A guide to choosing soccer ID camps based on who runs them, how they're structured, and whether they attract real college coaches. Elite Soccer ID Camp brings coaches from Northwestern, UC Berkeley, San Diego State, and other programs to evaluate players across the country.
How do I know which ID camps you do and shouldn't go to? There's 3 ways I make this decision for our students and frankly to you, my viewers. So number 1 is who runs the camp. If it's a genuine human, I'm about to show you a video of the best camp I think everybody should go to because the gentleman who runs it is a really good human being and he understands the recruiting process. Number 2 is how they set up the camp, meaning are you going to get feedback at the end of the camp that literally says to you, Basically what level you can play and will the coaches be references, which this camp I'm about to show you does both of those boxes. And then number 3 is I coach you guys on how to get genuine interest. Every single camp is worth going to. I know a lot of you guys go, it's money grabs, it's money grabs. If you don't go to the camp, they're not gonna watch you. So you have to go to the camp. Now for some of you, you'll go, maybe I could go to a showcase and then you don't have to go to camp. That is true. And that's through emails and video. And it's also through going to camp. So pretty much if you wanted to play for Chelsea and Chelsea said we're hosting an ID camp and you felt the college coaches, or rather in Chelsea's case, the professional coach of Chelsea or Manchester United's Michael Carrick was going to be at the ID camp, why would you not go? Even if you're not good enough or you're worried if you're good enough, you're going to actually get seen in person. So almost every camp is a good one. The difference is, is it realistic for you? Are you going to get feedback that says at what level you can play? Did you get genuine interest beforehand? And that is how you make decisions on camp. So here is the best camp that I've been to in the last 10 years, and here's who came to the camp.
My name is Flo Neal, assistant coach at Northwestern University. What's up, everybody? Ricardo Gutierrez. I'm up in the Bay Area at UC Berkeley. We're at UC Santa Cruz. Cal State Northridge. At San Diego State University. I'm Brian Wright with Occidental College, Division III, student coach at Cal State LA. This wash year in St. Louis, we play in the UAA Conference. I'm at Carnegie Mellon University, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and we are Division III and play in the NESCAC Conference. At Bowdoin College, which is in Brunswick, Maine, Division III, we also play in the NESCAC Conference. Claremont Mudd School I coach at the University of San Diego and we're in the WCC Conference, Division I. Crystal Ball, UC Riverside, Division I, Big West. Then at Caltech, another Division III in the SCIAC. We're at Occidental College, Division III within the SCIAC Conference. Morning everyone, Kendra Watson, performance coach with LA Galaxy.
This camp is going to fill up really quickly because now they're hosting it in the Midwest, they're hosting it on the East Coast, and they're also hosting it on the West Coast. This camp is going to take over the country. It's going to be one of the best ones I think that you can come across. If you want to know how to get in touch with these people, go to Elite Soccer ID Camp on Google and you'll find them. And if you want more help from me and you want to know other camps, because there are other camps that are good, comment the word camp and I'll send you a list.
