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Watch a video on youth soccer coaching for small sided games: See an interactive, 3D animated youth soccer coaching drill on coaching SSG’s: There is also a printable coaches chalkboard session, all designed to assist the skill of youth soccer coaching in small game related environments.

There are also Tour Videos to give youth soccer coaches a real insight into what a membership of Grassrootscoaching.com offers. 

It takes a great deal of skill to coach youth soccer players in small sided games. There is a balance between letting the players play and enjoy the game and stopping the game to make a coaching point.

Youth soccer players love to play in small sided games. Be them mini soccer games (3 v 3 and 4 v 4) for younger players to bigger games of 5 v 5 to 9 v 9 for coaching youth soccer players. They are playing a game, which they love and the nature of a small sided game gives the youth soccer players lots of touches of the ball and lots of involvement in the game.

One of the key considerations of coaching youth soccer players in SSG’s is to ensure that these games have a specific and defined focus, which helps youth soccer players to learn and improve, whilst at the same time having fun. For example, a focus might be on defending as a team. So a youth soccer coach might give information on how the team drop into a defensive shape when they don’t have the ball and how the defending should start with the front – the forwards.

Grassrootscoaching.com have lots of small sided animated practice games which assist you to understand how these practice games need to be structured and conditioned to provide a specific coaching focus, stimulus and enjoyment for youth soccer players in SSG’s.

Whilst most small sided games targeted at young and youth soccer players, will have a structured format, with goals and goalkeepers. Youth soccer coaches can also condition the games, with for example, floating players who play for whatever team are in possession or by having target players, instead of goalkeepers. A youth soccer coach can then change the emphasis of the game and focus on and encourage the development of specific techniques and skills within the framework of the game..

Tony Pulis – Manager of English Premier League Team, Stoke City, says … ”the opportunity to see and understand training sessions on the internet, before you begin coaching is invaluable…