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Posted: Wed Dec 5th, 2007 07:54 pm |
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| What are the drills coaches should focus on with their young players to improve their play on the field? To build strength and endurance levels?
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Posted: Thu Dec 6th, 2007 11:34 pm |
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Hey twocents.
What ages are you targeting?
That will make a big difference.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16th, 2007 09:56 am |
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| Speaking of kids, they must be trained well. First, they need the basic exercise that emphasize more on kicking. Kids need warm-up all the time.
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Posted: Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 08:37 pm |
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True.
Trying to teach kids to do a "wall pass" correctly by simply repeating a wall pass drill over and over is not the cure.
Remember the wise words of one of our greatest soccer coaches ever.
(Even though he didn't realize it.)
Benjamin Franklin's definition of insanity
Repeating the same action over and over expecting a different result.
Understand the elements of the wall pass. If a child has never been shown how to quickly receive pass, transfer their weight and strike the ball with the inside of their foot accurately, you are simply wasting your time.
Break down each action that makes up the full drill.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15th, 2008 10:17 pm |
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Drills — How often have your youth soccer players come to you during a practice session and asked, "Coach, can we please do a soccer drill?" vs. coming to you asking, "Coach, can we please play a soccer game?"
When you were a child (if you can remember that far back), did you get together with your friends and say, "Hey, how about we do a soccer drill?"
Name the sport (baseball, basketball, football) and try to remember which "drill" you asked your friends to participate in... Or did you just get together, chose teams, and begin playing that particular game?
How about changing the word Drill to "Game" - this will make the activity fun instead of being something repitious and boring like a "drill".
It may seem and sound silly to ask for a change from the word drill to using the word game. But thousands of skeptical youth soccer coaches who made the change have come back to praise the positive changes that occurred in their own personal attitude toward practices.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2010 11:06 pm |
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| I would suggest going through a library of soccer drills. Such as http://www.professionalsoccercoaching.com. Drills for all ages, levels and abilities on there. Tons of free stuff I found on there.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21st, 2010 11:10 pm |
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Also, check out their soccer workout for a players personal training program for youth soccer players. I have used it with my team and it has brought great results:
http://www.professionalsoccercoaching.com/soccer-workout.html
You can have the older players working on fitness and your youngers on skill programs.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22nd, 2010 12:27 pm |
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Hi, this is a soccer drill or training exercise, however you like to call it, which might help you as it focuses on speed and agility. Stamina and endurance are obviously important but football (soccer) players need to have short bursts of speed to be useful. It's taken from a free website http://www.bettersoccercoaching.com
Speed and agility soccer drills for young players
Coaching your young players to develop speed, stamina and agility is vital to help them stand up to the rigours of a match or soccer training session. With the help of this fitness soccer drill you can build these skills and give your players an all-round soccer education.
You can see when youngsters are running back to get goalside of attackers, that a lot of pressure is put on their bodies and their stamina levels, but regular fitness drills will help them work through training sessions and cope better in matches.
Here's a good soccer warm-up drill for speed and agility skills.
- Place two markers 10m apart to form a line, stand facing across the line.
- Rotate lower body to put one foot over the line the other behind.
- In a small, jumping action, repeated switch stance by rotating lower body to place other foot over the line.
- Jump and rotate as fast as possible.
- Move slowly sideways towards the far marker.
Soccer coaching drill tips
- Repeat the soccer drill five times.
- Rest for 90 seconds between drill repetitions.
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Posted: Thu Feb 18th, 2010 01:36 am |
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| Check out http://www.fastyouthathlete.com. There you will find the fundamentals of training to become a complete athlete. It focuses on youth training that translate to several sports.
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