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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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soccertr
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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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Jeannette98
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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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