I've suggested to the academy coordinator that we increase the amount of footskill work early each session to get the kids more comfortable on the...
Horst Wein is one of the foremost mentors of top coaches in the world, having worked in over 50 countries around the world. In the last 25 years...
This is more of a parent thing than coach, but it does have a coaching slant to it. My U9 kid is in his first year of club play, and he loves...
I know what futsal is. You know what futsal is. We in this forum all know the benefits it gives. The problem for our younger players is that their...
Any tips on teaching offside (both as attackers to beat it and as defenders) to a group of rec U12 girls with limited training time? This will be...
Playing in 'small spaces' and speaking of Barcelona “The youth programs [at Barcelona] play all games 7v7 until age 12, age 14 for the girls....
Rec U-8 Mixed. The association we're in has very limited game fields, and wedges rec games into every nook and cranny to free up weekends for...
Does anyone know where I could find one? I can get the individual teams calendars, but there's not a master schedule I could find except for...
To branch this out from the Latin American youth style thread where we've been discussing how Barcelona got to be Barcelona and its influences, I...
I saw this once online, but for the life of me I can't find it. It was instructions for making a 25x25 color coded disc cone grid you could...
To preface, I'm playing devil's advocate here... I played soccer from youth leagues through high school, and have taken the Youth Module and...
With Irene charging up the Atlantic coast this weekend, three teams have home games right in the path of the storm. DC United has moved the...
For a few years now, in an attempt to help motivate my players and more importantly, discourage parents from using monetary rewards for scoring...
Intimate piercing leads to red card for Australian amateur team captain The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the incident happened while...
NFL Considered Proposal for Competing Pro Soccer League Americanize Soccer The idea was to build the league to compete against MLS using new,...
This announcement seems to mirror Malcolm Gladwell's findings in his book 'Outliers': "For the 2009 season 57% of kids at Premier League...
A probelm some of my U10 girls seem to have is when they've beaten a defender 1v1 and have them on their hip, they fail to continue on. They turn...
In the 5+ years I've coached, I've found that with all of the skills and techniques and activities you learn and teach, the hardest thing about...
I was reminded of something Zoran Avramovic, the former marketing manager of Crvena Zvezda, had said to me about a decade ago. "If you want to...
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So much is discussed about first touch, but I noticed issues with the last touch with my Rec U10 girls in our opening weekend. The coaches of the...
Those who get up in arms about others slighting MLS for its on-field quality compared to the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, etc. -- as well as...
UNLV domed stadium plans will be unveiled Tuesday Plans for a domed stadium near the UNLV campus will be released at a news conference set for...
YouTube - Lech Cup 2010 (U-12) - Supporters Lech Pozna? This is for a U12 team...and they did the same for their U9s!
Guardian: The end of jumpers for goal posts Will was first yellow-carded at the age of five. "Hand! Ball!" the referee barked, flashing the...