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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 4d ago

Attacking Patterns in the 4-3-3

Can you teach creativity? Some coaches believe that players are either creative or their not. Certainly there are players that we can all name that appear to be, ‘naturally’ creative but I believe that most players need to learn to be creative. I don’t think that you could have put Mozart in front o
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 1W ago

A Progressive Method to Teaching Fakes

In last week’s post I discussed the first few fakes that I teach young players. I thought it would be a good idea to share HOW I teach these fakes to players as young as six and seven. I set up by arranging a set of cones in the pattern below. This allows me to [...]
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 2W ago

Which Fakes to Teach Young Players

I’m in favor of teaching young players to be very comfortable and confident with the ball by teaching them different fakes . During the initial learning phase I want the players to use them every time they get the ball. Some coaches have told me that you can’t teach creativity but I think you give [
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 3W ago

Finishing from Volleys and Headers

I’ve always had a standing challenge to my teams (U13 and below), if they score a headed goal, I buy ice cream for the next practice. It’s been a way to encourage the players to try and score with their head if they can. This has been most successful with the girls teams I have [...]
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 1M ago

Teaching the Movement of the Forwards in the 4-3-3

As I’ve written about several times, I’ve been going through the process of training one of my teams to play the 4-3-3 formation. I’ve always used a 4-4-2 or a 3-4-3 in the past so this has been a learning experience for me as well as the players. I began with the defensive phase of [...]
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 1M ago

Using Small-Sided Games to Develop Players

Most coaches use small-sided games as part of their training sessions. Sometimes this is limited to a 10 minute scrimmage at the end of the session. During the spring season I will often run an entire session that revolves around two or three small-sided games to reinforce technical or tactical topi
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 1M ago

Beating the Offside Trap Follow-Up

In a post last December I talked about how I was working with my team to understand the different ways to beat the offside trap. Some of the ideas and exercises I use are from the book, ‘Offside!’. A reader suggested that runs from the midfield was another way to effectively defeat the trap. Here’s
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 1M ago

Progressing Sessions as Players Improve

One of the most important decisions we make as coaches is when to move through the various stages of skill development with our players. Move on too soon before the technique is mastered and the players performance becomes sloppy and inconsistent. If you wait too long to challenge the players with t
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 2M ago

Testing to Evaluate Player Ability and Development

As a coach I’m always evaluating my players but mostly on a subjective level. I do some 1v1 and 2v2 statistical evaluations that I wrote about in a previous post but that’s the only objective information I’ve used to in the past. This spring our club has implemented the SoccerFIT Game Speed Assessme
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WORLD CLASS COACHING · 2M ago

Newcastle Fail to Punch Their Weight and Lose to a Late Knockout

By Matt Riley Remarkably, Newcastle did not complete a single cross in the entire ninety minutes despite twelve attempts. Not only was Ba without the support of Papiss Cisse, his role became that of holding the ball up for Ben Arfa and Obertan rather than rampaging into the box. Newcastle chose a ca
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