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OUR WHY
We work to create a fun, inspiring & challenging learning environment to help form high quality soccer players & human beings who will love the game for life & personify our core values into everything they do.
CLUB PHILOSOPHY
GAME MODEL
OUR IDENTITY
Eagleclaw draws inspiration and direction from Spain. We've studied the "Total Football" methodology developed by AFC Ajax in the 1970's that revolutionized soccer. We know how "Total Football" was taken to Spain by Dutch coaches, including Rinus Michels and Johann Cruyff, and was refined and extended at FC Barcelona into a philosophy of "Positional Play". Through a combination of highly technical players and a possession-oriented system of play, we can dominate. Whether our teams play 11v11, 9v9 or 7v7, we have a defined game model we expect our coaches to follow.
Game Model
STYLE OF PLAY POSITIONAL PLAY
This style of play focuses heavily on possession and position. Knowing where to be based on the location of the ball, teammates, the opposing players and the open space on the field. On the field our style of play is best described as "coiled possession." Instead of possession for the sake of possession, we work to keep the ball until the we find the break-through or the killer pass that allows us to attack quickly. We want to keep the ball with quick, sharp passing, probing defenses for openings, coiling like a snake just before it strikes! If we lose the ball, we counter press and work hard to quickly recover it, and then immediately resume our attack.
Style of Play
Methodology
“Without a methodology, clubs are really a shopping mall of loosely affiliated teams, mutually branded and organized around a common location, but independently run based on whatever set of myths, beliefs and philosophies each independent coach ascribes to.”
DOUGLEMOV
METHODOLOGY
HOW WE TRAIN
Eagleclaw's training methods focus on rondos and positional games. This way of training not only develops intelligence but technical skills too. We teach our players to keep the ball and counter press quickly when we lose it. This style of play focuses heavily on possession and position - knowing where to be based on the location of the ball, teammates, the opposing players and the open space on the field. This means Eagleclaw players must be technically sound and spatially aware. Developing these traits in our players is at the heart of our weekly training program and drives the way our coaches conduct their training sessions.
CURRICULUM
WHAT WE TEACH
Our way of training focuses on rondos and positional games. We require players to constantly search for superiorities in the area where we have ball: Numerical Superiority ("there are more of us"), Positional Superiority ("we are better positioned"), Technical Superiority ("we are faster and/or more skilled") and the most elusive one - Socio-Affective Superiority ("we understand each other better"). When we are without the ball we require our players to counter press and win the ball back quickly. Once possession is regained we can continue our attack.
Curriculum
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