Amherstburg Soccer Club teams with local childcare facility for camp

Basic fundamentals were taught during the camps, which featured hour-long sessions for every age group.

Cacciato said they also hope it sparks an interest in soccer for the young players, adding he predicts growth in the sport locally thanks to the Women’s World Cup and the fact Canada is co-hosting the men’s World Cup in four years.

“I think Canadian kids are going to see that and it’s going to explode,” he said.

Francis said they were working on soccer drills with the Anderdon Child Care students. He said he knows supervisor Peggy Stobbs and they managed to make the camp at the childcare facility happen.

“We put the two groups together and here we are,” said Francis.

Last Thursday was a test run for the camps and agreed with Cacciato they hope to do more events like that in the future.

By Ron Giofu

Officials with the Amherstburg Soccer Club (ASC) were teaching some potential young players some tricks of the trade last week.

ASC club members – including president Nick Cacciato, registrar Kevin Francis and director of travel Josh Leeman – were at the Anderdon Child Care’s March Break camp last Thursday teaching children some soccer skills. Three sets of youth, ranging in age from kindergarten to as old as Grade 5, were separated into age divisions and were taught in the gymnasium at Anderdon Public School.

Cacciato said this was part of a strategy that ASC is moving forward with.”

“We want to reach out into the community more,” Cacciato explained.

“I think we all have the same goal in mind. We are literally a working board.”

Francis was credited for help setting the soccer day up with Anderdon Child Care.

“The community gives to us. We want to give back to the community,” said Cacciato. “Plain and simple.”

The ASC offered such mobile soccer clinics through their new Facebook page and Cacciato stated they are welcoming more childcare facilities and other organizations to take them up on their offer.

“We’re hoping anyone who wants to get involved will contact us and we’ll gladly organize something,” he said.