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Development Programs for Youth Trainees

Youth
Programs

Elite-Level Players OnlyParticipation By Selection
How To Join

Participation By Selection.

The Academy is a professional development platform for elite-level (female) youth players only, and participation is primarily by selection. Its technical director will attend showcases and tournaments and will select players based on their respective performances at such events.

If you received our business card (and, thus, were selected to join our Academy), then click the button below to receive your invitation letter, which explains in elaborate detail our development programs for youth trainees, including the Academy's membership fee and costs.

Access Invitation Letter

Uncanny Training Environment

The Academy provides a unique training environment for young kids (ages 11 through 16) to train and scrimmage with our aspiring professional players. Besides learning tactics, such as how to beat certain matchups (1v1, 2v1, 3v2, etc.), our youth trainees will be trained like professionals, including doing:

  • Soccer-specific fitness training (adjusted for youth players)
  • Speed and agility drills
  • Technical drills to hone footskills, sharpen fundamentals, and improve shielding and ball protection
  • Film study after games and practices with the technical director
The focus is ball mastery, ball control and protection (learning how to shield the ball properly), optimal fitness (both aerobic and anaerobic), and building good (technical) habits. Our methodology, based on repetitive drills, promotes "muscle memory" for soccer-specific acts, which will allow a player to be composed on the ball – always – despite being under pressure.
Our First Youth Trainee to Turn Pro

Sophie Castro

Sophie's Accolades

ODP Career

  • • Co-captain of the ODP Virginia State Team for three years (2018-20)
  • • The only player in Virginia in the Girls ODP 2004 age-group to be selected in 5 consecutive years to the ODP East Region Pool
  • • Four consecutive years to the Top-18 of the ODP East Region team (2016-19)
  • • 2017: Selected to the ODP National Training Camp
  • • 2018: Led Virginia to ODP East Region Championship vs Maryland — 7 goals and 5 assists in 5 games, including 2 converted 0-1 PKs (one in the semifinal and one in the final). Top goal-scorer and points-leader in the tournament.

International Travel with ODP

  • • 2017: Iceland with the ODP East Region Girls (2004 age-group)
  • • 2018: Holland with the ODP East Region Girls (2002-2003 age-groups)
  • • 2019: Costa Rica with the East Region Top 18 players

Club & Academy

  • • 2020-21: Played club soccer for the U-19 (02-03) VDA ECNL Girls Team
  • • November 2020: Trained with the Academy's first 12 professional women soccer players while still in high school
  • • Finished high school early — completing 11th Grade and 12th Grade simultaneously — in order to play professional soccer in Europe upon turning 18

European Trials (Arranged by the Academy)

  • • November 2021: Trials with C.A. Osasuna (Div. II), Atletico Madrid (Div. I), Deportivo Alavés (Div. I), CP Cacereño (leader of South Group of Div. II), and C.D. Getafe (leader of Group 5 of Div. III). Received oral contract offers from each.
  • • November 2022: Trials with Real Madrid and Levante U.D. Was offered a contract by Levante and trained with them in Valencia for 2 months.
  • • Suffered from chronic exertional compartment syndrome — had two operations. Recovered and currently plays professional soccer in Spain for Deportivo Alavés (2024-25 season).
Sophie Castro in Madrid
Direct Pathway
to Pro Soccer

If a youth trainee wants to be challenged and proves to the technical director of the Academy that she is ready – technically, tactically, and fitness-wise – for elite-level competition, the Academy could provide a trial in a top-level soccer club in any European country, but especially in Spain.

Our shareholders have invested an extraordinary amount of money in business trips to Europe (2018-23) in order to foster and strengthen our relationships in that continent. The Academy certainly has the best relationships with general managers of soccer clubs (as well as top-level coaches, scouts, and agents) in Spain in comparison with any other academy in the U.S.

  • Real Madrid
  • Atletico de Madrid
  • Levante U.D.
  • C.A. Osasuna
  • C.D. Getafe
  • CP Cacereño

Signed: Deportivo Alavés (2024-25)

Bespoke Services

Preparation for Elite-Level I.D. Camps

We also provide customized fitness and technical training plans for our youth trainees who are preparing for:

1

U.S. Youth National Team training camps

2

ODP state team, ODP regional team, or ODP national team training camps

3

College I.D. camps

4

Any other elite-level identification camps

This preparation takes 3-4 months of hard work and sacrifice. We have unique success stories in this regard.

We travel to your state to train your daughter and prepare her for these I.D. camps.

Meritocracy

Academy Tryouts

The Academy is a meritocracy. Although participation in the Academy is primarily by selection, we encourage any youth (female) soccer player to come to Virginia to prove – in an open tryout – i.e., a pro-soccer combine, or a private trial – that she has the technical quality and fundamental skills to compete in top-level European soccer leagues. If you want a real challenge, register for our next open tryout.

Next Tryouts: Dec 16-19, 2025

Only 25 players accepted — first register, first served

Secure Your Trial SpotApplications reviewed on a rolling basis
Open Tryout — Meritocracy

Prove your mettle.
Earn your spot.

Register For Tryouts

Only 25 players accepted. First register, first served. Next tryouts: Dec 16-19, 2025.