FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (February 24, 2026) – The New England Revolution Academy and the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) at this time introduced a brand new partnership designed to foster a positive youth sports culture throughout New England. With youth soccer participation persevering with to rise nationwide, and a momentous 12 months forward for soccer in the United States, this collaboration will present PCA coaching for coaches, mother and father, youth athletes, and organizational leaders all through the area the Revolution Academy and its youth soccer companions.
Positive Coaching Alliance’s mission is to remodel the culture of youth sports so that each baby, no matter social or financial circumstance, has entry to a positive youth sports expertise. In addition, PCA collaborates with group stakeholders to shut the sports fairness hole, launching sports fairness coalitions nationwide to take away limitations to play and increase alternatives for youth participation in sports.
“PCA is excited to partner with the Revolution Academy, and we are incredibly grateful to the organization for their support in making this initiative possible,” mentioned Jason Sacks, CEO of PCA. “As soccer continues to grow, equipping athletes, coaches, and parents with training that emphasizes character development will not only enhance the overall experience, but drive greater participation for years to come.”
PCA’s new partnership with the Revolution Academy provides a possibility for city soccer organizations to kind distinctive, year-round, and long-term partnerships with the Revolution Academy coaching packages. The partnership focuses on participant growth and coach training tailor-made to every city’s particular person wants, primarily based on the Revolution Academy’s core philosophy to ‘Educate, Connect, and Inspire’ all members of the youth soccer group.
“The Revolution Academy is proud to partner with the Positive Coaching Alliance, whose mission closely aligns with our goal to educate, connect, and inspire the next generation of soccer players and coaches,” mentioned Deven Apajee, Senior Director of the Revolution Academy. “The resources, workshops and opportunities that PCA provides will now be available to all our youth soccer partners, enhancing their experience with us, and for their players and coaches as we work collaboratively to develop well-rounded youth athletes throughout New England.”
PCA’s coaching – out there in-person, nearly, and by self-paced on-line coaching programs – blends the most recent insights from sports psychology, training, and organizational conduct with sensible recommendation from a National Advisory Board that features high skilled and collegiate athletes and coaches. Each 12 months, PCA trains over 100,000 coaches, practically half of whom work in under-resourced communities.
The Revolution Academy welcomes gamers of all skills and trains them in all facet of the sport, together with ball mastery, pace of play, coordination and steadiness and motion with and with out the ball. These clinics will assist gamers really feel snug with the ball at their ft the place they are going to see extra success on the sphere. Since this system’s inception, dozens of gamers have ascended to the membership’s MLS NEXT academy groups and Revolution II after starting their journeys in the academy’s participant growth packages, with a number of alumni reaching the MLS roster as Homegrown Players.