May 1st, 2024: FC7Soccer® Development Academy™ the top ranked youth soccer development program in Santa Clarita Valley has teamed up with the only MLS backed club, LAFC® to be their grassroots program here in SCV. We are all very excited about the opportunity with Sergio and his group, is what FC7Soccer® co-founder, Executive Technical Director, and President, Afsheen Alborzian expressed.

​The program at FC7Soccer® DA is well structured. It focuses on footwork, ball mastery, and defensive tactics. It teaches players to show in space, to scan, to read and respond, and to finish. It offers a creative environment that is fast paced with multiple cleat levels and testing to matriculate.

To sign up click or scan the QR code over here on the right.

March 31st, 2024 Legends FC SCV B08 team is making waves and moving into the next round of the State Cup in SOCAL League. Lead by Coach Afsheen and Coach T, with assistance at times from Coaches Jason and Andrew, and Managed by Coach Janet, the team has captured the hearts of their fandom through sheer determination, teamwork, and impressive skill in game play.

In their final stunning performance in group stage they clinched first place showcasing their talent and tenacity on the pitch. Fueled by passion and a commitment to excellence, they over came numerous challenges to reach this pivotal moment. Their journey began here at FC7Soccer® a long time ago and continues to grow marked by unforgettable moments of triumph like this battling their way while staying resilient to emerge victorious once again. Lets all say CONGRATULATIONS when you see these boys. We are very proud of you. Good luck this coming weekend.

January 29th, 2024: It's a big time in youth soccer here in SoCal and across the country. The Development Academy is back in full swing, high school is wrapping up the season, club teams are all prepping for State Cup, showcase tournaments, and then Nationals. College ID camps and  Talent ID camps are happening in search of the nation's elite youth players. The elite teams will also begin the second leg of their 2023-24 seasons (ECNL, E64NL,MLS Next, and GAs) shortly.

It's a good time to pay attention to your fundamentals and put time in honing your footwork, ball mastery, finishing, defensive tactics, and transitioning skills/IQ. FC7Soccer®s Development Academy™ in Santa Clarita and the San Fernando Valley is open for business on those free weekends you have off. Come by to be assessed and train on the edge to get your game play on and off the ball in order and play elite. We have our main days and we  have private training available. Call us or just sign up and come down to try us complimentary.

​We also have a great podcast series that started this year on our podcast page or wherever podcasts are available. They are inspirational, motivational, and add to your mental game IQ.

January 4th, 2024: Back in June of 2023, we had our first Cal South™ Olympic Development Program™ player make the ODP™ roster. You may know her as  Nicky Pickering. She made the G09 ODP™ team. ODP™ is a program that USYS™ oversees at the highest levels before US Soccer® takes over for the national teams. You must be a club player that coaches feel is at the highest levels and can adapt quickly to play with others at that same level. Think of it as an all-star team. You also must be invited to tryout. Here is a link to see the rosters and learn more about Cal South™/USYS™/US Soccer® ODP™.

• https://calsouth.com/pro-odp-player-pools/

The Winter Pool Cal South™ ODP™ tryouts began in mid-November through December to play in AZ against the other states in our region. We had about 10 other players (mostly boys) invited to tryout. Although 5 made it to final cuts, only 3 made it through with their respective teams. Shout out to all invited to tryout and shout out to those that made it up to final cuts. Our current 4 players who made their respective teams and are going to play in Arizona are (pictured above): Julian Alborzian-B08, Logan Cummings-B10, Nicky Pickering-G09, and Axel Soto-B10, please be sure to congratulate them when you see them at training. All 4 members also train with us at the FC7Soccer® Development Academy™ in Santa Clarita. Here at FC7Soccer® we are very proud of their accomplishment and wish them the best at the USYS™ ODP­™ regional tournament. CONGRATULATIONS!

As we reflect on 2023, it was a fun year here at FC7Soccer® Development Academy. We met a lot of new faces and families. Our club teams moved up and played well, and we had our first players make the Cal South ODP teams.

With all of that in mind we wanted to take the time and thank you all for the wonderful support in 2023, we are all very grateful. We are looking forward to a fantastic 2024 with gratitude and grace. -FC7Soccer® MGMT.

October 3, 2023. It is breast cancer awareness month. In October since 2021 we run our ​"CriticalSAVE™" program reminding everyone the importance of getting screened and getting it done today. Please do not put it off. Your life is valuable and needed here on our planet. Early detection will save your life ... women and men!

Once you get screened remind others. It takes a village and we need help from every village to spread the word. When you see our campaign posts on social media, SHARE them on your wall/page, it will only take a few seconds of your time to do so much good. We appreciate all of you and thank each of you in advance for your help and contributions. From all of us at FC7Soccer® we wish you a healthy October and a blessed day.

August 11th, 2023: Current FC7Soccer® DA™🧦trained players who play with Coach Afsheen will attend this years Legends Cup™ San Diego🏆to defend their title (so to speak). Last summer the Legends FC SCV B2008 team👑 went there and won it all. Now they move to the "Elite Division" playing against ECNL and ENPL teams. "It will be a true test for the boys. We expect them to play strong and resilient" Coach Afsheen stated.

Everyone at FC7Soccer® DA™ in SCV is excited for the boys. "We were all very proud of their achievement", said one parent. Another told us, "At one point it looked bleak, like they may have to go to penalty kicks when a last second GOLAZZO from outside of 'the 18' by Julian (Alborzian) saved the day". That win and the way it happened was the catalyst to a collective confidence and the team went on to "WIN IT ALL"!!!🪄🏆⚽

We want to wish them luck👑 defending their title and wish the Legends FC in SCV, B2009 team luck🍀. They just came off a FINALIST🥈position in the Legends FC Invitational this past spring (SCV). All of the players (B08-B09) along with the Legends FC in SCV, B2013 team💪, train with their coaches or other coaches on staff* at FC7Soccer® DA™🧦 here in the Santa Clarita Valley. We wish all 3 teams who will be in "The Cup" all weekend in San Diego, a champion's goodwill and godspeed.🏆🏆🏆May they all be blessed-n-bring it home.🕊️

* for a list of our staff coaches go to "Coaches Corner" under FC7Soccer page.

SCV Headquarters: FC7Soccer®, is expanding to Burbank and has also partnered with Santa Clarita Soccer Center to offer it's elite training program indoors.

​Burbank is already a month in and the "SCSC project" for indoors will begin this Saturday, July 29th in the early afternoon. Our co-founder Afsheen Alborzian, the FC7Soccer® Development Academy program's Chief Technical Director and President is working out the lessons details and exercise programming for indoor since it will also include strength training. He holds a Bachelors (B.S.) in Kinesiology from CSULA and a MBA.

The idea is already sound and proven, so gauging the player interest and timing for the indoor project is paramount to the program's success, implied Coach Afsheen, especially with the heat and no end insight. In the meantime FC7Soccer® will continue it's regular Saturday morning sessions over at Newhall Park. For more information go to FC7Soccer.com, or you may scan or click-on the QR code in this blog (see above).

We are grateful for your interest in the training we offer here at FC7Soccer®. Please, lets all  "spread the word" about our program to help as many kids in our community that love soccer (the beautiful game), learn the correct fundamentals, technique, tactics, physicality, and ball mastery. "It's 'chess-on-the-pitch' when you're playing the beautiful game the way it is meant to be played." - Bahman Alborzian⚽

SCV HQ: This day, June 13th, 2023 was a milestone day for all of us at FC7Soccer®, and especially a proud moment for Coach Afsheen. Its today that we all heard the announcement saying our very own player/coach Nicole Pickering made the g2009 Cal South ODP team. She was a prodigy from Coach Afsheen's first group at FC7Soccer® DA. ⚽ She just finished 8th grade with a 4.0 GPA, and she was with us since the inception of FC7Soccer's youth soccer Development Academy program. Congratulations to Nicole!

She currently plays with the Legends SCV 09G, Elite 64 team as the "10"or ACMF (4-3-3). Last year she played NPL Discovery Elite with LAFC's G2009 here in SCV. She is headed to the Elite 64 National Cup, high school camp, and to team training camp for ODP in the next few weeks.

In the beginning (2015), Coach Afsheen had the blank canvas and trained Nicole (age 5 on). He nurtured her game from the details of ball mastery and the right fundamentals, to many of the techniques passed down to him by his dad and Coach Cherif Zein, when he started as a kid and playing all the way up to D1.

From there she took the reins and has gone on to play with several other masters like coach Afsheen including but not limited to Cherif Zein (and many others all of the way up to her current coach Justin Lundin -COC's Women Soccer Coach) and her game has grown significantly. She puts in the work and she pays attention to detail. She is also very gifted and blessed with size, strength, and athletic prowess. We are all very proud of you Nicole.

Being chosen to play ODP (Cal South) she follows in the distant footsteps of another one of Coach Afsheen's players from the FC Barcelona days with Coach Cherif. That player and now FC7Soccer® Coach and Associate Director is Coach Andrew (Trejo). He played ODP for Cal South also.

Please visit Nicole's channel: https://youtube.com/@3NAPsoccer
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First off lets understand the difference between productivity and efficiency. A simple example is you come home from school and immediately do your homework. Then you eat and change into your soccer practice gear, look for your ball and get it, fill your water bottle, and grab an apple to eat on the drive to practice.  Is that productive? ... Yes.

Efficiency would be to already have your ball with your gear and your water bottle ready along with a well thought out healthy snack you prepare for after school, in the morning or the night before so that you can focus on your homework when you get back from school. Then you could eat and relax to digest your snack (since it is already made), while lastly get ready to go to practice. Can you clearly see the difference?

Maybe you can help yourself even more. How can we make the above even more efficient? How about we write out and plan our week. That would be most efficient. Wouldn't you agree? Coach Afsheen has a DIAL planner you can ask for any time. You may even already have a copy if you are attending our classroom sessions. ⚽😎

Copy and paste this link into your browser. It talks about how USYS is bringing together Northern and Southern California elite youth soccer to have a true state champion.

There was a lot and nothing to report during 2020 with the pandemic ending sports for our youth. Here at FC7Soccer® we ran an online program for any players that could mentally handle it. With school online, parents out of work or working at home online, it was NOT healthy mentally for anyone, but especially not for our children. The social environment school brings for the most part is mentally healthy for impressionable children, especially at the puberty age.

The social and controlled competitive environment is also healthy for children, especially teamwork. Humans are a biocarbon, electro-chemical organism that is emotionally driven socially and bases intelligence on problem-solving and reproduction on size/symmetry. For as simple as we can behave, we are a universe of complexities in our own right, that are connected to each other in more ways than that have been discovered at this point. In-person social networking using our senses is a very important part of our complexity and COVID temporarily took that away. Not to mention change causes entropy to increase. Everyone's patience was being tested in 2020 and still is in 2021. For the most part we managing through.

Coming into 2021 we began with RTP (Return To Play) protocols in place and we were unsure of who might still be able to play on our club teams along with feeling our way through how game play might look. Unfortunately a few players were unable to return. However a lot of our players did return, and a lot more new players joined us. We are very grateful and appreciate how things turned out at FC7Soccer®. We had some changes happen like beginning a weekly classroom session for our club players and having to move our DA from Fair Oaks Park to Central Park, but that turned out to be a needed move since we are still growing in size. Classroom has been great for players. It teaches them preparation acumen and the mental side of of planning before you play.

We want to thank all of our parents, players, and coaches for sticking with us through all of this and welcome our new member families and coaches. We know it takes a village to raise a child and we will continue to do our part in our community -right here in the Santa Clarita Valley.
​-Thank You, FC7Soccer® Management and Leadership Council™