It's energetic and upbeat half-hour format contains soccer instructional tips, pro soccer interviews, world culture, foreign travel and international adventure.  It is artistically directed so as to capture and maintain the attention of its target audience: kids and teens from 9 years of age to 14 years of age.  It is enveloped in music – the latest and coolest sounds from around the planet.

The Soccer Academy© is an internationally-oriented program that exposes children, teens and families to the many wonders of the world.  Episodes are filmed in different and unique countries.  Some of the premier episodes were taped in areas as diverse as Syria, the Cayman Islands and Italy.  From the Middle East and North Africa, to Latin America and Europe, The Soccer Academy© comes to viewers from every corner of the globe.

The Soccer Academy© is presented by an eclectic group of multi-cultural, multi-ethnic hosts.  They are: Antonio Soave, a former high school All-American player who has played in Europe and Latin America; and Nigel Roberts, a former youth standout in Trinidad and Tobago.

The show – produced as half-hour episodes – began in 2003 with three initial programs that successfully ran as a three-part series on CBS in Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa).  The show received a consistent rating of between 1.6 and 2.2 over the course of one month.  The show then expanded to six (6) episodes and aired for an eighteen (18) month period in southern California on KJLA and LATV, two of the largest bi-lingual networks in the nation.  Every Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. from January of 2004 to July of 2005, The Soccer Academy© was broadcast to nearly four million homes in the Los Angeles basin.  Given its encouraging and uplifting content, it qualified as “educational programming” for KJLA as well.

Most recently, KJLA/LATV has expanded into a full-fledged national television network and will be in fourteen (14) new markets in the United States and its territories.  These cities include Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Reno and San Juan (Puerto Rico).  The Soccer Academy© begins its new US domestic broadcast season on Saturdays and Sundays, July 21, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. on a variety of ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates.  It will, once again, qualify as primary educational programming for kids.

Capistrano Productions
2003-2007