Bakersfield Brigade TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. Now available in Kern County, this program is designed to bring the opportunity of learning and playing soccer to any boy or girl, ages 4 and older, who has a mental or physical disability. One of the most widely praised youth sports programs in America, the program's goal is to enable the thousands of young athletes with disabilities the opportunity to become valued and successful members of the US YOUTH SOCCER family.

Emphasis of this program is development, training and providing meaningful participation rather than competition. TOPSoccer program offers the following:

• Placement of players by ability not age.
• Highlights players’ ability rather than their disability.
• Allows for players to have meaningful experience, not just a token.
• Allows players to achieve desired goals without assistance.
• FUN!

Please contact Joe Montoya, Technical Director at 661.204.7711 for more information!