Soccer Coach Weekly Practice Plans give you a blueprint for an entire training session – warm-up, training, progression, games and warm-down. If your next training session is fast approaching and you haven’t had time to put together your own plan, Practice Plans could be the answer.
There are now over 350 Practice Plans on the Soccer Coach Weekly website, so there’s bound to be something to suit your needs. And the great thing is that Practice Plans can be adapted by to suit any age group from age 7 to 16, and are also appropriate for adult teams.
To get you started, here’s a selection of my favourite Practice Plans:
Getting your players to pass across the pitch and link up play with good passing moves is critical to playing a possession game. Zigzag through the pitch is a great way to get players moving the ball like they would in a match.
If you want to win games you have to score goals. Finishing off attacks helps you coach your players to take goal-scoring chances when they come along, with great tehnique work and a good amount of repetition.
When it comes to coaching skills, it can be hard to put together a training plan to work on the skill you want to coach. Practice Plans can help you to get it right first time – try The art of turning for example, it’s great for getting players to turn with the ball and head off in another direction.
Games are a great asset to any coaching session. With Practice Plans the games are all set out for you – take a look at Three team triangle games, which encourages players to play with the freedom of the playground. Great fun and well worth trying with your team.
Scoring goals is one of the key aims of football. This technical session works on finishing and movement. It gets players shooting from both sides of the penalty area and from the centre. MORE
Being able to turn with the ball under close control is an important skill in any player’s armoury. “The art of turning” will improve your players’ ability to turn whilst dribbling the ball and turning away from a defender when receiving a pass. MORE
This training session is designed to encourage your players to play with the freedom that they might have in a school playground where they are in control of the environment. MORE
Turning up for training in the off-season needs some thought as you don't want to waste the time you have with your players. Think about some questions or some ideas you will be wanting to cover in the weeks before the season kicks off MORE
When players are getting back into the game after a summer break it is challenges to the brain that is essential along with the physical needs of individual players.
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Coaches and players alike will be planning for pre-season over the summer months – it is good practice to prepare yourself and your players for the physical push towards the new season. MORE
Using questions and giving challenges is an important part of your coaching style and can have an impact on player learning and understanding of your coaching sessions. When you use questions make sure you don’t immediately tell the answer or if it is a question to the group don’t always pick the player who puts... MORE
In the quiet times between seasons I get my players together once a week and we play different small-sided games to keep the players up to speed with their skills. It leads nicely into pre-season training. MORE
