“John!” the loud cry would come from either my mother or father; it’s time for bed and school’s tomorrow. Thousands of hours were taken up in the street, school playground and wartime debris, for these places were the learning grounds of the footballers of the past. These ‘mini Wembley’s’ provided competitive, small-sided games of football […]
Here are 5 Football skills you can practice to help improve your game. It is important to have a large array of skills to call upon when you are in 1 v 1 situations. There are many Football skills out there that I could have mentioned but I chose to demonstrate these skills because I […]
In my 12 years as a youth football coach, I have experimented with many methods to help improve my coaching ability. In that time I have seen how a player can rapidly improve by just going away and working on their game at home either on their own, with parents or a hired personal coach. […]
I find it alarming when I still see coaches not using clear demonstrations in their coaching sessions. A common theme you tend to find is, coaches using more verbal instruction than visual instruction which often leads to confusion with the players. Now verbal instruction is still important when teaching a new skill but it shouldn’t […]
One of the biggest problems in the game are youth football parents. Many parents still don’t have the understanding of what their children need to play the game effectively. What we still find, is parents putting their children under high amounts of pressure before, during and after the game. This can be done in the […]
