Chapter 15 from Coaching Youth Football: What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game * * * * * The true measure of a technical player is how they resolve a game situation by deciding on a tactical intention and the necessary technique, executing in the correct moment and…
An excerpt - by Blaine McKenna - from Chapter 8 of: * It’s not easy moving to a place where you don’t understand the culture, language, or local game. It’s no surprise that coaches who move abroad often fail. We’ve all seen it over the years with a high turnover…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, from Andy Elleray... ...free to download and use.
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