Friday, June 14, 2013

A Review Of USA Soccer Scholarships

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By Odessa Edwards


In the world today, we have students who are good at sports but cannot raise sufficient money for them to continue with the studies. Majority of such kids are from poverty stricken households. Such an occurrence can bring to a halt their entire dreams and aspiration. This situation has changed much of late due to the introduction of USA soccer scholarships. These are sponsorships given to such needy kids.

The notion for introduction of these programs is to fund educational needs for such children as they sharpen their talents in football. This is an idea of major universities in the United States. It can be established that these higher learning institutions do not only concentrate on soccer but also other games where talent can easily be spotted. Good examples of such are athletics, basketball and many others.

Such programs are composed of two sub plans for scrutiny. The initial one is to fund for their educational needs. This is where the kids attend lessons normally in order to achieve their career dreams of choice. It is an all expense paid plan plus provision of food, housing and books.

Plan number two is centered on the talent aspect of the children. In this category, they are trained on areas of interest whether goalkeeping, defending, midfield or striking. What is impacted on them are skills of accurate passing, holding the ball and scoring goals for the forward players and making saves for the goalkeeping aspect. This training is conducted by professional coaches within the institution.

At this level, each of these two programs has its own time. When it is time for reading, the students must be in class whereas when it is for training, they should be on the field. The program is well scheduled in order to cater for these entire activities. The goodness of this program is that they are given everything for use whether on the field or in classroom.

Identifying deserving kids for this initiative is not easy. It costs a lot of money and time. The colleges do so by conducting soccer clinics and tournaments in poor. Here, potential are henceforth gathered for later clarification. The other method in use for identification is sending scouts to watch different tournaments organized by other individuals or companies. The same rule applies as for the first one.

On the conclusion of these tournaments, they will draft a list of prospective players for trials later on. Those who pass are taken in and given a chance to further these two things in the United States of America at the same time. This is where their journey begins.

By the end of everything, it draws more towards how successful and beneficial USA soccer scholarships have been to many. The decency of this program is that there is no discrimination of any kind on the basis of gender. Once a deal has been struck between the management and the parents of the children, the dream to greatness becomes a true reality to the beneficiaries.




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