Thank you for your interest in the Chicago Stars FC for your child's soccer development.
FREE tryouts for 2019/2020 season will be held at Margate Park on Tuesday May 22nd and Thursday May 24th from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Birth Years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 will meet on the fields north of the filed-house while ages 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 will meet south of the field-house.
You must register your child (below) to participate in tryouts and be placed in a roster. Fees are only charged after you accept our invitation post-tryouts..
Our coaches emphasize your child's technical development and game understanding on an individual level. We believe young players require
individual ball mastery long before full-field strategy becomes appropriate. To that end, we implement a series of agility, footskill, 1v1, and small sided games to hone:
1) Technical Skills – a player’s comfort level with the ball
2) Tactical Skills - Quick decision making – the decisions that a player makes in tight spaces
3) Athleticism – speed, quickness, strength, agility, balance, hustle
4) Psychological / Mental Skills – Involvement in the game under various pressure scenarios
5) Offensive Ability – helps to keep possession of the ball for the team
6) Defensive Ability – helps win the ball back from the opponents
7) Camaraderie- Communicates well with other players on the team, strives to be a teammate
Tryouts are our opportunity to evaluate players on the metrics listed above and select those that we expect to be most coachable and responsive within our development style. It is also your opportunity to evaluate our coaching style.