BFC Soccer Club - Belleville Illinois

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF

PHILOSOPHY
The BFC Soccer Club is devoted to developing and providing the best soccer experience possible to children from pre-elementary age through high school and beyond. We seek to teach all of our youth players the fundamental skills of soccer and make soccer a pleasant, enjoyable, safe, and life long experience for all involved. The BFC Soccer Club is also devoted to developing and providing qualified and competent coaches as well as state of the art facilities suitable to our organization’s greatness.

MISSION
The BFC Soccer Club will develop well rounded citizens that know what success is and who will exhibit superior sportsmanship, ethical and moral behavior on and off the field. We will confront the challenges and life-lessons together. Molding our youth players to understand the value of hard work, sportsmanship, and teamwork while fostering a safe environment that allows every single member to reach their full potential in soccer and in life.

VISION
The BFC Soccer Club will strive to be one of the top programs in the Midwest as well as the United States. We will advance every one of our players (coaches) to their next level of soccer success and to compete and win local, state, regional, and national championships.

Announcements

~BFC 2011/12 Mid Year Evaluation Survey Launched! Look for Manager email as well as linked here.

~Excellent Managers meeting! Thank you for attending.

~Monday Night Soccer School: Feb 6

~Winter Indoor Training Week #4

~New soccer radio program on Saturday mornings from 10-11 am on 590 KFNS - a weekly show all about soccer conducted by Terry Michler, CBC HS/Dutch Soccer

2012 CLUB MEETINGS:

~President's Meeting:
~Director's Meeting: Feb 9th
~Parent/Player Team meetings begin February


Juniors Development Program	Intermediate Development Program	Progressive Development Program	Advancement & Identification Program

BFC Headlines

BFC Spring Schedules and Field Layouts are online:

Located under the Training Tab ->BFC Training -> Spring 2012

Quick Link:

iSoccer Training BFC Launches iSoccer ...

.... BFC Director Lindsey Eversmeyer implements the National partnering project Club-Wide begining February 20th! She and the BFC Staff Coaches will test every team in two days to produce the foundation of our club wide development testing and tracking. Good luck to all of the players ~ TD

Come one, Come all...BFC Presents Winter indoor additional training ~

Winter Soccer School Week #3

If any parents have any other photos for winter soccer school, please forward to chris.cesa@bfcsoccer.org. Excellent job to all attendees! All skill moves have been shown. Juggling looks better as well as your technical touches on the ball. Next week get ready for the next level of winter training! ~ TD

Winter Soccer School Week #2



Great work to all players! 6 more skill moves to master. Juggle, juggle, juggle...Stay tuned for more  ~ TD

Winter Soccer School Week #1

BFC Winter Soccer School kicks off to a great 6 week program start with over 50 players! Practice, practice, practice...



Congratulations to our Speed winners this session! See everyone next Monday! ~ TD

...Returns to BFC Soccer Club !!

Quick Info:

Spring Season will run March 23 ~ May 25, 2012.

Spring Registration Page (or click on Juniors tab above)

IL ODP South Update:

1) Legendary soccer icon, Tosh Farrell, trains IL ODP South Players!

2) January Trial Dates:

January 21st: 10am ~ 2:30pm Vetta Sports Indoor Soccer Complex O'Fallon, IL

January 28th: 10am ~ 2:30pm Vetta Sports Indoor Soccer Complex O'Fallon, IL

3) From the State office:

In regard to your third ODP training session, we will be building on our previous session which will start with ball manipulation. As you become more familiar with the mechanics of the foot movements the tempo of the warm up will be increasing. We will be following video 1 ball manipulation and IYSA girls passing video. Please take time to view organization and the focus points

Warm up 10/15 min. video 1

Inside, outside, laces sole toe heel both feet Inside/outside of strong and weak foot.

Inside/outside both feet.

Touch, touch, stop, step.

Main practice 40/45 min. Video IYSA Girls passing.
We will build the focus points up as the session progresses. Take special note of the terminology and what it is referring to i.e. positive body shape.

Focus points:

Eye contact

Communication

Timing of movement

Fixing your shape

Which foot you receive and pass with.

Accuracy/weight of pass

First touch

Tempo of session

This practice/ activity is designed to draw out specific technical competence, that you will need to master, as it is what the modern game demands.

-ODP Staff

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own BFC Players (Updated list 21Jan12) who have accepted the IL ODP Challenge starting December 3rd, 2011:

Ganz, Peyton '02
Whitener, Liesl '02
Schmidt, Sydney '01
Maher, Joey ‘01
Spytek, Gavin '01
Humbert, Kyra '00
Barisch, Aly '00
Kiernan, Alexis '00
Cesa, Aiden '00
Jaromin, Easton '00
Maher, Jack ‘99
Walsh, Annabelle '99
Wieman, Andrea '99
Moran, Julia '98
Bartle, Alyssa '98
Voelker, Katherine '98
Cesa, Aris '98
Hatley, Matthew '98
Nguyen, Michael ‘97
Lewis, Mary '97
Skora, Madeline '97
Moore, Sydney '96
Koester, Shayne ‘96
Heins, Brendan ‘96
Green, Steven ‘96
Siebers, Hunter '96
Duncan, Joel '95
Pfankuch, Sydney '95
Burgdorf, Abigail '95

We want to make sure that we have all of our players who need to be recognized, so please contact us if your name is not listed. Our apologies if it is missing! ~ TD