Today we have a guest post from our friends over at Kitlocker.com. It is an interview post issued by Sam Cockayne where he talks to two of the countries top soccer scouts Tim Coe, Chief Scout at Crystal Palace and Joel Purkiss, scout at Revo Sports Management. See the original post here. In this article, Sam and the […]
Ever since the emergence of ‘tiki-taka’ football which was first introduced by Pep Guardiola’s excellent Barcelona side a few years ago, many youth coaches have been trying to ‘copy’ this style of play. Now this is not a bad thing, as trying to emulate the best sides in football should be encouraged but unfortunately what we tend […]
The main focus for this game is to encourage the movement of your players off the ball. The players are also looking for opportunities to play the ball through the triangle to score points. The defender must defend the triangle and do their best not to go through the area. The Session Layout Set up […]
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 […]
What does Dribbling represent to you? Is it the use of nimble footwork — is it the ‘bogus’ use of feints with various parts of the body – or is it running with the ball followed by changes of direction…….. or is it something else? All of the aforementioned can be described as dribbling but […]
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. […]
Looking back to the beginning of my coaching career I made a lot mistakes in terms of the structure of session plan. Firstly I remember trying too hard to please the players which I knew was never going to work. You will find it very difficult to please everyone when coaching youth football players which […]
One of the biggest challenges for youth football is to create the right learning environment that will help develop their player’s. The football environment should be interesting and challenging, to help encourage active involvement from the players. These days, young players have many distractions in their life such as television, video games and the internet which […]
One of the biggest misconceptions of one to one football training is that it cannot be taught with realism. Just like your regular team coaching sessions, your coaching methods will dictate how realistic the training is. It upsets me how quick some coaches are to totally disregard the use of one to one coaching to supplement their current […]
I believe that every football coach should have a solid coaching philosophy. Your coaching philosophy is one of the most important attributes you can have, as it forms the foundations for everything that you do. Your philosophy will help create your training sessions, it also dictates how you coach the team in terms of what you […]
