Player Zone - Rec & Academy

BSC believes all content at the links below to be "kid friendly", however, ask please your parents before clicking on anything.

Welcome to the Player Zone for Recreational (All Ages) & Academy (U9-U10)! This page is the hub for players tips, tricks and fun activities.  BSC believes knowledge and skill are key components for players to develop their "love of the game". 

 Learn BSC Dribbling Moves 1-9!

1. Drag Back: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=520725.html
2. Outside Cut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQc2HVWoLn4
3. Inside Cut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQc2HVWoLn4
4. Inside Hook: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=537686.html | Outside Hook: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=537685.html
5. Matthews: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=509392.html
6. Scissors: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=520730.html
7. Cruyff: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=520726.html
8. C. Ronaldo Chop: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/uefachampionsleagueskills/video/videoid=735548.html
9. Puskas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Q182W9ILI

Get More Tricks & Training!

• UEFA Training Ground: http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/index.html - Tons of great videos showing you how to perfect the moves made famous by Messi, Ronaldo, Gerard, Beckham, Rooney, Zidane and others
• The FA Tesco Skills: http://tescoskills.thefa.com/Skills-Videos - Loads of clips showing skills you can work on alone or with friends
• John Farnworth channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/jfreestyler#p/u - Watch a World Football Freestyle champion and Guiness Book of World Records holder perform an amazing range of tricks, then take it outside to try it for yourself
• Calle Republic channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/callerepublic#p/u - Learn from these street soccer nuts how to do the sweetest moves
• Tetra Brazilian Soccer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tetrabraziliansoccer - Can you play "joga bonito"?
• The World of Soccer from Scholastic: http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/soccer2005/soccerstories/index.asp - Soccer news and interviews with America's biggest soccer stars

 Join a Fantasy League!

• Fantasy Major League Soccer (MLS): http://mlsfantasy.soccernet.espn.go.com/app/start.jsp - Have a parent help sign you up, then pick a 15 player team, select your 11 starters and manage your team the whole season... be sure to get some friends to sign-up to create your own league
• Fantasy English Premier League (EPL): http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ - Similar to the MLS Fantasy League, but you get to pick and manage you favorite EPL players

 Watch a Match on TV or your Computer!

• Fox Soccer Channel: http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer - See matches from the English Premier League, Italian Serie A and UEFA Champions League with the occasionaly Spanish La Liga, German Bundesliga and French Ligue 1. Don't have it?  Clean your room, do the dishes, walk the dog, then beg your parents to subscribe!
• ESPN3: http://espn.go.com/espn3/ - Internet site that shows live matches and replays of pro and college matches from around the world... sooper cool

 Go watch a LIVE Match!

• Colorado Rapids: http://www.coloradorapids.com/schedule
• Google for "CU Women’s Varsity Soccer schedule", "CU Women’s Club Soccer schedule" or "CU Men’s Club Soccer schedule"
• Google for "DU Women’s Soccer schedule" or "DU Men’s Soccer schedule"
• Google for "CO School of Mines Women’s Soccer schedule" or "CO School of Mines Men’s Soccer schedule"
• Google for "Regis University Women's Soccer schedule" or "Regis University Men's Soccer schedule"

 FIFA

FIFA is the international governing body overseeing the global development of soccer.  Check out the links below for news and information on international youth soccer competitions!

• Blue Stars / FIFA Youth Cup: http://www.fifa.com/youthcup/index.html
• Boys' Youth Olympic Football: http://www.fifa.com/mensyoutholympic/index.html
• Girls' Youth Olympic Football: http://www.fifa.com/womensyoutholympic/index.html

 News

• Yahoo! World Soccer: http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer - A top soccer news site
• ESPNsoccernet: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/ - A top soccer news site
• Soccer America: http://www.socceramerica.com/ - This is a site the closely follows American soccer as well as the activities of Americans playing abroad
• Yanks Abroad: http://www.yanks-abroad.com/ - This is a site that follows all of the Americans that we have playing in leagues overseas
• US Soccer Federation: http://www.ussoccer.com/ - Official website of US Soccer where you can learn about our National Teams and programs
• Major League Soccer: http://www.mlsnet.com - Official website of Major League Soccer