Former WYSA youth player and Bronze Olympian, Desiree Scott has been selected as Manitoba Female Athlete of the Year.

Please see the following link:

http://www.canadasoccer.com/canada-s-scott-named-manitoba-s-athlete-of-the-year--p153131

The Winnipeg Youth Soccer Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Carlo Bruneau as its new Executive Director effective February 12, 2013.

Carlo joins WYSA from the Manitoba Soccer Association where he served as Special Events and Competitions Coordinator for the past five years. Well-versed in the trends shaping the youth game today, Carlo brings a high level of organizational expertise to his new role.

“I am thrilled to take on this role leading WYSA. Soccer is the most popular youth sport in Winnipeg and the level of skill and competition seems to improve every year,” said Bruneau. “We still have lots of room for improvement though and I look forward to working with staff, clubs and community centres to enhance how WYSA administers its leagues.”

WYSA is the largest youth soccer league administrator in Manitoba. In addition to managing all premier, premier-developmental and developmental leagues (from ages 9 through 18), WYSA oversees recreational soccer leagues for community centres from ages 13 to 18. It also supports district soccer associations who administer the recreational leagues for ages 9 through 12. In recent years, WYSA has managed high school indoor and outdoor soccer leagues and has played a key role in bringing soccer programming to disadvantaged youth in Winnipeg’s core areas.

“We’re excited to have Carlo join our organization. He is tremendously knowledgeable about the game and system here in the province, and he brings a fresh energy and perspective,” said Tom Thompson, President of WYSA. “Our main objective is to run the best possible soccer leagues we can and to encourage participation in the game at all skill levels. It would be hard to find someone with more passion for those things than Carlo.”

THE 2013 INDOOR WYSA SCHEDULE FOR THE REMAINING LEAGUE GAMES BEFORE PLAY-OFFS IS NOW AVAILABLE - EITHER BY CLICKING THE LINK ABOVE AND IN THE "STANDINGS AND SCHEDULES" ON THE WEBSITE.

Coaches WILL NOW be able to self score games as they have been uploaded into the "Standings & Schedules" on the WYSA website. Recreational Coaches - Please check your division to ensure all games are scored to enable Play Off sides to be calculated.

Once again, WYSA apologizes for the delay.

Effective for the Outdoor 2013 season, Open Transfer guidelines have been set in place for competitive teams for U9 Developmental players and older.

Be sure to read the guideline document as to eligibility, the application period, placement process and conditions of placement.

Additionally please note the reference to Article 9 Tampering. Incidents of Tampering will not be tolerated and will be subject to significant sanction.

These guidelines will now apply to Out of Region players who will still be required to apply through the Manitoba Soccer Association for approval. The deadline for submission to the MSA is February 15th every year for Outdoor Season.

Click here for the 2013 Open Transfer Guidelines pdf.

Deadline for the 2013 Open Transfer Application is: January 30, 2013

For additional information please contact your HOME club:

Bonivital Soccer Club
FC Northwest
Phoenix Soccer Club
Portage Trail Soccer Club
Winnipeg South End United

Just released! The promotion video for the upcoming 2015 FIFA WWC:

http://youtu.be/5_6DdL65bvs

Ryerson University recently contacted WYSA to help it spread the word it is recruiting top players for its women's soccer program. Click here for more information [Ryerson University], or visit ryerson.ca. 

Manitoba's youth soccer system is bringing in important changes to the way we coach and train our children. It's called Long Term Player Development and it involves doing a better job of coaching the coaches, giving the players more practice time and de-emphasizing winning games in favour of learning the game.

Here's a good video describing the program from our colleagues at the Ontario Soccer Association: http://youtu.be/dPJltFaZYEc

The Indoor Soccer season runs from October 20 to the week of March 18-21, 2013.  The Indoor Soccer program is available city wide for youth ages U9 to U18 for Recreational programs, Developmental U9-U12 programs and Premier and Premier- Developmental U13 and older programs.

Contact your Home District for registration information and dates:

Bonivital Soccer Association

FC Northwest

Phoenix Soccer Club

St. Charles Soccer Association

Winnipeg South End United

For additional information: Please contact Winnipeg Youth Soccer Association at 204-233-8899

March 7 - Update on Long Term Player Development 

OPEN TRANSFER APPLICANTS - once all districts have completed the tryout process, they will notify the WYSA office of the placements for the Open Transfer for the Outdoor 2012 season.  At that time the WYSA office will notify the players  by EMAIL  as to whether their application has been accepted or not. If your application is successful, you will be advised as to the administration process by your district in order to transfer to the requested club. In the meantime the player is responsible to complete their commitment to the team for the Indoor season in regards to practice and games. 

This information is for all parents and players for who will be 13 years of age and older in 2012 and are interested in playing in the Premier or Premier-Developmental programs.

Long Term Player Development

WYSA is phasing in new soccer player development guidelines, please see the following documents, below.

LTPD Launch Feb 7, 2012

LTPD Stage One Feb 7, 2012

LTPD Stage Two Feb 7, 2012

With WYSA moving to implement new Long Term Player Development guidelines, we're continuing to monitor similar efforts elsewhere in the world. Here's an interesting piece from the FA in England which is also moving to a system of youth player development that focuses on coaching and skill development. That means getting rid of league tables. Does it mean getting rid of competition? No, not at all.

Click here to read more.

WYSA continues to work with the MSA to develop LTPD guidelines that best fit Winnipeg's soccer community. Central to LTPD is an enhanced system of coaching the coaches. We're starting with mini-soccer and have begun meeting with community centres around the city's five districts to lay out expectations for enhancing mini-soccer coaching and games.

Stay tuned for more information on LTPD. We'll post it here.

Click here for the updated Indoor Rules document.
Change 1: Rule 4 Players' Equipment
1. Only indoor soccer shoes or shoes specifically designed for artificial turf shall be allowed. Molded cleats may only be worn on FIFA approved third generation turf.

Exception: For All Leagues. Cleats.
Molded cleats are allowed at Seven-Oaks, Skylight & the WSF Indoor Complex facility; however, independently screw-in studded cleats are not permitted.

The change is that Skylight as now indicated that outdoor style cleats may now be worn at its facility.

Change 2: Rule 12 Fouls and Misconducts
5 h) Should a player from each opposing team receive a five minute (dismissal) time penalty at the same time, the players shall be sent off and the use of substitutes shall not be permitted. If a third player is dismissed his team shall play "short" in accordance with 5b of this Rule; player from that team receives a five (5) minute penalty.

This change is being made in order to bring the rule into accordance with the earlier change of 5 L). Now, in cases where two opposing players are either both cautioned or dismissed, teams will not be permitted to make a substitution to replace the penalized players and will play short a player during the time penalty.

December 5, 2011

Please note this reminder to all WYSA indoor officials (including High School) that the following procedure MUST take place prior to every game.

3.13 Handshaking

All teams will shake hands with their opponents before every match (approved on September 28, 2008).

Having the players line up for an equipment check followed by handshake and then coin toss will take approximately one minute if done in an organized manner.

Check the players equipment:
1. Shin guards covered by socks
2. Shirt tucked in, sleeves rolled down & shorts at proper length
3. All jewellery removed other than medic alert tags (made safe)
4. Nothing dangerous (no watches, no metal hair clips, knee braces covered)

AT THIS TIME THE TEAMS WILL SHAKE HANDS

Handshaking prior to the game does not replace the handshakes afterwards which is the sporting thing to do after any game.

Click here for the playoff structure for the Recreational Indoor teams. A reminder that ALL Challenge Cup Championship FINALs will take place the week of March 19-22.