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Please only register if you are a member of Strikers MLS program. --- # How to Choose a Youth Soccer Camp in Orange County: Ask One Question First URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/how-to-choose-youth-soccer-camp-orange-county/ Choose a youth soccer camp on the coach-to-player ratio at each station, not the price or the hours. That single number decides whether your player is coached or supervised. Ask any Orange County camp what the ratio per station is. If nobody can answer, that is your answer. Below is a comparison of what local camps publish for 2026, plus a checklist you can run in one phone call. Note up front: many providers do not publish ratios, dates, or prices in the same place, so you will have to ask. At a glance Ratio per station, not the whole-camp ratio, is the number that decides whether your player is coached or supervised. Hours are what camps advertise; touches are what matter. Ask how many players per ball, per grid, per goal. Three consecutive days beats the same hours spread across weeks. Price is a poor proxy: a cheap camp with 40 kids and an expensive camp with a club badge can both leave your player standing in line. No honest camp promises team placement. The situation you are actually in It is a weeknight in spring. You have four browser tabs open, all of them Orange County soccer camps, all of them promising elite coaching and a fun environment. One is $180 for the week and one is $500 and you cannot tell from the pages why. Your player is 11 and lost some confidence last season, or is 14 and about to hit a tryout that matters, and you have one break week to spend well. You do not want to waste it. That worry, that you will spend the money and the week and nothing will change, is the real thing on the table. Here is what actually separates a week that changes something from a week that does not: how many players are standing between your kid and a coach's eyes. Everything else on those four tabs is secondary. Orange County camp comparison, 2026 We can only publish numbers we can stand behind. For Top Notch, the figures below are ours. For every other provider, the honest answer is that dates, prices, locations, age ranges, and ratios change by season and by site, and we are not going to invent them for you. Use the table as a set of columns to fill in yourself when you call, because the exercise of asking is the point. Provider2026 datesLocationAgesPublished priceStated ratio per station Top Notch Training school-break campPosted per break window on the camps pageIrvine (Oak Creek Park for the December 2025 edition)Boys and girls 6-16Listed per camp on the camps pageSmall-group by station; ask us and we will tell you the number for that camp Club-run summer camp (your local club)AskAskAskAskAsk City of Irvine parks and rec campAskAskAskAskAsk National franchise camp brandAskAskAskAskAsk College or university ID campAskAskAskAskAsk Private trainer's break-week campAskAskAskAskAsk If a provider will not give you a station ratio over the phone, write "would not say" in the box. That is real data. In our experience the camps that answer fastest are the ones that have thought about it. The parent checklist 1. Who is coaching your player's group, and are they still coaching competitively? Ask for the name of the coach who will run your player's group, then ask what team that coach is currently coaching and at what level. A trainer who only runs camps has no live feedback loop on what today's game demands, so their teaching drifts from what the next level actually asks for. Coach Elmer Chacon coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, the highest tier of youth competition in the country, which is the whole point of the question. The rest of the credential questions to ask any trainer are laid out in our guide to finding a private soccer coach near you. 2. What is the ratio per station? Not the whole-camp ratio. Stations are where coaching happens, and a camp can advertise 1:10 overall while running one station of 30 kids with a single coach and a cone grid. Ask what the number is at each station, and ask how many stations run at once. Our camps are built as small-group training so that every player gets real attention, real feedback, and real correction rather than a place in a shooting line. 3. Do the math on touches, not hours Hours are the number camps advertise because hours are the number that flatters them. Touches are the number that matters. Picture a 3-hour morning block. In a small-group setting, a player is in a rondo, a 1v2, a finishing rep, or a small-sided game for most of the session. In a 40-kid camp with one line, the same three hours can turn into a lot of standing. Same price bracket, very different mornings. When you call, ask what the group looks like during a drill: how many players per ball, per grid, per goal. That answer tells you the touch count without anyone having to count. 4. Are the days consecutive? Three consecutive days of focused training beats weeks of sporadic lessons, because skill sticks when repetition is dense enough for the body to keep the pattern between sessions. Our school-break camps run three straight days for exactly that reason. If a camp spreads four sessions across three weeks, expect less carryover into the player's team. 5. How are ages and levels grouped inside the session? Some camps mix ages on purpose, and there is a good reason to. Ours have run boys and girls ages 6-16 together in places so Youngers train alongside older mentors while Olders develop leadership and communication. That only works when the coaching is differentiated inside the drill. What does not work is one identical drill for an 8-year-old beginner and a 15-year-old club starter. Ask how the camp separates work by level within the same session, and listen for a specific answer. 6. Does your player want to go? The standard we hold is that the player brings the effort and energy and is coachable. If camp is entirely your idea, that is a conversation before it is a deposit. Parent guidance meetings can happen in person in Orange County or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world, and that conversation has saved families a wasted break week more than once. Run these six on the phone, in this order: Get the name of the coach running your player's group, and the team that coach currently coaches. Ask for the ratio per station, and how many stations run at once. Ask how many players per ball, per grid, per goal during a drill. Confirm the days are consecutive. Ask how work is separated by level inside the same session. Check that your player actually wants to go before you put down a deposit. What price actually buys, and what it does not A cheap camp with 40 kids and two teenage counselors gives your player fewer coached touches than a small-group camp at twice the price, and an expensive camp with a club badge on it does not guarantee an experienced coach will be within 20 yards of your child. Price is a poor proxy for either. So when you compare the $180 tab and the $500 tab, translate both into cost per coached touch by asking the station question. That is the comparison the pricing pages are not making for you. Top Notch Training has worked with 800+ youth, club, and high school players as of August 2026, and the consistent pattern is that the players who improve most pair a break-week camp with something ongoing. What camps are good for, and what they are not Camps are a concentrated block, best used in summer and school breaks when the club calendar goes quiet and a player has the energy to absorb new information. Coach Chacon puts the philosophy plainly: "I teach the game so it becomes natural." Natural comes from volume of quality repetition, which is why the block format works. Camps are not a substitute for consistent work. If your player has one identifiable block, a weak left foot, a first touch that dies under pressure, a position change, private sessions are the sharper tool, and they run 1 to 2 hours weekly or bi-weekly. If they need competitive repetition and speed of play against peers, weekly group training does that better. Camps and private work also sit alongside whatever league or club your player is already in, and how AYSO, club, and supplemental training fit together in Orange County is worth understanding before you pick a format. The programs page lays out group trainings, camps, private sessions, and parent guidance side by side so you can match the format to the problem you are actually trying to solve. Good to knowOne thing no camp does: get a player placed on a team. No honest program promises that. A good camp gives your player better habits, sharper decisions, and confidence going back to their club. What they do with it comes down to effort and coachability. Red flags worth walking away from Any promise of team placement, scholarship outcomes, or "guaranteed" improvement. No named coach for your player's group, or a name on the flyer who never appears on the field. No stated ratio per station when you ask directly. A schedule that is mostly scrimmage with little teaching. Games matter, but you are paying for coaching. No plan for heat. Summer in Orange County is hot, so ask about water breaks and shade. How to book without overthinking it Run the checklist on two camps, pick the one that answered the ratio question, and spend one break window there. If your player comes back asking when the next one is, you have your answer about fit. Current dates and locations are on the upcoming soccer camps page, and you can reserve on the booking page. If you are unsure which format suits your player right now, ask before you enroll rather than after. That is a free conversation and it is worth more than a guess. FAQ What age should my kid start soccer camp?Our camps have run for boys and girls ages 6-16. Beyond age, readiness matters more: a player who can follow instruction for a three-hour morning and wants to be there will get value at 7, and a player who does not want to be there will struggle at 13. For ongoing training we group by Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite. How much does a youth soccer camp cost in Orange County?It varies widely by provider, format, and length, and prices are posted per camp rather than as one flat rate. The useful move is to compare cost against the ratio per station, because two camps at the same price can deliver very different amounts of actual coaching. Our current camp pricing is listed on the upcoming soccer camps page. Are soccer camps worth it for recreational players, or only club kids?Both, if the camp differentiates by level inside the drill. Coach Chacon's approach is built to develop players from grassroots to elite competitive teams, and mixed-age groups let recreational players train alongside more experienced peers. Rec players often see the biggest jump, because three days of coached small-group work can exceed what they get in a typical month of rec practice. How many days should a soccer camp be?Look for consecutive days rather than total hours spread thin. Our school-break camps run three consecutive days, because a dense block of focused training carries over better than sporadic lessons. For summer, families often stack a camp week on top of ongoing weekly group training. Camp or private training, which does my player need?If one identifiable thing is holding them back, start with private sessions, which run 1 to 2 hours weekly or bi-weekly. If they need competitive repetition and pressure from peers, weekly group training is better. Camps are the right call when you want a concentrated development block during a break. Many families run a combination: private work to fix the mechanics, group work to test whether the fix holds when someone is closing them down. What should my player bring to a soccer camp in Irvine?Cleats, shin guards, a ball, plenty of water, and sunscreen for summer sessions. Exact requirements vary by camp, so check the details on the listing you are enrolling in. Do soccer camps help my player make a better club team?We do not promise team placement, and no honest program should. What a camp can do is sharpen technique, decision-making, and confidence so your player arrives at tryouts better prepared. The outcome still depends on their effort and coachability. About the coach Coach Elmer Chacon has nearly 20 years in Southern California soccer. He coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, a nationally championship-winning club, and is Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, where in his first season he took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. He has served as Director of Coaching for California Rush and as Youth Director and Technical Director, and holds regional and national championships as both a player and a coach, with clubs including Irvine Strikers and Slammers Huntington Beach. Top Notch Training has worked with 800+ youth, club, and high school players as of August 2026. --- # Private and Small-Group Soccer Training in Irvine, CA: How It Works, What It Costs, and How to Book URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/private-small-group-soccer-training-irvine/ Private soccer training in Irvine with Top Notch Training runs 1 to 2 hours per session, weekly or bi-weekly, and it works best for a player with one identifiable block, not for general "more touches." Small-group is the same session with a sibling or teammate added. Private training is $95 per hour one-on-one; small-group is $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six. Travel to your field and any field or permit fees can affect the total. To book, request a session with your player count and preferred days, and Coach Elmer replies with a time, the exact price, and a link to reserve your spot. Pay at the event or via Zelle. Or call (714) 248-2592. At a glance Sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. Best for a player with one identifiable block, not general "more touches." Small-group is the same session with a sibling or teammate added. Private training is $95 per hour; small-group is $50 to $70 per player depending on group size (six max). Length, travel, extra players, field fees, and packages move the number. To book a private or small-group session: request a session, and Coach Elmer replies with a time, price, and booking link. Pay at the event or via Zelle, or call (714) 248-2592. You already know something is stuck. That is the hard part. Here is the situation most Irvine parents are actually in. Your player has not missed a practice. They work in the backyard. And yet in games they still play one-touch backwards, or the left foot never appears, or they were fine last season and now they hide. You have watched enough Saturdays to know it is not effort. What you do not know is the name of the problem, and neither does anyone who has only seen your kid from the sideline for 60 minutes a week. That is the whole case for private training, and it is a narrower case than most families expect. Private training is not the premium tier and group training is not the discount tier. Private training is a diagnostic tool. Group training is the pressure test. And neither one replaces the team your player is already on, which is why it helps to see how rec leagues, club programs, and supplemental training fit together in Orange County. Buying the wrong one first is the most common and most expensive mistake in youth soccer around here. What a real 10-minute diagnosis looks like Take a fault we see constantly in Olders (12-16): the first touch across the body under pressure. Unopposed, the player looks clean. Add a defender at their shoulder and the first touch goes square across the body into traffic, so their second touch is a panicked pass backwards. Parents describe this as "she gets nervous." It is not nerves. It is body shape before the ball arrives. In session, it gets isolated fast: a receiving pattern with a passive defender at the back shoulder, then a live one, with the player forced to take the first touch on the back foot and out of pressure, into space, not across it. The cue is short on purpose, something the player can hear in their own head on Saturday: "Look before it comes, touch away from him." Six words, because a paragraph of coaching does not survive a game. Then the parent has a job. In the next game, do not watch the ball. Watch your player's head in the two seconds before the ball reaches them, and watch which direction their first touch goes. If the shoulder check appears and the touch starts going away from pressure instead of across it, the fix is holding. If it disappears the moment the game speeds up, the mechanics are fine and what the player now needs is competitive repetition, which is group training, not another private hour. That distinction is the entire point of paying for a coach who can diagnose rather than a trainer who can run cones. Coach Elmer Chacon holds a USSF B License, the fourth-highest coaching certification in U.S. Soccer and two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and he currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, so the read on what today's game demands is live, not remembered. Nearly 20 years of it, on the West Coast. The full background is here. 800+ youth, club, and high school players have trained with Top Notch Training as of August 2026. What it costs, plainly Most families ask for a number before they ask for anything else, so here it is, plainly. 1-on-1 private training: $95 per hour. Small group (semi-private), 2 players: $70 per player, per hour. Small group, 3 players: $60 per player, per hour. Small group, 4 to 6 players: $50 per player, per hour. Six players maximum. Any age group, youth through adult. Sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. Rates current as of August 2026. Those rates are for sessions you arrange yourself. If your player would rather drop into a set weekly slot with peers at a similar level, weekly group trainings at Oak Creek Park run $45 per session for ages 9 to 12 and $55 for ages 12 to 17, with the current dates and open spots listed there. To set up a private or small-group time of your own, request a session with your player count and preferred days, and Coach Elmer confirms the slot and the exact price before you book. For context: private soccer training in Orange County commonly runs $75 to $150 per hour, a wide bracket because it mixes unlicensed trainers with licensed, actively coaching ones. Coach Elmer holds a USSF B License and currently coaches at MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine. At $95 an hour, that is a licensed, actively competing coach priced in the lower third of the county's range. What pushes your number up or down Session length. 1 hour versus 2. The most common booking is 1 hour for a single technical fault plus homework. Travel to your field. A session at a field near you costs more than one at a field already in the rotation. Extra players. Adding a sibling or a teammate makes it a small-group session and spreads the cost across two families. Field or facility fees. Some locations charge, some do not. Packages. Booking a block of sessions prices differently than booking one at a time. Call (714) 248-2592, say the length, the location, and how many players, and you get a real number for that exact format rather than a "starting at" figure. Two minutes, no sales pitch. Logistics: fields, time slots, and how far out to book Practical answers before you call, so you know whether this fits your week at all. Where. On-field training is based in Orange County, with Irvine as the home base. Camps have run at Oak Creek Park in Irvine, and private and small-group sessions are held at Orange County fields. If you want to train at your own field, say so when you call, since travel is one of the things that moves the price. The specific field for your session is confirmed at booking rather than fixed year-round, because availability and field permits change season to season. When. Private sessions are structured weekly or bi-weekly. Exact open slots vary with the club and high school calendar, so the current openings are on the training schedule. Check it before you call and you will already know which windows are realistic. How far ahead. Availability tightens around school breaks, when camp weeks and holiday clinics fill first. If you are aiming at a winter or summer break block, look early rather than the week before. Cancellations. 24 hours' notice. Payment is at the event or via Zelle. Not local? On-field training is Southern California only. Parent guidance meetings can be in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Small-group sessions: the middle gear Two or a few players, same structure as a private, more competitive reps than pure 1-on-1 and far more coach attention than a full group. It fits when: Two siblings or teammates share the same weakness and can push each other The player looks fine unopposed, so you need a live opponent to make the fault appear at all You want private-level coaching with the cost spread across more than one family Who this is for, by age band Youngers (8-11) Mostly technical: ball mastery, both feet, first touch, and enjoying having the ball at their feet. At this age one weekly group session plus a short private block usually beats stacking private hours, because what they need most is volume of touches in a competitive setting. For a fuller breakdown of what players need at each age band, from 8-11 through high school and elite, the emphasis shifts as the demands change. Olders (12-16) Decision-making, speed of play, and position-specific work move to the front. This is also where confidence dips and position changes appear, and those are two of the clearest reasons to book 1-on-1, because both are specific and both are diagnosable in an hour. High School / Elite The question becomes what the next rung actually demands: a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, a college roster. In his first season as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, Coach Elmer took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. We do not promise placement anywhere. The standard is simple and it belongs to the player: bring the effort, stay coachable. How often, honestly Weekly or bi-weekly, deliberately spaced. The gap between sessions is where the homework gets absorbed instead of hours just accumulating. If your athlete is already training five days a week with their club, the honest answer is often bi-weekly at most, or none at all until the load comes down. More sessions is not the same thing as more improvement. How to book Request a session with your player count, preferred days, and the field you have in mind. Coach Elmer replies with a time, the exact price for your format, and a link to reserve your spot. Pay at the event or via Zelle. Cancellations need 24 hours' notice. You can book a training session here, and joining the announcement list gets you $25 off your first training plus notice of camps and clinics before they fill. If you are still weighing formats, the programs page lays out weekly group trainings, camps, private sessions, and parent guidance side by side, and how to pick the right format in Irvine comes down to naming the problem first; during school breaks a multi-day camp in Irvine gives a concentrated block that a single weekly hour cannot match. If you are comparing camp weeks, the one number that separates coaching from supervision is the coach-to-player ratio at each station. If you are searching more broadly across the county, our screening process for finding a soccer trainer in Orange County covers what to check first. If you want to pressure-test any trainer you are considering, including us, our guide on choosing a private soccer coach near you lists the questions to ask. The relief most parents are after is not a trophy. It is knowing what is actually wrong, so the next season of effort goes somewhere. Call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you see in games. That conversation costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether private training is even the right answer. FAQ How much does private soccer training cost in Irvine? Private 1-on-1 training is $95 per hour. Small-group training is $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six. Sessions run 1 to 2 hours. Travel to your field and any field or permit fees can affect the total. Call (714) 248-2592 to book, or request a session online. How long is a private soccer training session? Sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. One hour typically covers one technical fault plus homework. Two hours leaves room to fix the mechanic and then test it under game-like pressure in the same session. Where in Irvine do the sessions take place? On-field training is based in Orange County with Irvine as the home base, and camps have run at Oak Creek Park in Irvine. The exact field for a private session is confirmed at booking, since availability changes by season. Training at your own field is possible, and travel is one of the factors that affects price. Is private training better than group training for young players? Not automatically. Private training is best for diagnosing and fixing one specific limitation, because the coach sees exactly what is holding the player back. Group training supplies repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play against peers at a similar level. Fixing something in private and never testing it under pressure is how a fix quietly disappears by the next game. How far in advance should I book? Openings vary with the club and school calendar, so check the training schedule for current availability. Book earlier for school breaks, when camp weeks and holiday clinics fill first. Cancellations require 24 hours' notice. Can two players share a private session? Yes. Adding a sibling or teammate makes it a small-group session, which adds competitive pressure and spreads the cost across two families. Mention the number of players when you call so the quote reflects the real format. My player trains five days a week with club. Should we add private sessions? Often the honest answer is bi-weekly at most, or nothing until the training load comes down. Absorption matters as much as reps. Describe the weekly schedule on the phone and you will get a straight answer, including "not right now" if that is the truth. Do you train players outside Orange County? On-field training is based in Southern California. Parent guidance meetings can be held in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Feature image update request Feature image needs to be replaced. The current featured image shows a caucasian coach, which does not match Coach Elmer Chacon. Elmer Chacon is a hispanic, heavyset man (heavyset, not fat). Please swap the feature image for a photo that accurately represents him, ideally an authentic photo of Coach Elmer on the field in Irvine. Suggested alt text: "Coach Elmer Chacon, a hispanic heavyset soccer coach, leading a private training session in Irvine." --- # Top Notch Soccer in Irvine and Orange County: The Five Questions That Screen Any Trainer URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/top-notch-soccer-irvine-orange-county/ In Irvine and Orange County, "top notch soccer" is not a brand you buy - it is a five-question phone call. Ask any trainer: which USSF license do you hold by name, what team are you coaching right now, how many players will be on the field, what is the all-in price, and what happens in session one. A program that answers all five in plain numbers is worth a trial session. A program that answers in adjectives is not. Below is the script with good and bad answers, real Orange County price bands, and what actually changed for two players. At a glanceScreen on license, group size, and price transparency - not on logos, kit design, or highlight reels.Top Notch Training rates as of August 2026: $95/hour private; $70, $60, or $50 per player/hour small group by size; $45 or $55 per weekly group session by age band.County-wide bands as of August 2026: roughly $75-150/hour private, $25-60 small group, $50-125/day camp.More than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with Top Notch Training as of August 2026.No honest program guarantees a roster spot. Effort, coachability, and technical level are what a coach can actually control. Why the label is meaningless and the call is not Search "top notch soccer" and you get clubs in six states, facility rentals, and Instagram accounts - the phrase has no gatekeeper, so it tells you nothing. What does tell you something is whether a stranger on the phone can produce five specific answers without stalling. If you are still mapping how rec, club, and supplemental training fit together first, start with our guide to Orange County youth soccer leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training. Then come back and make the calls. The five-question first call, in order Six minutes on the phone screens out most of the field. The five-question first callThe five-question first callWhich USSF license, by name?Rung named, plus number or issue dateWhat team are you coaching right now?Club, age group, and leagueHow many players on the field?A hard cap, stated as a numberWhat is the all-in price?Per-hour rate plus what changes itWhat happens in session one?Assessment of named mechanics, then a planBook one session, not a packageJudge from the sidelineRun these in order before booking any Orange County trainer. This takes about six minutes and screens out most of the field. Ask the first two verbatim. "Which USSF license do you hold, by name?""What team are you coaching right now?" First-call script: strong answers versus weak onesQuestionGood answerWeak answer Which USSF license do you hold, by name?Names the rung, offers the number or issue date."Fully certified." No rung named. What team are you coaching right now?Names the club, age group, and league."I used to coach at a high level." How many players on the field in my child's session?A hard cap, stated as a number."Depends who shows up." What is the all-in price, including field or travel fees?Per-hour rate plus what can change it.A package price with no per-session math. What happens in session one?Assessment of named mechanics, then a plan."We'll get a feel for it." The US Soccer coaching ladder runs, ascending: Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth or A Senior, and Pro. Verify by asking for the license number and issue date, or by asking the coach to confirm their record in the US Soccer Learning Center. Question two matters because a coach currently running a competitive team is tested weekly by real opponents. Good to knowA trainer who cannot name their license is not automatically bad, and a licensed one is not automatically good. The license only tells you someone other than their own marketing has assessed them. Pair it with one trial session before you judge, and book a session rather than a package. The belief worth correcting: the club badge is not the quality signal Most Orange County parents assume the higher the club tier, the better the development. A club team's job is to win league games, and a good club coach does that while managing 16 to 18 kids and a season schedule. Nobody in that setting has 40 minutes to rebuild a weak-foot mechanic or teach a player to receive on the half-turn under pressure. More than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with Top Notch Training as of August 2026, and the ones who improve fastest are almost never the ones with the most impressive team badge - they are the ones getting extra touches every week. Two players, what changed, and what it cost Program pages describe skills in the abstract. Here is what the work actually looks like, including a diagnosis I got wrong. The 13-year-old whose "bad first touch" was not a touch problem Coach's noteI spent three weeks fixing a 13-year-old's first touch across the body, convinced it was a technique fault. It was not. He was receiving blind, no shoulder check, so his body was already turned the wrong way before the ball arrived. Once we drilled scanning, the touch fixed itself in two sessions. Diagnosis beats reps, and I got that one wrong first. - Coach Elmer Chacon The lesson for parents: if a trainer prescribes a drill in the first ten minutes, they are guessing. Session one should be assessment. Our piece on first touch training for Irvine and Orange County players covers what a real touch diagnosis looks at. Nicholas, over several years of private, small-group, and camp work Marco and Lisa Joca's son Nicholas trained with Coach Elmer across all three formats. In their words, the work covered "technical skills and tactical understanding to confidence, discipline, and the mental side of competing at a high level," and they credit a great deal of his development, and his continued love of the game, to that time. That is the honest shape of a multi-year case: not a single measurable jump, but compounding. At the weekly group rate for club and high school players, a season of consistent Thursday sessions is a line item most families can plan around. What it costs in Irvine and Orange County Here are Top Notch Training's rates, current as of August 2026, for any age group. Top Notch Training rates, current as of August 2026FormatRateNotes 1-on-1 private$95 per hour1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly Small group, 2 players$70 per player/hourYou bring your own players Small group, 3 players$60 per player/hour6 players maximum Small group, 4 to 6 players$50 per player/hourLowest per-player rate Weekly group, ages 9-12, all levels$45 per sessionOpen enrollment, Oak Creek Park, Irvine Weekly group, club/elite/HS, ages 12-17$55 per sessionOpen enrollment, Oak Creek Park, Irvine Two things move the total: travel to your field, and any field or permit fees. A permitted turf complex costs more to run than a public park field, and peak evening slots are tighter than mid-morning. County-wide as of August 2026, private runs roughly $75-150 per hour, small group $25-60, and camps $50-125 per day. Anything well under those bands usually means a bigger group than you were told. The realistic Orange County alternatives, and who each one suits Where each format fitsWhere each format fitsClub team training only16-18 playersCost inside annual duesGame and tactical repsNot mechanical repairAcademy or facility clinics15-30 players per coach$50-125 per day camp bandGood for beginners andYoungersNot where a fault gets fixedPrivate or small group1 to 6 players$75-150/hr private countywideDiagnosable faultsQuality varies, so screenMatch the format to the actual gap, not to the budget. Top Notch is not the right answer for every family. Here is the honest field. Club team training onlyFormat: 2-3 team practices weekly, 16-18 players, cost folded into annual dues. Suits players who are technically sound and need game reps and tactical reps, not mechanical repair. If your player already gets corrected by name at practice, extra training may be redundant. Large academy or facility clinicsFormat: drop-in clinics and camps, often 15-30 players per coach, commonly in the $50-125 per day camp band. Suits beginners, Youngers building a love of the game, and families who need school-break coverage. Not where a specific fault gets fixed. Independent 1-on-1 trainersFormat: one coach, one player, generally $75-150 per hour countywide. Suits a diagnosable fault: weak foot, first touch, finishing mechanics, or confidence after a hard season. Quality varies enormously, which is exactly why the five-question call exists. Top Notch Training, IrvineFormat: weekly groups at Oak Creek Park, small groups of 2-6 you assemble yourself, and privates. Suits players who need diagnosis plus consistent extra touches. Wrong fit if you want a guaranteed placement pathway, or if you cannot travel to Irvine for the weekly slot. Whichever direction you lean, our breakdown of Irvine youth soccer development formats helps match format to the actual gap, and our screening process for finding a soccer trainer near you covers what to watch from the sideline once you are there. Your next step Coach Elmer Chacon holds a USSF B License, coaches in the Strikers FC Irvine MLS NEXT program, and has spent nearly two decades in Southern California soccer. His philosophy, in his own words: "I teach the game so it becomes natural." When you request a session, send four things: your player's age and birth year, current team and level, the one skill you most want fixed, and the days and times that genuinely work. Session one is then an assessment - touch, both feet, scanning habits, body shape under light pressure - followed by a plain statement of what to work on and roughly how long it takes. No program can promise your child a roster spot, and any that does should worry you. What a coach can promise is an honest diagnosis and reps that match it. Frequently asked questions How much does private soccer training cost in Irvine? Top Notch Training's 1-on-1 rate is listed in the pricing table above and is current as of August 2026, with sessions running 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. Across Orange County, private rates generally fall in a $75-150 per hour band. Travel to your field and any field or permit fees can change your total. Is small group training better than 1-on-1 for my kid? It depends on the problem. A specific mechanical fault is fixed fastest 1-on-1. Decision-making and competitive pressure need other bodies, which is what groups of 2 to 6 provide at a lower per-player rate. Many families alternate between the two. Where do Top Notch Training sessions take place? Weekly group trainings run at a fixed slot at Oak Creek Park in Irvine. Private and small-group sessions are arranged around your field in Orange County, and travel plus any field or permit fees can affect the total. How do I check a soccer coach's USSF license? Ask which license they hold by name, then ask for the license number and issue date. Coaches can confirm their credentials through the US Soccer Learning Center. The ladder runs Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth or A Senior, then Pro. How often should my player train outside of team practice? Once a week is enough to change something if the sessions are diagnostic and the player does homework touches in between. Twice a week moves faster during an off-season or school break. More than that alongside a full club schedule usually costs more in fatigue than it returns. What age groups do you train? Programs are organized as Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite. Weekly group sessions split into ages 9-12 all levels, and club, elite, and high school players ages 12-17. Private and small-group training is open to any age. Can training guarantee my child makes a club team? No, and no honest program will say otherwise. Selection depends on a club's needs, roster space, and an evaluator's judgment on a given day. Training controls technical level, decision speed, effort, and coachability, which are what evaluators actually notice. --- # “Private Soccer Coach Near Me”: What Orange County Parents Should Actually Look For URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/private-soccer-coach-near-me/ When you search "private soccer coach near me," distance should be the last filter, not the first. What actually changes a player is diagnostic ability: can the coach find the fault in ten minutes and give cues the kid remembers on Saturday? Coach Elmer Chacon holds a USSF B License - the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below the MLS requirement - currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, and has spent nearly 20 years developing West Coast players. Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County. You can book a training session here or call (714) 248-2592. The belief most parents arrive with Most families start this search assuming private training is interchangeable: someone who knows soccer, a bag of balls, a park within 15 minutes, an hourly rate. Pick the closest one, get more touches. That assumption is the expensive part. Extra touches without direction just make an existing habit permanent. A player who plants the wrong foot on every strike does not need 300 more reps of that. They need someone who can see it early, explain why it is happening, and rebuild it in a sequence the player can feel. You are not buying an hour of field time. You are buying a diagnosis. Everything below is about how to tell whether the person you are calling can actually make one, and it is the same logic behind sorting a list of local soccer coaches by license and current coaching role rather than by miles, and the same screening process Orange County parents can use before booking a trainer. What an actual 60-minute session looks like Here is a composite of a real first session, details anonymized. Ten-year-old boy, competitive club, dad's complaint on the phone was "he disappears in games." Minutes 0-10, diagnostic. No lecture, no warmup speech. Elmer puts the player in simple pass-and-receive work and watches three things: what the first touch does under a little pressure, where the plant foot lands on strikes, and whether the head comes up before the ball arrives. Most parents expect the first ten minutes to be conditioning. It is observation, and it is the most valuable part of the hour. The fault found. Two, actually, and they were connected. The plant foot was landing behind the ball on strikes, so everything ballooned. And the first touch, when a defender closed, went straight into his own feet, which is why he looked slow and why he "disappeared" - he was not slow, he was stuck. The three cues. Plant beside the ball, not behind it. Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure. Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after. Three cues, not fifteen. A ten-year-old can hold three. Homework between sessions. A short daily block against a wall with the same three cues, done at game speed rather than comfortable speed, plus one instruction to the parent: watch the plant foot at the next game and say nothing about it in the car. Four weeks later. The strikes stayed down. The bigger change was the shoulder check, which is not a skill so much as a habit, and once it was there his first touch had somewhere to go. He stopped looking slow. His coach thought he had gotten faster. He had not. He had gotten earlier. That sequence - watch, name the fault, three cues, homework, retest - is the mechanism. Everything else is packaging. Credential #1: the license, and what it actually signals The USSF B License is the fourth-highest coaching certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and very few private trainers hold it. The license matters less as a wall decoration and more as evidence of what a coach was tested on: player development pathways, tactics, and teaching methodology. Plenty of good former players can demonstrate a skill. Far fewer can break it into three cues a 12-year-old remembers under pressure. That is the difference between running drills and teaching the game. Credential #2: is the coach still coaching competitively? Ask any prospective trainer what team they are currently coaching and at what level. A trainer who only does private sessions has no live feedback loop on what today's game demands. Coach Elmer coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, the highest tier of youth competition in the country. In his first season as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, he took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. He has served as Director of Coaching for California Rush, as Youth Director and Technical Director, and holds regional and national championships as both a player and a coach, with clubs including Irvine Strikers and Slammers Huntington Beach. The full background is here. What that means for your player: a coach working at MLSNext level knows precisely what the next rung looks like, whether that rung is a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, or a college roster. Credential #3: range Elmer has coached first-time toddlers in programs he built himself and elite, college-bound competitors. Range is what lets a coach meet a player where they actually are instead of running the same template on everyone. A trainer who has only ever worked with one age band will teach your kid that band's session regardless of what the diagnostic says, when an 8-to-11-year-old, a 12-to-16-year-old, and a high school or elite player each need a different emphasis at their stage of development. What we are not good for An honest trainer will tell you when to spend your money elsewhere. Top Notch Training will turn away or redirect: Players under about six. At that age the need is play, not correction. A structured 1-on-1 hour is the wrong tool and the family will not see a return on it. Players whose parents want the sessions more than they do. The stated standard is that the player brings effort and energy and is coachable. If the kid is being dropped off against their will, no cue survives the drive home. Athletes already training five days a week. Adding a sixth session to a full club load is not development, it is load. Sometimes the honest recommendation is fewer sessions and a parent guidance conversation instead. Families looking for a guaranteed pathway. Elmer's players have gone on to play at higher levels while excelling academically, but that comes out of the work, not out of a purchase. Private is not always the right starting point 1-on-1 is best when a player has a specific, identifiable block: a weak left foot, a first touch that dies under pressure, a position change, a confidence dip. Weekly group training is often better for players who need competitive repetition, speed of play, and pressure from peers at a similar level. Either way, training sits alongside the recreational and club tracks families choose between in Orange County, rather than replacing them. Many families run both - private work to fix the mechanics, group work to test whether the fix holds when someone is closing them down. The programs page lays out group trainings, camps, private sessions, and parent guidance side by side, and this walkthrough of how to choose between the four development formats in Irvine helps you match the format to the problem you are actually seeing. Camps are worth a look during school breaks for a concentrated block, and parent guidance meetings can happen in person in Orange County or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. The standard, stated plainly "If your player provides the effort and energy, is coachable, and willing to bring effort and energy to train, I can help transform them into a better player and individual." That puts a real requirement on the athlete, which is the honest way to do it. Parents consistently report the difference showing up in confidence and how their kid carries themselves, not only in the play. One next step If your player is putting in the effort and still looks stuck, the useful thing is not another year of hoping it clicks. It is one hour with someone who can name what is actually wrong. Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. To register you create an account, activate it by email, then come back to reserve your spot. Pay at the event or via Zelle, 24 hours' notice on cancellations. If you want to see the calendar first, check the training schedule, or join the announcement list for $25 off your first training plus notice of camps and clinics before they fill. Call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you are seeing in games. That conversation costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether private training is even the right answer. FAQ How much does a private soccer coach cost near me? As of August 2026, private 1-on-1 soccer training in Orange County generally runs about $75 to $150 per hour, a wide bracket because it mixes unlicensed trainers with licensed, actively coaching ones. Top Notch Training's own rates are $95 per hour for private 1-on-1 and $50 to $70 per player per hour for small group, depending on group size. Travel to your field and any field or facility fees can affect the total, and adding a sibling or teammate makes it a small-group session at the lower per-player rate. For a fuller breakdown of how private and small-group sessions work in Irvine and what moves the cost, start there. Call (714) 248-2592 for current pricing on the exact format you want - tell them the length, the location, and how many players, and you will get a real number rather than a "starting at" figure. What certifications should a private soccer coach have? Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask specifically which one. The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and very few private trainers hold it. Then ask a second question most parents skip: what team are you currently coaching, and at what level? A coach still working competitively has a live read on what the next level demands. For the rest of the questions worth asking, see this parent's checklist for evaluating a youth soccer coach. How often should my kid do private soccer training? Top Notch private sessions are structured weekly or bi-weekly, which leaves enough space between sessions for a player to absorb and apply the homework instead of just accumulating hours. If your athlete is already training five days a week with their club, the honest answer is often bi-weekly at most, or none at all until the load comes down. Is private training better than group training for young players? Not automatically. Private training is best for diagnosing and fixing one specific limitation, because the coach sees exactly what is holding the player back. Group training supplies repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play against peers at a similar level. Fixing something in private and never testing it under pressure is how a "fix" quietly disappears by the next game. My kid does not want to be coached. Should I book anyway? No. The stated standard is that the player brings the effort and energy and is coachable. If the sessions are your idea and not theirs, start with a parent guidance conversation instead - those can be in person in Orange County or by phone or Zoom from anywhere - and work out what is actually going on before spending on field time. Do you offer soccer training outside Orange County? On-field training is based in Southern California. Parent guidance meetings can be held in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. How do I book a session? Create an account, click the activation link in your email, then return to reserve your spot for the session or event you want. You can pay at the event or via Zelle, and cancellations require 24 hours' notice. Call (714) 248-2592 if you would rather talk it through first. --- # “Soccer Trainer Near Me”: A Screening Process for Orange County Parents URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/soccer-trainer-near-me-orange-county/ Soccer Trainer Near Me in Orange County, CA: Private Training with a USSF B Licensed Coach This page is about finding a soccer trainer in Orange County, California, with on-field private and small-group training based in Irvine and the surrounding county. When you search "soccer trainer near me" from Irvine, Tustin, Newport Beach, or anywhere else in OC, screen by two things before you look at the map: which U.S. Soccer license the trainer holds, by name, and what team they are coaching right now. Distance should be the last filter, not the first. A trainer fifteen minutes farther across the county who can watch your player for ten minutes and name the actual fault will do more than a closer one running a generic session. Proximity is not a quality signal. It is only what a map is built to sort by. At a glanceAsk which U.S. Soccer license the trainer holds, by name, not just "licensed."Read the license ladder below so the answer means something instead of just sounding impressive.Ask what team the trainer is coaching right now, and at what level.Judge a first session by whether the trainer named a fault, not by how tired your player was.Let drive time break the tie between two qualified candidates. Nothing more. Why "near me" is the wrong first filter Map results are ranked by geography because geography is all a map knows. Nothing in that ranking has any information about whether a person can teach a 12-year-old to fix a plant foot. Most parents draw a five-mile radius, pick from inside it, then spend a season watching a rotating menu of cone drills with no through-line. The quiet fear underneath the search is not that your player is bad. It is that a year of Saturdays will pass and nothing will have changed. Before you shortlist individuals, it helps to see how the local landscape fits together. Our guide to Orange County youth soccer leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training maps where club, rec, high school, and supplemental training each sit, so you know what a private trainer is meant to add and what they are not there to replace. The belief worth putting down: more touches is not the product Families usually arrive assuming private training is interchangeable. Someone who knows soccer, a bag of balls, a park fifteen minutes away, an hourly rate. Extra touches without direction just make an existing habit permanent. A player who plants the wrong foot on every strike does not need 300 more reps of that strike. They need someone who sees it early, explains why it happens, and rebuilds it in a sequence the player can feel. You are not buying an hour of field time. You are buying a diagnosis. The same logic sits behind sorting a list of local soccer coaches by license and current coaching role instead of by miles. What a diagnosis actually looks like Here is the shape of it, in plain terms. A 13-year-old comes in because the ball "bounces off" her under pressure. The parent thinks it is strength. Ten minutes of watching shows something else: her first touch travels across her body, into the defender, instead of away into space. The fix is not more touches. It is one cue she can hold on a Saturday: touch to the far side, decided before the ball arrives. Then the session is built so she has to pick that side under a little pressure, over and over, until it stops being a thought. That same named fault and cue structure is laid out in more detail in our breakdown of first touch training for Irvine and Orange County players, including the 15-minute wall routine that holds it between sessions. What changes in a game is small and obvious at the same time. She still gets pressed. She just comes out the other side of it with the ball more often. That is what a working session produces, and it is the only outcome any trainer should be selling. Coach's noteThe number of sessions it takes varies by player and by habit. What does not vary is the order: name the fault, give one cue, then build the pressure back up around it. That order is the through-line for everything below. Question one: which U.S. Soccer license, by name? "Licensed" and "certified" are words, not credentials. Ask for the specific license and write down the answer. Here is what the ladder means, bottom to top, so the answer is readable instead of just impressive. U.S. Soccer coaching license ladderLicenseWhat it generally signals for youth work Grassroots / EEntry level. Common among volunteer and rec-team coaches. DThe usual step for competitive club coaches building a session plan. CSerious commitment, assessed on the field, typical of experienced club staff. BFourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS. Rare among private trainers. AThe top tier of the pathway, oriented toward senior and professional environments. A license is not a promise that someone is good with your 9-year-old. It does tell you the person has been assessed by someone other than themselves, on a field, against a standard. Do not stop at the answer, though. Verify it, using the steps below. Good to knowCoach Elmer Chacon holds a USSF B License, currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, and has spent nearly 20 years developing West Coast players. How to verify a coaching license You should not have to take a credential on faith. Verifying one takes a couple of minutes.Ask for the license by name, plus the license number and the year it was issued. A coach who holds one knows both without checking.U.S. Soccer licenses are earned and tracked through the U.S. Soccer Learning Center, which is where coaches manage their own coaching records. Ask the trainer to pull up their license record there and show you, or to send you a screenshot of it.Cross-check the second question the same way: ask which club and team they are coaching right now, then confirm the name appears on that club's staff or team page.If a trainer will not give a license name, a number, or an issue year, treat the refusal as the answer and move to the next name on your list. There is no version of this where the credential is real and the details are secret.Write the answers down next to each candidate. Two verified names is when drive time finally gets a vote. Question two: what team are you coaching right now? This is the question most parents skip, and it may be the most useful one on the list. A trainer who only runs private sessions has no live feedback loop on what today's game demands. Someone actively working at a competitive club, a high school program, or the MLSNext tier, the highest tier of youth competition in the country, sees weekly what earns a starting spot and what gets a player subbed off. That knowledge decays fast once a coach stops managing a team. For your player, it means the feedback is calibrated to the next rung, whether that rung is a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, or a college roster. Where to source names before you search at all Search results are a starting list, not a shortlist. Better names come from people who watch coaching for a living. Ask your club's Director of Coaching who they trust for individual work.Ask high school program staff who their players train with in the offseason.Ask AYSO Extra coaches, who often see the same kids across several years.Ask parents of players two age groups above yours, not your own team's sideline.Run every name through the two screening questions above. Price and cadence: what to expect Here is the anchor most pages leave out. As of August 2026, private 1-on-1 soccer training in Orange County generally runs somewhere in the range of about $75 to $150 per hour, small-group sessions commonly land near $25 to $60 per player per session because the coach's time is shared, and camps and multi-day breaks tend to work out lowest per hour, often in the $50 to $125 per day range, because the ratio is widest. Those are wide bands on purpose, and they are a snapshot of the local market rather than a quote. For reference, Top Notch Training's own rates sit inside them: $95 per hour for private 1-on-1, and $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six, with weekly group sessions at $45 (ages 9 to 12) and $55 (ages 12 to 17). Request a session and Coach Elmer confirms the exact price for your format. What pushes a session toward the top of the band: a licensed coach who is still coaching competitively at a high tier, 1-on-1 attention rather than shared time, longer sessions, permitted or turf field costs, travel to your field, and peak demand windows like preseason and school breaks. What pulls it toward the bottom: shared small-group formats, a wider camp ratio, a coach earlier on the license ladder, a public park close to the coach's base, off-peak scheduling, and packages or a steady weekly cadence rather than one-off bookings. Our own rates depend on format and cadence, so still ask for the current number in writing rather than trusting any published range, including this one. Current pricing for private, small-group, and camp options is listed with each format on the programs page, and the weekday and seasonal calendar sits on the training schedule. Cadence is where families overspend. Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County. During a heavy club season, bi-weekly work with homework between sessions often holds up better than adding a third field day to a tired player's week. Trainer, group, or camp: which format fits Once you have a qualified name, the next question is format. The three solve different problems, and the wrong format wastes good coaching. Private 1-on-1Best when there is one clear technical or decision-making fault to rebuild with full attention. Small groupBest when your player needs repetition under light pressure and a competitive edge, with individual correction still possible. Camps and school breaksBest for volume and confidence during gaps in the club calendar, especially for Youngers still learning to compete. If you are unsure which one your player needs right now, our breakdown of youth soccer development formats in Irvine walks through the tradeoffs by age band and goal. How to judge the first session A hard session is not automatically a good session. A player can sweat for an hour and learn nothing. Sweat is easy to produce. Diagnosis is not, which is the standard behind how parents should judge soccer coaching in Irvine and Orange County. Afterward, ask your player one thing: what did the coach tell you to fix? A specific fault plus a cue they can repeat back is a real signal. "We did a lot of dribbling" tells you something too. Across 800+ youth, club, and high school players trained, the pattern is consistent: the sessions that change a player start by naming one fault, not by stacking more drills on top of it. What it sounds like when it goes wrong Every example above works, which is not how 800+ players actually go. Here are three failure cases, because they are more useful for screening than the wins.A bad first session sounds vague when you ask your player about itThe tell is not exhaustion. It is the answer to "what did the coach tell you to fix?" A bad first session comes back as "we did a lot of dribbling," or "cones, then we shot," or "he said I need to be more confident." None of those is a fault and none of those is a cue. A player who cannot name the thing they are working on was not given one, and stacking more drills on top the following week does not create one. If that is the answer you get, treat the session as information about the trainer, not about your child.What parents said when the trainer had no current teamThe most common version we hear from families arriving after a stretch elsewhere: the sessions looked organized and the feedback still did not match what their player's coach was asking for on Saturday. The teaching drifts from what the next level actually asks for. Parents describe it as a season of decent hours that never moved anything, or a player who kept getting subbed off for reasons the training never touched. That is exactly why question two on the list is what team the trainer is coaching right now, and at what level.One time the first read was wrongThe shape of the wrong diagnosis looks a lot like the shape of the right one, which is the problem. A player whose first touch kept dying under pressure got the obvious read: a technical touch fault, so the first session was built around the touch. It held up in the drill and fell apart in the game. Watching again, the touch was fine when she had already decided where the ball was going. What was missing was the decision before the ball arrived, not the surface it came off. The plan changed to scanning and choosing a side early, and the touch cleaned itself up as a byproduct. The lesson we keep from it: if the cue does not transfer to Saturday, the fault was named wrong and it is the trainer's job to say so and start again. What geography actually decides Drive time still matters, for one reason: consistency. A trainer you can reach reliably every week beats a better trainer you cancel on twice a month. So use distance as a tiebreaker between two candidates who both passed the license and current-role questions. Parent guidance meetings can be held in person locally or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Where we train across Orange County On-field training is based in Irvine, and the county is small enough that most families are within a short drive of a session. Below is where sessions typically happen and roughly how far it is from Irvine, so you can see where drive time actually becomes a factor. Field choice depends on permits and season, so the specific park is confirmed when you book.Irvine (home base): Great Park Sports Complex, Las Lomas Community Park, Northwood Community Park, and other city fields. 0 to 10 minutes.Tustin: Columbus Tustin Park and Tustin Sports Park. Roughly 10 minutes.Lake Forest: Lake Forest Sports Park and Etnies Skate Park area fields. Roughly 10 to 15 minutes.Santa Ana: Centennial Regional Park and Jerome Park. Roughly 15 minutes.Costa Mesa: Jack R. Hammett Sports Complex and TeWinkle Park. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes.Newport Beach: Bonita Canyon Sports Park and Grant Howald Park. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes.Orange: Grijalva Park and Handy Park. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes.Mission Viejo: Mission Viejo Sports Park and Marguerite Recreation Center fields. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes.Anaheim: Anaheim Coves and Glover Stadium area fields. Roughly 20 to 25 minutes.Huntington Beach: Huntington Central Park Sports Complex and Edison Park. Roughly 20 to 25 minutes.Drive times are approximate and depend on the hour you pick, which is the real reason to schedule off peak when you can. Use that list the way the rest of this page suggests using a map: as a tiebreaker after the license and current-team questions, not before them. What no trainer should promise you Be careful with anyone selling an outcome. Nobody can guarantee a roster spot, a team placement, or a college offer, and a trainer who implies otherwise is telling you something about their judgment. What a good trainer commits to is a clear read on your player, a plan built around it, and honest feedback on effort and coachability. Those are the levers a player controls. For the full list of questions worth asking, see this parent's checklist for evaluating a youth soccer coach. The first call, scripted: five questions, in order Print this, or keep it open on your phone. Ask the five questions in this order, on the first call, before you talk about scheduling or rates. What you are listening for is specificity, which is the same standard behind what top notch soccer actually means in Irvine and Orange County. A good answer contains a name, a level, or a fault. A bad answer contains an adjective.1. Which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, by name?Good: "USSF B License." Then you check it against the ladder above.Bad: "I'm fully licensed and certified." If the answer has no letter in it, ask again, and write down whatever comes back the second time.2. What team are you coaching right now, and at what level?Good: "I'm coaching at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine this season." A named club and a named tier means there is a live feedback loop on what earns a starting spot right now.Bad: "I used to coach club, but now I just do privates."3. What ages have you worked with beyond my child's?Good: "Youngers through Olders, roughly 8 to 11 and 12 to 16, plus club and high school players." Range means they know what your player is being built toward, not just what this year looks like.Bad: "Whatever age you've got, it's all the same at that level." It is not all the same. An 8-year-old and a 15-year-old are being asked to solve different problems.4. What will you be watching for in the first session, and how will you tell me what you found?Good: "Give me ten minutes of watching and I'll name one fault and one cue your player can hold on Saturday." That is the whole product.Bad: "We'll do a full technical assessment and build a customized program." Ask what the first cue would sound like out loud. If nothing concrete comes back, you are buying field time, not a diagnosis.5. What is the rate for this format and cadence, in writing?Good: A specific number for a specific format, sent to you in writing, with what changes it: 1-on-1 versus shared time, session length, field and permit costs, travel, and peak windows.Bad: A number over the phone that shifts when you ask for it in an email. Also ask what cadence they would recommend during a heavy club season and see whether they are willing to talk you down to bi-weekly.The one answer that should end the call"Stick with me and I'll get your player on that team," or any version of a promised roster spot, team placement, or college offer. Thank them and hang up.Two candidates can both pass all five. That is when drive time gets a vote, and only then. FAQ How do I find a good soccer trainer near me in Orange County? Start with credentials, not the map. Ask each candidate which U.S. Soccer license they hold by name, what team they are currently coaching and at what level, and what ages they have worked with beyond your child's. Club Directors of Coaching, high school staff, and AYSO Extra coaches are all good places to source names. Then let drive time break the tie. Does a private soccer trainer need to be close to my house? No. Distance should be the last filter, not the first. Use proximity only to choose between two candidates who already passed the credential and current-role questions. What certifications should a private soccer trainer have? Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask specifically which one, then read it against the ladder above rather than taking "licensed" at face value. Very few private trainers hold a B License. How long and how often should private soccer sessions be? Private sessions here run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County. The right cadence depends on your player's club load and what is being rebuilt. Is a private trainer better than a small group for my player? It depends on the problem. Private work is best when there is one clear fault to rebuild with full attention. Small groups add competitive pressure and repetition while still allowing individual correction. Many families fix something specific one-on-one, then move to group work to make it hold up under pressure. How do I know if the training is working, and how many sessions does it take? Look for transfer, not fatigue. The number of sessions varies by player and by habit. After a few sessions your player should be able to name what they are working on, and you should see the cue show up in a game, even imperfectly. Where do sessions take place? On-field training is based in Irvine and runs on Orange County fields, including the city parks listed above. Field choice depends on permits --- # Soccer Coaching in Irvine and Orange County: How Parents Should Judge It URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/soccer-coaching-irvine-orange-county/ Good soccer coaching in Irvine and Orange County is diagnostic: the coach watches your player for about ten minutes, names the actual fault, and gives cues the kid still remembers on Saturday. Screen for that on the phone with two questions - which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, by name, and what team are you coaching right now, at what level. Drill volume, cone layouts, and drive time from your house tell you almost nothing about whether your player will improve. At a glanceAsk which U.S. Soccer license the coach holds, by name, not just "licensed."The ladder runs Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth or A Senior, Pro. For a 10-year-old, a current D or C holder who can diagnose is plenty.Ask what team the coach is currently coaching, and at what level - MLSNext, ECNL, NPL, high school, AYSO Extra.Verify at the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask for the license number and issue date.Judge session one by whether the coach named a fault, not by how tired your kid was. You already know something is off Your player works hard. They are not slow. But they fade in the second half, or the ball keeps bouncing off them under pressure, and their team coach has 16 other kids to manage. So you start typing and every website says the same three things: passion, experience, results. Two beliefs are worth putting down before you call anyone. The first: the best coach is the one who was the best player. Plenty of good former players demonstrate a skill beautifully. Far fewer can break it into three cues a 12-year-old holds under pressure. The second: a hard session is a good session. A player can sweat for an hour and learn nothing. Sweat is easy to produce. Diagnosis is not. If you are unsure what your player should even be working on, our breakdown of youth soccer development by age at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite lays out what typically matters at each band. The license ladder, and what is actually enough U.S. Soccer coaching license ladderU.S. Soccer coaching license ladderPro LicenseTop of the ladder.A Youth / A SeniorSenior and elite youth environments.B LicenseHeld by Coach Elmer Chacon.C LicenseCommon among competitive club coaches.D LicenseRealistic and sufficient for a youth private trainerwho diagnoses well.GrassrootsEntry-level introduction to coaching.Higher is not automatically better for a 10-year-old. U.S. Soccer coaching licenses run in order: Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth or A Senior, and Pro at the top. Higher is not automatically better for your kid. It is a signal about what environments the coach has been assessed in, nothing more. For a 10-year-old in a weekly private, a current D or C License holder who diagnoses well and follows up will move your player. A Pro License holder who runs a generic hour will not. Use the license to confirm someone has been formally assessed, then spend your real attention on what happens in the first ten minutes. To verify: check the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask the trainer directly for the license number and issue date. It takes about five minutes and almost no parent does it. What coaching actually looks like in the first hour Here is a composite of a real first session, details anonymized. Ten-year-old boy, competitive club. The dad's complaint on the phone: "he disappears in games." Minutes 0-10 are observation, not conditioning. Simple pass-and-receive work while the coach watches three things: what the first touch does under a little pressure, where the plant foot lands on strikes, and whether the head comes up before the ball arrives. Two connected faults surfaced. The plant foot was landing behind the ball, so strikes ballooned. And when a defender closed, the first touch went into his own feet. He was not slow. He was stuck. Then three cues, not fifteen: Plant beside the ball, not behind it.Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure.Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after. A ten-year-old can hold three. A paragraph of coaching does not survive a game. Coach's noteI have called it wrong. With one player I spent early sessions treating a first-touch fault, and the touch was fine in isolation. The real fault was scanning: he never looked before the ball came, so every touch was a reaction. Once the shoulder check went in, the touch problem mostly solved itself. A coach worth hiring will tell you when the first diagnosis was the wrong one. Coaching by skill: what a real fix looks like First touch and ball control The common Olders (12-16) version: unopposed, the player looks clean. Add a defender at the shoulder and the first touch goes square across the body into traffic, so the second touch is a panicked pass backwards. In session it gets isolated fast - a receiving pattern with a passive defender at the back shoulder, then a live one, with the player forced to take the touch on the back foot and out of pressure. The cue is six words on purpose: "Look before it comes, touch away from him." Our deeper piece on first touch training for Irvine and Orange County players walks through the progression. Finishing Ballooned strikes are usually a plant-foot problem before they are a power problem. When the plant lands behind the ball, the body opens and the ball climbs. Fixing where the foot lands beats a hundred more shots. Passing and vision Passing faults are often scanning faults wearing a disguise. If the head comes up only after the ball arrives, the pass was decided too late. That is why the shoulder check shows up in almost every diagnosis. Speed, agility, and goalkeeping Speed work is the easiest thing to sell and the easiest thing to fake, because it produces visible fatigue. Ask what the fitness work is meant to correct. Goalkeeping is its own specialty, and a good coach who does not train keepers regularly will say so rather than improvise an hour. The five-question first call Use these in order, on the phone, about any trainer in Orange County. First-call screening scriptQuestionGood answerBad answer Which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, by name?Names it - Grassroots, D, C, B, A - and gives the number and issue date."I'm licensed" with no name attached. What team are you coaching right now, and at what level?"I'm coaching at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine this season.""I used to coach club, but now I just do privates." What ages have you coached outside my child's?First-time beginners through college-bound competitive players.One age band only, taught the same way to everyone. What happens in the first ten minutes of session one?Observation, then a named fault and a few cues.A conditioning warmup and a cone layout. How will we know in three weeks if it worked?The fault gets retested, and there is homework in between."He'll be tired, that's how you know." A coach still working competitively knows what the next rung demands, which is why question two does so much work. Club Directors of Coaching, high school staff, and AYSO Extra coaches are all good places to source names. More on filtering search results in our guide to searching "soccer coaches near me" in Orange County. The Orange County landscape, in plain terms Permit type and slot time shape both where a session happens and what it costs. Locally you will run into Strikers FC, Slammers FC, Pateadores, Irvine Strikers, and AYSO Extra, plus visiting programs at showcase weekends. The tiers matter more than the crest: MLSNext and Girls Academy sit at the national end, ECNL and ECNL Regional League next, then NPL and state league play, then AYSO Extra and recreational. When a coach names their current team, ask which of those tiers it plays in. Sessions in this area live and die by field permits. Irvine's Great Park, Los Olivos, and Bill Barber Park are the fields families ask about most, and availability shifts with club season, school use, and city permit cycles. That is also why weekday evening slots on permitted turf cost more than a mid-morning hour at a public park. Good to knowIf a trainer will not tell you the field until the morning of, that is usually permits, not evasiveness. Ask which parks they typically hold and whether your slot is turf or grass. What coaching should cost in Orange County Typical bands, last checked August 2026: roughly $75-150 per hour for private sessions, $25-60 per player for small group, and $50-125 per day for camps. What moves the number: peak versus off-peak scheduling, permitted turf versus a public park, coach credentials, and group size. Ask what is included before you compare two quotes. For reference, Top Notch Training charges $95 per hour for private 1-on-1, and $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six; weekly group sessions are $45 (ages 9 to 12) and $55 (ages 12 to 17). Private, small group, or camp - and when to stop paying Private hour or group session?Private hour or group session?Does the shoulder check appearbefore the ball arrives?noMechanics are not in yet- keep the privatesessions and the...yesDoes the first touch go away frompressure, not across the body?noBody shape before theball is still the fault- stay with privates.yesDo both hold up when the game speedsup?noMechanics are fine; whatis missing iscompetitive repetition...yesHas the fault retested cleanerwithin about six sessions?noQuestion the diagnosisor the follow-throughbefore buying another...yesThe fix is holding - drop the cadence, keepthe homework, spend on competitive reps.Use the next game to decide what your player needs next. Use the next game as your test, then use a calendar. A single mechanical fault - plant foot, first touch out of pressure, shoulder check - should start showing up in games within roughly four to six private sessions with homework in between. If a named fault has not retested cleaner after about six sessions, the problem is the diagnosis or the follow-through, and you should say so out loud rather than buy another block. Weekly load matters too. At 8-11, one focused private or small-group session a week alongside club practice is usually enough, because attention, not volume, is the limit at that age. At 12-16, one private plus one competitive group session a week alongside club is a reasonable ceiling during season, with camps carrying the load over school breaks. If you are still weighing formats, start by naming the problem before you compare price per hour. And the stop signal: once the scan appears and the touch goes away from pressure under real game speed, the fix is holding. Drop the cadence, keep the homework, and put the money toward competitive repetition instead. Our page on picking the right training format in Irvine compares weekday group trainings, seasonal camps, and private or small-group sessions. How we answer our own checklist Coach Elmer Chacon holds the USSF B License. He currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine and is Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, where in his first season he took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. He has served as Director of Coaching for California Rush and as Youth Director and Technical Director, and across nearly 20 years on the West Coast he has coached first-time toddlers in grassroots programs he built himself through to elite, college-bound competitors. More than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with us as of August 2026. We do not promise team placement or playing time. We work on effort, coachability, and one named fault at a time. When you request a session, send your player's age, current team and level, and one sentence on what you see going wrong in games. That sentence is what the first ten minutes are built to test. You leave session one with a named fault and a small number of cues, and a date to retest them. FAQ How do I know if my kid's soccer coach is any good? Ask your player what they are working on. If they can name one or two specific things rather than just "drills," the coaching is landing. Then check whether anyone retests the fix a few weeks later. Naming a fault, giving a small number of cues, and following up is the whole job. What U.S. Soccer license should a private trainer have? The ladder is Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth or A Senior, and Pro. For a youth player in weekly privates, a current D or C holder who diagnoses well is sufficient. Higher licenses signal broader assessment, not better teaching for a 10-year-old. How do I verify a soccer trainer's coaching license? Check the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask the trainer directly for the license number and issue date. Then ask what team they are coaching right now. How much does private soccer coaching cost in Orange County? As of August 2026, private sessions generally run about $75-150 per hour, small group about $25-60 per player, and camps about $50-125 per day. Peak evening slots and permitted turf push the number up; off-peak times and public fields bring it down. Top Notch Training's own rates are $95 per hour for private 1-on-1, and $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six, with full details and booking steps here. Where are your sessions held in Irvine? Programs are based in Irvine, CA, with families coming from Tustin, Santa Ana, Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, and Huntington Beach. Great Park, Los Olivos, and Bill Barber are the fields parents ask about most, though exact locations shift with season and city permit availability. How often should my player train outside of team practice? At 8-11, one focused session a week alongside club is usually enough. At 12-16, one private plus one competitive group session a week is a reasonable in-season ceiling. Homework between sessions matters more than adding hours. Does a coach who played professionally make a better trainer? Not automatically. Demonstrating a skill and breaking it into three cues a 12-year-old holds under pressure are different abilities. Screen for diagnosis and current coaching role, not playing résumé. --- # Youth Soccer Development by Age: What Players Need at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/youth-soccer-development-by-age-8-11-12-16-high-school-elite/ Ages 8-11 (Youngers) need volume of touches, comfort on the ball, and permission to fail. Ages 12-16 (Olders) need decision-making and speed of play under real pressure from peers at a similar level. High school and elite players need position-specific refinement and honest feedback on what the next rung actually demands. That is the emphasis by band. Below, each band gets the same concrete treatment: one observable fault a parent can spot from the sideline, three cues, and one homework drill you can run this week without calling anyone. At a glance Ages 8-11: volume of touches, comfort on the ball, and permission to fail. Ages 12-16: decision-making and speed of play against peers at a similar level. High school and elite: position-specific refinement and one named block to fix. The cues barely change between bands - the speed and the pressure do. The mechanism is always the same: watch, name the fault, three cues, homework, retest. The belief most parents arrive with You have watched your player put in the effort. They go to every practice, they want it, and something still is not clicking on Saturday. The natural conclusion is that they need more: more sessions, more touches, more field time, and improvement will arrive on a schedule. That assumption is the expensive part. Extra touches without direction just make an existing habit permanent. A player who plants the wrong foot on every strike does not need 300 more reps of that. They need someone who can see it early, explain why it is happening, and rebuild it in a sequence the player can feel. So read what follows as a starting emphasis, not a curriculum. Every player develops differently. Some need more touches. Some need confidence. Some need sharper decision-making. Some need a coach who will push them, teach them, and hold them accountable. The age band tells you where to look first. It does not tell you what your individual player is missing. Ages 8-11 (Youngers): touches, comfort, and permission to fail This is the band where the ball should start feeling normal. The priority is repetition with the ball at the player's feet and enough encouragement that mistakes do not shut them down. Confidence at this age is not a soft goal. It determines whether a player keeps taking risks in games or starts drifting to safe positions where nobody passes to them. The fault to watch for The first touch under light pressure. When a defender closes, does the ball go into space, or straight into the player's own feet? A player whose touch dies at their feet looks slow. They are not slow. They are stuck. That specific fault, and the 15-minute-a-day first touch work Irvine and Orange County families can run against a wall, is covered in more detail separately. The three cues Cue economy matters more here than anywhere. Three cues, not fifteen. A ten-year-old can hold three: Plant beside the ball, not behind it. Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure. Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after. Those three came out of a real first session, details anonymized: a ten-year-old competitive club player whose dad's complaint on the phone was "he disappears in games." The first ten minutes were not conditioning, which is what most parents expect. They were simple pass-and-receive work while the coach watched three things: what the first touch does under a little pressure, where the plant foot lands on strikes, and whether the head comes up before the ball arrives. Two faults, and they were connected. The plant foot landed behind the ball, so strikes ballooned. The first touch went into his own feet, so he had nowhere to go. The homework A short daily block against a wall with those same three cues, done at game speed rather than comfortable speed. Plus one instruction for the parent: watch the plant foot at the next game and say nothing about it in the car. Four weeks later the strikes stayed down. The bigger change was the shoulder check, which is not a skill so much as a habit, and once it was there his first touch had somewhere to go. His coach thought he had gotten faster. He had not. He had gotten earlier. Ages 12-16 (Olders): decision-making and speed of play Around this band the game gets faster than the player's technique, and families read that as a fitness or effort problem. Usually it is timing. The information arrives too late, so the decision arrives too late, so the touch arrives too late. The fault to watch for Watch when your player's head comes up. If they scan only after the ball is already on their foot, every decision is made under maximum pressure with minimum information. That is the observable version of "slow." Watch also for the touch that always goes backward or square: a player who never turns is a player who did not know what was behind them. The three cues Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after - the same cue as the younger band, now applied at game speed with a defender genuinely closing. Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure, so the first touch is already the start of the next action. Plant beside the ball, not behind it, on strikes and driven passes, so the ball stays down and playable under pressure. These are the same three cues. That is the point, and it is worth saying plainly: the mechanics do not change between 11 and 14, the speed does. What changes at 12-16 is the environment they get tested in. The homework The wall block again, but with a rule change: the player must look over one shoulder before every wall return, and the touch must go across the body to a marked spot rather than back to where it came from. Comfortable speed defeats the drill. Then the real homework, which is not something a wall can supply: competitive repetition against peers at a similar level. Weekly group training exists for exactly this, giving players the repetition, pressure, and coaching they need to keep growing week after week. Fixing something in private and never testing it under pressure is how a "fix" quietly disappears by the next game. This is also the band where position identity starts to matter, along with how a player handles setbacks, playing time, and the experience of being one of the weaker players on a stronger team. High school and elite: refinement, and a coach who knows the next rung By this stage the useful question changes from "what skills is my player missing" to "what specifically sits between my player and the next level?" The fault to watch for At this level the fault is usually singular and identifiable rather than general: a weak left foot, a first touch that dies under pressure, a position change they have not adjusted to, or a confidence dip. One specific, nameable block. If you cannot name it in a sentence, that itself is the finding, and it is what a diagnostic hour is for. The three cues Cues at this level are chosen from the diagnosis, not from a list, because the fault is individual. But the discipline is identical to the ten-year-old's session: three cues, not fifteen. Far more good former players can demonstrate a skill than can break it into three cues a 12-year-old remembers under pressure. That is the difference between running drills and teaching the game, and it is what you should be buying at this stage. The homework Daily, short, at game speed, aimed at the one named block - the weak foot pattern, the pressured first touch, the movement the new position demands. Then retest it in a competitive environment where somebody is genuinely closing them down. Watch, name the fault, three cues, homework, retest. That sequence is the mechanism. Everything else is packaging. Why the coach's current level matters most here Ask any prospective trainer what team they are currently coaching and at what level. A trainer who only does private sessions has no live feedback loop on what today's game demands. Coach Elmer Chacon coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, the highest tier of youth competition in the country, holds a USSF B License (the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS), and in his first season as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. A coach working at MLSNext level knows precisely what the next rung looks like, whether that rung is a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, or a college roster. Top Notch Training has trained 800+ youth, club, and high school players, from first-time toddlers in programs Coach Elmer built himself to elite, college-bound competitors. Range is what lets a coach meet a player where they actually are instead of running the same template on everyone. A trainer who has only ever worked with one age band will teach your kid that band's session regardless of what the diagnostic says. What stays the same at every age Notice how little changed across those three bands. The cues repeat. The homework repeats in structure. What changes is the speed the player is asked to hold them at and the pressure they get tested under. That is the defensible version of "development by age," and it is a lot less complicated than the age-specific curriculums parents get sold. Parents matter more than most parents think, too. Player development is not just about what happens on the field. Confidence, expectations, motivation, and how a young athlete handles success, mistakes, pressure, and setbacks are all shaped at home, and there is a separate guide on how to support your player off the field, including what to say in the twenty minutes after a game. Parent guidance meetings can happen in person in Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Choosing the right format for your player's age and problem Private trainingPrivate training is best for diagnosing and fixing one specific limitation, because the coach sees exactly where a player is and what is holding them back. Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, at $95 per hour for 1-on-1 and $50 to $70 per player for small group, and the details of how private and small-group training in Irvine works, including typical costs and booking, are laid out separately. Group trainingGroup training supplies the repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play against peers at a similar level. Many families run both: private work to fix the mechanics, group work to test whether the fix holds when someone is closing them down. CampsCamps are worth a look during school breaks for a concentrated block across several days - technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, confidence building, and competitive play. See what is coming up on the soccer camps page, or look at the training schedule before you commit to anything. If you want the full list of questions to ask any trainer, the guide on what Orange County parents should actually look for in a private soccer coach covers them. Good to knowIf your player is putting in the effort and still looks stuck, the useful thing is not another year of hoping it clicks. It is one hour with someone who can name what is actually wrong. Call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you are seeing in games. That conversation costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether private training is even the right answer. Frequently asked questions What age should my kid start soccer training outside of their team? There is no single right age, and it depends more on the player than the birthday. Players in the 8-11 band generally benefit from volume of touches and confidence work, while 12-16 year olds benefit from competitive repetition and decision-making under pressure. If a player is putting in effort and still looks stuck, that is a better signal than age. Is private training better than group training for young players? Not automatically. Private training is best for diagnosing and fixing one specific limitation, because the coach sees exactly what is holding the player back. Group training supplies repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play against peers at a similar level. Fixing something in private and never testing it under pressure is how a "fix" quietly disappears by the next game. My 13-year-old looks slow in games. Is that a fitness problem? Often it is not. A player whose first touch goes into their own feet under pressure looks slow because they are stuck, not because they lack speed. The usual fix is earlier information, checking the shoulder before the ball arrives, plus a first touch that goes across the body into space. That is a diagnostic question, best answered by watching the player for ten minutes. How long does it take to see improvement from private soccer training? It varies by player and by what is being fixed. In the composite session described above, a ten-year-old's ball-striking and shoulder-check habit changed noticeably over about four weeks, with daily wall work between sessions at game speed. Habits tend to move faster than physical qualities, and nobody should promise you a timeline or an outcome. What certifications should a private soccer coach have? Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask specifically which one. The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and very few private trainers hold it. Then ask a second question most parents skip: what team are you currently coaching, and at what level? How do I register for training in Irvine? You create an account, activate it by email, then come back to reserve your spot. Payment is at the event or via Zelle, with 24 hours' notice required on cancellations. You can book a training session here, or join the announcement list for $25 off your first training plus notice of camps and clinics before they fill. --- # Orange County Youth Soccer: Leagues, Clubs, AYSO, and Training Explained URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/orange-county-youth-soccer-guide-leagues-clubs-ayso-training/ Orange County youth soccer runs on three separate tracks, and only one of them is a development plan. Recreational leagues (AYSO, city rec) handle exposure and fun. Club programs (MLSNext, ECNL, SCDSL, Coast) handle competition. Supplemental training - group sessions, camps, private work - handles the individual player. Your child belongs to a league or club; training is how they improve between team practices. Below: how the tracks differ, what each realistically costs in money and weekends, and a 60-second checklist to tell whether your player needs club, needs private work, or needs neither yet. At a glance Rec (AYSO, city rec) is for exposure and fun; club (MLSNext, ECNL, SCDSL, Coast) is for competition; supplemental training is the only track aimed at the individual player. Club tryouts cluster late May through June, so the work that changes a tryout outcome has to happen in the months before. Rec is a season fee plus uniform in the low hundreds; club is a different order of magnitude once dues, kit, tournaments, referee fees and travel are added. The cost nobody itemizes is the calendar: most Saturdays, many Sundays, weekday evenings, and drive time across county lines. Making a club team does not mean development is handled - "what flight, and who coaches the team?" is the better question than "what club?" The situation you are probably in right now Your player finished a rec season, or a first club season, and something is nagging. They are working. They like the game. But they look a half-step behind the kids who get picked first, and nobody has told you why. Meanwhile another parent on the sideline mentions tryouts, and a league name you have never heard, and a flight number, and suddenly it feels like there is a system everyone else understood two years ago. There is a system. It is not complicated once someone maps it. And the honest news is that the map matters less than one question: what specifically is holding your player back? Naming that problem is also how you choose between weekly group training, camps, and private sessions. Most parents spend a year solving that with a team change. It is usually a training problem, not a roster problem. Track 1: Recreational soccer (AYSO and city rec) AYSO is organized by geographic Regions, and Orange County families generally play in the region covering their city. The larger local ones parents in this area will run into include regions serving Irvine, Tustin, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Laguna Niguel, and San Clemente, alongside city-run rec leagues such as those in Irvine and Tustin. Exact region numbers and boundaries change, so confirm on the AYSO region site for your city before you register. Season shape: registration for the fall season typically opens in spring (roughly March through June, with some regions filling early), evaluations and team formation happen in late summer, and games run Saturdays through the fall. Many regions also offer a spring season. Fees vary by region and year, so check your region's current page rather than a number you read on a forum. Rec soccer is volunteer-coached and built around participation. Everyone plays. For a 7 or 8-year-old this is often exactly right. The limitation is not the coaching, which is frequently excellent. It is repetition: a practice split across 12 to 16 kids with one volunteer parent gives thin individual touch volume. Fine for exposure. Thin once a player has decided they want to be good. Track 2: Club soccer, tier by tier Club means tryouts, a longer season, travel, and real cost. Here is the tiering, top down, as parents in Orange County will encounter it. MLSNext (boys) and the top girls' platforms MLSNext is the highest tier of youth competition in the country. Coach Elmer Chacon currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, which is a useful reference point for parents: it is the rung above the rung above most club teams. On the girls' side, ECNL and its regional league sit at the comparable top of the pyramid. ECNL and ECNL Regional League National-platform leagues with regional divisions. Rosters here are typically the top team in an age group at a given club. SCDSL and Coast Soccer League (flighted) The volume of Orange County club soccer lives here. Teams are placed into flights (Flight 1 at the top, then Flight 2, 3 and downward), and placement is re-evaluated by season based on results. A Flight 3 team at a large club and a Flight 1 team at a small club can be closer in level than the club names suggest, which is why "what club?" is a worse question than "what flight, and who coaches the team?" The tryout window Club tryouts for the following season cluster in late May through June, with some clubs adding secondary sessions in July for unfilled spots. That timing matters: the work that changes a tryout outcome has to happen in the months before, not the week of. Spring is when players either close a gap or arrive at the same field with the same limitation they had last year. What each track actually costs Money is the part parents get vague answers about, so here is a straight framing. AYSO and city rec are the low end: a season fee, usually plus a uniform, in the low hundreds of dollars, varying by region and year. Club is a different order of magnitude once you add annual club dues, uniform kit, tournament entries, referee fees, and travel. Ranges swing widely by club and tier, and any specific number you see quoted online may be a year out of date, so ask the club's registrar for a written all-in figure that includes uniforms, tournaments, and expected travel before you commit. The cost nobody itemizes is the calendar. A club season means most Saturdays and many Sundays committed, weekday evening practices, and drive time that can stretch across county lines for league play and tournaments. Before saying yes to a tier, count the weekends your family can genuinely give it. For supplemental training at Top Notch: private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County. Payment is at the event or via Zelle, with 24 hours' notice required on cancellations. Current per-session and camp pricing is listed when you book a training session, and joining the announcement list gets you $25 off your first training plus early notice of camps and clinics before they fill. The belief worth correcting: club soccer is not a development plan The most common assumption we hear from Orange County parents is that making a club team means development is now handled. It is not. A club team's job is to win games in a league. A good club coach develops players in service of that, but they are managing 16 to 18 kids and a season schedule. Nobody in that setting has 40 minutes to rebuild your daughter's weak-foot mechanics or teach your son to receive on the half-turn under pressure. That is the gap. It is why players on strong club teams still plateau, and why plenty of rec players who train seriously on the side pass club players who do not. Good to knowMore than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with Top Notch Training as of August 2026, and the ones who improve fastest are almost never the ones with the most impressive team badge - they are the ones getting extra touches every week. The 60-second decision tool Signs your player is ready to try club Score one point each: They ask to play or practice outside of scheduled team time. They are consistently one of the more involved players in rec games, not by size but by touches. They handle correction without shutting down, and try the fix in the next drill. They can receive, turn, and pass under mild pressure without panicking. Your family can genuinely give most weekends and the drive time for a full season. The player, not the parent, is the one pushing for it. Four or more, especially including the last one, and a tryout is a reasonable next step. Fewer than four and club is likely to cost you money and enthusiasm at the same time. Signs they need targeted training instead (or first) You can name the problem in one sentence: weak left foot, first touch dies under pressure, hides from the ball late in games. They train hard at team practice and still look a beat slow in matches. They just changed positions and look lost in the new one. They were confident last season and are not now. They are getting minutes but not the ball, which is usually a decision-speed issue, not an effort issue. Any two of these, and the useful next move is a diagnostic session, not a tryout. One-on-one is best when there is a specific, identifiable block, because the coach sees exactly what is holding the player back. Group training supplies the repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play that make a fix stick. If you are still weighing formats, start by naming the problem before you compare price per hour. Many families run both: private work to correct the mechanics, group work to test whether the correction survives someone closing them down, and our breakdown of how private and small-group sessions in Irvine work covers session length, scheduling, and typical costs. Fixing something in private and never testing it under pressure is how a "fix" quietly disappears by the next game. Who is coaching, in one box Coach Elmer Chacon holds a USSF B License, the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer and two levels below the MLS requirement. He currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, has spent nearly 20 years developing West Coast players, served as Director of Coaching for California Rush, and in his first season as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. When you evaluate any trainer, ask two questions: which U.S. Soccer license, and what team are you coaching right now and at what level. The same two questions anchor our parent checklist for judging a youth soccer coach, and our guide on what Orange County parents should actually look for in a private coach explains why the second question filters out more people than the first. Matching training to the age band Youngers (8-11)Touches and confidence. The goal is a comfortable relationship with the ball and the habit of trying things. Weekly group training with peers at a similar level does most of the work. Rec or club both function fine as the home team at this age. Olders (12-16)Speed of play and decision-making. This is where players separate, and where a specific technical block starts costing minutes. Group training for competitive repetition, private sessions when there is a nameable fault to fix. For a fuller breakdown of what players need at each age band, see our age-by-age guide. High School / ElitePosition-specific detail, physical demands, and execution under real pressure. Usually a mix: group work to stay sharp, private work for targeted problems, camps during breaks for a concentrated block. You can see how group trainings, camps, private sessions, and parent guidance line up side by side. Where school breaks fit League and club calendars leave gaps: winter break, spring break, and the long summer stretch, which lands right before and after the May-June tryout window. Those weeks are either lost or concentrated development. Soccer camps in Irvine combine technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, and competitive play across several days, which is a large volume of touches in a short window. Past camps have run mornings at Oak Creek Park in Irvine for boys and girls, and dates and locations vary by camp, so check the current listing. Before you register anywhere, it is worth knowing the one question that separates a coached camp from a supervised one: the coach-to-player ratio at each station. Your next step If your player is putting in the effort and still looks stuck, another season of hoping it clicks is not a plan. One hour with a coach who can name what is actually wrong usually tells you more than a year of guessing. Look at the training schedule to see what is running, or call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you are seeing in games. That conversation costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether training is even the right answer. One standard applies across every program: the player brings the effort, the energy, and a willingness to be coached. We do not promise team placement or roster spots. We work on the things that make a player harder to leave out. FAQ When are club soccer tryouts in Orange County? Club tryouts for the following season generally run late May through June, with some clubs holding additional sessions in July for spots that did not fill. Confirm dates directly with each club, since they publish independently. The practical takeaway: the improvement that changes a tryout result has to be built in the months beforehand, not the week of. Is AYSO or club soccer better for my 9-year-old? It depends on what your child wants, not on which is objectively superior. AYSO and city rec give a lower-pressure introduction with less cost and travel. Club offers stronger competition, a longer season, tryouts, and a much bigger commitment of weekends and driving. A 9-year-old in rec who trains seriously on the side can develop faster than a club player who only shows up to team practice. What do MLSNext, ECNL, SCDSL and Coast actually mean? They are the leagues club teams compete in, roughly top down. MLSNext is the highest tier of youth competition in the country, with ECNL and its regional league on the comparable national platform. SCDSL and Coast Soccer League hold the bulk of Orange County club teams and use flights, with Flight 1 at the top and lower flights below. Flight and coach tell you more about your player's weekly experience than the club's name does. How much does youth soccer cost per year in Orange County? Rec through AYSO or a city league is the low end, typically a season fee plus uniform in the low hundreds, varying by region and year. Club is substantially higher once dues, uniform kit, tournament entries, referee fees and travel are added, and it varies widely by club and tier, so request a written all-in figure from the registrar. Budget the calendar too: most weekends and significant drive time for a full club season. Can supplemental training get my child onto a club team? No coach can promise team placement, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Selection belongs to club coaches and depends on their needs that year. What training can do is improve the things coaches evaluate at tryouts: first touch, both feet, decision speed, defensive work rate, and coachability. My kid does not want extra training. Should I sign them up anyway? No. The standard is that the player brings the effort and energy and is coachable. If the sessions are your idea and not theirs, start with a parent guidance conversation and work out what is actually going on before spending on field time. Those meetings can happen in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Where are your training programs located? On-field training is based in Irvine and Orange County, Southern California. Parent guidance meetings are more flexible: in person if you are local, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. --- # First Touch Soccer Training for Youth Soccer Players in Irvine and Orange County URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/first-touch-soccer-irvine-orange-county/ First touch training in Irvine and Orange County is almost never a volume problem. The fault we see most is a first touch that dies at the player's own feet when a defender closes, which makes a player look slow when they are actually stuck. To improve first touch, Orange County families need one named fault, three cues, and 15 minutes a day of first touch drills against a wall - not 300 more reps of the same broken habit. At a glanceA dying first touch is usually body shape and scanning, not foot surface.Three cues, not fifteen: plant beside the ball, touch across your body into space, shoulder check before the ball arrives.Homework: 15 minutes a day, five days a week, at game speed.Watch your player's head in the two seconds before the ball arrives, not the ball.The sessions that change a player start by naming one fault, not by stacking more drills on top of it. The belief worth putting down first Families usually arrive assuming private training is interchangeable. Someone who knows soccer, a bag of balls, a park fifteen minutes away, an hourly rate. Under that assumption, first touch is a counting problem: more touches, better touch. Extra touches without direction just make an existing habit permanent. A player who plants the wrong foot on every strike does not need 300 more reps of that strike. They need someone who sees it early, explains why it happens, and rebuilds it in a sequence the player can feel. You are not buying an hour of field time. You are buying a diagnosis. If you are still mapping how clubs, AYSO, and trainers fit together locally, our Orange County youth soccer guide to leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training sets the landscape. This page is about one skill inside it. Programs and booking Three formats, all run on Orange County fields with the specific park confirmed when you book, based on permits and season. Pick the one that matches the problem you named, not the one that sounds like the premium tier. Book a session or call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you see in games. Private 1-on-1 training (ages 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite). 1 to 2 hours per session, weekly or bi-weekly, on an Orange County field. Best for one named block: a first touch that dies under pressure, a weak left foot, a position change.Small-group and weekly group sessions (ages 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite). Consistent weekly sessions in Irvine and Orange County. Best when the mechanics hold up in drills and disappear the moment the game speeds up, because what is missing is competitive repetition and speed of play against similar-level peers.Team sessions and school-break camps (ages 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite). Camps run several days across a school break in Irvine and Orange County, technical work plus game situations, which is a concentrated block a single weekly hour cannot match. Booking works the same way for all three: create an account and activate it by email, come back and reserve your spot, then pay at the event or via Zelle. Cancellations need 24 hours' notice. Joining the announcement list gets you $25 off your first training plus notice of camps and clinics before they fill. Private training is $95 per hour and small group is $50 to $70 per player per hour. For a fuller walkthrough of formats and costs, see our Irvine private and small-group training page. What to watch for from the sideline Watch one thing on Saturday: when a defender closes, does the ball go into space, or straight into your player's own feet? A player whose touch dies at their feet looks slow. They are not slow. They are stuck. The second touch becomes a panicked pass backwards, and the sideline read becomes "he disappears in games." The second tell is the head. If your player scans only after the ball is already on their foot, every decision is made under maximum pressure with minimum information. A player who never turns is usually a player who did not know what was behind them. Good to knowParents often describe this as nerves. "She gets nervous." It is not nerves. It is body shape before the ball arrives. The three cues, and how to grade them at home Cue economy matters more here than anywhere. Three cues, not fifteen. A ten-year-old can hold three. Plant beside the ball, not behind it.Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure.Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after. Each cue has a visible wrong version and a visible right version, which is what makes it gradeable by a parent with no coaching background. Plant foot behind the ball means the strike balloons. Plant foot beside the ball means the ball stays down. Touch into the feet means the next action is backwards. Touch across the body into space means the first touch is already the start of the next action. Head up after the ball arrives means the decision is late. Head up before it arrives means the touch has somewhere to go. These same three cues carry into Olders (12-16) and High School/Elite. The mechanics do not change between 11 and 14, the speed does, and so does the environment they get tested in. Our breakdown of what players need at 8-11, 12-16, and high school level goes deeper on that progression. What the first ten minutes of a session actually look like The mechanism: watch, name, cue, homework, retest. The order does not change. Everything else is packaging. Watch. Minutes 0-10 are simple pass-and-receive observation, not conditioning.Name one fault. It is usually the plant foot, the first touch under pressure, or the timing of the head.Give three cues. Not fifteen. A ten-year-old can hold three.Set the homework. Fifteen minutes a day, five days a week, at game speed.Retest on Saturday. If the cue does not transfer to the game, the fault was named wrong and the trainer starts again. Take a case, details anonymized. Ten-year-old boy, competitive club. The dad's complaint on the phone was that he disappears in games. Minutes 0-10 were observation, not conditioning, which is what most parents expect. Simple pass-and-receive work while the coach watched three things: what the first touch does under a little pressure, where the plant foot lands on strikes, and whether the head comes up before the ball arrives. Two faults surfaced, and they were connected. The plant foot landed behind the ball, so strikes ballooned. The first touch, when a defender closed, went into his own feet, so he had nowhere to go. Three cues followed, then homework. Four weeks later his coach thought he had gotten faster. He had not. He had gotten earlier. The homework, written out so you can use it without booking anything The whole homework setup: a wall, a ball, and fifteen minutes. This is the between-session block that carried that case, and any family can run it against a garage door or a park wall. 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Shorter and daily beats one long weekend session. 5 minutes: 40 strikes against the wall, alternating feet, one thought only - plant beside the ball. Count them out loud so the rep is deliberate.5 minutes: 50 first touches off the rebound, every touch pushed across the body into space, never back into the feet.5 minutes: same rebound work, but a shoulder check before every ball arrives. 30 reps. Do all of it at game speed, not comfortable speed. Comfortable speed builds a habit that vanishes under pressure. One instruction for the parent: watch the plant foot at the next game, and say nothing about it in the car. What should change, and roughly when By the end of week two you should see two things: strikes staying below head height more often than not, and the head turning before the ball arrives instead of after. The shoulder check is the one to watch, because it is a habit rather than a skill, and once it is there the first touch has somewhere to go. By week four, in the case above, the change was visible to someone who did not know the plan: the club coach read it as speed. Beyond that, the honest answer is that timelines vary by player, age band, and how heavy the club season is. Anyone quoting you a guaranteed date is selling, not coaching. When it is not a touch fault at all The shape of a wrong diagnosis looks a lot like the shape of the right one, which is the problem. One player's first touch kept dying under pressure and got the obvious read: a technical touch fault, so the first session was built around the touch. It held up in the drill and fell apart in the game. Watching again, the touch was fine whenever she had already decided where the ball was going. What was missing was the decision before the ball arrived, not the surface it came off. The plan changed to scanning and choosing a side early, and the touch cleaned itself up as a byproduct. If the cue does not transfer to Saturday, the fault was named wrong, and it is the trainer's job to say so and start again. Grade your player at the next game: private hour or group session? You do not need a trainer in the stands to score this. Pick one game, watch your player rather than the ball, and grade the three cues. Say nothing about it in the car. CuePass looks likeFail looks likeWhat to doPlant beside the ballStrikes stay down, below head height more often than not.Strikes balloon, because the plant foot lands behind the ball.Stay on the 5-minute wall block, 40 strikes alternating feet, one thought only.Touch across the body into spaceThe first touch is already the start of the next action, going away from pressure.The touch dies at their own feet and the second touch is a pass backwards.Body shape before the ball is still the fault, so keep the private diagnosis work going.Shoulder check before the ball arrivesThe head turns in the two seconds before the ball reaches them.They scan only after the ball is on their foot, so every decision is late.Add the 5-minute rebound block with a shoulder check before every ball, 30 reps. Score the whole game, not one moment. If all three pass in drills and at home but disappear the moment the game speeds up, the mechanics are fine and what is missing is competitive repetition, which is group training rather than another private hour. If two or three fail, the fault has not been named correctly yet, and that is a conversation to have before booking anything else. If the fix is holding even when the game speeds up, keep the session cadence light and keep the homework. Here is the same fault one band up, in Olders (12-16). Unopposed, the player looks clean. Add a defender at their shoulder and the first touch goes square across the body into traffic, so the second touch is a panicked pass backwards. In session it gets isolated fast: a receiving pattern with a passive defender at the back shoulder, then a live one, with the player forced to take the first touch on the back foot and out of pressure. The cue is short on purpose: "Look before it comes, touch away from him." Six words, because a paragraph of coaching does not survive a game. Our page on picking the right training format in Irvine lays out how weekday group trainings, seasonal camps, and private or small-group sessions each fit. Screening a first-touch trainer on the phone Two questions, asked verbatim, sort a local list faster than distance does. First: "Which USSF license do you hold, by name?" A good answer names the license. A bad answer is a vague "I'm certified." Verify through the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask for the license number and issue date. Second: "What team are you coaching right now?" A current competitive role means the read on what today's game demands is live, not remembered. Our screening process for Orange County parents walks the rest of the call, question by question. How to judge the session afterward A hard session is not automatically a good session. A player can sweat for an hour and learn nothing. Sweat is easy to produce. Diagnosis is not. Ask your player one thing: what did the coach tell you to fix? A specific fault plus a cue they can repeat back is a real signal. "We did a lot of dribbling" tells you something too. The pattern is consistent: the sessions that change a player start by naming one fault, not by stacking more drills on top of it. Meet your coach: Elmer Chacon The training on this page is run by Coach Elmer Chacon, working on Orange County fields out of Irvine. Coaching license: USSF B License, the fourth-highest coaching certification in U.S. Soccer and two levels below what is required to coach in MLS. You are welcome to verify it through the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask for the license number and issue date.Current competitive role: coaching at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, so the read on what today's game demands is live rather than remembered.Years coaching: nearly 20 years, on the West Coast.Who he works with: youth, club, and high school players in the Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite bands, in private 1-on-1, small-group and weekly group sessions, team sessions, and school-break camps. A photo of Coach Chacon on the field belongs with this section, and we will add it here. FAQ First touch drills for youth soccer players: what should we do at home? Use a wall or garage door, 15 minutes a day, five days a week: 5 minutes of 40 strikes alternating feet with one cue, 5 minutes of 50 first touches off the rebound pushed across the body into space, and 5 minutes of the same rebound work with a shoulder check before every ball, 30 reps. Do it at game speed. Shorter and daily beats one long weekend session. Why does my child look slow on the field even though they're fast? Usually they are not slow, they are stuck. If the first touch goes into their own feet when a defender closes, there is nowhere to go with the second touch. And if they scan only after the ball is on their foot, every decision gets made under maximum pressure with minimum information. Fixing the shoulder check often reads to a club coach as a speed improvement. Is private training or group training better for first touch? It depends on where the fault sits. If the mechanics are wrong, a private hour with a real diagnosis is the faster path. If the mechanics hold up in drills but vanish when the game speeds up, the player needs competitive repetition, which group training provides. A trainer who tells you the second one is the honest one. For what each format involves and how booking works, see our Irvine private and small-group training page. How do I verify a soccer trainer's coaching license? Check the US Soccer Learning Center, or ask the trainer directly for the license number and issue date. Then ask what team they are coaching right now. A current competitive coaching role tells you their read on the game is live rather than remembered. What is a first touch in soccer? The first touch is what the player does with the ball the instant it reaches them. A good one puts the ball across the body into space, away from pressure, so the first touch is already the start of the next action. A poor one dies at the player's own feet, which leaves nowhere to go and turns the second touch into a panicked pass backwards. At what age should a player start first touch training? There is no single right age, and it depends more on the player than the birthday. Players in the Youngers band (8-11) generally benefit from volume of touches and confidence work, while Olders (12-16) benefit from competitive repetition and decision-making under pressure. The three cues on this page carry through all three bands, including High School/Elite. If a player is putting in effort and still looks stuck in games, that is a better signal than age. How long until a first touch improves? By the end of week two you should see strikes staying below head height more often than not and the head turning before the ball arrives. In the case described above, a ten-year-old's change was visible by week four to a club coach who did not know the plan, and he read it as speed. Timelines vary by player, age band, and how heavy the club season is, and anyone quoting a guaranteed date is selling rather than coaching. How often should my player train? Cadence is usually weekly or bi-weekly, 1 to 2 hours per session, with homework between sessions during a heavy club season. The between-session block matters more than session frequency: 15 minutes a day, five days a week, at game speed against a wall or garage door does more for a first touch than a second paid hour in the same week. Do you train teams as well as individuals? Yes. Alongside private 1-on-1 and small-group or weekly group sessions, we run team sessions and school-break camps across the Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite bands. Camps run several days across a break in Irvine and Orange County, technical work plus game situations. Where in Orange County do sessions take place? On-field training is based in Irvine and runs on Orange County fields, with the specific park confirmed when you book because availability depends on permits and season. Ask for the confirmed location in writing when you schedule so you are not guessing on the first drive. Parent guidance conversations are more flexible: in person if you are local, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere. Booking a first session in Irvine The first session runs 1 to 2 hours on an Orange County field. The order does not change: watch, name one fault, give one cue the player can carry into a game, then rebuild pressure around it. From there, cadence is usually weekly or bi-weekly, with homework between sessions during a heavy club season. When you request a session, tell us the age band (Youngers 8-11, Olders 12-16, or High School/Elite), the complaint in your own words, and what position they play. We work on effort, coachability, and the mechanics under them. We do not promise team placement. Ready to start? Book a session for private 1-on-1, small-group, or team and camp training in Irvine and Orange County, or call (714) 248-2592. Create an account, activate it by email, reserve your spot, and pay at the event or via Zelle. Cancellations need 24 hours' notice. --- # For Parents: How to Support Your Player Off the Field URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/how-to-support-your-youth-soccer-player-parents/ The highest-leverage thing most parents control is not the training calendar, it is the twenty minutes after the game and the expectations sitting at home. Player development is not just what happens on the field. Parents play a major role in confidence, expectations, motivation, and how a young athlete handles success, mistakes, pressure, and setbacks. That is why parent guidance sits alongside on-field work at Top Notch Training, and why the honest first question is usually not "which program?" but "what is actually going on with my player?" At a glanceConfidence and how a player handles mistakes are shaped at home as much as at practice.If extra training is your idea and not your player's, start with a parent guidance conversation, not a field booking.The standard across every program: the player brings the effort, the energy, and a willingness to be coached.No coach can promise team placement, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. The belief worth putting down first Most parents assume support means logistics. Sign up for more, drive further, buy the next thing. Volume is the easiest lever to pull, so it gets pulled first. But a player who is anxious about mistakes does not get less anxious with a second weekly session. They get more repetitions of the same fear. The pattern in their head travels to every field you drive to. What changes things is narrower and cheaper: what gets asked after games, what gets praised, and what your player believes happens when they lose the ball. Across 800+ youth, club, and high school players trained as of August 2026, parents consistently report the difference showing up in confidence and how their kid carries themselves, not only in the play. Before you book anything, diagnose it at home When a player starts dragging their feet about soccer, three very different things get mistaken for each other: they are tired, they are unhappy with a coach or a role, or they are quietly embarrassed about something they cannot do. Same shrug in the doorway. Completely different fixes. A phone call can sort it, but you can get most of the way there yourself first. Is it fatigue? Fatigue is broad and it does not care about soccer. Ask yourself: is homework also sliding? Are they sleeping in on weekends they used to be up for? Did the club season, high school season, and a tournament weekend just stack? If the answer is yes across the board, the fix is a lighter week, not a new coach. Ask them directly: "If you could drop one thing this month, what would it be?" Fatigue answers fast and honestly. Is it the coach or the role? This one is narrow. They are fine at school, fine at futsal with friends, and flat only at team training. The tell is in what they avoid talking about. Try: "What is practice like on a normal Tuesday?" and then say nothing. Complaints about fairness, minutes, or being moved to a position they did not choose usually come out within a minute if you leave room. Is it an unnamed technical embarrassment? The hardest to spot, because kids hide it well. Signs: they stop asking for the ball in certain areas, they take the safe backward pass every time, they suddenly hate one position. Ask: "What is the moment in a game you least want to happen?" Almost every player has one. A weak left foot, a first touch that dies under pressure, being turned by a faster winger. Once it is named out loud, it stops being a character trait and becomes a coaching problem, which is a much better problem to have. Good to knowIf your player is putting in real effort and still looks stuck, that is a coaching question, not a character question. Call (714) 248-2592 and describe what you are seeing in games. That conversation costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether training is even the right answer. Support looks different at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite The soccer content changes less by age than parents expect. As our guide to what players need at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite explains, the cues repeat across bands. What changes is the speed the player is asked to hold them at and the pressure they get tested under. Your job shifts along the same curve. Early on you protect enjoyment and the habit of trying things. Later you hand over ownership. Youngers (8-11): the kid who tries to turn and loses it Picture a 9-year-old who receives with her back to goal, tries to spin out of trouble, and gets dispossessed. She looks straight to the sideline for your reaction. The wrong response, said with the best intentions: "Just play it back next time, sweetheart." She will hear that. She will play it back for the rest of the season, and the turn she was one week from owning quietly disappears. The response that works: "I loved that you tried to turn. Do it again." She is doing the right thing badly, which is exactly what learning looks like at this age. Keep the postgame short and let her pick the topic. Olders (12-16): the playing-time conversation A 13-year-old comes off after 22 minutes on a Saturday. He has been dropped to the bench in a flight-one team, and he is furious in the back seat. You are furious too, because you can name three kids who play ahead of him and you do not agree with any of it. What most parents want to say, and often do: "That coach does not see what you can do. I am going to email him." It feels like loyalty. What it teaches is that minutes are decided by adults and negotiated by parents, which is precisely the belief that keeps a player passive at 15. What to say instead: "That was frustrating. What do you think he wants to see more of from you?" Then stop. Let the silence do the work. If he says "I don't know," that is a real answer and a useful one, because now you have a question worth taking to a coach who can watch him and name it. One family ran exactly this. The parent held off on the email, the player admitted he was hiding from the ball when the pressure came on, and over about six weeks of work on receiving under pressure the minutes came back on their own. Not because anyone lobbied. Because the thing the coach was seeing changed. We do not promise team placement or roster spots. We work on the things that make a player harder to leave out. High School/Elite: hand over the wheel A 16-year-old is juggling high school season, club, and college interest, and is running on five hours of sleep. The instinct is to manage the calendar for her. Instead of "I have booked you Thursday," try "What do you want to be better at by December, and what does that need from your week?" At this stage the player should be driving the training conversation. Your job is to ask whether the schedule is sustainable and to hold the standard when she wants to skip the hard part. The car ride home It is the single highest-leverage twenty minutes in youth sports, and it is free. It is also where a lot of quiet damage gets done, usually by parents who mean well and are still processing the game themselves. A workable default: say something warm, ask one open question, then let silence sit. If they want to talk, they will. If they do not, the game is over and dinner is next. Wait until they bring up the game before you do. Ask "what was the hardest part today?" instead of "why didn't you shoot?" Never coach from the passenger seat within an hour of the final whistle. Keep referee and coach commentary out of it entirely. Notice effort and bravery out loud, even in a loss. When your player does not want extra training This comes up constantly, and the honest answer is no, do not book anyway. The standard across every program is that the player brings the effort and energy and is coachable. An hour of field time paid for by a parent and resented by a player teaches nothing except that soccer is now a chore with a price tag. If the sessions are your idea and not your player's, the right first step is a parent guidance conversation, not a field booking. Run the three questions above first. Fatigue, a coach relationship, or an unnamed weakness lead to three different next moves, and only one of them is a training session. What a parent guidance meeting actually covers It is a conversation about the player, not a sales call about programs. Typical ground: how your player responds to mistakes, what expectations have quietly been set at home, whether the current schedule fits, and what to say and what to leave alone around games and tryouts. Meetings can take place in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. On-field training is a different story: it is based in Irvine and Orange County, Southern California. One mother described her son as "a different kid" a few weeks in, and the change she pointed to was not his passing. It was that he stopped looking at the sideline after every mistake. That is the pattern parents report most often: confidence and how the kid carries themselves, ahead of the play itself. Where training fits, once the home side is steady When your player genuinely wants to improve, the question becomes which format matches the problem. The programs page lays out group trainings, camps, private sessions, and parent guidance side by side, and our walkthrough of how to pick the right development program format in Irvine works through the choice problem by problem. The short version: 1-on-1 suits a specific, identifiable block, while weekly group training suits players who need competitive repetition, speed of play, and pressure from peers at a similar level. Matching the format to the problem FormatBest forStructureWhere Parent guidanceMotivation, confidence, expectations at homeConversation with the parentIn person in OC, or phone/Zoom anywhere Private 1-on-1A named block: weak left foot, first touch under pressure, a position change1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weeklyOrange County fields Weekly groupRepetition, speed of play, pressure from similar-level peersConsistent weekly sessionsIrvine and Orange County CampsA concentrated block during school breaksSeveral days, technical plus game situationsIrvine and Orange County If you are still deciding who to train with at all, our parent's checklist for choosing a youth soccer coach in Orange County is a better use of an evening than another round of search results, and it pairs with our guide to how to sort "soccer coaches near me" results by license and coaching role rather than by miles. Expectations worth setting honestly No coach can promise team placement or roster spots. Selection belongs to club coaches and depends on their needs that year. What training can do is improve the things coaches evaluate at tryouts: first touch, both feet, decision speed, defensive work rate, and coachability. The improvement that changes a tryout result gets built in the months beforehand, not the week of. Club tryouts generally run late May through June, so if that is your target, the useful work starts long before spring. Coach's noteThe players who move fastest are rarely the ones with the most sessions on the calendar. They are the ones who come off the field on Saturday, hear "I loved how hard you competed," and go back out Sunday willing to try the hard thing again. That willingness gets built at home, in a car, in about twenty minutes. Your next step Pick one line from the car ride list and hold it for a month. Ask the three diagnosis questions this week. If you want a second opinion on what you are seeing, book a parent guidance conversation or read how private and small-group training in Irvine works, including scheduling and booking. Either way, you are the one making the call, and you are better positioned to make it than any website is. Frequently asked questions My kid does not want extra training. Should I sign them up anyway? No. The standard is that the player brings the effort and energy and is coachable. If the sessions are your idea and not theirs, start with a parent guidance conversation and work out what is actually going on before spending on field time. What do you talk about in a parent guidance meeting? Confidence, expectations, motivation, and how your young athlete handles success, mistakes, pressure, and setbacks. It is about the parent's role in development rather than a technical breakdown of your player's touch. Can parent guidance meetings happen if we do not live in Orange County? Yes. Meetings can take place in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. On-field training is a different matter: it is based in Irvine and Orange County, Southern California. Should I email my child's coach about playing time? Ask your player first what the coach wants to see more of from them. If they cannot answer, that is the gap worth working on. Selection and minutes belong to club coaches, and no outside coach can promise team placement or roster spots. Can supplemental training get my child onto a club team? No coach can promise team placement, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Training works on first touch, both feet, decision speed, defensive work rate, and coachability, which are the things that make a player harder to leave out. How do private sessions run, and what are the booking basics? Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County, with programs based in Irvine. Cancellations require 24 hours' notice, and payment is at the event or via Zelle. To ask questions first, call (714) 248-2592. Is there a cheaper way to start? Joining the announcement list gets you $25 off your first training plus notice of camps and clinics before they fill. A phone call to describe what you are seeing in games costs nothing and usually tells you within five minutes whether training is even the right answer. --- # Youth Soccer Development Programs in Irvine: How to Pick the Right Format URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/youth-soccer-development-programs-irvine/ A youth soccer development program is supplemental training built around the individual player, not the team, and in Irvine that means four formats: weekly group training, school-break camps, private 1-on-1 sessions, and parent guidance. Pick by naming the problem. One stuck skill points to private work. A player who needs pressure points to weekly group. A school-break gap points to a camp. Resistance at home points to a conversation before any field booking. Costs and group sizes vary by session length and format, so ask for the current figure in writing before you commit. At a glanceRec and club are your player's team. A development program is how they improve between team practices.Private 1-on-1 runs 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, and suits one named limitation.Weekly group training supplies competitive repetition and speed of play against similar-level peers.Camps concentrate several days of technical work and game situations during school breaks.No program can promise team placement. The player brings the effort, energy, and coachability. You are not worried about soccer. You are worried they will quietly stop Most parents who call are not chasing a scholarship. They are watching a kid who used to ask to go to practice start dragging their bag to the car. Or a player who is technically fine in warmups and invisible once the game speeds up. That is a solvable problem, but only if you name it before you buy anything. The single most expensive mistake in Orange County youth soccer is buying a format that does not match the problem, then concluding training does not work, which is why it helps to choose a soccer program by problem rather than by price per hour. The belief worth correcting: making the club team is not the development plan The most common assumption we hear is that once a player makes a club roster, development is handled. It is not. A club team's job is to win games in a league, and a good club coach is doing that while managing 16 to 18 kids and a season schedule. Nobody in that setting has 40 minutes to rebuild a weak-foot mechanic or teach a player to receive on the half-turn under pressure. That gap is why supplemental programs exist. If you are still mapping the local landscape, our guide to Orange County youth soccer leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training explains how the three tracks fit together. Good to knowMore than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with Top Notch Training as of August 2026, and the ones who improve fastest are almost never the ones with the most impressive team badge. They are the ones getting extra touches every week. Match the format to the problem Every player develops differently. Some need more touches. Some need confidence. Some need sharper decision-making. Some need a coach who will push them, teach them, and hold them accountable. Start by naming which one it is, then read across the row. Development formats comparedFormatBest forStructure and daysCost and group sizeWhere Weekly group trainingRepetition, speed of play, pressure from similar-level peersConsistent weekly sessions; weekday schedule varies by age band, see the current schedulePer-session and package rates vary; group size is capped by age band and level, ask for the current capIrvine and Orange County Private 1-on-1A named block: weak left foot, first touch under pressure, a position change1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, day set with the coachHourly rate varies with session length and whether it is 1-on-1 or small group; small group splits the cost across playersOrange County fields CampsA concentrated block during school breaksSeveral days, technical plus game situations; past camps ran morningsPer-camp price varies by number of days and hours; check the current camp listingIrvine and Orange County Parent guidanceMotivation, confidence, expectations at homeConversation with the parent, scheduled directlyVaries; one parent, no field timeIn person in OC, or phone/Zoom anywhere What moves the number in every row is the same short list: session length, how many players share the coach, and how many days a camp runs. Top Notch Training charges $95 per hour for private 1-on-1 and $50 to $70 per player per hour for small group, depending on group size, with weekly group sessions at $45 (ages 9 to 12) and $55 (ages 12 to 17); the private and small-group training page carries the full breakdown and booking steps. If a coach will not give you a written all-in figure, that is information too. Weekly group training Group sessions put players with others at a similar age or level so they get repetition, pressure, and coaching week after week. That combination is what builds touch, movement, speed of play, and decision-making. For Youngers (8-11), whose real needs are touches and confidence, weekly group work does most of the job on its own. Private 1-on-1 Private sessions let a coach see exactly where a player is and what is holding them back. They are diagnostic first, corrective second. But fixing something in a private session and never testing it under pressure is how a "fix" quietly disappears by the next game, which is why most players do best with private and group together. School-break camps League and club calendars leave gaps: winter break, spring break, and the long summer stretch that lands on either side of the May-June tryout window. Camps fill those weeks with technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, and competitive play across several days. Past camps have run mornings at Oak Creek Park in Irvine for boys and girls ages 6-16, and dates and locations vary by camp. Before comparing prices, read how to choose a youth soccer camp in Orange County, because the coach-to-player ratio at each station tells you more than the hours do. Parent guidance Player development is not only what happens on the field. Parents shape confidence, expectations, motivation, and how a young athlete handles mistakes and setbacks. Those meetings happen in person if you are local to Orange County, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. More on that in our piece on supporting your player off the field. What the age bands actually need Programs are organized in three bands, and the honest answer for each is different. Youngers (8-11) need touches and confidence: a comfortable relationship with the ball and the habit of trying things. Weekly group training with similar-level peers carries most of that load, and rec or club both work fine as the home team. Olders (12-16) are where speed of play and decision-making separate players, and where a single unaddressed weakness starts costing minutes. High School and Elite players are usually working on position demands, work rate, and consistency under pressure, which is where 1 to 2 hour private sessions weekly or bi-weekly earn their place, with group work to test the change live. Coach's noteThe players I remember are rarely the most gifted ones. They are the 12-year-old who could not turn away from pressure in the fall and by spring was checking her shoulder before the ball arrived, because we drilled it every week until it stopped being a decision. That is what consistency buys. If a player does not want to be there, I would rather talk to the parent first. The standard across every program is the same: the player brings the effort, the energy, and a willingness to be coached. Everything else I can teach. - Coach Elmer Chacon Decide it now: four branches, four next clicks Read the four statements below and pick the one that sounds most like your house this month. Only one. If two apply, the resistance branch always goes first, because effort is the input every other format depends on. "There is one thing they cannot do"A weak left foot, first touch under pressure, a position change. That is a named block, and it is what private work is for, in 1 to 2 hour sessions weekly or bi-weekly. Next click: private and small-group training details and current rates. "Fine in drills, invisible in games"They need pressure, tempo, and peers at their level, not more isolated reps. That is weekly group training, week after week, not a burst. Next click: the current training schedule to find the day and age band that fits. "They have three weeks off and nothing on"Winter, spring, or summer break is either lost time or a concentrated block of touches. That is a camp. Next click: book training and check current camp dates. "Extra training is my idea, not theirs"Do not book field time yet. Start with a parent guidance conversation, in person locally or by phone or Zoom. Next click: request a parent guidance conversation. Still not sure who to train with at all? Our parent's checklist for choosing a youth soccer coach in Orange County is a better use of an evening than another round of search results, and if you have already typed "soccer trainer near me" into a search bar, that screening process shows you what to check before the price. Frequently asked questions What is a youth soccer development program? It is supplemental training aimed at the individual player rather than the team. Recreational leagues like AYSO and city rec handle exposure and fun. Club programs handle competition. Development programs, meaning weekly group training, camps, and private sessions, are the only track built around improving one player's specific skills. How much does youth soccer training cost in Irvine? Private training is $95 per hour and small group is $50 to $70 per player per hour; weekly group sessions are $45 (ages 9 to 12) and $55 (ages 12 to 17), and camps are posted with their dates. What moves the price is consistent: how long the session runs, how many players share the coach, how many days a camp covers, and whether you book singles or a block. Ask any coach for a written all-in number before you commit. Is private training better than group training for young players? Not automatically. Private training is best for diagnosing and fixing one specific limitation, because the coach sees exactly what is holding the player back. Group training supplies repetition, competitive pressure, and speed of play against peers at a similar level. Most players benefit from both, and younger players often need the group side more. Can a development program get my child onto a club team? No coach can promise team placement, and you should be skeptical of anyone who does. Selection belongs to club coaches and depends on their roster needs that year. What training can do is improve what coaches actually evaluate at tryouts: first touch, both feet, decision speed, defensive work rate, and coachability. When should we start training before club tryouts? Club tryouts in Orange County generally run late May through June, with some clubs adding July sessions for spots that did not fill. The improvement that changes a tryout result gets built in the months beforehand, not the week of. Confirm dates directly with each club, since they publish independently. What ages do you train in Irvine? Three bands: Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite. Seasonal camps have run for boys and girls ages 6-16. On-field training is based in Irvine and Orange County, while parent guidance can happen by phone or Zoom from anywhere. My kid does not want extra training. Should I sign them up anyway? No. If the sessions are your idea and not theirs, start with a parent guidance conversation and work out what is actually going on before spending on field time. Field time cannot manufacture willingness, and a player who is dragged to sessions learns to dislike the game faster than they learn to strike a ball. What changes if you get this right Six months from now the difference is not a badge. It is a kid who checks their shoulder without being told, who wants the ball when the game gets loud, and who still asks to go to training. Name the problem, pick the branch that matches it, and give it enough weeks to show up on a Saturday. --- # How to Choose a Youth Soccer Program in Irvine and Orange County URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/how-to-choose-soccer-program-irvine-orange-county/ Most parents in Irvine and Orange County shop soccer programs by price per hour. That is the wrong first question. Choose the format by naming the problem first: use weekly group training in Irvine for volume and habit, camps for a concentrated block during school breaks, small group when 2-6 teammates share one gap, and 1-on-1 private only when you can finish the sentence "the thing that goes wrong is ___." Cost follows that decision, not the other way around. Buying a format that does not match the problem is the expensive mistake here, and it usually gets blamed on the coaching. At a glanceYour child belongs to a league or club. Training is how they improve between team practices.Name the problem before you compare prices: resistance, volume, a specific fault, or a shared team gap.Weekly group training in Irvine runs $45 per session for ages 9-12 and $55 per session for ages 12-17.Club tryouts cluster late May through June, so the work that changes a tryout has to happen months earlier.No format guarantees a roster spot. Effort and coachability are the inputs a coach can actually control. The belief to correct: "we joined a program, so development is handled" Signing with a club is not a development plan. A team practice is built for eleven or more players and the coach's next game. It is not built to fix your kid's first touch across the body. That gap is the entire reason supplemental training exists. For the full map of how rec, club, and training fit together locally, read the guide to Orange County youth soccer leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training, then come back here to choose a format. Making a club team does not mean development is handled. "What flight, and who coaches the team?" is a better question than "what club?" Start with the problem, not the price Most parents who call are not chasing a scholarship. They are watching a player who used to ask to go to practice start dragging their bag to the car, or a player who looks clean in warmups and disappears once the game speeds up. Both are solvable. Neither is solved by the same format. Say the problem out loud before you buy anything: Resistance: they have stopped asking to go. Effort is the input everything else depends on, so this branch goes first.Volume: they simply do not touch the ball enough in a week.A specific fault: something breaks down repeatedly under game speed.A shared team problem: two to four teammates have the same gap. If you cannot finish "the thing that goes wrong is ___," you are not ready to buy a private session. You are ready to add consistent reps and watch. The four formats, and who each one fits Weekly group trainingOpen enrollment, fixed weekly slot at Oak Creek Park in Irvine. Players train alongside others at a similar age or level and get repetition, pressure, and coaching week after week. The default answer for volume and habit. Seasonal campsA concentrated block over several days in summer, winter, and school breaks. Technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, competitive play. Best when the school calendar opens up. Small groupSemi-private, bring your own players, six maximum. The call when a handful of teammates share one gap and you want game-realistic pressure without private rates. 1-on-1 privateSessions from 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. The coach sees exactly where a player is and what is holding them back. Buy it when you can name the fault. Weekly group training: the default starting point Most families should start here. A fixed weekly slot builds the habit before it builds the skill, and the habit is what survives a busy club season. The Irvine bands are simple: Youngers (all levels), ages 9-12, train 5 to 6 PM, with a separate Club, Elite, and High School group for ages 12-17. Space is limited by design, because a group session stops working the moment it stops being coachable. When small group beats private Parents assume 1-on-1 is always the better product. Often it is not. A player who needs to solve pressure, angles, and decisions needs opponents, and a solo session cannot manufacture a real defender. Bring three teammates and the same hour drops to $60 per player, and the session gains 3v1 rondos, small-sided games, and defending reps a private session has to simulate. Bring five and it is $50 each. See the full rate table below. Good to knowSmall-group training is bring-your-own-players, capped at six. That means you control the room. Pick teammates at a similar level and with similar effort, or the session drifts toward the least engaged player. A six-week block, start to finish A six-week block is planned before the first cone goes down. One example, anonymized. A 13-year-old club midfielder came in with a diagnosis from home: bad first touch. Every time the ball arrived under pressure, it ran away from him across his body and he lost possession. I agreed with the parents for the first two sessions. I was wrong. Filmed from behind, the touch itself was clean; he simply never looked over his shoulder before the ball arrived, so the touch had nowhere to go. A scanning fault wearing a first touch costume. What the block actually contained: Weeks 1-2: receiving under no pressure, filmed, to confirm the touch was not the fault.Week 3: scan-before-receive with a coach call behind him, so his head had a reason to turn.Week 4: same pattern with one live defender, half speed, then full speed.Weeks 5-6: small-sided play with teammates, no touch coaching at all, only "what did you see?" At the next tryout he was not a different athlete. He was a player who turned out of pressure instead of backward into it, and the evaluators wrote "composed on the ball." Same touch. Different eyes. If we had bought six weeks of touch repetition, nothing would have changed - which is exactly how families conclude that training does not work. What each format costs in Irvine and Orange County Here is the whole pricing picture in one place, current as of August 2026. Private and small-group sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly. Top Notch Training rates, Irvine, August 2026FormatRateAgesSession length 1-on-1 private$95 per hourAny age1 to 2 hours Small group, 2 players$70 per player/hourAny age1 to 2 hours Small group, 3 players$60 per player/hourAny age1 to 2 hours Small group, 4 to 6 players$50 per player/hourAny age1 to 2 hours Weekly group, Youngers$45 per session9-12Fixed weekly slot Weekly group, Club/Elite/HS$55 per session12-17Fixed weekly slot Two things move those totals. Travel to your own field adds cost, and any field or permit fee lands on the invoice. A public park slot and a permitted turf field are not the same line item, which is why the weekly groups sit at a fixed Irvine park location. A three-player small group in Irvine costs $60 per player per hour, one third less per player than a 1-on-1 session at the same field. Timing: work backward from tryouts Club tryouts in Orange County cluster late May through June. That is the most useful date on the youth soccer calendar, because it tells you when the work has to happen. Nothing bought in May changes a May tryout. The touches an evaluator sees were banked in January, February, and March. Winter break and spring camps exist for exactly that reason. Judge a format by whether it gets enough weeks to show up on a Saturday. Six weekly sessions plus a camp block will tell you more than a scattered handful of one-off privates. Coach's noteAcross 800+ youth, club, and high school players trained as of August 2026, the most common wrong diagnosis I get handed is "bad first touch." I have gotten it wrong myself, as above. Bring me what you see, not what you think it means, and let the first session sort out which one it is. How to judge the program you are considering Format matters, but the coach in front of your kid matters more. Before you pay for anything, ask two questions on the phone and listen to how fast the answers come: which USSF license do you hold, by name, and what team are you coaching right now? Vague answers about "years of experience" are not answers. A named license and a current coaching role are both checkable, and the five questions that screen any top notch soccer trainer add group size, all-in price, and what happens in session one. Our walkthrough on how parents should judge soccer coaching in Irvine and Orange County covers the rest of that screening call in order. Then look at fit over time. The Joca family credits several years of private, small-group, and camp work with Coach Elmer for their son Nicholas's development and, just as importantly, his continued love for the game. That is a signal no single trial session can produce. Choosing your next step If you want the branch-by-branch version matched to a specific problem, read how to pick the right youth soccer development program format in Irvine and book from there. Six months from now, the difference is not a badge. It is a kid who checks their shoulder without being told, who wants the ball when the game gets loud, and who still asks to go to training. When you request a session, name the problem in your message. That one sentence shapes the first hour more than anything else you send. Which soccer training format fits the problem?Which soccer training format fits the problem?Has your player stopped asking to goto practice?noEffort is not theblocker; keep going downthe list.yesDo they simply not touch the ballenough in a week?noVolume is not theblocker; look for anamed fault.yesCan you finish the sentence 'thething that goes wrong is ___'?noNot ready for privatework yet - addconsistent weekly reps...yesDo two to four teammates share thesame gap?noHandle it individuallyrather than as a smallgroup.yesBook the format that matches the namedproblem and give it six weeks What a six-week block actually containsWhat a six-week block actually containsWeeks 1-2Receiving with no pressure, filmed, to confirm the real faultWeek 3Scan-before-receive with a coach call from behindWeek 4Same pattern with one live defender, half speed then fullWeeks 5-6Small-sided play, no touch coaching, only 'what did you see?' FAQ How much does youth soccer training cost in Irvine? See the rate table above for the full August 2026 picture across private, small-group, and weekly group formats. In short, the per-player cost falls as the group grows, and travel to your field or any field or permit fee can change the total. Where are the weekly group trainings held? Weekly group trainings run on a fixed weekly slot at Oak Creek Park in Irvine, CA. Private and small-group sessions can travel to your field, which is one of the things that affects the final price. Is private training better than group training for a 10-year-old? Not automatically. Private training is best when you can name a specific fault that shows up under game speed. If the real issue is volume, motivation, or competitive reps, weekly group training with similar-age players usually does more for less money. Many players do both: a weekly group session for consistency, a private or small-group session for the specific gap. How often should my player train outside of team practice? Private and small-group sessions are typically weekly or bi-weekly and run 1 to 2 hours. The weekly group format is built around a single fixed slot each week. Consistency over several weeks matters far more than a burst of sessions right before tryouts. Can training guarantee my child makes a club team? No, and be skeptical of any program that suggests otherwise. Selection depends on the club, the flight, the coach, and that year's roster needs. What training can do is improve technical ability, decision-making, and confidence, and build the effort and coachability evaluators notice. What ages do these programs serve? Roughly ages 8 to 17, grouped as Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite, from beginners to competitive club players. Weekly group trainings split into a 9-12 band and a 12-17 Club, Elite, and High School band. Private and small-group sessions are open to any age. Do you offer camps during school breaks? Yes. Seasonal camps run during summer, winter, and other school breaks, combining technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, and competitive play over several days. The current lineup of formats is on the programs page. --- # “Soccer Coaches Near Me”: How Orange County Parents Should Sort the Results URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/soccer-coaches-near-me-orange-county/ When you search "soccer coaches near me," sort the results by U.S. Soccer license and current coaching role, not by miles. Distance should be the last filter, not the first. What changes a player is diagnostic ability: can the coach watch for ten minutes, name the actual fault, and give cues your kid still remembers on Saturday? A coach fifteen minutes farther away who does that will do more than a closer one running a generic session. Two questions do most of the screening: which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, by name, and what team are you coaching right now? At a glanceSort by diagnostic ability and credentials first, drive time last.Ask which U.S. Soccer license the coach holds, by name, not just "licensed."The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS.Ask what team the coach is currently coaching, and at what level.Judge a first session by whether the coach named a fault, not by how tired your kid was. The belief worth correcting: proximity is not a quality signal Map results are sorted by geography because that is what a map does. Nothing in that ranking knows whether a coach can teach. Most parents start with a five-mile radius, then spend a season watching a rotating menu of cone drills with no through-line. That is the quiet fear underneath the search: not that your player will be bad, but that a year of Saturdays will go by and nothing will have changed. Before you shortlist individuals, our guide to Orange County youth soccer leagues, clubs, AYSO, and training lays out how the pieces fit together locally, and our breakdown of how to judge soccer coaching in Irvine and Orange County explains what separates a diagnostic session from a generic one. Drill volume, cone layouts, and distance from your house tell you almost nothing about whether your player will improve. Where your player actually sits in the Orange County pyramid You cannot judge a coach's "current level" answer without knowing the local ladder. In Orange County, a parent typically encounters these tiers, roughly from recreational up. AYSO recreational: the entry point for most Youngers (8-11), volunteer-coached, usually Grassroots licensed. AYSO Extra: the competitive step inside AYSO, and an underrated place to find coaches who have gone past Grassroots. Club flighted play: Flight 1 and below at local clubs, the tier most Olders (12-16) compete in. ECNL and MLSNext: the national platforms. MLSNext is the highest tier of youth competition in the country, and it sits above local Flight 1 play, not alongside it. High school programs: a separate track running through winter, with staff who watch the same players you do. When a trainer says they coach "club," ask which flight and which platform. In this county those words cover an enormous range. Where to find licensed coaches who are not us A page that only points at itself is not worth much to a parent comparing three names. Three honest places to look: Club Directors of CoachingAsk your club's DOC who on staff takes private work. They know which of their coaches diagnose well, and they have already vetted licenses. High school coaching staffsVarsity and JV staff often train privately in the off-season. They see the exact standard a high school starting spot demands. AYSO Extra coachesRegion volunteers who have pursued D or C licenses are frequently the best value in the county, and they already know your player's peers. Run the same three questions on all of them. The method matters more than the name. Filter one: which U.S. Soccer license, by name "Licensed coach" is not an answer. Ask which one, specifically, and know the order so you can judge the reply. The U.S. Soccer coaching license ladder, in orderLicenseWhere it typically sitsCommon holders GrassrootsEntry levelVolunteer and recreational coaches DFirst step past grassrootsYouth club coaches CMeaningful step up in tactical and teaching contentExperienced club coaches BFourth-highest certification in U.S. SoccerVery few private trainers A Youth / A Senior, then ProPro is required to coach in MLS, two levels above BTop of youth and senior levels A C or D licensed coach can absolutely serve your player well. The license tells you what someone was tested on, not whether they can teach. The point of asking is not to disqualify anyone, it is to know what you are buying. Filter two: is the coach still coaching a team? This is the question most parents skip, and it may be the most useful one on the list. A trainer who only runs private sessions has no live feedback loop on what today's game demands. Someone working at a competitive club, a high school program, or the MLSNext tier sees weekly what earns a starting spot and what gets a player subbed off. That knowledge decays fast once a coach stops managing a team. For your player, it means the feedback is calibrated to the next rung, whether that rung is a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, or a college roster. Filter three: range across age bands A coach who has only ever worked with one age group will teach that group's session regardless of what the diagnostic says. Ask what ages they have coached outside your child's. Someone who has taught first-time beginners and college-bound competitors has seen the whole staircase and knows which step your player is standing on. If you are not sure what your own player needs right now, our breakdown of youth soccer development by age covers what typically matters at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite. What private coaching costs in Orange County Rates in this county vary by coach, license, travel, and whether the session is private or small-group, so treat any figure you are quoted as a starting point and ask what it includes. For reference, Top Notch Training charges $95 per hour for private 1-on-1 and $50 to $70 per player per hour for small group, depending on group size, with weekly group sessions at $45 (ages 9 to 12) and $55 (ages 12 to 17). What you can pin down on a call, in one minute, is the value equation. Ask each candidate for four things: the session length, the cadence, whether the price changes for small-group, and whether follow-up notes to you are included or extra. Session length: ours run 1 to 2 hours. Cadence: weekly or bi-weekly, chosen to fit the player's club load. Format: private, or small-group where the per-player cost drops. Parent debrief: in person if you are local, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Our current formats and pricing structure are set out in the overview of private and small-group soccer training in Irvine. If a quote from anyone is higher than a peer's, the fair question is not "why," it is "what does the extra buy in the first ten minutes." What diagnosis actually looks like: one worked example A 13-year-old club midfielder, anonymized, came in because she "kept losing the ball." Her parents assumed the answer was more touches. Within the first ten minutes the fault was visible and it was not her feet. She was receiving square to the ball with her back to the field, so every first touch had to be a rescue. Two cues, no more: check your shoulder before the pass arrives, and open your hips to the far touchline as you receive. Four weeks later we retested the same pattern under pressure. She was turning out of the first touch instead of shielding, and she could name both cues herself without prompting. That is the whole standard: a fault named, a small number of cues, and a retest that shows the fix held. Good to knowBe skeptical of any coach who promises team placement, a starting spot, or a roster outcome. Nobody controls a selection decision. What a coach can control is what your player is taught, how clearly, and whether it holds up under pressure. Questions to ask before you book Which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, specifically? What team are you currently coaching, and at what level? What age ranges have you worked with beyond my child's? What will you be watching for in the first ten minutes? How will you tell me what you found, and what should we do between sessions? How do you measure whether the fix held four weeks later? If you want the longer version of this evaluation, the full parent's checklist for evaluating a youth soccer coach walks through each criterion. Where we land on our own filters Coach Elmer Chacon holds the USSF B License and currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, alongside serving as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy. Across nearly 20 years on the West Coast he has coached first-time beginners through college-bound competitors, and more than 800 youth, club, and high school players have trained with us as of August 2026. Coach's noteApply the same three questions to anyone else on your list, including the club DOC and the high school coach. You are the one making the call, and this list is enough to make it well. Your one next step Pick the two closest candidates on your list and ask them the license question and the current-team question today. If ours is one of them, you can request a session or call (714) 248-2592. A season is short, and the difference between a lost one and a good one usually shows up in the first ten minutes of the first session. FAQ How do I find a good soccer coach near me in Orange County? Start with credentials, not the map. Ask each candidate which U.S. Soccer license they hold by name, what team they are currently coaching and at what level, and what ages they have worked with beyond your child's. Club Directors of Coaching, high school staff, and AYSO Extra coaches are all good places to source names. Then let drive time break the tie. What certifications should a youth soccer coach have? Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask which one. The ladder runs Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth and A Senior, then Pro. The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and very few private trainers hold it. A C or D licensed coach can still be excellent - the license tells you what they were tested on, not whether they can teach. How much does a private soccer coach cost in Orange County? Top Notch Training charges $95 per hour for private 1-on-1 and $50 to $70 per player per hour for small group, depending on group size. Weekly group sessions are $45 per session for ages 9 to 12 and $55 for ages 12 to 17. Across the county rates vary by coach, license, and travel, so ask any candidate what their number includes. How do I know if my kid's soccer coach is any good? Ask your player what they are working on. If they can name one or two specific things rather than just "drills," the coaching is landing. Then check whether anyone retests the fix a few weeks later. Naming a fault, giving a small number of cues, and following up is the whole job. Does a private soccer coach need to be close to my house? No. Distance should be the last filter, not the first. A coach fifteen minutes farther away who can find the fault in ten minutes will do more for your child than a closer one running a generic session. Can a coach guarantee my child makes a club team? No, and be skeptical of anyone who suggests otherwise. Nobody controls a selection decision. A coach controls what your player is taught, how clearly, and whether it holds up under pressure. Your player brings the effort and stays coachable. --- # Elmer Chacon | Soccer Coach, Irvine CA URL: https://tntfutbol.com/about/ For nearly 20 years, Elmer Chacon has developed players across Southern California and Idaho, Elmer Chacon | Soccer Coach, Irvine CA USSF B Licensed • MLSNext Coach, Strikers FC Irvine • Head Coach, Fairmont Preparatory Academy • Private and Small-Group Trainer, Orange County, CA Full name: Elmer Chacon Role: Head Coach, private and small-group trainer City: Irvine, Orange County, California Region: Southern California Years active: Nearly 20 years coaching License: USSF B License Current club: Strikers FC Irvine, MLSNext program Current school: Fairmont Preparatory Academy, boys’ head coach Notable honors: CIF Division 8 Coach of the Year; CIF quarterfinal run with Fairmont Preparatory Academy, the first in school history, in his first season as head coach Prior roles: Director of Coaching, Youth Director, and Technical Director, including work with California Rush, Slammers Huntington Beach, and Irvine Strikers For nearly 20 years, Elmer Chacon has developed players across Southern California and Idaho, doing one thing at every level: making players better, on the field and off. Note: this page is about Elmer Chacon the soccer coach and private trainer in Orange County, California. He is not the Class of 2026 Godinez Fundamental High School defender who shares the same name. Training details at a glance Where: Orange County, based in and around Irvine, with camps and clinics held in Irvine Format: Private 1-on-1 sessions and small-group training, plus multi-day camps and clinics Session length: Ask Coach Elmer, sessions are built around what a player needs next rather than a fixed template Pricing: Quoted directly by format and session count. Ask Coach Elmer for current private and small-group rates, and for camp pricing when dates are posted. Ages: Youth players through college-bound competitors, from first-time beginners to MLSNext-level athletes Booking: Contact Coach Elmer Chacon directly to book a session or ask for a rate quote. You can also join Coach Elmer’s announcement list to hear when training blocks and camp spots open. Ready to start? Private training is $95 per hour, and small-group is $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six. Request a session with your player count and preferred days, and Coach Elmer replies with a time and the exact price. If you would rather be notified as spots come up, you can also join Coach Elmer’s announcement list. In his first season as Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, he took the boys’ program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. He was also named CIF Division 8 Coach of the Year. These aren’t slogans. They’re results, and they’re the kind of thing he’s built a career on. Credentials that actually mean something The USSF B License is the fourth-highest coaching certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what’s required to coach in MLS. Very few private trainers hold it. It signals real depth in player development, tactics, and how to teach the game, not just the ability to run drills. On top of that, Elmer currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine, the highest tier of youth competition in the country. He’s also served as Director of Coaching and Technical Director, shaping entire club programs, not just individual sessions. What your player actually gets Elmer’s training covers the full picture: technical skill, tactical IQ, physical development, the mental game, and the off-field habits that carry into the classroom.  Sessions run as private 1-on-1 work or small groups, plus multi-day camps and clinics in Irvine, and there is no fixed template. Session length and content are built around what the player needs next, which is why the same coach can take a first-time beginner and an MLSNext-level athlete and give each of them a session that looks nothing like the other’s. A typical training block runs 8 to 12 weeks and follows the same arc, whatever the starting point. Early sessions are diagnostic: Coach Chacon watches the player train and, where possible, plays, then names the two or three things holding them back.  The middle weeks attack those specific limitations through repetition under increasing pressure, so first touch, ball mastery, and finishing hold up when a defender is closing rather than only in a cone drill.  Later sessions shift toward decision making, reading the game, and the positional detail of the role the player is actually being asked to fill, plus the composure to keep executing when a match turns.  Alongside that, the block builds age-appropriate speed, balance, and movement, and the off-field habits Coach Chacon insists on, which is why so many of his players show up in the classroom the same way they show up on the field. The skills addressed inside that arc fall into five areas, worked together rather than in isolation. Technical: first touch, ball mastery, striking and finishing, and passing under pressure. Tactical: scanning before the ball arrives, decision speed, and the positional detail of the role the player is actually being asked to fill.  Physical: age-appropriate speed, balance, coordination, and change of direction. Mental: composure when a match turns, the willingness to be coached in the moment, and playing the next ball instead of the last mistake. Off-field: preparation, punctuality, and accountability, the habits Coach Chacon treats as non-negotiable because they are what make the on-field work stick. His own summary of the method is short: “I teach the game so it becomes natural.” What the finish line looks like depends on the player and the goal, whether that is holding a spot in a higher-level club environment, earning more minutes at school, or being ready for the college recruiting conversation. Players who complete a block typically leave with a cleaner and quicker first touch, more usable weak-foot ability, faster decisions in tight areas, a clear understanding of what their position demands, and the confidence to ask for the ball in moments they used to avoid.  Coach Chacon’s track record includes regional and national championship teams and a long line of student-athletes who went on to play at higher levels while excelling academically. For the specifics of a player whose situation resembles yours, ask him directly, or join Coach Elmer’s announcement list and reach out. Parents consistently see the difference not just in their kid’s play, but in their confidence and how they carry themselves. Why families trust him Elmer’s standard is simple: bring the effort, stay coachable, and he’ll help transform your player into a better athlete and a better person. He’s coached everyone from first-time toddlers in programs he built himself to elite, college-bound competitors. That range means he meets your player exactly where they are and knows precisely what the next step looks like. His track record includes regional and national championships as both a player and a coach, and a long line of student-athletes who’ve gone on to play at higher levels while excelling academically. If you’d like to hear how that played out for a specific player, get on Coach Elmer’s announcement list and reach out. Frequently asked questions about Elmer Chacon How do I book training with Elmer Chacon? Request a session with your player count, preferred days, and the field you have in mind. Coach Elmer replies with a time, the exact price for your format, and a link to reserve your spot. Weekly group sessions are booked separately on the group training page. You can also join Coach Elmer’s announcement list to hear about private, small-group, and camp openings as they come up. Is Elmer Chacon the coach the same as the Godinez Fundamental defender? No. They are two different people who share a name. This page is about Elmer Chacon the Orange County soccer coach and private trainer, not the Class of 2026 Godinez Fundamental High School defender. How much does a session with Elmer Chacon cost? Private 1-on-1 training is $95 per hour. Small-group (semi-private) training is $70 per player for two players, $60 for three, and $50 for four through six, with six the maximum. Weekly group sessions at Oak Creek Park are $45 per session for ages 9 to 12 and $55 for ages 12 to 17. Camp pricing is posted with camp dates. Rates current as of August 2026. --- # TNT Futbol – Top Notch Training URL: https://tntfutbol.com/ "I teach the game so it becomes natural."  Join the ranks of elite players under the mentorship of Coach Elmer Chacon. Top Notch Futbol Training blends innovative training methods to enhance both mental acuity and physical prowess setting your athlete on a path towards soccer excellence. Call (714) 248-2592 Train Like a Champion, Play Like a Pro Get on the List Upcoming Camps Upcoming Trainings We'll send you a discount code for $25 off your first training Parent's Comment Dear Soccer Family, We're writing to recommend Coach Elmer who has played a vital role in our son Nicholas’s soccer journey. Elmer has trained Nicholas for several years, working with him through private and small-group training as well as camps. Throughout that time, Elmer has helped Nicholas continue developing every aspect of his game, from technical skills and tactical understanding to confidence, discipline, and the mental side of competing at a high level. We truly credit a great deal of Nicholas’s development as a player, as well as his continued love and passion for soccer, to the time he has spent training with Elmer. Elmer is incredibly passionate and dedicated to helping young players reach their full potential. He takes the time to understand each player individually, recognizes their strengths and areas for improvement, and works with them to build not only their soccer abilities but also their confidence and understanding of the game. What we have always appreciated most about Elmer is that he genuinely cares about the players he works with. His commitment goes beyond simply teaching soccer skills - he wants to see his players grow, improve, and believe in themselves. His energy, knowledge, patience, and dedication have made a lasting impact on Nicholas. We are incredibly grateful for all of the time, energy, guidance, and support Elmer has invested in Nicholas over the years. He has played a very positive and meaningful role in Nicholas’s soccer development, and we would highly recommend Coach Elmer to any player and family looking for a coach who is passionate, knowledgeable, dedicated, and truly invested in helping young athletes become better players and better competitors. 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Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # What Makes a Good Youth Soccer Coach? A Parent’s Checklist for Orange County URL: https://tntfutbol.com/youth-soccer/what-makes-a-good-youth-soccer-coach-parent-checklist/ A good youth soccer coach is one who can watch your player for ten minutes, name the actual fault, and give cues the kid still remembers on Saturday. Credentials are how you screen for that: ask which U.S. Soccer license the coach holds, by name, and ask what team they are currently coaching and at what level. A coach still working competitively knows what the next rung demands. Drill volume, cone layouts, and distance from your house tell you almost nothing about whether your player will improve. At a glanceAsk which U.S. Soccer license the coach holds, by name, not just "licensed."The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS.Ask what team the coach is currently coaching, and at what level.Range across age bands matters more than a specialty in one.Judge a first session by whether the coach named a fault, not by how tired your kid was. You already know something is off You watch your player on Saturday and something is not clicking. They work hard. They are not slow. But they fade in the second half of a game, or the ball keeps bouncing off them under pressure, and their team coach has 16 other kids to manage. So you start typing soccer coaches near me and every website says the same three things: passion, experience, results. None of it helps you choose, which is why it helps to know how to judge soccer coaching in Irvine and Orange County before you call anyone. Here is the belief worth putting down first. Most parents assume the best coach is the one who was the best player. Plenty of good former players can demonstrate a skill beautifully. Far fewer can break that skill into three cues a 12-year-old holds under pressure. That is the difference between running drills and teaching the game. The second assumption is that a hard session is a good session. A player can sweat for an hour and learn nothing. Sweat is easy to produce. Diagnosis is not. Criterion #1: the license, named specifically Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask which one. "Licensed" on its own covers a very wide range, and most parents nod at the word and move on. The license matters less as a wall decoration than as evidence of what the coach was tested on: player development pathways, tactics, and teaching methodology. That is the how of instruction, not just the what. The U.S. Soccer license ladder, in order Knowing the order lets you judge a coach who holds a C or a D instead of only recognizing the letters you have heard of. Grassroots: the entry level, the tier most volunteer and recreational coaches complete. D: the first step past grassroots, common among youth club coaches. C: a meaningful step up in tactical and teaching content, typical of experienced club coaches. B: the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, and very few private trainers hold it. A Youth and A Senior: the tiers above B, for coaches working at the top of youth and senior levels. Pro: the top of the ladder, and what is required to coach in MLS - two levels above the B. A D or C licensed coach who diagnoses well can absolutely serve your player. The point of asking is not to disqualify anyone, it is to know what you are buying. Criterion #2: is the coach still coaching competitively? This is the question most parents skip. A trainer who only runs private sessions has no live feedback loop on what today's game actually demands. Ask what team they are coaching right now and at what level. Someone working at a competitive club, a high school program, or the MLSNext tier - the highest tier of youth competition in the country - sees weekly what earns a starting spot and what gets a player subbed off. That knowledge decays fast when someone stops coaching a team. For your player, it means the feedback is calibrated to the next rung, whether that rung is a stronger club team, a high school starting spot, or a college roster. Criterion #3: range across ages A coach who has only ever worked with one age band will teach your kid that band's session, regardless of what the diagnostic says. Range is what lets a coach meet a player where they actually are. Ask what ages they have coached outside your child's. Someone who has worked with first-time beginners and with college-bound competitive players has seen the whole staircase, and knows which step your player is standing on. If you are unsure what your player needs right now, our breakdown of youth soccer development by age covers what typically matters at 8-11, 12-16, and High School/Elite. How we answer our own checklistCoach Elmer Chacon holds the USSF B License, the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer and two levels below what is required to coach in MLS. He currently coaches at the MLSNext level with Strikers FC Irvine and is Head Coach at Fairmont Preparatory Academy, where in his first season he took the boys' program to the CIF quarterfinals for the first time in school history. He has served as Director of Coaching for California Rush and as Youth Director and Technical Director, and across nearly 20 years on the West Coast he has coached first-time toddlers in grassroots programs he built himself through to elite, college-bound competitors. Full background is on the About Coach Elmer page. Apply the same three questions to anyone else you are considering. How the coaching roles differ Parents often ask whether they need a private coach, a club coach, or both. They do different jobs, and stacking more of the same job rarely helps. What each coaching setting is built to do SettingMain jobFeedback per playerBest for Club or school team coachTeam structure, competition, selectionShared across a full rosterGame experience and match rhythm Small-group trainingSkill work with live pressure from peersSplit across a handful of playersPlayers who compete better with company Private 1-on-1Diagnose and fix one player's specific faultsUndividedFixing a habit that keeps repeating Most players benefit from a team plus one of the other two, not from joining a third team. Formats, cadence, and booking are laid out on our private and small-group training page. What a good coach actually does in the first hour Here is a composite of a real first session, details anonymized. Ten-year-old boy, competitive club. The dad's complaint on the phone: "he disappears in games." Minutes 0-10 are observation, not conditioning. Simple pass-and-receive work while the coach watches three things: what the first touch does under a little pressure, where the plant foot lands on strikes, and whether the head comes up before the ball arrives. Two connected faults surfaced. The plant foot was landing behind the ball, so strikes ballooned. And when a defender closed, the first touch died at his own feet. He was not slow. He was stuck. Three cues followed, not fifteen. Plant beside the ball, not behind it. Touch across your body, into space, away from pressure. Check your shoulder before the ball arrives, not after. A ten-year-old can hold three. The homework, written out so you can use it without booking anything This is the between-session block that carried that case, and any family can run it against a garage door or a park wall. 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Shorter and daily beats one long weekend session. 5 minutes: 40 strikes against the wall, alternating feet, with one thought only - plant beside the ball. Count them out loud so the rep is deliberate. 5 minutes: 50 first touches off the rebound, every touch pushed across the body into space, never back into the feet. 5 minutes: same rebound work, but a shoulder check before every ball arrives. 30 reps. Do all of it at game speed, not comfortable speed. Comfortable speed builds a habit that vanishes under pressure. One instruction for the parent: watch the plant foot at the next game, and say nothing about it in the car. By the end of week two you should see two things. Strikes staying below head height more often than not, and the head turning before the ball arrives instead of after. The shoulder check is the one to watch, because it is a habit rather than a skill, and once it is there the first touch has somewhere to go. Four weeks later, in that case, his coach thought he had gotten faster. He had not. He had gotten earlier. That sequence - watch, name the fault, three cues, homework, retest - is the mechanism. Everything else is packaging. Questions to ask before you book Which U.S. Soccer license do you hold, specifically? What team are you currently coaching, and at what level? What age ranges have you worked with beyond my child's? What will you be watching for in the first ten minutes? How will you tell me what you found, and what should we do between sessions? How do you measure whether the fix held four weeks later? Good to knowBe skeptical of any coach who promises team placement, a starting spot, or a roster outcome. Nobody controls a selection decision. What a coach can control is what your player is taught, how clearly, and whether it holds up under pressure. Watch for these in the first month You do not need to understand technique to evaluate a coach. Watch three signals instead. Can your player tell you in plain words what they are working on? If the answer is "drills," the cues are not landing. Does the coach ask you about games and school load rather than just taking payment? And is there a retest, so someone checks whether last month's fix survived? Top Notch Training has worked with 800 or more youth, club, and high school players as of August 2026. How our sessions run Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County, with programs based in Irvine. On-field training is based in Southern California, and parent guidance meetings can happen in person if you are local, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. You can see current group times on the training schedule, or book a training session here. Questions are welcome by phone at (714) 248-2592. Whichever coach you choose, you are the one making the call, and the checklist above is enough to make it well. Your player brings the effort and stays coachable. A good coach does the rest of the work in the first ten minutes. Frequently asked questions What certifications should a youth soccer coach have? Ask for a U.S. Soccer license and ask which one by name. The ladder runs Grassroots, D, C, B, A Youth and A Senior, then Pro. The USSF B License is the fourth-highest certification in U.S. Soccer, two levels below what is required to coach in MLS, and very few private trainers hold it. A C or D licensed coach can still be excellent - the license tells you what they were tested on, not whether they can teach. How do I know if my kid's soccer coach is any good? Ask your player what they are working on. If they can name one or two specific things, not just "drills," the coaching is landing. Then check whether anyone retests the fix a few weeks later. A coach who names a fault, gives a small number of cues, and follows up is doing the job. Does a private soccer coach need to be close to my house? Distance should be the last filter, not the first. Diagnostic ability is what changes a player. A coach fifteen minutes farther away who can find the fault in ten minutes will do more for your child than a closer one running a generic session, which is why searches for a private soccer coach near me are better sorted by license and current coaching role than by miles. Should my child have a private coach and a club coach? Usually yes, because the two do different jobs. The club or school coach handles team structure and competition, while private or small-group work exists to fix the specific habits that keep repeating in games. Adding a second team instead tends to add fatigue without adding instruction. Can a coach guarantee my player makes a better team? No, and be cautious of anyone who suggests otherwise. Selection decisions belong to clubs and school programs. What a coach can influence is technical skill, decision-making, conditioning, and composure, plus whether your player shows up coachable. What ages do you train in Irvine? Programs are organized in three bands: Youngers (8-11), Olders (12-16), and High School/Elite, with seasonal camps that have run for boys and girls ages 6-16. If you are weighing camp options, the coach-to-player ratio at each station tells you more than price or hours. If you are still mapping out the local landscape, our Orange County youth soccer guide explains how leagues, clubs, AYSO, and supplemental training fit together. --- # Book Training Sessions URL: https://tntfutbol.com/book-training/ Book your trainingChoose the format that fits your player.Recurring weekly sessionsGroup TrainingJoin our weekly group soccer sessions. Pick the days that fit your player, see what's coming up, and reserve a spot online.View group sessions →1-on-1 or small groupPrivate TrainingWant a private or small-group session on your own schedule? Tell us your goals and availability, and we'll put together a session for you.Request a session → --- # Programs URL: https://tntfutbol.com/programs/ Player Development Top Notch Training Programs Every player develops differently. Some need more touches. Some need confidence. Some need sharper decision-making. Some need a coach who will push them, teach them, and hold them accountable. Weekly Group Soccer Trainings Group Training Consistent weekly training for players who want to improve their touch, movement, speed of play, decision-making, and confidence in a competitive but encouraging environment.Players train with others at a similar age or level, giving them the repetition, pressure, and coaching they need to keep growing week after week. View Group Trainings Parent Guidance  Helping Parents Support the Player Player development is not just about what happens on the field. Parents play a major role in confidence, expectations, motivation, and how a young athlete handles success, mistakes, pressure, and setbacks.  Meetings can take place in person if local in Orange Country, or by phone or Zoom from anywhere in the world. Learn How to Support Your Player Development Camps  Soccer Camps  Focused camps designed to give players a high-energy block of development over several days. Camps combine technical work, attacking and defending concepts, game situations, confidence building, and competitive play.Great for players who want concentrated training, extra touches, and a fun but serious environment during school breaks. View Upcoming Camps Private Training  1-on-1 Training Private sessions give Coach Elmer the ability to see exactly where a player is, what is holding them back, and what needs to improve next.  Sessions from 1 to 2 hours.  Weekly or bi-weekly. Ask About Private Training Southern California Soccer Development Programs --- # Request a Session URL: https://tntfutbol.com/request-a-session/ Request a Session Before you request a session If you are still deciding what format fits your player, it helps to read up first. Our guide to private and small-group soccer training in Irvine walks through how sessions run and what pushes the cost up or down, and the parent's checklist for choosing a youth soccer coach lists the questions worth asking before you book anyone. If you want to match the work to your player's stage, start with youth soccer development by age.Prefer to talk it through first? Call (714) 248-2592 and say the session length, the location, and how many players, and you get a real number for that exact format. Key Facts Private sessions run 1 to 2 hours, weekly or bi-weekly, in Orange County, with programs based in Irvine, and cancellations require 24 hours' notice. --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-9-12-y-o-5-6-pm-3/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-9-12-y-o-5-6-pm-4/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-9-12-y-o-5-6-pm-2/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-9-12-y-o-5-6-pm/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # TNT Summer Camp 4 – Irvine, CA July 20-23, 2026 URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/tnt-summer-camp-4-irvine-ca-july-20-23-2026/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge at TNT Futbol’s 4-Day Camp! Is your youth athlete passionate about soccer and ready to reach new heights? Coach Elmer Chacon and TNT Futbol are hosting TNT Summer Camp 4, July 20-23, 2026, at Oak Creek Community Park in Irvine, CA, daily from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. It’s an elite training experience for players ages 9 to 17 who are eager to excel. Space is limited to 20, so reserve your spot now. This intensive camp is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach Elmer Chacon, known for developing young talent, your athlete will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why the TNT 4-Day Camp is Perfect for Your Athlete: Professional-Level Coaching: Coach Chacon brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. Focused Skill Development: Your athlete will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your athlete’s potential and passion. Give them four days of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! Sign up now for the TNT 4-Day Camp, and watch your athlete’s game soar! --- # TNT Summer Camp 2 – Irvine, CA June 29-July 2, 2026 URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/tnt-summer-camp-2-irvine-ca-june-29-july-2-2026/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge at TNT Futbol’s 4-Day Camp! Is your youth athlete passionate about soccer and ready to reach new heights? Coach Elmer Chacon and TNT Futbol are hosting TNT Summer Camp 2, June 29-July 2, 2026, at Oak Creek Community Park in Irvine, CA, daily from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. It’s an elite training experience for players ages 9 to 17 who are eager to excel. Space is limited to 20, so reserve your spot now. This intensive camp is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach Elmer Chacon, known for developing young talent, your athlete will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why the TNT 4-Day Camp is Perfect for Your Athlete: Professional-Level Coaching: Coach Chacon brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. Focused Skill Development: Your athlete will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your athlete’s potential and passion. Give them four days of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! Sign up now for the TNT 4-Day Camp, and watch your athlete’s game soar! --- # TNT Summer Camp 3 – Irvine, CA July 6-9, 2026 URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/tnt-summer-camp-3-irvine-ca-july-6-9-2026/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge at TNT Futbol’s 4-Day Camp! Is your youth athlete passionate about soccer and ready to reach new heights? Coach Elmer Chacon and TNT Futbol are hosting TNT Summer Camp 3, July 6-9, 2026, at Oak Creek Community Park in Irvine, CA, daily from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. It’s an elite training experience for players ages 9 to 17 who are eager to excel. Space is limited to 20, so reserve your spot now. This intensive camp is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach Elmer Chacon, known for developing young talent, your athlete will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why the TNT 4-Day Camp is Perfect for Your Athlete: Professional-Level Coaching: Coach Chacon brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. Focused Skill Development: Your athlete will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your athlete’s potential and passion. Give them four days of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! Sign up now for the TNT 4-Day Camp, and watch your athlete’s game soar! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-9/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-8/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-7/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-6/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-5/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-4/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-3/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-2/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # Youngers (All Levels) Soccer Training (9-12 y/o) 5-6 PM URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/youngers-all-levels-soccer-training-5-6-pm-10/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge Join our . Coach and TNT Futbol host a regular weekly training from to . Space is limited to ( open), so reserve your spot now. This intensive training is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach , known for developing young talent, your child will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. 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Why TNT Futbol Trainings are Perfect for Your y/o Athlete: • Professional-Level Coaching: Coach brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. • Focused Skill Development: Your child will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. • A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. • Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your child’s potential and passion—give them a day of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! --- # TNT Summer Camp 1 – Irvine, CA June 22-25, 2026 URL: https://tntfutbol.com/event/tnt-summer-camp-1-irvine-ca-june-22-25-2026/ Give Your Athlete a Competitive Edge at TNT Futbol’s 4-Day Camp! Is your youth athlete passionate about soccer and ready to reach new heights? Coach Elmer Chacon and TNT Futbol are hosting TNT Summer Camp 1, June 22-25, 2026, at Oak Creek Community Park in Irvine, CA, daily from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. It’s an elite training experience for players ages 7 to 18 who are eager to excel. Space is limited to 20, so reserve your spot now. This intensive camp is crafted to help serious young players elevate their game with expert coaching and advanced drills. Under the guidance of Coach Elmer Chacon, known for developing young talent, your athlete will strengthen core soccer skills, build confidence, and learn what it takes to stand out on the field. Why the TNT 4-Day Camp is Perfect for Your Athlete: Professional-Level Coaching: Coach Chacon brings years of experience and a proven track record of helping young athletes succeed. Focused Skill Development: Your athlete will gain essential skills in ball control, positioning, and on-field decision-making. A Confidence Boost: Through challenging drills and team-building, kids walk away more confident in their abilities. Leadership and Teamwork: Beyond technical skills, this camp emphasizes leadership, sportsmanship, and focus. Invest in your athlete’s potential and passion. Give them four days of growth, fun, and motivation that will carry into the season. Spots are limited, so secure their place today! Sign up now for the TNT 4-Day Camp, and watch your athlete’s game soar! --- # Trainings URL: https://tntfutbol.com/programs/group-soccer-trainings/trainings/ Upcoming Trainings Upcoming TNT Futbol Trainings Here goes your text ... Select any part of your text to access the formatting toolbar. Event Details --- # Reserve a Spot URL: https://tntfutbol.com/programs/group-soccer-trainings/reserve-a-spot/ Don't Have an Account? Create one here. Reserve Your Spot IMPORTANT: Before you can register for an event, you must create an account. 1. Complete the form below. 2. Check email, click the link to activate your account. 3. Come back to this page to register for your event. --- # You’ve Been Added to the List URL: https://tntfutbol.com/join/youve-been-added-to-the-list/ About Coach Elmer Chacon You've Been Added to the Announcement List Thank you for subscribing to my announcement list... You'll now receive updates and announcments with regards to training opportunities including private and small group trainings plus camps and clinics. You can manage your subscription at any time by clicking here. --- # Join Coach Elmer’s Announcement List URL: https://tntfutbol.com/join/ Join Coach Elmer's Announcment List "If your player provides the effort and energy, is coachable, and willing to bring effort and energy to train, I can help transform them into a better player and individual." Coach Elmer Chacon has been coaching winning teams and athletes of all levels for nearly two decades. During this time his teams have excelled winning several national and regional titles with esteemed clubs such as Slammers Huntington Beach, and Irvine Strikers. He is well known for his roles as Director of Coaching for California Rush, Youth Director, Technical Director and most recently as coach of EA and MLSNEXT programs with Irvine Strikers. Outside of successfully coaching club programs, Coach Chacon also provides private and group training for talented young athletes who have a desire to improve the mental and physical aspects of their game. Get updates on: Upcoming Camps & Clinics Group Training Opportunities Private Training Openings ... and a whole lot more