Toro Soccer Club for Girls

Toro Developmental Academy

Coaching Philosophy

Toro Primary Goal for Development:

To install players with the correct fundamentals that will allow players to maximize potential.

Toro Player Development:

1. Foster the love for the game.
2. Develop players to their maximum potential
3. Encourage risk taking.
4. Encourage creativity.
5. Create a positive experience.
6. Have Fun.
7. Create complete soccer players.  

You will notice that nowhere in these goals is winning placed above player development, learning, and fun. In fact, winning as an end in itself is not written anywhere in these goals. Many Academy coaches put too much enthuses on winning and not enough of individual development.

The Toro Academy puts player development to the forefront of our philosophies, teaching players to be technically competent and to have a tactical understanding of the game is a priority. Creating sophisticated soccer players is the Toro way!

Toro structure to Developing the Elite Player

Toro Soccer Club is successful at the Select level because our developmental program emphasizes individual player development over winning at the Academy level.

It is Toro’s Soccer Academy’s mission to establish an Academy program that combines the training principles of individual player development from some of the top Academy programs in the professional game. Toro offers a soccer academy that no other club in the state can compete with. We have designed specialized curriculums that will give players an environment that they can ‘only’ succeed in.

Our focus will be on the individual player not the win loss record. The Toro Academy coaches are not concerned with how many games a team won at U9. The coach wants individual players that dribble with confidence, shoot with accuracy and defend  with tenacity.

If this is done properly, players will be more technically skilled, more tactically sophisticated, and better prepared for the stresses of high level competition. Winning will take care of itself.   When they reach the select level of competitive play, every player will have the foundation of skills necessary to properly deal with the pressure to win.   Introducing this pressure too early, before players are equipped to deal with it, will only slow the development of players and diminish the enjoyment of the sport.