There are a lot of websites out there dedicated to youth soccer. Most are trying to sell you the next best thing in coaching, training, drill books, etc. Everyone needs to make a living, and I can assure you if I could make one writing about youth soccer, I would. But some sites are clearly [...]
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CoachDeck – Practicing With A Full Deck
I recently received a sample of an interesting instructional product to help soccer coaches run drills in practice. While most ‘how to coach soccer’ products are books or DVDs with full illustrations and text, the CoachDeck for soccer is just that. A deck of cards, each with a different drill, broken up into four different [...]
TeamSnap – Manage Your Sports Team Online
Managing a youth sports team can be quite a daunting task these days. In youth soccer there can be many different forms to fill out, payments that need to be collected, snack schedules to create, tracking who can make it to various team events (practices, matches, tournaments, parties, etc), and much more. In our league, [...]
Alive and Kicking – Soccer Moms Take The Pitch
I think it was the tag line of Alive and Kicking that caught my eye. "When Soccer Moms Take The Field And Change Their Lives Forever" I wasn’t sure what to expect. But I was browsing around Amazon for some soccer books and figured for a couple bucks used, it was worth a [...]
More Reviews Coming
One thing I haven’t done enough of is post reviews of various soccer products and books I’ve used/read. Initially it was because I just didn’t encounter all that much stuff coaching 4 year olds beyond a ball, whistle, cones, and a ball bag But now I’m coming across more things I find I’d [...]
A Home on the Field
Thanks to a few down days when it was raining and the Challenge season took a pause for a weekend, I was able to read A Home on the Field by Paul Cuadros. Of course those down days were quickly followed by absolute chaos so I didn’t get a chance to finish this [...]
You Need to Read Soccerhead, Right Now!
It doesn’t matter if you are a fan, parent, coach, or administrator. It doesn’t matter if all you’ve ever known was MLS and pro ball and haven’t ever seen a youth soccer match. It doesn’t matter if you’ve only become a soccer fan since you caught that one World Cup match by accident in a [...]
