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Soccer Coaching Manuals Complete Practice Plans & Drills
"I have already used some of the drills with my girls at practice and I can tell that they are going to help increase their skill levels a lot. Here's to great soccer."
Coach Shaun, USA
"I purchased the indoor and the 9-12 soccer coaching books. These are great. You make it easy select the appropriate practices for the skills we are targeting. The kids love them and tell us our practices are fun.
This morning I purchased the system of play book. This book helped us validate the system we chose but more importantly it makes it very clear what responsibility each positions has and what we need to communicate to the kids. Thanks again for these books and making them affordable"
Coach Lou, New York
"I just wanted to let you know how helpful your book is. I bought it on practice day after searching the internet for 1v1 activities. I saw that the samples tended to follow the US Youth Soccer Coaching guidelines. The first practice was well received by my 10 year old girls. I asked if they liked the format of "my" new practices...I got a resounding "YES! It was FUN!"
Coach Dave, USSF D licensed coach
"Once again, I want to say thank you for all of your support, patience and explanations. Your thoughtful and prompt replies to my questions and concerns played a big part in giving me the confidence I needed to become a coach. By the way, thanks to you I had several parents mention how excited they were to see the girls learn how to attack the goal."
Richard Jones, U10 Blue Dolphins, Oklahoma City
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Congratulations! You have made a commitment to coach a soccer team. You take your coaching job serious and are spending valuable time and money looking for soccer drills.
Are you watching videos, reading books and taking notes to get something on paper for your next practice? Trying to put drills in sequence to develop a good practice plan?
WAIT A MINUTE !! What if you could simply select today's practice plan, print it, put it on your clipboard and go to practice? With
you will be ready for practice in MINUTES!
Our practice plans meet international standards with:
The research and writing are done for you. We don't ask you to read long sales pages. You can go directly to your book of interest and find all the info in one spot - straight up:
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Your team's success is our goal!
Tom Sauder
Your team will appreciate your coaching skills and your innovative, effective and balanced practice design. Your players will be motivated, improve their skills and play better as a team.
Read about the tremendous success of one of your fellow coaches in this letter
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We invite you to review and try sample practice plans and drills, no surprises.
Benefit from our experienced coaches with over 150 years of soccer coaching, fitness training and psychology backgrounds. We have done it!
We know what makes a good practice and you deserve nothing but the best. Please read about us.
P.S. At the bottom of this page you will find a valuable soccer tip. There will be a new tip every week, so please
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10 complete practice plans with 55 drills for your team:
Our kids soccer practices are specifically designed for 4-8 year olds playing small field soccer. We emphasize social development through interaction with others in fun exercises.
Physical development focusses on co-ordination and flexibility.
Basic soccer skills are developed in a way that keeps everyone involved and busy - no standing around.
This book is ideal for the parent on their first coaching job. You don't need to be a n ex soccer pro to teach the greatest sport on earth.
Kids will love your practices and want to come back again and again.
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Sample Practice
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10 complete practice plans with 80 drills for your team:
Our youth parctices are geared towards fundamental ball skill development for 9-12 year olds.
Players will be busy with a ball at all times.
We emphasize the importance of proper warm-ups and stretching to develop good habits. We have found that players who start proper warm-ups early will stay with it throughout their playing career.
Essential 1v1 moves, short/long passing, basic defending, shooting and ball control are critical skill areas of focus.
Soccer specific fitness training is introduced with a focus on exercises using a ball as much as possible. We do not believe in pure running exercises - it must be soccer related.
Tactical training focusses on elements of setting up goal scoring opportunities, transition play and limiting opponent's attacks.
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10 complete practice plans with 80 drills for your team:
This book is for competitive youth teams and amateur adult teams.
Players are expected to use their soccer skills at faster paces and in more complex drills.
Your team will learn how to solve tactical game situation problems.
These soccer drills are difficult to perfect and players need to demonstrate that they can adapt to quickly changing situations.
As coach, you will be challenged to get individuals, units and the entire team to perform proficiently - quickly.
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10 complete practice plans with 80+ drills for your goalkeeper:
We understand the special needs for training soccer goalkeepers. All to often their practice time is limited to taking shots or participating in regular team drills.
This set of soccer drills and practices is designed to work on all aspects of goalkeeping.
Your goalies will work on basic techniques of catching and diving. Co-ordination and flexibility will improve.
Reflex and reaction can be trained and we spend a lot of time on these elements.
Goalkeepers have their own set of tactics, such as positioning relative to the play, coming off the line, ball distribution, setting up walls, stopping penalties, etc. You will get drills for all of those.
Soccer goalie fitness training is different from the rest of the team. Vertical leap ability, for example, is critical. There is much more emphasis on strength than on speed, for instance. Our drills are geared to these elements.
And, we have developed special scrimmage games for goalies to maximize their opportunity for stopping shots. The rest of the team will also enjoy these drills.
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a book for every soccer coach's practice bag!
Sample Practice
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Goalkeeper positions, stretches and tips (with photos):
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20 modern formations with diagrams and game tactics
The formations, tactics and line-ups being used in modern soccer are ever increasing and more comples.
There is very little information for coaches at the recreational and youth levels. You may find the odd book or video dealing with one system, such as 4-4-2.
We have developed an introduction to most current systems of play. On two pages, you will get enough information to set up your team in all areas - defense - midfield (transition) - offense.
We explain what players you need for each system and what to look out for as coach. We show you how to respond to the opponent's line-up.
This quite frankly is a unique coaching tool, one every youth coach needs to have in their tool kit.
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a book for every soccer coach's practice bag!
Sample Line-Up
Sample Overview
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10 complete practice plans with 80 drills for your team:
This is our hidden secret. The drills are especially developed to work with a large number of players in small spaces.
We have tossed in some fun drills that adults will enjoy as much as youngsters.
Most of the drills are also suited for coaching kids playing mini soccer outdoors.
Yet, all skill and tactical elements of modern soccer are included.
You'll absolutely love this book.
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Sample Practice
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Tip#3: Left/Right Footed Players
Most players have a naturally stronger foot they prefer to dribble and shoot with. Few players are equally as strong with both feet.
This impacts the optimal position for the player to play in and how the team chooses to execute set plays, in particular free kicks and corner kicks.
Positional Play:
Keep it simple. Play the player on the side of his/her strength. Left footers play left defense, left midfield and left forward. Right footers on the opposite side. Some coaches like players playing on their off-side, but that only makes it difficult for the players.
Set Plays:
Here is where there are real options.
Right footed players crossing balls in from the right will typically hit "outswingers", i.e. the ball curves away from the net, sort of in the shape of a banana.
Right footed players crossing balls in from the left will typically hit "inswingers", i.e. the ball curves towards the net.
The same is true for left footers from the left (outswingers) and right (inswingers) sides.
Corner Kicks:
If on a corner kick from the right, you want the ball to curl away from the goalkeeper, have a right footed player take it. If you want the ball to curl towards the goalkeeper, have a left footer take it from the right side.
The decision is based on where you want to apply the pressure and which runs the other players are making to get to the ball.
Free Kicks:
On free kicks near the penalty box, where a wall is in place, similar thinking applies.
If the free kick is from the right side (when looking at the goal) and you want to play a cross curling away from goal towards the far post, use a right footed player. If you want the ball to curl toward the goalkeeper, use a left footer.
If you want to take a shot on goal, bending the ball around the far end of the wall, use a left footer. If you want to take a shot around the near end of the wall, use a right footer.
Again, the opposite is true from the other side.
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I have run all of these practices with my teams and will vouch for their effectiveness
Tom Sauder, President
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drills appropriate for the age group of your team
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