Ray Power - author of Making The Ball Roll, The Deliberate Soccer Practice series, and Coaching Youth Football - and Bennion Kearny are pleased to offer readers a free copy of Ray's superb book Soccer Tactics 2014: What The World Cup Taught Us Although it has been out a few…
The Power of ‘We’ Football fans the world over refer to ‘their’ team with a “we”. “We won,” “We lost,” “We played well,” etc. This is not just supporters that go to the stadium and watch the games live, or who travel across country and continents to watch ‘their’ team…
An extract from Coaching Youth Football, the new book from Ray Power. Soccer Intelligence Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. Dennis Bergkamp We all know what an ‘intelligent’ player looks like, don’t we? We use the term frequently to describe players with high levels…
An excerpt from Let's Talk Soccer What are game-calls? Game-calls is a term used to describe the type of game-specific communication or ‘words’ players can shout to one another on the pitch during the game, to inform a player on what to do next. Game-calls are used in everyday training…
An excerpt from: Deliberate Soccer Practice: 50 Small-Sided Football Games to Improve Decision-Making 15: Set to Shoot RELATION TO GAME: Around 80% of goals come from finishes that are one or two touch. Many of these require a ‘set’ pass from the player making the assist. A ‘set’ allows the…
An excerpt from Click on the cover to learn more “The purpose of the rondo should be for the players in the middle not to get the ball, not for the ones outside not to lose it. I talk about solidarity, about creating spaces. Positional play. The purpose must be…
An excerpt from: Click on the cover for more information Session #3: Pass and Move to Create Space This session is designed to introduce your players to the fundamental attacking concept of passing and moving to create space. Again, this session is appropriate for any level of player and can…
An excerpt from: Click on the cover for more information The long-term development of your players is reliant on appropriate work being completed at certain times in the young soccer player’s journey from age five through to adulthood. Clearly, in school, at home, or in any other environment, we do…
Understanding the Tactical Development of Football Players “It is not a question of 4-4-2 or 4-2-1-3, it is a question of having a team which is ordered, in which the players are connected to one another, which moves together, as if it was a single player.” (Arrigo Sacchi) It is…
Chapter 2 from Building A Successful High School Sports Program Why Not Build a Program? As coaches, we often take over teams not knowing whether we’ll be there next season or two years from now. That is the nature of our profession; the volatility of the coaching environment, better opportunities,…