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No soccer player likes pre-season training and youth players are no different. However, the work you do in the pre-season can be the difference to a successful year and a one that fades into obscurity.
A lot of soccer coaches make the mistake of focusing too much on the physical side of the game and less [...]
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I was watching a video a few weeks ago where Ronaldinho was being interviewed and he said that he loves the feeling of having a ball at his feet. When he’s relaxing with his friends and family, he needs to feel the ball. This type of connection can be very rare. I imagine only the [...]
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The above statement seems so simple to say, but how many of us truly contemplate how our words and actions now, could make the difference in the life of a young man?
During the past few weeks I’ve had to make one of the most difficult decisions of my relatively short coaching career, which came shortly [...]
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Interestingly enough, after my last article about Competition in Youth Soccer: Part 1, my U9 Boys played lots of indoor games and did okay (we played parity). I tend to use indoor soccer as a chance for the kids to just play. The indoor game is a high intensity, all out action packed 10 minute [...]
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As the Spring season is just around the corner for my U9 Boys Team, I thought I’d tackle the issue of competition. Not the issue of playing in competitions (not directly anyway), but the issue of youth soccer being too competitive in its nature.
I’d like to start out by saying that in my select/travel group, [...]
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I just found out about the Favela Project by visiting Who Are Ya Designs (soccer t-shirts).
Here’s a quote from their website on what they’re about:
The Favela Project is a not for profit organization that uses soccer as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of children in some of Brazil’s poorest urban areas. The [...]
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Being a coach of a travel team I have set a winter skill / fitness program that should keep their interest in soccer peaked, but nothing so intensive so they get burnt out. I’m a true believer that over the course of the winter break, the kids should have some time off to be kids. [...]
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I’m head coach for a U9 Boys Travel/Select soccer team and this year was their first year in playing competitive soccer. They say the first season is often the most difficult as a youth soccer coach so I’d like to share a few pieces of advice that may help you out during the course of [...]
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