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In August of 2007, Core Goalkeeper Academy Director and Head Coach, Chris Sharpe came to Colorado to play for the Colorado Rapids MLS team. After signing a 4 year contract, Chris found an interest in watching the young goalkeepers play in there youth games at the Colorado Rapids home ground, Dicks Sporting Goods Park.

As Chris began to watch and observe week after week, he began to see a need for someone to teach these young goalkeepers correct techniques and just generally build an overall confidence in this very specific position of goalkeeping.

Chris, finally decided he wanted to do something about this situation and went to his very close friend Craig Deacon, Owner and Director of Core Soccer Academy, and said he wanted to begin a goalkeeper Academy under the Core umbrella. Chris began Core Goalkeeper Academy in Fort Collins, Colorado, starting out with 5 goalkeepers a week and training them on an individual basis.

As numbers began to grow, Core Goalkeeper Academy began to run seasonal camps, Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall. The Academy began to spread to Greeley, Loveland, Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs.

Core Goalkeeper Academy has grown to the be the most outstanding and proven goalkeeper curriculum in Colorado, offering the Goalkeepers of Colorado of any age, ability, gender and club to progress, develop and enjoy the position .

Core Curriculum:

The Core curriculum targets specific techniques and tactics that need to be addressed at various ages and stages of a player’s development. The Core curriculum is designed to help players develop and mature at the correct pace in regards to their own maturation and growth. Core has a detailed training program that is designed for each camp. The Core coaching staff will follow weekly session plans that will be tailored to meet the needs of the players in all of the Core training programs. The coaching staff review and evaluate the groups on a weekly basis to make sure each player learns and develops on a consistent basis.  

At Core Soccer we do have the best coaches in the state, but we recognise too that our commitment to the players who come to us for guidance goes beyond playing soccer.  We firmly believe that each and every student will benefit in many other ways too, enhancing their lives generally through the power of soccer. Aside from the ability to play soccer well and enjoy the game, the academy expects students to gain significantly in terms of fitness, confidence and team work, and to build friendships that will last a lifetime.

Players we are working with from the following clubs we are working with: Colorado Rapids, Colorado Rush, Colorado Ice, Colorado Storm, Real National, Fort Collins Arsenal and Cheyenne Sting.