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Soccer Shielding
Soccer shielding is an important dribbling technique often used to keep possession in tight spaces. Shielding occurs when the player in possession of the ball positions themselves between the ball and their opponent creating a barrier with their body. The player simply uses their body as a shield to keep distance between the ball and the defender.
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Four Corner Fitness Drill
This soccer fitness drill is designed to improve lateral speed and agility required in soccer.
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Shuttle Runs Fitness Exercise– Dribble Pass
In soccer the shuttle run is a fundamental fitness training exercise to build soccer endurance. This movement represents an important soccer specific movement and is a great exercise to not only build speed, stamina, acceleration, and endurance, but by adding a ball it can also work on controlling the soccer ball at top speeds when your body’s become tired and fatigued.
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Heading - an Essential Skill
Heading is an essential skill to learn in soccer. It is crucial for defensive players to clear balls from the back, midfielders to win critical battles in the middle of the field, and attackers to nod a ball past the opposing keeper to score a goal.
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1st , 2nd, 3rd Attackers and Defenders
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it’s sometimes difficult determining what area of the field that we should focus our practice attention. When you dig deep into the game of soccer, everything centers around the ball...
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Soccer Practice Planning
As a youth soccer coach you should always take time to design and plan your practices. Soccer practice planning can be completed a week or so in advanced and will make your life as a coach easier..
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Remember to Do Your Homework
Whether you have recently volunteered to coach youth soccer to spend time with your kids or because your child’s team desperately needs a coach you must understand that you have taken on a large task and you have plenty of work to do behind the scenes to ensure the perfect season. You have just taken on the job of teaching young kids the most popular sport in the world.
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How to Work With the Parents
In order to have a successful soccer season, it is important to foster good parent behaviors on the sideline.
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Tips for the New Soccer Coach
Some coaches are skeptical when they are asked to coach their child’s soccer team. The fear lies in the unknown. There are some important tips that will make your first time as a soccer coach a pleasant one for players, parents, and most of all you.
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How youth soccer players learn the game
How do youth soccer players learn the game? The answer is simple! They learn the game by watching, imitating, practicing and being tested during game play.
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Soccer Shielding
Soccer shielding is an important dribbling technique often used to keep possession in tight spaces. Shielding occurs when the player in possession of the ball positions themselves between the ball and their opponent creating a barrier with their body. The player simply uses their body as a shield to keep distance between the ball and the defender.
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Choosing Your Competitive Soccer Team
This Soccer Tip was written to help coaches while choosing players for their team using the TIPS method. TIPS stands for Technique, Insight, Personality and Speed. TIPS was developed by the Ajax youth academy.
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Should Soccer Players Warm Up and Cool Down for Practices?
Soccer players of all ages should warm up before EVERY soccer event and cool down after EVERY soccer event. The number one reason revolves around reducing the likelihood of a soccer related injury. Although warming up is often overlooked by coaches of younger players, a good warm up and cool down should become part of a teams routine.
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How to Evaluate and Teach the Game
Team and player evaluation is a large part of being a successful soccer coach. From evaluating team and players abilities, we are able to focus in on our teams strengths and weaknesses and structure our training sessions around these findings. Evaluating a team should be done at all events, and is easiest done in match situations, or even better when done during training sessions.
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Soccer Team Management: Part 1 Practice Management
This tip will assist coaches to organize a soccer practice based on the age of the players, and answere many important soccer management related questions.
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Soccer Defense Tactics: Teaching 1v1 Defending
This Soccer Tip was written to assist coaches in teaching players the proper techniques of defending.
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Support Players –Helping the Person With the Ball
This Soccer Tip was written to shed some light on the importance of supporting players. The success or failure of a team begins with supporting players. Properly supporting players with the ball requires early support from teammates without the ball. This early support comes from anticipating the play, reading the field, and knowing your teammates.
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1st , 2nd, 3rd Attackers and Defenders
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coaching young soccer players
it’s sometimes difficult determining what area of the field that we should focus our practice attention. When you dig deep into the game of soccer, everything centers around the ball...
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Tips for the New Soccer Coach
Some coaches are skeptical when they are asked to coach their child’s soccer team. The fear lies in the unknown. There are some important tips that will make your first time as a soccer coach a pleasant one for players, parents, and most of all you.
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What to Eat During Soccer Tournaments
As a soccer coach, I don’t have to tell you that coaching a youth soccer team while traveling in tournaments is a difficult task. One of the hardest responsibilities as a soccer coach while on the road is monitoring your players’ food intake. As their soccer coach, it is important for you as their coach to give the players a list of foods that will help their bodies recover quickly and give them the most energy for the following games.
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Making a Soccer Lesson Plan
Making a Lesson Plan - Design, Diagram and Make Sense: Get the know how on designing your soccer practice sessions, know how to make your own diagrams, and make sure the drill makes sense and focuses on the skill you are wanting to teach.
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Soccer Specific Agility Drills
Soccer Specific Agility and Speed Training Drills.
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Soccer 1 Minute Drill
This series of individual soccer skills focuses on individual touch and control. Improve your inside of the foot passing, outside of foot passing, thigh volleys, chest volleys, headers, and volleys.
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Soccer Practice Planning
As a youth soccer coach you should always take time to design and plan your practices. Soccer practice planning can be completed a week or so in advanced and will make your life as a coach easier..
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Assigning Positions
One of the most important jobs as a coach is putting the right players in the right positions. At the younger ages, set the initial lineup is only a starting point for the game.
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What to Eat During Soccer Tournaments
As a soccer coach, I don’t have to tell you that coaching a youth soccer team while traveling in tournaments is a difficult task. One of the hardest responsibilities as a soccer coach while on the road is monitoring your players’ food intake. As their soccer coach, it is important for you as their coach to give the players a list of foods that will help their bodies recover quickly and give them the most energy for the following games.
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Two player shooting drill
One of the most important skills in soccer is shooting. You have to shoot to score goals, and you need to score goals to win games. Therefore, it's important to strike the ball accurately to help improve your chances of scoring a goal.
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Soccer Defense Tactics: Teaching 1v1 Defending
This Soccer Tip was written to assist coaches in teaching players the proper techniques of defending.
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Tips for the New Soccer Coach
Some coaches are skeptical when they are asked to coach their child’s soccer team. The fear lies in the unknown. There are some important tips that will make your first time as a soccer coach a pleasant one for players, parents, and most of all you.
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Soccer's Small-Sided Game
In soccer, the game is the best teacher. The game challenges players by the problems it presents for the players who must solve problems to be successful. Games create realistic situations that players will come up against in the game. Through friendly competition, players will be motivated and challenged to learn the game.
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