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Carl Wild

Carl Wild

U14 ETC lead coach at Chester FC and former Manchester City Girls RTC coach. Leads the Football Coaching and Management degree course at UCFB. Uefa C coach developer.

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Small-sided game: Receive under pressure

Small-sided game: Receive under pressure

Small-sided games
Three-part session to teach players to deal with collecting passes while a defender closes in.
Practice 2: Receive under pressure

Practice 2: Receive under pressure

Soccer Drills
Three-part session helping players to deal with collecting passes while a defender closes in.
Practice 1: Receive under pressure

Practice 1: Receive under pressure

Soccer Drills
Three-part session helping players to deal with collecting passes while a defender closes in.
Adapting practices when space is tight

Adapting practices when space is tight

Coaching Advice
It is a common issue facing many coaches – how do you make the most of your sessions if space is at a premium? The key is in the planning
Practice 1: Attacking choices

Practice 1: Attacking choices

Soccer Drills
A session to help your players to develop their decision-making skills in forward areas. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progressions to create a full session
Practice 3: Attacking choices

Practice 3: Attacking choices

Soccer Drills
A session to help your players to develop their decision-making skills in forward areas. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progressions to create a full session
Practice 2: Attacking choices

Practice 2: Attacking choices

Soccer Drills
A session to help your players to develop their decision-making skills in forward areas. Use this session as a standalone activity, or combine it with two progressions to create a full session
Should you ever join in with training?

Should you ever join in with training?

Coaching Advice
Always remember you are there as an observer, not a player. Here’s why...
How to warm up your older youth players before a match

How to warm up your older youth players before a match

Coaching Advice
Carl Wild’s guide to getting sharp for games and preventing muscle injuries.
Stealing the ball

Stealing the ball

Soccer Drills
Provides opportunities for your players to work on their ability to successfully intercept a pass.
What is intercepting?

What is intercepting?

Coaching Advice
Carl Wild provides a first-timer’s guide to stealing possession by cutting out passes, considering why we need to intercept, and how to go about doing it...
Anticipate to intercept

Anticipate to intercept

Soccer Drills
Develops your players’ ability to judge accurately when a forward pass is there to be cut out.
What is turning?

What is turning?

Coaching Advice
Carl Wild gives first-timers a guide on how to move away from opponents and into space.
Turn to create space

Turn to create space

Soccer Drills
Helps players to develop their ability to change direction and create space for themselves.
Turn away from danger

Turn away from danger

Soccer Drills
Helps players to develop their ability to change direction and create space for themselves.
Scoring from crosses

Scoring from crosses

Shooting drills and games
Use this drill to improve your strikers’ first-time finishing from deliveries from out wide.
Shoot from distance

Shoot from distance

Shooting drills and games
Replicates situations where players combine with their team-mates before finishing from range.
What is finishing?

What is finishing?

Coaching Advice
Carl Wild provides a first-timers’ guide on the important skill of putting the ball in the back of the net.
What is marking?

What is marking?

Coaching Advice
Our consultant coach Carl Wild provides a novice’s guide to the art of staying close to attackers, how it is done and top tips on distances and marking space.
Better marking

Better marking

Soccer Drills
Gives players a chance to improve their ability to track an attacking opponent and protect a goal.

Biography

U14 ETC lead coach at Chester FC and former Manchester City Girls RTC coach. Leads the Football Coaching and Management degree course at UCFB. Uefa C coach developer.

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