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Supreme Being
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Last Login: 18/05/2012 09:23:53
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| With all the bad weather at the end of last year and the start of this one, I've done a lot of indoor soccer coaching. I tend to use small-sided games and warm-ups that I would use coaching outside and top and tail the rules to take into account the indoor environment - head height, wall passes, goalkicks etc. I know a lot of you are indoors for most of your coaching season. What do you use for drills and exercises and what do you do different to coaching outdoors?
Dave Clarke, Editor of Better Soccer Coaching Head Coach of Soccer Coach Weekly blogging at Soccer Coach blog
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Supreme Being
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| I only wished my team had access to indoor sessions during the winter as we unfortunately have to have fortnightly sessions as soon as the nights start drawing in and a one hour session every two weeks is in no way ideal! If i did have access then i think you are certainly limited to what can be done although i think small sided games in that enviroment are a massive benefit in regards to close control and moving the ball quickly. Passing drills would be my other main aim and working on low driven shots from an attacking point of view. I think defensively block tackling can be worked on but obviously playing on such a hard surface then too mach tackling isnt overly advised although i find a lot of youngsters go to ground too quickly when tackling so this enviroment does help them to learn to tackle by keeping their feet. Ideally i would like my side to train indoors for one hour and work on small sided games one week then outdoors the next week to work on the other aspects which indoors limits. So if anyone does have any further advice on indoor drills etc i would be very interested in any ideas.
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| We do a lot of indoor training here in Cincinnati and we also play Futsal. Mostly ball skills and heavy on the 1 v 1 and 2 v 2 techniques finishing with a least 20 minutes of Futsal. Then the players play in a Futsal league on Sunday morning. I have noticed that the players that partake in this regiment have improved so much quicker that those just playing regular indoors. www.thestrikerschool.com robystahl@aol.com
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| I love having an indoor facility. The game is faster, the kids get more touches and the surface is true. This improves player technical confidence and play speed. I use the walls for self passing drills which really helps with individual technic and each gets lots of touches. The additional lines on the field even help with game & drill setups. I use less cones inside. Players get better at the quick touch / short passes over indoor season. I don't teach many indoor specific tactics like passing off the back wall to score or over exploiting the no offsides rule. Ultimately indoor is development time. There are no playoffs, trophies, shirts, etc. So, I tell parents not to focus on wins and losses so much. I tend to place my teams in much higher divisions inside (partly because the competition depth is not the same as the big outdoor league) and we loose more games but we grow. There needs to be a balance of course but it has certainly helped develop my teams far more then we could outside alone. - tgneo
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