Our Club

Who We Are

For over a decade, we have taken pride in helping kids as young as 4-years old develop soccer skills in the four key elements of the game:

  1. Technique (skills)
  2. Physical fitness (health)
  3. Game intelligence (tactics)
  4. Positive attitude (sportsmanship)

All of our coaches are licensed by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) and have United Soccer Coaches Organization diplomas.

We help youth in the Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties build the future they want and deserve. We achieve this through soccer training, college preparation, skills and workforce development programs, and social and economic programs that will:

  • Inspire them to achieve the highest levels of sport and academic success
  • Elevate desire to build up their community and engage in social justice causes
  • Educate through academic, social, and life skills programs
  • Bring excellence to their game, standards, and passion in every endeavor – extending their limits and capacity with resilience in sports and life.

We participate in national and international youth soccer tournaments to build national and global bridges and understanding across communities.

Our Mission

More than soccer. As the Elite Soccer Youth Development Academy (ESYDA), our mission is to offer high-quality soccer programs to lift up local communities and offer youth a bridge to higher education opportunities.

Our Vision and Values

  • Encourage and promote youth soccer as a healthy recreational tool as an alternative to socially risky behavior.
  • Offer quality soccer training, along with social guidance, to those children with the ability and desire to be professional soccer players.
  • Support to our players’ community through free health, nutritional and educational services.
  • Develop players who possess the motivation and athletic skills, with the social and cultural qualities, necessary to succeed.
  • Help players with the academic ability and inclination to obtain scholarships to study in high schools and universities in the United States, Spain and other countries.
  • Organize, promote and participate in national and international youth soccer tournaments to build bridges between the youth of the USA and the world. We believe in the trilogy of “Kids-Sports-Peace.”
  • Build and sustain our non-profit organization with the necessary sports facilities and administrative infrastructure to accomplish the above goals.

We value Excellence, Professionalism, Integrity, Quality, and Accountability.

Our Goals

  • ELEVATE the youth: Their body, spirit and life perspective to good, to great, to nothing short of the highest they could reach in life
  • EDUCATE for a brighter future: educate them to academic success through the highest score in school, college education, social and life skills development.
  • INSPIRE to greatness in mankind: inspire them to embrace dedication for noble worthy causes, community building & transformation, to dream big & aim high.
  • EXCEL as athletes: leaders, citizens & human beings: their level playing field, standards & passion to excellence in every endeavor, every walks of life, transcending continuously their limits, capacity, with resilience to excel for nothing short of unparalleled performance in sport, soccer and life.
  • BUILD & transform communities.
  • EMPOWER & support economic growth.
  • GROW a pipeline of good citizens: leaders, high performing economic and soccer players of tomorrow.

Our Partnerships

The Elite Soccer Youth Development Academy (ESYDA) has formed partnerships with local groups to provide extra support services to our athletes and families who are in need. Our partnerships include: 

  • Montgomery County Collaboration Council: Designated as a Local Management Board, the Collaboration Council’s purpose is to be a local catalyst and nonpartisan broker of public and private dollars where agencies and other groups collaborate and invest to achieve positive results in the community.
  • Manna Food Bank: Manna’s mission is to end hunger through food distribution, education, and advocacy. Together with our tremendous volunteers, donors, and partners we are fighting hunger, feeding hope, and helping our neighbors get back on their feet.
  • CASA: As the largest grassroots immigrant advocacy organization in the Mid-Atlantic region, CASA has over 36 years of experience organizing over 115,000 lifetime immigrant, Latino, and working class members.
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