Inti Soccer Academy seeks to serve the disadvantaged youth of Manchester, NH by establishing an intensive and rigorous soccer academy, with supporting educational services, within the most distressed region of the inner city.

Our Principal Objectives

Dedicated to children—both male and female—Inti Soccer Academy will employ professional trainers and educators to provide multiple levels of soccer training and educational services throughout the year. From recreational soccer and club-level competitive soccer to advanced academy-level training, supplemented by academic and character development programs, the Academy will benefit city youth in numerous ways. These benefits are the principle goals of this non-profit organization:

I. Teaching soccer skills from basic to advanced levels
Similar to international academies such as the Tahuichi Academy in Bolivia, as well as several national programs, Inti Soccer Academy’s highest level training treats soccer as an art requiring master coaches and trainers, and the utmost dedication of its players from an early age. Mastery of soccer’s fundamental skills, techniques, tactics, and strategy, as well as good agility and excellent physical conditioning, will be required. The club-level and apprentice programs will require somewhat less commitment from the players, but will nonetheless be guided by professional trainers, and require weekly practices and clinics for competence in skills and techniques.

II. Establishing habits of self-discipline, concentration, and hard-work
All levels of soccer and academic training provided by Inti require players to learn to focus their time, energy and attention on development of their bodies and minds in order to achieve success on the field and in the classroom. As with any discipline, good character is a prerequisite for success. As a result, all of Inti Soccer Academy’s employees and personnel will model good behavior and, with regard to the players themselves, provide care and attention for the whole person, i.e., the development of his or her body, mind and spirit.

III. Building confidence and self-esteem in disadvantaged youth
Soccer is a sport that demands team-work and skill. As children gain talent and experience playing soccer with one another, no matter how distressed their background, they will gain confidence, self-esteem, and a sense of trustworthiness. This will positively affect their work in school, their home life, and their pursuit of jobs and careers.

IV. Providing healthy athletic and fitness activity to counteract childhood obesity
Because of the variety of types of soccer activity offered by Inti after school, during the evenings, on weekends, over holidays, and during the summer, the inner city children of Manchester who participate in the Academy’s programs will be involved in healthy physical exercise on a daily basis, and year-round. This consistency is essential for the Academy’s success in teaching soccer, but also for developing healthy life-long exercise habits in today’s youth.

V. Assisting immigrant and refugee children, and their families, with their integration into the Manchester community.
By providing many levels of soccer and educational training programs that attract inner and outer city children, Inti provides Manchester with a healthy resource to divert its otherwise troubled youths from destructive patterns of behavior, improve the community’s quality of life, and introduce Manchester’s urban youths to their suburban peers. By welcoming mothers and fathers to its adult recreational soccer as well, Inti strengthens families, and helps integrate the different races, ethnicities, and socio-economic classes of the greater Manchester region.