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Summer Training Camp Gets Soccer Teens into Soccer Trials
Oakville, Ontario (PRWEB) June 13, 2007 -- EduKick, a leader in providing professional international soccer training programs that focus on education and language acquisition, has recently helped two student athletes come closer to signing contracts with professional English soccer clubs.
The two players are Jordan Kotsopoulos, 15, a young soccer prodigy from Toronto, Canada that EduKick is representing and Aoi Kushige, 19, a female standout from Japan and current student at the EduKick England-Blackburn Rovers yearlong boarding school in England.
Kushige spent six months at EduKick's English school before she tried out and earned her first professional contract offer. Currently, the Lady Rovers are awaiting an official release for her from the Japanese Soccer Federation.
Kotsopoulos also impressed recruiters and coaches at the Premiership soccer tryouts, earning him an invitation from two teams, Blackburn and Preston North End, to return next year when he is 16 to potentially sign and stay.
"The pace and technical ability in England at the professional academy level is sharp and faster than North America," Kotsopoulos said in an interview after his first successful Premiership audition. "I learned a lot and look forward to returning next year at 16 to sign and stay there."
Although the student athletes at EduKick have a leg up on the competition (no pun intended), not every student is selected to try out for the professional soccer teams.
"The main criteria for getting a pro trial is the opinion of our technical soccer directors," said Joey Bilotta, vice president and co-founder of EduKick, Inc. "The technical directors decide who will be awarded pro trials after spending over nine months training daily with the EduKick soccer boarding school players and getting to know them as players and human beings.
"It's not enough just to be very talented and have great potential…Young soccer players must also have the right attitude and character to be considered for professional soccer tryouts with our affiliated teams in Europe."
EduKick is a one-of-a-kind experience, combining rigorous soccer training with language development and cultural immersion in a safe, supervised environment. Since 2001, it's grown from a single summer camp in Spain to a full-fledged study abroad soccer development international academy with a number of different training camps and affiliations with professional teams all over Europe and in Mexico and Brazil.
EduKick programs are designed to fit the need of any young soccer player, no matter his or her soccer development level. Their programs include yearlong academic soccer boarding schools for high school and university level players, summer camp language immersion soccer training programs, elite soccer training camps, and custom soccer team tours, just to name a few.
Soccer is an extremely competitive sport, and young athletes need all the help and support they can get. For more information on soccer training programs, or to enroll today, visit EduKick.com.
About EduKick, Inc.:
EduKick's mission is to provide intensive soccer development training programs that also teach youngsters about cultural diversity and foreign languages. As professionals, soccer fanatics and fathers, Joseph Bilotta and Corey Zimmerman wanted to create a program that maximized the EduKick youth's time abroad; instilling a sense of independence and pride through experiencing international travel, structured language study, cultural excursions, and daily professional soccer training.
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