Little Kickers in the Beach

Specialties

Soccer for Pre-​Schoolers

Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9 –5 pm

Classes:

Saturday: 9am — Noon

Sunday: 9:30am to Noon

Sunday: 3:00pm to 6:00pm

History

Established in 2002.

Little Kickers started in the UK in 2002. Christine Stanschus was living in London at the time and spotted a gap in the market when trying to find pre-​school soccer classes for her son. Child obesity was becoming a hot topic and Christine couldn’t believe there weren’t pre-​school classes to get young children involved in and enjoying sport, so she decided to do it herself.

With a successful career in investment banking rather than soccer coaching, it was clear she needed to play to her strengths in business and find soccer and developmental experts who could help her shape the classes.

It was a recipe for success. Christine focused on building a brand around «fun first» making sure she worked with experts in child development as well as FA qualified soccer coaches. Together they created programmes that would deliver high quality soccer skills, combined with important pre-​school learning concepts such as colour and number recognition, sharing, following instructions and using imagina

Meet the Manager

Ryan B.

Manager

Ryan Baker, Director of Coaching for LK in Canada. Ryan got involved with Little Kickers because the UK team had heard that Laurentian University in Ontario run a fantastic course called «SPAD» — Sports Administration and Management. They approached the course Director to ask whether he could recommend a student to come to the UK to work as Little Kickers’ Director of Coaching, and he recommended Ryan. Ryan worked for Little Kickers in this role in the UK for 2 years and did an outstanding job, and returned to Canada in July 2009 to work on setting up the Canadian business with Christine.