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Virtual Replays of Premiership Goals -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualreplay/premiership/index.shtml?997
This is a really unique Shockwave website where you can see animated
replays of goals from every angle possible and see not only what the
shooter is doing but also all the players around him. Great
tactical tool for soccer coaches and players to analyze how buildups
result in goals being scored.
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Games and
activities from the SOCCER-COACH-L Archives
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Teaching
the LOTG
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Game Warm-Ups
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Coaching at the Match
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Twenty Match Hazards and
How to Overcome Them
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Support Warm-up
Progression
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After the Last Tournament
Match
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Wing Play Practice
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April Heinrichs: Runs Off
the Ball
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Jay Miller's Speed of
Play
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Coaching Possession
Soccer
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Tune up your 4-4-2
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NSCAA Clinic Reports 1998
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Don't Coach Possession
Soccer
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We Can't Move the Ball Up
the Field to Score
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How Can I Coach 2v1
Overlap?
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Backing Up
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How Do You Play a 4-4-2?
(part 1)
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The First Ten & Last Five Minutes
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Teach Your Players To Be Aware of Conditions
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Better To Be Faster Or Quicker
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Team Defense
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Counterattack
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Sigi Schmid: Pressure,
Cover, Balance
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Teaching the Flat Back
Four
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NSCAA Clinic Reports 1998
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A Defensive Teaching Plan
by Age
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How Can I Teach When to
Tackle?
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Should We Focus on
Defense at U12?
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Role of the Stopper,
Pressure, Cover, Balance
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What is "Backs On"?
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How to Teach Better
Marking and Tracking?
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How to Teach Pressure,
Cover, Balance?
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How Do You Play a 4-4-2?
(part 1)
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How Can I Coach 2v1
Overlap?
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We Can't Move the Ball Up
the Field to Score
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How Can I Run a Tryout?
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Need a Summer Training
Focus for My U12's
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Don't Coach Possession
Soccer
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Fitness Activities During
the Season
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What is Five Dot
Training?
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Coaching at the Match
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9 Critical Characteristics You Must Have to be a
Successful Soccer Athlete!
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Aspects of a front-runner
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Balancing technique with tactics
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Beating the offside trap, Pt. 1
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Building confidence
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Changing direction
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Communication for keepers
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Conditioning Secrets for High School Players and Coaches
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Aerobic conditioning tips
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Eight Steps to a Better Tryout Performance
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Enduring the 'dog days' of summer
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Flank Midfielders: 120-Yard Responsibility
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Ground control and turning: inside-the-foot
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Heading techniques
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Importance of upper body strength
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Innovative Strengthening Ideas
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Jump to College Soccer
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Keeper's Box - Success is up to the Player
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Keepers Need to Organize Their Training Environment
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Kick Ball
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Marcelo Balboa on Slide Tackling
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Mia's dribbling drill
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MLS Players Pass Along Advice
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More Slide Tackling Tips
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Offsides
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For Coaches and parents: Cheshire (Connecticut) Soccer
Club's Dos and Don'ts
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Heading Soccer Ball Does Not Injure Brain -Study
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A Child's Perspective in an Adult World
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Ain't it a Durn Shame...
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Approaching your child's coach
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Benefits of Summer Camps
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Cheshire innovations affect all ages
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Honoring the Game
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How Can Parents Help?
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How To Make A Recruiting Video
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It's More than a Game - Program for youths with special
needs rewards the adults too
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Job Description for Parents
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Keys to Peak Parental Performance
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Late Again!
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Maintaining a 'Playful' Mindset Will Bring Out the Best
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Modifying Youth Soccer
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Motivation of Young Athletes
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Never Ending Influence
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A parent's guide to soccer
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Promoting Social and Moral Development Through Sports
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Reacting to your child's performance
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Reflections at Game's End
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Soccer Slang
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Social Interactions In Coaching Your Child's Team:
Harmony or Hassle
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Taking the fun out of play
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The Kids Play On
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The Olympic Development Program (ODP)
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Time management for young athletes
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Unique Issues for the Female Soccer Player
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Why Kids Want to Participate in Sports?
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Why Sport Exercise Can Improve Your Child's Health
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World Cup Dreamin'
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Yard Rats
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Athletes and Attention Disorders
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One-v-one in a Racquetball Court
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Passing techniques
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Perfecting corner kicks
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Players Pass Along Their Tips
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Players Pass Along Their Tips #2
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Players Pass Along their Tips! #3
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Practice Scoring, not Shooting
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Soccer Golf
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Shooting Practice With Michelle Akers
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Soccer Tennis in a Parking Lot
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Steps to Better Punting
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Tips from the US Women's Team
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Training tips with Sasha Victorine
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Turning Tips
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Your Training Tips
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Coaching Players With Disabilities, Part II
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Coaching Players With Disabilities, Part I
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FAQ's of Coaching
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The Three Evil L's
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Why Small Sided Games?
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Success in Soccer Web
Site Adds Example Training Sessions
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Different formations on the field
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The role of the youth coach
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Coaching resources
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Watch, listen and learn
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Explaining formations
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Walk before you run
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Fitness Testing
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Cross-Training: Giving Yourself a Whole-Body Workout
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Player Skills and Tryout Evaluation Form
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Motivation: More Than Winning and Losing
- By Darren C. Treasure, Ph.D.
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Are you coaching or just yelling?
By Steve Bender
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The New Coach - By Alan Maher
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Basic elements for developing drills
- By Alan Maher
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3-5-2: Advantages and Disadvantages
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Football Demands
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Getting cooperation from the parents
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One for the Road
By Coach Alan Maher
NEW
10/24/00
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Putting the Team Back in Teamwork
By Coach Steve Bender
NEW
10/24/00
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Coaching Links
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Try to reduce the player to coach ratio.
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Make having fun the #1 priority.
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DON'T focus on having star players, but work on teamwork instead.
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Stress to your players that they stay away from each other.
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Rotate your players through all positions.
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Praise your players when they do the things you want to see and have the
players praise themselves.
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Don't be too hard on your players and remember that mistakes are not bad
things.
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Before the season starts set some ground rules with the parents and
players on your team.
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Try using small-sided games with younger children.
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Seek some level of coaching education.
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Formations & Positions
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Organizing your
practice Tips and techniques for running a smooth, interesting and
fun practice.
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Positions
When and how to start teaching positional play.
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Successful coaching
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AYSO Positive Philosophy -
R.F.Y.
Soccer
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This and that
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Comfort Zone
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Building on the start of
the season
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Important parts of a game
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Formations
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A Call to Coach
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Forest Youth Soccer
NEW 2/00
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Individual Tactics
Can Be Learned Indoors
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Soccer-Coach-L Coach's Manual
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Overview: Young Players Ages 12 to 14
Examining the characteristics of a young player
This sidebar article from Success in Soccer magazine looks at the
characteristics of young players ages 12 to 14 and the impact of those
characteristics on a coach's training plan.
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Passing and Shooting Exercises
Seven drills from Success in Soccer magazine targeted to youth players
in the 12- to 14-year range
These drills come from Success in Soccer magazine and are intended to
work on passing and shooting skills in youth players in the 12- to
14-year range.
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The Effects of Temperature on Performance
A look at how extremes in temperature can affect soccer players
A human being can only tolerate a variation of around 5° F in internal
body temperature without physical and mental performance being impaired.
Soccer players, like with many other outdoor sports, are at times
subjected to extreme weather conditions. The temperature of the climate
the game is played in is important, affecting body temperature and the
ability to perform.
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The Effective Assistant Coach
A true partner or simply a "yes-man" or a glorified "go-fer"?
This is a subject that I have rarely seen addressed but which I also
consider to be of extreme importance. Many teams have either assistant
coaches or co-coaches who end up playing the role of cone-fetcher or,
even worse, merely stands around and has no input at all.
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Serving Balls Early
It creates the potential for the attacker to receive with goalward
momentum
Serving an early ball simply means that, instead of getting the ball out
wide, then taking it all the way to the end line before crossing it back
out, the ball is sent out wide and served much sooner, so it is served
behind the defenders instead of playing in front of them.
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High-Pressure Defense
Organized forwards and midfielders can win the ball back quickly
Forwards and midfielders play a critical role in a high-pressure defense
and can win the possession back quickly if they attack in an organized
manner.
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Goal-Side Defensive Positioning
Is there more to it than that?
Most players have heard their coaches yell to get goal side on defense.
That’s just the first step toward proper defensive positioning. I
believe the proper term is to "get ball-you-man-goal side." It takes a
little more explanation and a little more thought, but it can make
players much better defenders.
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The 1 v. 1 Battle
The teams winning these battles usually end up winning the match
Boiled down to its pure essence, soccer can be distilled into a series
of small battles between one offensive player and one defensive player.
The team that wins the majority of these small battles usually ends up
winning the entire match. Therefore, it is impossible to talk about 1 v
1 play without talking about both sides.
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You've Got to Walk the Walk
As a role model for their players, coaches must do more than just talk
the talk
As coaches, especially at the younger age levels, we assume the
responsibility of being a role model each day. There comes a point where
coaches have to realize that it's not good enough to simply say
something. Instead, we have to assume the responsibility of being a role
model for our players as well.
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Working on Transition
A three-team drill that can be tailored to provide greater intensity
I have found these activities to be excellent ways to work on transition
(both offensive and defensive) as well as attacking and defending.
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Tackling Self-Focused Players
Players with the "me" and "I" syndromes can be turned into "we" players
Many people are familiar with the "me" syndrome, which is characterized
by players whose focus is on individual achievement and glory in lieu of
the success of the team. Given the choice between doing what will give
them individual glory or what will help the team succeed, the players
afflicted with the "me" syndrome will choose the former over the latter.
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What Makes a Coach Effective?
No single characteristic is the difference
What makes a coach effective? There could be as many answers to that
question as there are coaches in this country. To stimulate thought and
discussion, I would like to offer some of my perspectives.
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What Makes a Successful Coach?
Are wins and losses the only measure?
In order to define what makes a successful coach, the first thing to be
done is to establish parameters to measure "success" in coaching. In a
discussion with a friend a few years ago, several possible definitions
were advanced. What may be surprising to some is that none of our
definitions included a good won/loss record.
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Long Balls Out of the Back
Sometimes it's better for a defender to play it long to avoid creating a
risky situation
Too often I see a team play a long ball out of the back and do nothing
with it. This ball could have been hit long for any number of reasons,
including seeing a player running into space, being under pressure and
not wanting to risk a short pass or just not knowing what else to do
with the ball.
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Critical Times
Taking advantage of these time frames could be the difference
The most dangerous times during a soccer game are the first five minutes
of each half, the last five minutes of each half and the first two
minutes after any goals are scored.
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Goalkeepers and Field Vision
Awareness of where all players are on the field is critical
The attacker is advancing the ball through the middle of the field, and
the goalkeeper’s concentration is laser-sharp on the point of attack.
The ball is struck toward goal, and as it arrives at the keeper, an
unseen opponent slides in from the side, making contact with the ball
and the keeper at the same time. Many parents and some coaches would
call for a foul – after all, isn’t the keeper’s job to focus on the
ball, and shouldn't the referee protect the keeper from this type of
tackle?
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Only One Piece of Advice
A sprint after a pass in an invaluable element
Without a doubt, if I were restricted to teaching a team only one thing
regarding tactics, it would be the importance of making a sprint after
every pass.
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Safe v. Creative Passes
Disregard for the safety of a pass can lead to problems
Most players don't think about what kind of pass they are making – is it
safe or creative? That lack of consideration is apparent by the total
lack of regard players have for the safety of some of the simplest
passes.
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Trapping v. Receiving
There's more to it than semantics
While some may consider the difference between trapping a ball and
receiving a ball to be an exercise in semantics, I see them as two
different terms.
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Goal Setting
Useful goals are measurable and attainable
In order to be successful in soccer (or any aspect of life), a person
must have goals. However, when many people set goals for themselves,
they frequently don't set goals that will be useful them.
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Comfort Zone
Hesitating to push players beyond their comfort level can impede
development
An issue I have noticed to be a huge problem in youth soccer these days
is that coaches are hesitant to push their players outside their comfort
zone. It's a concept that most coaches either don't understand or don't
seem concerned about, since they fail to address it in a variety of
ways.
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Using the OOI Theory
Organize, Observe and Instruct during training sessions
Recently I was speaking with a friend about the OOI theory of running a
training session. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how
few coaches actually use this in their training.
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The Five Pillars
Using the Five Pillars in player evaluation
In evaluating a soccer player, consider the five pillars of the game and
see where the player ranks in each of the five categories.
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Introduction to Nutrition & Soccer Performance
Most people know and understand the importance of eating correctly.
Nutrition lacking in the essential elements to cover your Basal
Metabolic Rate - the energy required to keep your body functioning, for
growth and for exercise may lead to physiological and psychological
consequences such as: shortness of breath, little energy, general
tiredness, muscle cramps, lack of concentration and even blackouts.
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Coaching Players With Disabilities, Part I - Tom Hart, US Youth
Soccer Director of Recreational Coaching Education
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Coaching Players With Disabilities, Part II - Tom Hart, US Youth
Soccer Director of Recreational Coaching Education
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FAQ's of Coaching - Tom Hart, US Youth Soccer Director of
Recreational Coaching Education
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The Three Evil L's - Tom Hart, US Youth Soccer Director of
Recreational Coaching Education
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Aerobic conditioning tips - By Lauren Gregg with Tim Nash
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