Mike Trusson – FA Coach Educator
Individual Skill Tips
PROGRESSIONS AND CHALLENGES WHEN COACHING SOCCER – PART ONE
May 15th
Last summer I was invited to a football and soccer coaching seminar in Portugal to present a lecture on the need for football coaches to ensure there are challenges and progressions in their soccer training sessions.
To improve the enjoyment and development process for players, it is important that they have the opportunity, initially, to achieve success in the football training session. That they have lots of realistic, match like scenarios to practice the skill the soccer coaching session is promoting. This will increase and develop the players’ confidence and self belief.
But, after a suitable period of time, the players will need be tested and challenged, so that their enjoyment, learning and decision making process and technical execution under increased pressure are challenged.
This is where challenges and progressions become so important in training players. The challenges need to be suitable for the age and ability of the players and need to be judged by the soccer coach as suitable for the needs of the coaching session. By developing challenges and progressions in the session, a coach will be making the session more enjoyable and challenging for the players and assist in their learning and development.
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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 – Techniques
May 5th
From a football coaching point of view, the first thing football coaches should understand is what is a technique and how to coach a player on improving and developing their techniques. A technique, with regards to football coaching is an action that a player performs that is related to a requirement to be able to play football. For example, the Technique of Ball Control. To master the technique of ball control, the players must first learn to work on their techniques in unopposed training sessions. This allows the players to progress without the pressure of opposition and to work solely on improving their technique.
The three graphics below, taken from the football coaching design software Coaches Chalkboard, which can be found at www.grassrootscoaching.com Using the Coaches Chalkboard software I have designed a soccer training session to improve the Technique of Ball Control.
ORGANISATION
- Organise the players into 3 groups of 3 with a ball for each group.
- Layout a series of squares with cones
- One of the players from each group makes a run into one of the squares, the player with the ball passes the ball to the player in the square, who must control the ball within the square they are in.
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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.
Coaches Chalkboard session - Intense Ball Control – Progression 2Watch a More >
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