Seven tips for soccer training
Use the following soccer coaching tips to improve your training sessions and keep the team happy and motivated.
1. Set a target for each player to get an absolute minimum of 300 touches each and try to achieve this in the first 20 minutes of the soccer coaching session.
2. Don't run soccer drills which involve long lines of players standing around, chatting to each other, waiting for their turn to have one or two touches. Design practices that keep everyone involved all the time.
3. Make all of your practices as realistic as possible. Mike Beale of the Chelsea FC Academy (and author of our Ultimate Soccer Warm-Ups Manual) insists that all of his practices simulate real match conditions.
4. Restrict practices to set periods of time or target scores (you do have a stop-watch don't you?) and don't let them run on for too long - 5 minutes is usually enough.
5. You might understand the soccer drill you're running and what it's meant to achieve - but do your players?
Plan how you are going to communicate the drill before you get to your soccer coaching session. Is it easy to understand and communicate? If not, ditch it and do something else.
6. Avoid long practice games. A number of players will get considerably fewer touches than others. Keep it to 10 minutes maximum.
7. Make soccer coaching sessions fun for your players, their parents (if you coach kids) and you.
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