The Ultimate Guide To Coaching Soccer

For coaches who find coaching the attacking phase a little daunting and especially those whose sessions are being assessed by professionals on the pathway to coaching badges, this video goes right to the heart of how to simplify the process.

This tutorial explains how to put on a game related attacking session regardless of the attacking topic in question by explaining the key factors of all attacking sessions.

We show one session from start to finish, explaining and illustrating the specifics of that topic and giving common coaching points from other topics, leading to an understanding of how closely related all attacking sessions are regardless of the topic, plus a full explanation and illustration of coaching a specific individual player position.

It also explains how coaches can get through coaching sessions, either while being assessed on a coach education pathway or generally in their coaching sessions without needing to stand on the side-line waiting for something to go wrong in order to make a valuable coaching point.

This lecture explains and illustrates the basic principles of the defending phase of the game.

We look at how teams defend as a unit and the role of each individual within that unit.

Starting with defending from the front, we see how the defending team moves in relation to the position of the ball, and what changes occur in that shape as opponents move the ball from side to side or progress up the pitch and explain those changes.

We also look at defending close to and in the penalty area and how the roles of defending players can change as well as what, as a coach you should be looking out for.

Along with this we explain and illustrate examples of what constitutes good or bad marking and some finer details such as recovery runs and tracking runs also included in this lecture is an example of high press defending, how it's done and the idea behind it, and although we've reserved most of the examples and illustrations of high press or counter pressing for the transition lecture , this lecture contains an example of one of the most commonly used high pressing styles when defending from the front.

Whether working towards achieving coaching badges or simply wishing to better understand the process of coaching the defending phase, this lecture will prove an immensely useful resource.

Before getting to a game related session the video contains some easily understood examples of defending exercises that help coach teams to quickly and easily understand the defensive shape.

These lead us into explaining and illustrating how to coach defending in a game, it covers all the key factors of defending as a team and the role of the players.

It illustrates how, regardless of the defending topic you may have to coach in a session on the pathway to a badge, that all the sessions are closely related and not only shows one session from start to finish including basic defending and illustrations of good, recovery, delay, tracking and marking, but also gives advice on what to look for in other specific sessions.