“It’s truly a unique opportunity for high-level soccer players to enter into a middle or high school educational environment designed specifically for elite athletes,” said Phil Ionadi, soccer director of PEAC Burlington.

After two years operating in Burlington and Toronto, PEAC has joined an elite roster of EduKick international soccer academies in Italy, Spain, France, England, Brazil, and Mexico.

“This partnership marks EduKick’s first North American soccer boarding school,” said Joey Bilotta, vice president of EduKick.

The new academic and athletic facilities rival top academic academies across North America, according to Neil Doctorow, director of PEAC Burlington.

“PEAC’s student-athletes could not be better prepared,” said Doctorow. “We have classrooms equipped with Smartboards, a wireless environment, Ontario-certified teachers, two indoor turf soccer fields, a fitness centre, a physiotherapy clinic, a spinning room, and a gymnasium.”

Students will be training under the supervision of national A license Uruguayan-Canadian technical soccer coach, Rafael Carbajal, in the new soccer program.

“EduKick’s expertise in operating international football schools and international student recruitment, together with PEAC’s expertise in secondary education and training elite athletes, assures that this unique school will be a success,” said Ionadi.

PEAC also offers hockey, basketball, baseball and lacrosse sports programs.

Please note that space is very limited for this free event. If interested in attending, click here to RSVP immediately.

About EduKick

EduKick Inc. operates academic year International Soccer Academies in Italy, Spain, France, England, Brazil and Mexico. The agreement between EduKick Inc. and PEAC School for Elite Athletes will be EduKick’s first ever North American based International Soccer Boarding  School venue. To learn more about the EduKick, please visit:
www.edukick.com

About PEAC Soccer Prospects Showcase Open House Event

Interested student-players and parents are welcome to attend our OPEN HOUSE event. This unique soccer development opportunity is open to both boys and girls that want the opportunity to attend middle school or high school in an adapted educational environment specifically designed for high-level soccer players.

PEAC’s goal for the Burlington and Toronto School locations is to continue to build an elite soccer development program serving high level players from the Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Mississauga, Toronto, and the surrounding areas. For more information about the PEAC school, please visit www.PEAC.ca.

PEAC SCHOOLS’ SOCCER PROSPECTS SHOWCASE

Friday July 30, 2010 from 4:00-6:30 pm.

Location: PEAC Burloak Facility 952 Century Drive, Burlington

Players will attend a training session offered by National “A” License coach Rafael Carbajal.

THE SOCCER PROSPECTS SHOWCASE includes:

On Field Training with PEAC Soccer Coaches at PEAC Burloak Facility

Information Session about Academic & Athletic Programs & Tour of PEAC School

PEAC is an independent day school for grades 6 through 10 that has built a soccer-specific program for players who wish to achieve excellence academically and athletically.

Our goal is to continue to build an elite soccer development program, which will draw a great deal of attention from post-secondary schools and many local elite teams.  For more information about the PEAC School, visit www.PEAC.ca

Itinerary for PEAC Soccer Prospects Showcase:

3:45pm – Registration – PEAC School at Burloak facility

4:00pm-5:00pm – On-Field Practice Session with PEAC coaches

5:15pm-6:00pm Presentation about PEAC & Soccer Program

6:00pm- 6:30pm – Q&A, Tour of School

Please note that space is very limited for the event, and you need to RSVP by no later than Wednesday July 28th.   Please reply directly to armanda@peac.ca to confirm your attendance at the event.

We look forward to seeing you and your child on Friday July 30, 2010 for a great night of athletics and academics.  We are confident that our school will provide your child with the best academic and athletic development program in Canada.

Dear Parents,
Now we have almost completed the first week of camp I in representation of my whole staff here in Madrid am happy to present to you this report about the development of our camp so far. Before I get into the report, I would like to express to you our thanks for giving us the chance and the confidence to be your daughters/sons’ mentors for these 3 weeks. We have been educating, through football & language young adolescent for the last 25 years and we recognize the commitment that this big challenge represents. We are personally committed 24/7 to make a big impression on each one of our campers, so they can understand and identify the potential (strengths and areas of improvement) that they possess to become the best individual and athlete that they can be.
Our recipe to achieve this is simple: involvement and empower. We get them involved in what they love the most (the game) so we can empower them to be the best that they can be. We listen to them and together we identify those factors that really help them grow inside and outside the field. The group of players that we received is what we call ¨transformational level¨. They are transitioning from recreational to a more serious level concept.


With this in mind we started our camp July 1st. Campers arrived safely and our first priority was to have them recover from their long trip/jet lag/ landing in a foreign language & culture. We assigned them to roommates by age and similarities. After a long deserved rest on July 2nd we met with them and introduced them to our philosophy, daily schedule, rights and obligations. We toured the residence so they could know first hand where everything is located. Asking for things in Spanish and the Mediterranean diet (a bit different than what they are used to, but much healthier) was the first hardship that many of our campers had to face. We made adjustments so all campers could progressively adapt to the new physical environment. Fortunately and after a couple days everyone has adapted very well to the healthy contents of Spanish and Spanish meals. Parents need to know that with every meal I personally approach each camper and his plate to see if they have eaten all and I offer to each one of them an alternative in case they don’t like something. Everyone is eating right and being fully satisfied so they can work hard during practices and games.
On July 2nd they had their first 2 daily practices: Early morning Physical Conditioning, Reduced area team accurate passing and possession after, individual technique development third and game playing, tactics and positioning last. WE TRANSMITTED TO THEM ALL THE BASIC CONCEPTS THAT ARE KEY TO SUCCEED AT FOOTBALL. Which are: be fit, be quick, be precise, be confident, be with the ball, have the initiative, and control the ball to control the game. These are exactly the same ingredients that Spain‘s national team used to win the EUROCUP, last June year in Austria and now trying to win the World Cup..
On July 3rd, we introduced them to more tactics, we continued with our daily practices and we prepared them for their first game. We also started with our Spanish lessons by teaching them all Spanish vocabulary that applys to football. On July 4th they played their first local friendly game against SANSE RACE. Our campers played a great cohesive game and tied 5-5. Even though it was their first game we felt super happy to see in the field lots of the ingredients that we have been teaching them during our daily training sessions. Saturday afternoon Bernabeu stadium tour was postponed to give our campers the chance to see world cup games together. Following day we went to monumental and full of culture Toledo and to the bullfight ring. Today is July 6th, they played another local team (Juventud SANSE)for scrimmage and game understanding development. Tomorrow there will be individual technique tests for all campers.Their legs are becoming to be very tired because of the effort in all sessions. Today we had a regeneration day also, with active rest. Before we go and train again in time to watch the first WC semifinal at 8:30 pm.

I wouldn’t like to finish this report without sharing with parents our feeling of fortune and joy for being the witness of the true and genuine friendship that is occurring among all of them. We have campers from all over the world: Russia, Japan, Germany, China, Belgium, USA, Canada, Cayman Islands, Kuwait,Spain etc… They are connecting so well together naturally and smoothly without reservations, all trusting each other through the common language, they all speak love for football. Watching them playing together, singing together and laughing together after just one week of being together is a gift that makes all of us believe in what we are doing will stay with them for a long time. You as parents of this such a nice group, should feel proud of your own kids for being so open and willing to accept other cultures and languages. Well done for you too.
Now it is almost 11 pm and I need to go through rooms to see that all are healthy and ready for tomorrow’s practices and games that we have this week to prepare next week Madrid Cup International Tournament.
This is all for now. Please contact me with anything. Nacho has published photos online.

Now we have almost completed the first week of camp I in representation of my whole staff here in Madrid am happy to present to you this report about the development of our camp so far.

Before I get into the report, I would like to express to you our thanks for giving us the chance and the confidence to be your daughters/sons’ mentors for these 3 weeks. We have been educating, through football & language young adolescent for the last 25 years and we recognize the commitment that this big challenge represents.

We are personally committed 24/7 to make a big impression on each one of our campers, so they can understand and identify the potential (strengths and areas of improvement) that they possess to become the best individual and athlete that they can be.

Our recipe to achieve this is simple: involvement and empower. We get them involved in what they love the most (the game) so we can empower them to be the best that they can be. We listen to them and together we identify those factors that really help them grow inside and outside the field. The group of players that we received is what we call ¨transformational level¨. They are transitioning from recreational to a more serious level concept.

With this in mind we started our camp July 1st. Campers arrived safely and our first priority was to have them recover from their  long trip/jet lag/ landing in a foreign language & culture. We assigned them to roommates by age and similarities.

After a long deserved rest on July 2nd we met with them and introduced them to our philosophy, daily schedule, rights and obligations. We toured the residence so they could know first hand where everything is located. Asking for things in Spanish and the Mediterranean diet (a bit different than what they are used to, but much healthier) was the first hardship that many of our campers had to face.

We made adjustments so all campers could progressively adapt to the new physical environment. Fortunately and after a couple days everyone has adapted very well to the healthy contents of Spanish and Spanish meals.

Parents need to know that with every meal I personally approach each camper and his plate to see if they have eaten all and I offer to each one of them an alternative in case they don’t like something. Everyone is eating right and being fully satisfied so they can work hard during practices and games.
On July 2nd they had their first 2 daily practices: Early morning Physical Conditioning, Reduced area team accurate passing and possession after, individual technique development third and game playing, tactics and positioning last.

WE TRANSMITTED TO THEM ALL THE BASIC CONCEPTS THAT ARE KEY TO SUCCEED AT FOOTBALL. Which are: be fit, be quick, be precise, be confident, be with the ball, have the initiative, and control the ball to control the game. These are exactly the same ingredients that Spain’s national team used to win the EUROCUP, last June year in Austria and now trying to win the World Cup..

On July 3rd, we introduced them to more tactics, we continued with our daily practices and we prepared them for their first game. We also started with our Spanish lessons by teaching them all Spanish vocabulary that applys to football. On July 4th they played their first local friendly game against SANSE RACE. Our campers played a great cohesive game and tied 5-5.

Even though  it was their first  game we felt super happy to see in the field lots of the ingredients that we have been teaching them during our daily training sessions. Saturday afternoon Bernabeu stadium  tour was postponed to give our campers the chance to see world cup games together.

Following day we went to monumental and full of culture Toledo and to the bullfight ring. Today is July 6th, they played another local team (Juventud SANSE)for scrimmage and game understanding development. Tomorrow there will be individual technique tests for all campers.Their legs are becoming to be very tired because of the effort in all sessions. Today we had a regeneration day also, with active rest. Before we go and train again in time to watch the first WC semifinal at 8:30 pm.

I wouldn’t like to finish this report without sharing with parents our feeling of fortune and joy for being the witness of the true and genuine friendship that is occurring among all of them. We have campers from all over the world: Russia, Japan, Germany, China, Belgium, USA, Canada, Cayman Islands, Kuwait,Spain etc… They are connecting so well together naturally and smoothly without reservations, all trusting each other through the common language, they all speak love for football.

Watching them playing together, singing together and laughing together after just one week of being together is a gift that makes all of us believe in what we are doing will stay with them for a long time. You as parents of this such a nice group, should feel proud of your own kids for being so open and willing to accept other cultures and languages. Well done for you too.

Now it is almost 11 pm and I need to go through rooms to see that all are healthy and ready for tomorrow’s practices and games that we have this week to prepare next week Madrid Cup International Tournament.
This is all for now. Please contact me with anything.

Cheers

Anselmo Vicioso-Aragonés
Professional Sports Psychology Consultant
Neurofeedback-High Tech Labs- MindRoom Senior Specialist
Edu-Goal/Edukick General Programs Coordinator Madrid-Spain
Mental Coach for Spain’s National Team World/Euro Cup Germany/Austria 2006/08
M.Ed. Boston University
Ex-Professional Soccer Player US- Europe
FIFA Licensed Youth Coach. FEF
NY Certified K-12 Spanish Teacher

Joey Bilotta at Victoria Warf, Cape Town!

Joey with a lion!

Joey with Randal Smith!

He’s giving his predictions for the World Cup. The world will never know.

Check it out! You can see Cape Town far far below!

Then Germany – Serbia match over lunch.

2nd match: USA - Slovenia...GO USA!!!

Then, we were off to stadium to attend the England – Algeria match!!

The game starts at 2:30 p.m. ET, 1:30 p.m. CT.

Stay tuned here for more updates from South Africa and the World Cup!

This is the only way to fly.

So far, we’ve had a lot of fun seeing soccer friends…

…and taking a look at some of the gorgeous sights down here in South Africa. Seeing as how June means winter south of the equator, it’s pretty cold here!

Be sure to stay tuned here for more pictures and more updates from South Africa and the WORLD CUP!

At this one-day event, aspiring players will have the chance to train with Dave Bailey, manager of the Bolton Wanderers ISS, and his technical coaches. Sixty players will be pre-selected to attend this event.

As if that weren’t enough, Bailey and his team will then choose two lucky boys to go to England to train for a week! They’ll get to spend five days training at the Bolton Arena with the BWFC ISS staff, entrance to a BWFC Premiership game at the Reebok Stadium, and a tour of the Reebok stadium. In addition, they’ll be recognized at halftime of the football game as having won this contest.

For full details on what the two winners will receive, click here.

“EduKick is very excited and honored to host this unique event in downtown Toronto with our friends at SoccerWorld Polson Pier,” said Joey Bilotta, vice president of EduKick. “Real football dreams will be realized on Saturday July 24th at SoccerWorld Polson Pier! I would like to invite all qualified players from the Greater Toronto Area to consider joining us!”

Want a chance to be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Then fill out this soccer resume and send it to:

SoccerWorld Polson Pier
176 Cherry Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5A 3L1

You can also fax your resume to: 416-466-0454.

If you’re selected, the cost to attend the International Talent ID is $50, which includes lunch and a T-shirt.

For more information, you can contact jill@soccerworldcentral.ca or email info@edukick.com.

Don’t miss this chance! The deadline to submit your soccer resume is July 17, so don’t delay!

We look forward to seeing you there!