As a follow-up to our recent Grassroots work, we wanted to share two additional resources that have been developed to support Member Organizations with Grassroots planning and delivery.
These documents are intended to be practical, user-friendly references that can support your technical leads, skills managers, station coaches, and volunteers as you continue building out your Grassroots environments. They are not meant to replace your club’s identity or internal programming, but rather to provide aligned language, clear delivery expectations, and helpful examples that support the broader Canada Soccer Grassroots Standards.
The resources include:
A Grassroots Technical Coaching Point Reference
This provides simplified coaching points and technical priorities for young players, with language that can be used by coaches in station-based or game-like environments.
A 2026 Grassroots Implementation Guide
This summarizes key areas such as station-based training, grouping models, session setup, staff roles, festival structure, game-day rules, and technical priorities.
We hope these resources are helpful as you support coaches and continue preparing your Grassroots programming.
Unfortunately, due to file-size restrictions with some email clients, the original attachments may not have come through properly for everyone. To avoid any further issues, we are sending the two PDF resources through a file-transfer link instead, which can be used to download both documents.
Download link: https://we.tl/t-Uv9PXqNiVp7Viox2
We will also make these resources available online in the MSA Grassroots Resource section for easier access moving forward.
Apologies for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
In addition, we also wanted to share a few external soccer curriculum platforms that organizations may wish to explore. These are optional resources and are not required by MSA. However, some providers may find them useful if they are looking for additional session ideas, curriculum support, or coaching content.
The Coaching Manual
Advance Football
https://play.advance.football/catalog
The Football Base
https://www.thefootballbase.com/members
Again, these are simply being provided as additional tools that may support your planning if you choose to use or subscribe to them as a provider.
Thank you again for your continued work and engagement as we move through this Grassroots implementation process. We appreciate the time, effort, and care that each organization is putting into improving the player experience across Manitoba.