Li'l Sambas Programs and Details

Welcome to our Li'l Sambas 2024 programming, you can find all the details you need below as well as the links to sign up your child to join us at our premium, central location this season.

2024 Developmental Soccer Programs - Updated July 26th 2024

Outdoor/Indoor Programs (Fall 2024)

Fall Outdoor/Indoor Development Programs (September and October 2024) - Registration Now Open

Our fall programs give you the best of both worlds - outdoors at Immaculata High School Turf Field, 140 Main Street, until Thanksgiving and then indoors at the RA Centre Dome, 2451 Riverside Drive until early November.

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.

Winter Indoor Development Programs (November-January 2024/25) - Coming Soon

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 chris@lilsambassoccer.com or call us at 613-366-3202