Beyond the Pitch – December 2025

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Open Registrations: Competitive & Grassroots

Winter Competitive Evaluations and Talent ID & Selection

Are you a recreational player interested in our competitive program? Sign up for an evaluation. Note: this evaluation period is only for recreational players, or those not currently registered with a competitive team in a NorCal club.

Competitive Evaluation Interest Form

Grassroots Spring 2026 Recreational Youth Soccer

Grassroots Spring 2026 soccer is open for registration. Reserve your spot now and get ready for another fun season of learning through play!

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Senior Boys Team Competes at November Nights Showcase

Each year, our U19 Senior Boys team travels to southern California to play in the November Nights College Showcase in Carlsbad, CA. Though the journey to travel from the Fremont YSC office to Encinitas is long, the boys were in great spirits and represented their club and city with pride and excellence.

Well done, boys! You are a credit to the club, and have made us and your families proud!

TECHNE Leaderboard

Fremont YSC offers a FREE account on the TECHNE soccer training app for players in the Foundation Phase. Each month, we’ll be recognizing the efforts of players practicing at home.

Parent Education and Engagement

Age-Appropriate Development

Development Structures

Development is currently taking a back seat in youth soccer. The explosion of ‘elite playing platforms’ has led to youth soccer becoming more performance and outcome-orientated, which is characteristic of the adult world—not a youth development environment.

This causes many problems:

1. Learning/Development: Rote learning becomes more prevalent, regurgitating information rather than seeking a deeper knowledge. Short-term benefits are great to support outcomes, but long-term learning, problem solving, and creativity all suffer.
2. Psychological Impact: Becoming results-orientated removes focus on the process, which further erodes confidence in a player when the outcome becomes what defines them. Additionally, a growth mindset is sacrificed as mistakes are not tolerated since they lead to negative outcomes.
3. An Adults Game: As humans, we go through learning phases, each considering characteristics of the individual. This informs the methodology, coaching behaviors and objectives. However, when we focus on outcomes and ‘elite playing platforms,’ the needs of the individual are bypassed elevating short-term impact to gain favorable results.
4. Recruitment: Early development biases decline over time, causing players to no longer develop or have an impact on a game, leading to a focus on recruitment. The player who showed early impact is no longer needed, is disregarded, and their love for the game is reduced or completely gone. This is not healthy, holistic development.

But, Fremont Youth Soccer Club is different.

All curriculum and session designs are informed by the individual’s development structure for learning. This aligns to the coaching behaviors required, and therefore a clear coach’s profile for that specific age.

Below, you’ll see the contrast between two different learning phases. This is developing players, and not chasing ‘elite platforms.’

At Fremont YSC, we are proud to be different. We follow the standards set throughout the world, using modern coaching methods and a holistic approach to development, supporting growth of the whole person.

Is Your Child Burning Out? Here’s What to Consider

Youth sports and other kid’s programs are turning to a “more is better” approach, leading kids to being over-scheduled and overwhelmed. Paired with the intense pressure placed on kids academically, these conditions are detrimental to their individual well-being.

At Fremont YSC, we periodize our entire program, dividing our training into planned cycles with varying intensity to reach age-specific goals. From 4- to 19-years-old, we have planned out the approach including competitive entry, training, and distance for competition.

Player welfare is important to us, and it should be to all clubs. Sadly, money has pushed youth sports to focus more on outcome and quantity over the needs of youth.

Read More About Child Burnout and What You Can Do About It