Soccer Drills and Practice Plans for your Youth Soccer Teams
Time is a limited resource, especially when you are coaching a youth soccer team. Not only are you limited by the amount of time you have to invest in planning practice, you are also limited in the amount of time you have to implement that plan. If your players lose focus during practice, that 1.5-2 hour window may feel as if it has evaporated without much being accomplished.
To best help inexperienced & time strapped coaches maximize the limited amount of time available, I put together Soccer Season Outsourced as the ultimate plan for leading your team to a successful year.
The primary benefit of the series is the 20 progressive practice designs that are structured enough to evolve your players skills and understanding, but also flexible enough to be supplemented as you see fit.
To help in this area, Soccer Season Outsourced also included a separate drill bible component which contains a breakdown of the various drills organized by type, with plenty of new variations to keep your team busy, focused on learning and improving their game.
The format of the book is such that you can print it and take it to practice in a binder, or email it to yourself and run it right off of your smart phone. Simple, flexible and dynamic, Soccer Season Outsourced is the tool you need to get the most out of your soccer practice time.
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Proper shooting technique can make the difference between a simple scoring opportunity and a goal. Here are some coaching points to make with your youth soccer team as you work on shooting drills at practice.
Shoot Low- Low shots have the highest probability of sneaking into the goal, while high shots are easily picked off by the goaltender. Don’t get fancy with your shots, hit the ball with authority, and keep it low, preferably away from the goalie.
Toe Down, Head Down- Striking the ball with the laces, and keeping your toe and head down should lead to a low, hard shot. As your players work on shooting drills in practice, make this point, and correct them when they falter. Bad habits in practice bleed over into the game, and you want to avoid this at all costs.
Spontaneity- As a soccer fan, nothing gets me angrier than watching a player on my team electing to take another touch, instead of an early, unexpected shot. As a coach, I never get angry and instead focus on educating my players at practice.
I like to drive the point home with my players that I want them to shoot on the goal as much as possible, whenever the opportunity arises. The longer you wait before shooting, the more time the goalie has to adjust and cut off your angle.
Follow through- Once you take a shot, stay engaged. If the ball bounces off the goalie, get yourself in a position to fire it again into the back of the net. Good players create their own luck around the goal, and it all starts with good technique and creativity.
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Soccer Book for the Coaching Masses
Soccer Season Outsourced is a Soccer Book I compiled with the inexperienced or time strapped coach in mind.
First and foremost, the practice plans are laid out to be effective regardless of how much time or knowledge you have to invest in planning practice or learning about soccer. In other words, just show up, run the drills directly from the book and emphasis the coaching points. This way your players will know what they are trying to accomplish, and you can focus their play to develop their understanding. If you have drills of your own you would like to work in, or you want to repeat certain drills, the practices in the book are flexible enough to allow this.
The other advantage of this soccer book is that it is a friendly format for either printing or running the drills directly off of your Smart Phone or iPad. Super flexible practice plans that will guide your players to soccer greatness, check out my soccer book today.
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