Birth Years for 2024-2025 season

All players must register for tryouts by birth year (even if you hope to "play up")

U8 Registration for birth year's 2017 & 2018
U9 Registration for birth year 2016
U10 Registration for birth year 2015
U11 Registration for birth year 2014

About our Tryouts

We encourage families to review information about our club prior to attending tryouts. You likely want to know -where we train and play games -who our trainers are, and -something about the focus of our club Answers to these questions can be found below or in other sections of our site. Our tryouts are designed to give your player a real feel for the experience of being a player on one of our teams. -The actual trainers your child would work with all year will be running the sessions, -The style of the sessions will give you the real experience of week-to-week training on our teams, and lastly -our current club players will be present so you and your child will have a sense of their potential teammates The training session lasts about 40 minutes and then the kids will continue to play under the guidance of our junior trainers while our senior staff is available to meet with new families and answer any questions.

About La Finca Futbol Club

We're a little different. We're a family-friendly, fun-focused club that also trains for highest level competition. And our club is limited to the U8 - U11 divisions. When players age out of our club we facilitate transfers to regional clubs that share our approach to development. All of our teams are co-ed and we only enter teams in the competitive divisions of the EDP/NYCS league. This means we will not field teams if they can't compete at the premier level. We've found that the clubs in this league tend to have much better field conditions and we think this matters, even or especially for young kids. We want them learning real futbol not needing to kick aerial balls because the ball won't roll true. We've also found that more of these clubs share our focus on individual over team development. This is key to setting a healthy developmental environment. Importantly, our club program is an extension of our training pools. This means, some players are invited to train with us but not into our club program. Training players train with our teams. We find this creates the most rich environment for everyone's growth. Lastly, we keep intentionally small rosters on our teams to ensure lots of playing time. All young players need to be playing a lot. This does mean we expect a strong commitment from families to attend all games and tournaments.

Facilities

We train almost exclusively in our mini-pitch facilities. Ours in Ulster Park offers one indoor, 70'x85' turf pitch and one outdoor, 60'x85' turf pitch. This means our practices are never cancelled. We play home games at the Rosemary Nardone Soccer Complex, a terrific, appropriately sized natural grass pitch in Highland, NY. The complex is roughly 15 minutes from our training facility. We train here a few times throughout the season, as well.

Trainers

Probably the single most important element of any club, we take training style very seriously. In fact, we are as committed to trainer selection and continued development as we are to our players, but that's a longer story. Every team in our club receives training at least once a week from our Head Trainers, Alan O'Keeffe and Liam Witham. Every player will also have experience with guest trainers throughout the season.

If you have any questions not answered above, please email us anytime.

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