ABOUT US

Project 10 Soccer Academy is the only soccer network in Central Pennsylvania prioritizing superior player development,  elite coaching, with exceptional sessions. P10 has delivered and continues to deliver developed players with renowned curriculum from youth academies around the world who become All Star players, receive college scholarships, and join professional teams as young adults. 

Project 10 Soccer Academy teaches execution techniques that relate directly to the game. Tactical understanding is fundamental to our curriculum and taught through the use of small sided games proven to develop game intelligence. P10 carefully selects groups of players for three reasons: Well planned and organized training sessions; Fast paced, demanding and efficient training; Clear progression from basic to advanced sessions. 


P10 STAFF

Matt Anderson 
Building on extensive youth coaching education and experience, Matt has spent the past several years studying youth development with elite global educators and institutions. Matt began these studies through intensive courses with a former Athletic Bilboa Academy Director (hosted by La Liga). To build on this experience, Matt traveled to Valencia, Spain to spend a week meeting with Valencia FC’s youth academy staff and observe training. The following year, Matt completed a similar program with the Benfica FC youth academy staff in Lisbon, Portugal. Matt has also attended courses with world-renown coaching educator, Raymond Verhiejen and the World Football Academy. These experiences have allowed Matt to gain an unparalleled knowledge of elite youth soccer coaching on which the Project 10 Soccer School curriculum is based. 

Matt holds a United States Soccer Federation B License and is currently pursuing his A, National Soccer Coaches Association of America National License and a Coerver Youth Diploma. He has over 15 years of coaching experience with boys and girls from 4 years old to High School. Matt has worked with Dallastown High School, FC York, HMMS Soccer Club, Keystone FC and the Eastern Pennsylvania Olympic Development Program. He currently serves as the Technical Director of Keystone FC. Matt played collegiate soccer at Shippensburg University. As a high school player, Matt was the York County Player of the Year and an All-State Nominee. 

Steve Conkle
Steve Conkle draws upon his extensive experience with the game of soccer to bring an exhaustive knowledge of principles, philosophies and coaching points to the Project 10 Soccer School coaching staff. Steve’s unparalleled attention to the details of the game help make Project 10’s curriculum and training sessions some of the best in Central Pennsylvania.

Steve holds a NSCAA National License, Coerver Youth Diploma and La Liga Formation Methodology Level 2 and 3 Certificates. He has coached with the HMMS Soccer Club and West Shore Christian Academy. He currently coaches with Keystone FC. Steve Conkle grew up playing soccer in Suffolk County, Long Island. He played four years for Centereach High School and continued his playing career in Germany with NDL Bremerhaven and Osteholz-Scharmbeck.

About the Name, Project 10

"To the uninitiated, the ‘number 10’ in football is that archetypal player who links midfield with attack, floating between the two and becoming the playmaker of the side. He must be blessed with vision, composure, awareness, and an incredible range of passing, culminating in an almost extra-sensory ability to control the game and be within and without everything that happens going forward for the team. Historically these players have also been ground-breaking skill players, popularizing and even inventing their own incredible pieces of flair, from the ‘Cryuff Turn’ to the ‘Flip-Flap/Elastico’. The ‘number 10’ moniker is due to the fact that this position was traditionally given the number 10 shirt - in the days when a number would denote the position in which the player would operate.

Notable examples are Zidane, Pele, Ronaldinho, Cryuff, Maradona, Bergkamp, Messi, Cantona…essentially those players who are seen as the best of all time."

  
- Sam Blakeley, A Football Report (AFR)
http://afootballreport.com/post/9738165711/the-essence-of-the-number-10-a-beginners-guide