ALBION SC STYLE OF PLAY

Albion Soccer club represents some of the best soccer being played in San Diego. When you talk of the best soccer being played here in San Diego you can also count on that being some of the best soccer being played in the USA.

Southern California typically produces the top teams in the country and is a hotbed for talent that leads to the USA National Teams and is an area that most college coaches in the country are attracted too.

We take great pride in the style of play here at Albion SC and the individual development we give to each player. We see our players in each age group technically more advanced than opposing players and as time progresses players and teams begin to dominate in their respected age groups and divisions.

We play a "Brazilian" possession style of soccer building up out of the back. We encourage our teams to take risk by playing negative balls and moving the ball around the defensive third of the field allowing us to control the tempo and dictate the game. We like to build out of the back also to pull opposing teams into our half creating space in the offensive half to attack. We encourage our players to be creative in the offensive half utilizing our technical skill moves to beat our opponents 1 v 1 or identifing open players and executing the play.

As we build up out of the back our goal is to get the balls into our wide players to create crosses in behind the defense ultimately scoring a goal.  Our style of play is very structured and prepares players to understand the roles of each position. We want our players to“ Let the ball do the work”, meaning we want the ball moving not by dribbling, but by passing not letting the defensive team adjust to our team attack. Our main focus is to keep possession of the ball more than our opposing team and through our possession create great scoring opportunities.