Youth soccer coaches look in many different directions for ideas and methodologies to improve their coaching. Most of these directions point us towards sources within the wider soccer landscape, more experienced coaches, the professional level of the game, coaching courses, successful national teams, highly ranked academy setups and so on. There is certainly a lot … Continue reading Finding Effective Feedback Methods
Organizing the Training Session
Of all the aspects that go into coaching a sport the training session is perhaps the one that the coach has the most influence on. While the time, location, space allotted and duration may be outside the individual coach's control the actual design, focus, actions, pace and flow of the session is largely decided upon … Continue reading Organizing the Training Session
Rondo and Positional Play Exercises
A little ways back, Jens Schuster, a German coach, posted an excellent presentation with a litany of exercises for rondo and positional play based training. I've personally used many of these exercises already this fall season and have used them as a springboard to develop new exercises as well. These are both a great collection … Continue reading Rondo and Positional Play Exercises
AS Roma in Boston 7/26 Training Session
After two interesting evening training sessions for Luciano Spalletti's AS Roma at Harvard's Ohiri Field, Tuesday evening's session had some reoccurring exercises from Monday and work on set pieces. One development worth mentioning however for AS Roma supporters, all four players who competed at the Euros, Daniele De Rossi, Alessandro Florenzi, Stephen El Shaarawy and … Continue reading AS Roma in Boston 7/26 Training Session
AS Roma in Boston 7/24 Training Session
As part of their preseason preparations, AS Roma is spending nearly two weeks in the United States. In what seems like an interesting twist on the usual big European Club comes to America for preseason tour for the benefits of promoting the Club at the expense of the team's preseason training, they are spending July … Continue reading AS Roma in Boston 7/24 Training Session
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