviewed in order to ensure that they meet all of the requirements of United DFC & Canada Soccer. These requirements include: the age-stage specific grassroots training/course, making ethical decisions, respect in sport, making headway and emergency action plan. These qualification standards can be found under the Coaching Qualification section of the Canada Soccer Grassroots standards, found here.
Programs
U13 AA born in 2012 / 2011
U15 AA born in 2009 / 2010
U18 AA born in 2006 / 2007 / 2008
U15 - 17 AAA High Performance Programs
Youth AAA Programs for the 2023 season will have intake in January for a 10-month season running through October. The commitment expectations for this, Highest Performance setting includes 3 training sessions per week and 1 game throughout the competition period.
Programs
U15AAA will be comprised of 2010 and 2009 players
U17AAA will be comprised of 2008 and 2007 players
Senior AAA Players born 2006 and older
