Mike Trusson – FA Coach Educator
Assessment UEFA B
Soccer Coaching – 8 v 8 small sided games
May 9th
Football coaching a team in a small sided game, with the coaching topic of defend as a team.
We try to get the football coaches to understand the basic principle of defending. Once possession is lost, the team look to get behind the ball, get a defensive shape, which is narrow and compact and allows players to adopt positions in relation to where the ball is.
Defending in team play starts from the front. So when the ball was in possession of the opposition defence, we worked with our two strikers, to get them to understand how to react quickly when the ball was lost, to recover behind the ball and to work and defend as a pair. They needed to recognise if the player on the ball had good possession, then there was no point in trying to pressure the ball as they would easily be passed by. Their roles were to try and stop the ball behind passed forward into key attacking areas and to try and force play across the pitch and to keep the ball in front of them. They had to work as a pair communicate and react together as the ball was passed across them.
Once the strikers More >
FA Youth Module Awards
Mar 25th
The Football Association have rolled out three new qualifications. I am often asked what they are about and why should coaches take them, so we have put together some information on them and provided links for you to find out more.
To watch a short promotional film on the new FA Youth Modules, click on this link
http://www.thefa.com/GetIntoFootball/FALearning/FALearningPages/youthcoaching.aspx#
The Football Association have put together a very useful online resource explaining what coaching courses they offer, to access the resource, please click on this link: http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1S4d380c3d13b14123.cde
How well do you know your young players?
Do you really understand what motivates them, what they find difficult and how you can help to develop them?
The FA Youth Award is a groundbreaking new coaching course designed to help coaches to understand as much about their players as they understand about the game.
As coaches, we often spend a lot of time focusing on training drills, fixtures and match days . Wouldn’t it be great if we stepped back from all that and looked at each of our young players individually.
- What motivates them to play football?
- How can we build their self esteem?
- How can we manage differences in age, experience, ability and attitude?
- Can we create the right environment for young More >
FA launches new UEFA B Licence
Mar 22nd
For Football coaches, the qualification pathway is FA Level 1, FA Level 2, FA Level 3 (UEFA B) and FA level 4 (UEFA A). The Football Association have now launched a new UEFA B License, so for those football coaches who are interested in what it is about, we have put together key information on this new qualification
Want to continue your coaching career? Learn more about the UEFA B Licence.
Just like the demands on modern players have developed on the pitch, the skills and requirements of coaches on the training ground in recent years have also had to adapt.
For today’s players the emphasis is on technical ability, instant decision making and tactical awareness. Elite players must be able to adapt to almost any game scenario, where formations and positional roles are interchangeable, and it is the coach’s role to ensure these players possess the flexibility and dynamism to do so.
In order to meet the challenges that coaches in the modern game face, The FA Coaching pathway has now launched the redesigned UEFA B Licence, aimed at coaches who intend to work with international players.
The new FA UEFA B Licence The course is now a standalone UEFA B qualification that links the newly revised More >
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