Young players can often get bored by fitness exercises, they just want to play.
So keep their interest high when they come to training by giving a game from Michael Beale’s 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games manual. The games are a great way of giving your players a good workout.
Two teams of four players, one goal, one keeper and a large number of balls.
Pairs of players take turns at attacking in a 2v2 situation and then immediately defending a 2v2 situation.
Play the game continuously for a set time period or until a set number of goals is scored.
in Email newsletters, Fitness and Diet
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
in Email newsletters, Small Sided Games
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 Email newsletters, Small Sided Games
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
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
If you want to score more goals when playing at home, use this training session to teach your players how to attack all-out. This session is all about copying the attacking style of Manchester City MORE
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
When you watch an attacker like Alex Morgan of the US Women’s National Team you know how hard she has to work in training to be that good on match days. So good she can score five goals in a World Cup game. MORE
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
This is a favourite game of mine in which players do anything they can to keep the ball or they get substituted MORE
