Mike Trusson – FA Coach Educator
Coaching Sessions
Sessions and drills to make your life easier as a coach.
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.
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Football Coaching FA Level 2 in Kent Day 3
May 8th
Today we showed the football coaches a series of small sided football games. The basic organisation is to play 4 v 4 outfield players, with goalkeepers.
To really help the soccer coaches understand how to coach attacking topics within a small sided game, the coaches need to plan the size of the pitch related to the topic they are coaching.
For example, for a topic like Short Range Passing, it would help to coach the topic if the pitch was smaller than normal. This would also depend on the age and ability of the players being coached, but a pitch size of say 35 x 25 yards, would require the players to pass the ball consistently over a short range. The second thing is to try and manage both teams to play some kind of formation, say 2 – 1 – 1 and for the players to try and be disciplined to stay in that formation and play in their positions. Of course defenders can go forward, as can midfield players, but if they interchange positions, for two of the players to recognise the need to play as defenders and at least one of the them to play up front.
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Football Coaching FA Level 2 in Kent Day 2
May 7th
After yesterday, where Alan and I showed the football coaches how a technique progressed into a skill, today it was the turn of the coaches to coach their given topics and be assessed by Alan and myself. The soccer coaches generally did well; given this was their first experience at this level. The biggest problem they experienced was planning their sessions, so that they could effectively coach their given topics. Alan and I used coaches’ chalkboard to demonstrate to the coaches how to plan a session.
We encourage football coaches to observe and coach from good practice. So when a player does something really well, sometimes use that situation to give the players a rest and highlight the good practice. This gives a confidence boost to the player, provides an aspiration for the other players and provides and opportunity to reinforce the key technical aspects, in a verbal and visual manner.
One of the guys was coaching the Technique of running with the ball. He saw that one of the players, Julie received and ran with the ball really well. So he stopped the session, said that was fantastic. “Julie lets recreate the situation so that everyone can understand what you did”. More >
Football Coaching F.A. Level 2 Day one
May 6th
Today I started a 6 day Level 2 football coaching course, with Alan Walker, Lead Tutor of Kent FA. There were 28 candidates with various experiences of coaching football. The ages ranged from 16 – to mid 50’s and there were two ladies on the course.
To develop a team spirit and for the soccer coaches to get to know each other, we started the practical content of the course, with a fun warm up game that all 26 coaches participated in. This also allowed Alan and myself to take a look at their playing ability. As you can imagine, the playing levels were very mixed, with a couple of professionals and non league players, to middle aged men who hadn’t kicked a ball in anger for more than ten years and many who seemed to have their boots on the wrong feet!!
The warm up game, was played on a full size pitch, with all 26 players and 6 balls. The idea was that the players had to pass and move, using all the players, the 8 balls and the full pitch. Below is a cut down version of the warm up game, using 12 players and 3 balls.
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Football and Soccer Coaching – Improve Ball Control – All Progressions
May 1st
This is the complete session on Improving Ball Control, click on the links to access the Coaches Chalkboard sessions and the downloadable PDF.
Intense Ball Control – Start Intense Ball Control – Progression 1 Intense Ball Control – Progression 2 Download PDF – Intense Ball Control
One of the fundamental techniques players need is to be able to control the ball effectively. As football coaches we should be constantly encouraging and helping our players to improve and develop their ball control techniques and skills.
Coaching ball control, starts at the beginning, with helping players understand the basic techniques of ball control. Players can then progress and start making technical decisions on not only how they control the ball, but where they control the ball and if they control it for themselves or for other players
Using the coaches’ chalkboard design facility on www.grassrootscoaching.com we have put together a progressive football training session soccer coaches can take to training to help their players improve the basic techniques of ball control.
Watch a video on Improving Ball Control - Intense Ball Control Session
Interactive, animated 3D drill on ball control – Improve Protecting The Ball from the defender
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Football and Soccer Coaching – Improve Ball Control – Progression 2
Apr 30th
This is the first second progression to the Coaches Chalkboard session – Intense Ball Control Start and Intense Ball Control – Progression 1
To download this progression, click on the link:
Coaches Chalkboard session – Intense Ball Control – Progression 2One of the fundamental techniques players need is to be able to control the ball effectively. As football coaches we should be constantly encouraging and helping our players to improve and develop their ball control techniques and skills.
Coaching ball control, starts at the beginning, with helping players understand the basic techniques of ball control. Players can then progress and start making technical decisions on not only how they control the ball, but where they control the ball and if they control it for themselves or for other players
Using the coaches’ chalkboard design facility on www.grassrootscoaching.com we have put together a progressive football training session soccer coaches can take to training to help their players improve the basic techniques of ball control.
This is the first of the Improve Ball Control football training sessions designed with coaches chalkboard. The final progression to this training session and a downloadable PDF will be added to the blog over the next 2 days.
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