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Project International Soccer Academy with Watford Football Club
Epsom, England
(8 to 16 year old)
Soccer Camp Since 1997
Boys
Welcome to the 12th year of PISA
(Project International Soccer Academy) endorsed by
Kelme Sports" run in
conjunction with Watford Football Club (English Championship League).
PISA
is delighted to have joined forces with
Championship Side Watford Football Club.
They will be heavily involved with the
planning and the coaching side of the
programme which again combines the excellent
- and unique - mix of soccer and English.
In 2008, the Elite Soccer Academy will again be based
at Epsom College and
offers a
really high quality programme with top level
coaching.
The Elite
Soccer Academy
is designed for those who
play regular soccer to a
good standard and it is an
intensive course. For those
who do not play to quite
such a high standard, we
strongly recommend a more
recreational sport camp
instead. If we see at the
beginning of the camp that
you have a beginner level or
just want recreational
soccer camp during the
course, we will transfer you
to a more recreational camp
in a different location.
(After registration you will
need to fill out a soccer
ability form)
In addition to joining
forces with Watford,
bringing all their expertise
and influence to PISA
Academy, PISA will again be
endorsed by Kelme who are
fast becoming a household
name in soccer clothing and
especially boots (well known
names associated with Kelme
are Tacchinardi & Josemi (Villareal),
Aliadiare (Middlesborough),
J Lloyd Samuel (Aston
Villa), Davis (Derby), Xisco
(Real Betis), Guiza (Getafe)
and Raul Bravo (Real
Madrid).
The "partnership" between an
established incoming UK
youth tour operator and a
major international
sportswear company has
proved to be a winning
combination and the quality
of the product from the
location to the facilities
to the actual coaching has
always commented on in
glowing terms by all who
have seen the Academy in
action.
PISA has welcomed football
loving youngsters from the
USA, Canada, Japan, Hong
Kong, Egypt, South Africa,
Russia, Germany, Hungary,
Austria, Italy, Finland,
Switzerland, Spain, Morocco,
Israel, Singapore, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Latvia,
Mali, China, the Maldives
and the UAE. The youngsters
gel as a group through the
games, tournaments, skill
sessions and simply through
the communal living; this
has resulted in some notable
victories for Academy teams
in the matches organized
against local English club
teams.
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE OPTION
The English Programme is a
central part of the package PISA provide.
Students have 12 hours contact time per week and there are
normally no more than 15 students in a class.
A lot of emphasis is placed in lessons on trying to get the
students to interact and converse in English as much as
possible. This is facilitated by providing students with
interesting topics and communicative activities that help to
stimulate and encourage language use.
Each centre has a Director
of Studies who coordinates the English programme. This involves organizing the testing on the first
morning, monitoring the day-to-day teaching, providing
advice and assistance to teachers, and meeting with
representatives of the various groups at the centre.
There is also an overall Project International
English Coordinator who visits each centre regularly to
check that the English programme is running well and of
a high standard.
There is a separate
teaching syllabus for PISA lower and higher
level students. This clearly
states what topics the students are going to
cover in each lesson and how much of the course
will be devoted to either communicative language
use or grammatical development. PISA teachers all follow the syllabus,
however, there is sufficient flexibility built
in to allow teachers the opportunity to
integrate their own ideas and materials.
PISA has a
wide range of communicative resource
materials and textbooks available to
PISA's teachers. These are full of interesting and
exciting language activities that PISA
teachers use with the students.
Textbooks commonly used are OK,
Clockwise, and Accelerate.
The additional resource
materials PISA has at each centre
include the following:
Jet Primary 1, 2, and 3
Timesaver Grammar Activities
Timesaver London
Timesaver Plays
Timesaver Storyboard
Timesaver Project work
Timesaver Customs and Lifestyles in
the UK and Ireland
Timesaver Listening
Timesaver Newspaper Articles
Timesaver Speaking Activities:
Advanced
Reward Starter, Pre-Intermediate,
and Upper-Intermediate
Project International Ideas Book
A end of course certificate is
awarded to each student with some added comments made by their
teacher.
Those not taking the EFL English Classes option have supervised
multi activity sessions. These include tennis, swimming, water
polo, volleyball, basketball, squash, table tennis, badminton,
and lots more!
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The Academy in 2008 will be located at the beautiful
Epsom College
Close to the market town of Epsom and the famous Epsom Downs with its
world renowned race course where the Derby is held each year, Epsom
College nestles in 80 acres at the foot of the Downs yet only 15 miles
from central London with its theatres, museums, and wide-ranging cultural
opportunities. The College was built in the early 1850's and has beautiful
Gothic style buildings. The soccer pitches are of the highest quality. The
college is little more than a 5 minute walk to the town center.
Both from home and abroad, Epsom College is easily accessible. Gatwick and
Heathrow airports are only 40 minutes away by taxi, the M25 motorway 3
miles away, with easy access to London by car or the 30 minute regular
train service to Victoria and Waterloo.
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Accommodation at Epsom is in Fayrer House. Rooms are of
a good standard and consist of a mixture of single, doubles and a few
triples. Rooms are spacious, airy, nicely decorated and comfortable and
there are plenty of showers & toilet facilities near to each room.
Note PISA cannot guarantee specific rooms for any student in advance.
FOOD: Epsom has an exceptional reputation for high
quality food in its excellent dining room. Emphasis is placed on a good
dietary balance as well as popular
food allowing for different cultural tastes! There are
three meals provided each day: traditional English as well as
continental breakfasts; lunch and dinner with hot/cold options, a
vegetarian choice as well as a salad bar. |
The aim remains very much the same:
to help all participants appreciate the different dimensions that
the game has to offer.
They will learn through skill sessions, DVD presentations, team
games and through making new friends from all over the world in
a social soccer environment. Boys will appreciate
that football is fun and truly an international game. The
fundamentals of soccer will be taught in addition to the roles,
positional play, teamwork, ball control, team and individual
techniques and the essence of fair play.
The weekly programme is laid below but the course covers
intensive skill sessions, small sided as well as full side
competitive games, video/lecture sessions, goalkeeping teach-ins
as well as visits to well known stadia and/or professional
matches.
On the first day, groups are established based on age and ability.
Campers will have
on
average between 3 to 4 hours of soccer per day (except during
excursion day).
All PISA soccer coaching staff are
fully qualified English FA coaches.
PISA Coaches have included John Byrne, (who played in the 1991
FA Cup Final and represented The Republic of Ireland 29 times
including at the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy), Russel Bromage
(ex Bristol City, Port Vale & Brighton), Neville Chamberlain (ex
Stoke City & Port Vale) as well as several other ex professional
players who have become coaches in their own right.
In 2008 PISA will be using the Watford Youth
Academys Coaching staff in addition to their own
coaches.
PISA hope to welcome guest appearances from Kelme
sponsored English professionals, who will assist
with coaching in the afternoon, give demonstrations,
mix with the Academy students and pose for
photographs with them. PISA will also hope to
receive visits from some of the Watford Senior team
and PISA will be visiting training grounds to watch
professional sides in pre season training (subject
to availability).
Click here for 1 week typical programme schedule
In addition to PISA top quality
coaching staff, PISA have their own staff on site 24
hours a day. A Programme Director will oversee all
aspects of the programme and they are in constant
liaison with the soccer coaches, other staff, the
school representatives, caterers, group leaders and
the students themselves, Head office etc. Under the
Programme Director, PISA has an Activities
Coordinator and a Welfare & Pastoral Care
Coordinator with Activity Staff to plan & organize
the multi sport sessions, and Teaching Staff to take
care of the teaching. All staff are chosen for their
ability to work with children and look after their
various needs. They are aware that students are away
from home, some of them for the first time and
pastoral care is a major priority. All staff
accompany the students on their trips and are
responsible for getting the students up in the
mornings, ensuring they eat properly, planning
evening activities and ensuring they get to bed at
the appropriate time. A structured evening programme
will include soccer related events (e.g DVD coaching
and tactics presentations, tournaments, videos of
famous matches) as well as non soccer related events
(eg: discos, barbecues, filmshows and other indoor
Sports). PISA staff are on hand throughout the day
and evening.
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AVAILABILITY
 (Open)
 (Some
Capacity)
 (Full)
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2008 Dates
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Session 1 |
Wednesday
July 9 -
Wednesday July 16
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Session 2 |
Wednesday
July 16 -
Wednesday July 23
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Session 3 |
Wednesday
July 23 -
Wednesday July 30
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Session 4 |
Wednesday
July 30 -
Wednesday August 6
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Camp starts Wednesday afternoon
and ends on Wednesday afternoon
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2008
Prices
(8 to 16 year old)
(Prices do not include Airfare)
For More Than One Week Stay, Use The Following Formula:
Price One Session + Price One
Session
we do not recommend stay of more than 2 weeks
(Due to the physical demand of the training sessions)
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Length of Stay
(multiple week booking available)
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Price Per Person
(in US $ dollars) |
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7 days /
6
nights / Wednesday - Wednesday
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$ 1,345 |
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5 Days English classes option
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$ 150 |
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Round Trip Airport Transfer from
London Airports to Camp
(discount available for small group transfer)
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$ 250 |
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Your camp fee includes:
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Full board accommodation (breakfast, lunch and
dinner);
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Full Soccer programs with qualified English Soccer Association
coaches;
some of which will be youth academy coaches at Watford Football
Club
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Lectures
and video teach-ins
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2 excursions (1 full day and
1 half day) with entrances paid where appropriate
(see weekly
schedule);
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Use
of all facilities;
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Supervised
multi-activity sessions programme;
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Evening
social programme;
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Laundry
(NB.
sometimes a bespoke service is provided)
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PISA
International staff on site 24 hours a day;
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End of
camp certificate
Airport
Transfer Information:
PISA provides a negotiated transfer service from London airports
and St Pancras (on request only) train station to the campus.
Multiple discounts available upon request. All transfers must be
pre-arranged. After
collecting their luggage, students proceed through customs.
Students are then met by a representative of PISA who will be
displaying a prominent sign.
It is of vital
importance that all necessary flight/train details are sent to Internet
Sports Travel with the booking form or as soon as available. PISA requires the exact flight
information, including dates, airlines, flight numbers and
flight times. This service must be booked no later than 4 weeks
prior to the start of the course.
Approximate Journey Time:
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Epsom |
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London Heathrow/ Gatwick airports |
40 minutes |
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St Pancras |
1 hour |
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