Here are three sessions plans for improving a goalkeeper’s ability to deal with crosses. Courtesy of Andy Elleray, author-extraordinaire of our goalkeeping titles. * * * * * Claiming The Ball Under Pressure Description This practice is focused on the goalkeeper claiming the ball under pressure and with ‘traffic’ around…
Category: Football and Soccer Coaching
Soccer Fitness, Tactical Periodization, The Need for Speed, & Drills [Chapter 8]
Tactical Periodization The league position of all those teams above, and any groups of teams from any league in the world, will be a melting pot of variables – only one of which will relate to fitness. Omitting wins, losses, and draws, others would include – and the list is…
Coaching Youth Football by Ray Power
The Introduction to Coaching Youth Football: What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game by Ray Power Before you can coach others, first you must learn to coach yourself. Johan Cruyff In my early 20s, I made football coaching my professional aim in life. Even back then, I was…
Football Dribbling
Click on the Cover to see this Outstanding Book Mobility/Movement Movement can be sub-categorised in two ways: movement with the ball, and movement without the ball. Movement with the ball, in essence, describes dribbling or running with the ball. Dribbling can be categorised as tighter, quick, small touches, performed under…
Thomas Tuchel Training Methods
An excerpt from Coaching Youth Football by Ray Power. Taken from Chapter 10: Football Intelligence * * * "The idea is that training is more complicated than the game." Thomas Tuchel One of the most thoughtful, exciting young coaches working in the professional game, adding to a plethora of other…
Pre Season Football Training
At Bennion Kearny, we have developed a number of titles that deal, specifically, with pre-season football training. Vasilis Papadakis is one of Greece's top coaches, and has developed a 7 week training programme, comprised of 50 sessions, that has been tested and shown to succeed in the real world. Gary…
Goalkeeper Profile Wheel
Goalkeeper Profile Wheel, from Andy Elleray... ...free to download and use.
Soccer Coaching Books
Bennion Kearny is one of the world’s leading publishers of soccer coaching books. Offering a wide spectrum of titles that cover soccer practice, soccer tactics, sport psychology, coach development, footballing philosophy, youth soccer, and much more, the company has over 25 titles currently available, in both print and eBook formats,…
Soccer Tough Audiobook
We are delighted to announce that Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game, by Dan Abrahams, is now available as an audiobook. The runtime is just under 6 hours, and the chapter listing (like the book) is as follows: Chapter 1 - Soccer is a Game of…
Developing Play from the Defensive Third
This is an extract from Chapter 4 of Tony Mee's book: * Sometimes, people misunderstand when we talk about build-up that it always has to be short passes. If we want to play the ball into our front three from goal kicks, or into the space with a longer quality…