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ROTTERDAM
Camp has international flavor
Coaches teaching European aspects of game to youths
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    In Italy, soccer is much more than just a sport.
    Short tap-passes, dribbling and trapping are just a fraction of the fundamentals studied by young Italians as they begin learning the style of soccer coached on the Mediterranean peninsula. Italy’s youth soccer coaches break the game down to the individual movements, train their players to hone these skills and then teach them how to focus on the mental aspects of the sport.
    Now young soccer players in the Capital Region are getting a chance to learn this style of play, too.
    Italian youth soccer coach Marco Ventura and three other youth coaches from Frosinone Calcio — a B-division soccer team on the southern outskirts of Rome — are in Rotterdam this month to help impart some of their savvy to young players in the region. Organizers from the Rotterdam Youth Soccer Club arranged for the Italians to visit the town this summer in an effort to start an exchange program with the team.
    “The emphasis is on all the motor coordination skills of the individual,” explained coach Ventura, while speaking through a translator. “We try to extend [training] to the whole life, not just soccer.”
    “It’s a different style and a different method of coaching,” said Angelo Caschera, one of the camp’s organizers, who is from an area of Italy near Frosinone.
    At the conclusion of camp, the Fro-.............>>>>............>>>>............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....1&Continuation=1