An excerpt from Football’s Principles of Play by Peter Prickett. Pressure/Pressing Thus far, pressure and pressing have featured as a part of out-of-possession and transition principles. The amount of pressure that the player in-possession is placed under will influence the game to a huge degree. It has been identified that…
Category: Football Coaching
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 learn more 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 pressure and…
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.
Football & Soccer Coaching Books
Bennion Kearny publishes more than 50 football coaching books, written by the coaches, coach educators and sport psychologists who use these methods every week. Whether you call it football or soccer, and whether you coach an under-9s grassroots team, an academy squad or a professional side, you will find practical…
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…
Football Coaching Articles
Over the years, Bennion Kearny has published extracts and custom articles from a number of our books and authors. Below is a listing of a large number of them. We hope they are useful. Stay safe. Developing Play from the Defensive Third Soccer Drills for KidsPassing DrillsGive and Go DrillsExercises…