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These articles are on the DecaturSports website:

• Switching the Play By Mick Smoothey, NSCAA Regional Technical Director (From the NSCAA November 2003 Newsletter)
• Thinking The Game - Soccer Checkers by Coach Beck
• Overloading to One Side of the Field to Create an Imbalance Advantage - by James Ayres
• Attack from the Flank by Ric Miller
• Session: Situational Play - Clinician: Sue Ryan at USYS Convention, February 17, 2001 - Notes provided by Eric Blomer
• Session: Going to Goal Clinician: Roman Grill, Youth Coach, FC Bayern Munich - Date: USYS Convention, February 16, 2001 - Notes provided by Eric Blomer
• Session: Transition and Counter Attack Clinician: Hylton Dayes (Wright State) at the NSCAA Convention, January 18, 2001
• Controlling Game Tempo - Long-Ball Versus Ball-Possession Tactics by Ric Miller
• Better Use of Negative Space - A practice plan by Ric Miller
• Modern 4-4-2 Formation Theory
• Anticipating the "Second-Touch" Service by Ric Miller
• Economical Training: Co-Training Two Teams by Ric Miller
• U17 Back to Middle Third - April 2005 Coaches Connection Newsletter (.PDF) NEW April 2005
• 3v3 Tournament Strategies - compilation of tips and ideas on preparing and playing in 3v3 tournaments
• U14 Penetrating Passes - Coaches Connection Lesson Plan (.PDF)
• Putting Players in a Position to Succeed - Lawrence Fine
• Offensive and Defensive Spacing Activity by Lawrence Fine
• Training the Outside Backs by Lawrence Fine
• Spine of the Team by Lawrence Fine
• U15 Combine with Strikers - April 2005 Coaches Connection Newsletter (.PDF) NEW April 2005
• Spread Offensively, Compact Defensively
• Training the Featured Player and an Exercise on How to Defend Against The Featured Player - FineSoccer.com
• Tactical Training for Youth Teams - Bruce Brownlee
• Training the Central Midfielder (4 Parts) By Roland Loy, German A-License
  (Courtesy of Success in Soccer from the NSCAA Coaching Newsletter - September 29, 2004)
• Four Corners (Developing Triangles) by Ken Gamble
• Developing Counter Attacks By Klaus Pabst, German staff coach, and Roy Morris, English youth coach (from the NSCAA Coaching Newsletter - August 18, 2004)
• The ‘Early Cross’ By Jeff Tipping, NSCAA Director of Coaching (from the NSCAA Coaching Newsletter - September 1, 2004)
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• Possession 1 (Word Version)
• Possession 1 (PDF Version)
• Possession 2 (Word Version)
• Possession 2 (PDF Version)
• Possession 3 (Word Version)
• Possession 3 (PDF Version)
• Possession 4 (Word Version)
• Possession 4 (PDF Version)
• Possession 5 (Word Version)
• Possession 5 (PDF Version)
• Possession 6 (Word Version)
• Possession 6 (PDF Version)
• Possession 7 (Word Version)
• Possession 7 (PDF Version)
• Possession 8 (Word Version) 
• Possession 8 (PDF Version) 
• Possession 9 (Word Version)
• Possession 9 (PDF Version)
• Possession 10 (Word Version)
• Possession 10 (PDF Version)
• Support Play 1 (Word Version)
• Support Play 1 (PDF Version)
• Support Play 2 (Word Version)
• Support Play 2 (PDF Version)
• Support Play 3 (Word Version)
• Support Play 3 (PDF Version)
• Support Play 4 (Word Version)
• Support Play 4 (PDF Version)
• Team Shape

  Attacking

  • Team Shape - Attacking 1 (Word Version)
  • Team Shape - Attacking 1 (PDF Version)

  Defending

  • Team Shape - Defending 1 (Word Version)
  • Team Shape - Defending 1 (PDF Version)
  • Team Shape - Defending 2 (Word Version)
  • Team Shape - Defending 2 (PDF Version)
     
• Width 1 (Word Version)
• Width 1 (PDF Version)
• Width 2 (Word Version)
• Width 2 (PDF Version)
• Width 3 (Word Version)
• Width 3 (PDF Version)
• Central Defenders (Word Version)
• Central Defenders (PDF Version)
• Coach the Playmaker (Word Version)
• Coach the Playmaker (PDF Version)
• Coach the Playmaker 2 (Word Version)
• Coach the Playmaker 2 (PDF Version)
• Improve Attack off of Crosses (Word Version)
• Improve Attack off of Crosses (PDF Version)
• Improve Central Combo Play - Midfield and Forward (Word Version)
• Improve Central Combo Play - Midfield and Forward (PDF Version)
• Improve Midfield Defending (Word Version)
• Improve Midfield Defending (PDF Version)
• Improve Possession to Penetrate (Word Version)
• Improve Possession to Penetrate (PDF Version)
• Improve Possession to Penetrate 2 (Word Version)
• Improve Possession to Penetrate 2 (PDF Version)
• Improve the Defense of Crosses (Word Version)
• Improve the Defense of Crosses (PDF Version)
• Improve the team's ability to get into the Final Third (Word Version)
• Improve the team's ability to get into the Final Third (PDF Version)
• Improve the team's ability to Win the Ball (Word Version)
• Improve the team's ability to Win the Ball (PDF Version)
• Improve Wide Attacking (Word Version)
• Improve Wide Attacking (PDF Version)
• Playing the Ball out of the Back with 3 Backs (Word Version)
• Playing the Ball out of the Back with 3 Backs (PDF Version)
• Playing the Ball out of the Back with 4 Backs (Word Version)
• Playing the Ball out of the Back with 4 Backs (PDF Version)
• Switching The Point of Attack (Word Version)
• Switching The Point of Attack (PDF Version)
• Tactical Functional - 3 Forwards (Word Version)
• Tactical Functional - 3 Forwards (PDF Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Center Mids (Word Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Center Mids (PDF Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Strikers in Defense (Word Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Strikers in Defense (PDF Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Strikers (Word Version)
• Tactical Functional - Twin Strikers (PDF Version)
• Technical Functional - FWD's Turning and Shooting (Word Version)
• Technical Functional - FWD's Turning and Shooting (PDF Version)
• Wide Backs Overlapping in Attack (Word Version)
• Wide Backs Overlapping in Attack (PDF Version)
• Zonal Back Defending (Word Version)
• Zonal Back Defending (PDF Version)
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These articles are on other websites:

• Coaching Tip: Estimating Field Size
• Playing Youth Soccer in Germany by Ric Miller
• Brazil versus U.S.A. Contrasts in Play Between Copa '95 & World Cup '94 by Ric Miller
• Exercise of the Day - Center Halfback Game
• How Do You Play a 4-4-2? (part 1)
• The First Ten & Last Five Minutes 
• Teach Your Players To Be Aware of Conditions 
• Better To Be Faster Or Quicker
• Team Defense
• Counterattack
• Sigi Schmid: Pressure, Cover, Balance
• Teaching the Flat Back Four
• NSCAA Clinic Reports 1998
• A Defensive Teaching Plan by Age 
• How Can I Teach When to Tackle?
• Should We Focus on Defense at U12?
• Role of the Stopper, Pressure, Cover, Balance
• What is "Backs On"?
• How to Teach Better Marking and Tracking?
• How to Teach Pressure, Cover, Balance?
• How Can I Coach 2v1 Overlap?
• We Can't Move the Ball Up the Field to Score
• How Can I Run a Tryout?
• Need a Summer Training Focus for My U12's
• Don't Coach Possession Soccer
• Fitness Activities During the Season
• Positions When and how to start teaching positional play.
• Exercise of the Day - Numbers Up/Down
• Exercise of the Day - Check and Spin
• Exercise of the Day - Offside Trap Training
• Attacking Play: Runs from the Back
• Combination Play - Tactical (5 man)
• Double Teaming
• Beating the Off-side Traps
• Thoughts about Field Conditions
• Practice Tip - Play the Score!
• Pattern Play
• Tactical Approach to Numbers Down by Bob Gansler 1999 NSCAA Convention
• Ways to Teach Changing the Point of Attack by Lauren Gregg - 1999 NSCAA Convention
• Combination Play - Tactical (3-Man)
• Attacking with Confidence
• Practice Tip - Creative Structure
• Rules for First Defender
• Functional Training of the Front Runners
• Zonal Defending - NSCAA 1999 Convention by Jeff Tipping
• Recognizing Opportunities to Play Directly
• Exercise of the Day - 1v1
• Creating Player Movement
• Possession is Not the Point of the Game
• Anticipating Play
• Coach Glenn Cameron's Helpful Hints
• Game Strategy: The Objective
• Preparing Your Team Against a Team with Superior Speed