Hunter Soccer Launches Hunter Player Academy

Hunter Soccer Club of Glenside,PA is proud and excited to announce the formation of Hunter Player Academy in partnership with Future Player Academy and Mattias van’t Hoenderdaal.

Hunter will now provide a formal player development program for every participant in the club beginning at age 4 with the Pee Wee Program. All Intramural ages will now have the benefit of a consistent development program designed to improve skill and enjoyment of the game. The program will run concurrent to the standard Intramural Program.  Additionally, all Travel teams will be assigned a team trainer to improve skill and competitiveness of those teams.

Hunter Soccer Club, celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2012, is one of the oldest, non-profit clubs in the Delaware Valley and is one of the original founding clubs of the InterCounty Soccer League. We are developing a new
comprehensive player training and development program to build on our current intramural station training program. We will tailor coach and player training to appropriate age and gender needs, all based on guidelines established by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America .

Hunter blends the teaching of individual skills with instructing team tactics and strategies in the playing of the game. There is great emphasis on team work, comraderie,
sportsmanship and discipline. We blend all of the above together with a backdrop of fun.

For registration information or other information about Hunter Soccer Club, visit huntersoccer.com. For information specific to the development program at Hunter Soccer, contact Mike Nelson at mdtnelsonn@aol.com

Future Player Academy is based at Abington Friends School in Abington, PA. FPA specializes in supplemental training of individual players and teams of all ages. The staff includes Matt Sirolli, and Kevin McCoy. Coaches Sirolli and
McCoy bring a wealth soccer playing and coaching experience to the program.  Coach Sirolli, a graduate of Abington High School, played Division 1 soccer at
Villanova University, and Coach McCoy has over 30 years of club soccer coaching experience, most recently at Philly Soccer Club. Matt and Kevin have assembled a top flight staff of development professionals, including Gary Stephenson who has trained multiple clubs in the past and is a staff member at EPYSA. Contact Matt Sirolli for more information about FPA programs at msirolli@futureplayeracademy.com.

Mattias van't Hoenderdaal has played as a goalkeeper for over 20 years reaching a semi-professional level in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. He came out as the starting goalkeeper both in a small college in Belgium as well as two years at a United States college. In addition to winning the goalkeeper of the year award three times when in Europe, he was an All-American goalkeeper in both his years of college soccer.

As a coach, he led a JV High School team to gain Varsity status in his first year as head coach. A year later, his team was promoted from division three to division two in the city of Philadelphia, and he is looking forward to coaching at Northeast High School in the fall. Mattias started coaching goalkeepers in 2009, and since, he has
trained goalkeepers from the Olympic Development Program, Philadelphia Union Youth Selection, as
well as goalkeepers from reputable Colleges and High Schools in the area.

Please visit his website, www.thesupergoalie.com, for more
information.