Sometimes it can be difficult to get younger players to think about how they are practicing and if they’re giving full effort. Over at Sports Girls Play, they have come up with an interesting concept for girls to track their development in practice and help them get motivated.
Entries Tagged ‘training’
NCSRA Referee Mentoring Program
Since we’re talking about referees this morning… At the recent NCYSA Annual General Meeting, two international FIFA referees (Kim Oberle and Sandra Serafini) presented a new program they are championing in North Carolina called the NCSRA Referee Mentor Program. The program is designed to take referees who want to go beyond entry level and help [...]
When The Laws of the Game Just Aren’t Enough
Does it make you cringe when a longtime soccer coach yells at a referee over a call that the coach is a) absolutely wrong about and b) should know better? It’s often said one of the best things for an aspiring youth soccer coach to do is get their Grade 8 Referee Certification. Not only [...]
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 [...]
NCYSA Academy Proposal – BOD Meets April 14th
The NCYSA Board of Directors will be meeting on April 14th to vote on the proposed Academy Program. A working committee, primarily made up of league DOCs and Presidents, worked to produce the current version of the proposal. I’ve written a variety of opinions on the Academy program, so I won’t rehash them here. I’m [...]
A Soccer Mom Who ‘Gets It’
Someone recently posted a comment on one of the older NCYSA Academy Proposal posts and it was excellent. I wanted to make sure everyone saw it because I think it’s a post in it’s own right on where youth soccer is today from a parent’s perspective. So I give you ‘Soccer Mom on Soccer’:
Wow, this [...]
