COPA Soccer Training Center Progresses Partnership with Walnut Creek Surf Soccer Club
This partnership expands to provide competitive athletes with additional value to overall development.


The partnership has expanded this year to provide the players with additional layers to their overall development. This is done with the recent creation of the COPA Score – the world’s first entirely objective evaluation to assess a collection of essential technical, physical, and cognitive skills. The assessment takes place in the SpeedLab and skills.lab Arena and measures an athlete’s strength, speed, agility, passing, ball control, finishing, and decision-making. “We are excited to renew our partnership with COPA STC and continue pursuing innovative ways to aid in our players’ development,” said Adam Cooper, WC Surf’s Director of Coaching. “The introduction of the COPA Score this year has added a whole new layer of value for our players and coaches in terms of being more specific about each individual player’s development needs.” COPA’s approach assesses many elements that have not been or were unable to be assessed, such as how well a player performs the fundamental skills and how they perform these skills in game-like pressured situations.
