Li'l Sambas Girls Programs and Details

Li'l Sambas Girls Soccer Programs

Until now all of our programs have been coed programs, however, we have had a number of requests for a girls-only program. We offer girls-only programs and house leagues. The girls' developmental programs kicked off in Spring 2024, and the Girls House League in Summer 2024

How does the girl's program differ to the regular Li'l Sambas Program? - The design of the sessions, drills, and skill development will be the same as the regular L'il Sambas program. The difference for the girls enrolled in the girls program will be that their sections will be all girls and where possible, they will be coached by female coaches. Girls are still welcome to register for any of our mixed programs too.

Day, Times and Age Groups for the Girls Development Programs - Spring/Summer 2025

• 2021/2020/2019 - (Wee Copas) Programming at this age group is COED Wee Copas is available at 5:45pm Friday, 9:00am Saturday, 9:45am Saturday
• 2018/2017 (Jabulanis) Saturday 9:00am
• 2016/2015 (Tangos) Saturdays 9:45am
• 2014/2013/2012 (Aztecas) Fridays 6:30pm
• The Girls House League (2012-2018) Takes Place on Sundays at 9.45am

2025 Girls Soccer Programs - Updated February 10th 2025

Outdoor Programs (Spring/Summer 2025)

Click Here for Information and Registration for our Friday and Saturday Development Programs

Click Here for Information and Registration for our Sunday House League

Add-on the house league for half-price: If your child wants to play in both the Development Program (Friday or Saturday) and the House League on Sundays, you can add on the house league for half of the price (only $80 each season) if you add it at the time of registration. Just register for any Friday or Saturday Developmental programs and select "House League Add-On" when checking out and you will automatically only be charged $80 for each season of the house league. Please note, the house league is only available for Grades 1 to 7.

Why Choose Li'l Sambas?

All Li'll Sambas Programs Feature:

• On-field coaching from our team of coaches
• All games and sessions on premium synthetic turf fields
• The same central Ottawa location each week
• A mixture of ball mastery, physical literacy and small-sided games
• Focus on fun-based learning for all participants
• Superior communication and customer service

Our Philosophy

We want to provide our young soccer players maximum individual teaching time with our professional coaching staff and role models. We will help foster intrinsic values by igniting a passion for the game in a fun-filled environment while eliminating extrinsic values by distancing our young soccer players from the external undue pressures of the adult game.

WHY SMALL SIDED GAMES?

• Individual technical development by touching the soccer ball more often, therefore becoming more skillfull
• Tactical development by making more quality decisions during the game
• Reduced field size allows players to be more physically efficient in the field space in which they are playing
• More opportunity to solve problems that only the game presents
• More exposure to attacking and defending situations
• More opportunities to score goals! 

The “Small-Sided” environment is a developmentally appropriate environment for our young soccer players. It’s a FUN environment that focuses on the player.

Ball Mastery Games

Our Core Skills Model focuses on the 4 R’s of technique:  

• Receiving skills: on the ground and in the air 
• Retaining the ball: protect and escape moves 
• Running with the ball: core dribbling techniques 
• Releasing the ball: ball striking techniques on the ground and in the air 

Physical Literacy Games

What is Physical Literacy?

"Physical literacy is the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge, and understanding to value and take responsibility for engagement in physical activities for life."  - The International Physical Literacy Association, May 2014

All physical activity is a lot more fun when we’re physically literate. If we want children to be active for life, ideally they will need to develop physical literacy at a young age during the early stages of Long-Term Athlete Development: Active Start, FUNdamentals, and Learn to Train.

The Elements of Physical Literacy

• Motivation and confidence - an individual’s enthusiasm for, enjoyment of, and self-assurance in adopting physical activity as an integral part of life.
• Physical competence - an individual’s ability to develop movement skills and patterns, and the capacity to experience a variety of movement intensities and duration's. Enhanced physical competence enables an individual to participate in a wide range of physical activities and settings.
• Knowledge and understanding -the ability to identify and express the essential qualities that influence movement, understand the health benefits of an active lifestyle, and appreciate appropriate safety features associated with physical activity in a variety of settings and physical environments. 

More Information

We hope you have found all of the details you need to decide if our programs are the best possible fit for you and your children.

Click on the "Details" button above to get the full details of days, dates times and prices for each of our individual programs.

We also have an FAQ section that answers some of the common questions about the programs.

Our latest FAQ: "What happens if there is another provincial shutdown and part of the program has to be cancelled?"

Contact Us

If you have any other questions that we haven't answered yet, give our team a shout at ottawa@lilsambassoccer.com or call us at 613-366-3202