The December issue of the NCYSA Sideline Beacon just came out and talks about the very important topic of goal safety.
Entries Tagged ‘Drills’
SoccerXpert – An Excellent Coaching Resource
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 [...]
Creating Motivation
A while back I alluded to the challenges we had faced with our U11 girls in terms of getting them motivated in practice, but hadn’t had a chance to expand on that until now.
Our U11 team is a great group of girls, but it’s also on a steep learning curve. Very diverse personalities, varying levels [...]
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 [...]
Who Let The Coaches Out? Who? Who? Who? Who?
We recently had some coaches come in to hold a demonstration clinic for our Challenge coaches. They demonstrated a variety of drills they like to run the kids through and it was a lot of fun. They did one thing I found really interesting. They brought a boombox with a CD full of music with [...]
QOTW: Pre-Game Warmups – What Do You Do?
This weeks question is a fairly simple one. Before every match, teams warm up with some kind of drills and hopefully stretching. Assuming all teams stretch (you DO stretch right?), what do you do for pre-game warm-ups? I’ve seen teams do a number of things including:
Shots on goal (stationary or moving balls)
Passing in a large [...]
