Coaching Youth Soccer

An unequaled new Soccer Academy is part of the innovative  Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club (PIASLC) is preparing to become Asia’s top competition, training and event facility when it opens this November.  Combining a excellent location with unmatched facilities, it is already attracting attention among important global sporting institutions and international corporations.

PIASLC is located on 54 acres of property in the north part of Phuket, Thailand.  It boasts an extensive group of high-quality sports facilities including an International Rugby Board-standard rugby pitch, FIFA-approved Limonta “Soccer Pro’’ soccer field, Phuket’s only competition standard 50-metre eight lane outdoor swimming pool (suitable for water polo and competitive swimming), a fully shaded 25 metre, eight lane swimming pool, toddler’s and children’s pools and play area, 6 tennis courts, runners track and a StarTrac equipped hi-tech gymnasium, along with  a performing arts centre and a Thai Herbal Garden Spa.   Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club Sports, Leisure and Events Centre.

Accommodations are available in the form of two comfortable hotels, offering 115 very nice rooms and suites for visitors, athletes, teams and corporate groups. The club has quickly earned appreciation through prestiguous partnerships with global sporting organizations such as Brazilian Soccer Schools (BSS), NZRugbyResources (NZRR), and IronKids Triathlon.    Announcement of tennis and swimming association are anticipated soon.

The PIASLC  is working toward becoming the foremost sports and corporate event center in Asia.   Not only delivering Asia’s unsurpassed facilities for sports but also tremendous facilities and accommodations for conferences, incentives, retreats and teambuilding. 

PIASLC announced “Being in Phuket is a big advantage. It is not only an exotic location but the most exciting component of what we are doing is that every element of the club has been planned down to the finest detail from using cutting edge materials and equipment to employing the most qualified staff to manage and coach at the club.”

NZRugbyResources Director, David Adamson, said “Rugby is an extremely popular sport throughout Asia and growing in numbers every year and NZRugbyResources believes this is the finest training and playing facility in Asia. It is just amazing how much detail has gone into the planning.”

The best youth soccer training programme is also based at the finest sports and recreation PIASLC complex.   Famous BSS is based upon Futebol de Salao (FDS).  The training and game is known for a 5-a-side version of soccer with origins in Brazil.  It is played with a smaller (size 2), and slightly heavier (465gm) ball that has very little bounce to it. 

The PIASLC has also confirmed an relationship with the US-based IronKids programme. This  affiliation will focus on bringing four junior Triathlon events every year as well as training camps for youth aged between 6 and 15.

The PIASLCis organized into specialized sports academies.   has added former Muay Thai champion “Thanootong’’ Prasert Intanoo to manage the martial arts program at the impressive Phuket, Thailand sports centre.   Just as muay thai boxing demands perseverance and ability, the assignment is a further anecdote of the PIASLC recruiting world-class professionals to staff the up-and-coming high-quality facility and help place it as the first choice sports and leisure destination in Asia.

The PIASLC  will be hosting a diverse of world-class sports, arts, wellness and recreational facilities and programmes for the enjoyment of visitors, the school’s pupils, their families, the local Phuket community as well as for visiting professional and amateur individual athletes and teams from around the world.  PIASLC will set a benchmark as a regional destination for sports, arts and wellness in Thailand and Asia, and perhaps the world.   PIA is an integrated facility boasting Phuket’s newest International School, a multi-faceted Sports and Leisure Club for elite athletes, amateur enthusiasts, artists and wellness seekers – all within the Mind Centre sanctuary that provides training in the cultivation of mental and emotional sense of balance.  Phuket International Academy  is proud of being a dependable member of the community.  It is dedicated to operating with integrity as an equal opportunity employer and adhering to the highest ethical standards to accomplish the intellectual, physical, creative and spiritual potential of all students, members and participants of the three centres.

As part of a uniquely integrated complex, the Sports and Leisure Club works in synergy with both the Phuket International Academy Day School and Phuket International Academy Mind Centre .   The Phuket International Academy Day School is working to grow into a three programme International Baccalaureate (IB) World School.   As a leading international school in Thailand, it will draw upon the uniqueness of Asian culture and the best from Western educational traditions, to develop inquiring, informed, and empathetic young people who know how to live with integrity, cultivate true happiness, and who work toward a more peaceful and sustainable earth.   Click this link for additional information on the Phuket International Academy Day School International School Thailand.

As part of a total commitment to sports excellence the PIAMC has begun to make available training in the cultivation of cognitive and emotional balance.   The Phuket International Academy Mind Centre will  offer  a combination of modern psychology and neuroscience in association with ancient Asian contemplative practices.  Delivered through residential retreats and weekend seminars PIAMC is open to all participants.     It teaches the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is helpful way for soothing the body and calming the mind. A second method taught is both a shamatha practice and vipashyana, “insight meditation” also referred to as “settling the mind in its natural state”.  Phuket International Academy Mind Centre Meditation, Mind Studies, and Retreats.