Tips for soccer coaching plans
Plan your soccer coaching sessions carefully because there is a point in every session when your young players become tired and will stop learning and benefiting from your coaching.
Time and plan your soccer coaching sessions
An increase in knowledge is offset by demotivation or increased tiredness.This is where your coaching structure comes into play.
If you are working on coaching your soccer (football) players for an hour, you should be splitting your session up so you have a warm up soccer (football) drill, a coaching drill, a short five-minute exercise to help get your coaching points across, a small-sided game, then a warm down drill.
The second half of your training session should be mostly about playing and warming down, the main learning process should happen in the first half of the coaching session.
Once your players have gone past their learning barrier, you should not be trying to coach totally new concepts because your young players will not want to learn or have to think about what they are doing by this stage.
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