ILLINOIS UNITED
2008 Illinois United Soccer Club

Our Philosophy

Our philosophy is to encourage positive self esteem, discipline, responsibility, and teamwork. Learning from both success and disappointment. To develop our players through:

• Challenging training, technical and tactical.
• The fun of a hard fought but fair competition.
• Learning to win and lose graciously.
• Improve abilities through practice.
• Learn skills involved with being a member of a team.
• Acknowledge good play by our teams as well as opponents.

Our Mission: Dedicated to soccer, devoted to kids.

Our club was established in the summer of 2003 with the purpose of creating a club style soccer program for the youth of Tinley Park and surrounding communities. Although soccer programs exist through park district and athletic clubs, our staff and coaches believe families and players are looking for a more structured program, with quality training and more options for development and competitive play. Our devotion is to the development of soccer not the government of soccer. Our goal is to minimize politics and maximize soccer. We intend to provide an opportunity for all players to participate at a competitively appropriate level without geographic limitations.
 

Chris Karabatsis, Director of Darien Dynamo and President of STP Soccer, is coming to Tinley Park.

Together with Illinois United Soccer Club and head trainer Cris Crisan, these two professionals will coordinate along with STP Soccer Professional trainers a youth tryout process at the Howe fields in Tinley. There will be tryouts for both boys a nd girls ages 8 to 19 years old.
Chris Karabatsis announces the creation of DYNAMO SOUTH along with Frank DeSoto, the Director of Illinois United SC. They have agreed to a club merge for ages u9 to u14 boys and girls as well as some high school teams.
The extensive resume on these two men is long and impressive. To view their backgrounds and long professional careers, visit the Darien Dynamo web site or our staff page.
The goal is to form teams at all levels appropriate for the area youth. These teams will benefit from the best soccer training there is, targeted towards the highest development of skilled, strong soccer players in a fun environment and guided by professional soccer coaches, ex-players at high levels of soccer throughout the USA and Europe. We are looking forward to seeing you at our tryouts on the updates listed.

5/30 in Darien
6/1 in Darien
6/2 in Tinley (U9-U11 4 to 5:30p.m. and U12-U14 5:30 to 7 p.m.)
6/4 in Tinley
6/9 in Tinley
6/11 in Tinley
Contact Chris Karabatsis at 708-253-3499 or Cristian Crisan at 630-670-8310 for details.

Welcome all new players and members to the IUSC family!

IUSC will allow tryouts and will sign potential competitive players through the tryout and fall seasons for all appropriate ages and eligible players. Contact the club at 708-532-7905 or visit the coaches and trainer during training/practice at the Howe fields in Tinley Park, IL on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4p.m. to 8p.m.

NEW REGISTRATION FORMS AVAILABLE
Please visit the Forms page or access each form individually from the Navigation Menu, under Forms. Please note that you should bring a copy of the IUSC Registration Form when you register.