Mike Saif, Author at WORLD CLASS COACHING Training Center

0 Soccer TRAINING- Passing Behind and Through the Line of Defense

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on coaching your team to play more balls behind and through the line of defense.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Teaching Press and Cover in Games

By Jakub Pietrzak - Building sessions around attacking is something very usual. Most of the sessions involve possession or positional games and a final game. But with the focus mainly on the attacking, we can easily forget about progressing our players in exactly as important phase of the game – defending. It is very important to

0 Coaching the 2-3-1 Formation for Younger Players

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on on coaching the 2-3-1 formation for younger players.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Team Defending Drills That Make a Difference Part One

By Danny Carvalho Question - “My team is awful at defending. What are some good team defending drills I can do that will help?" I love working on defending, especially team defending. Here are three of my favorite drills that will help you with that matter. Activity 1 – Master 1v2s Use about a third

0 Breaking the Lines of the Defense

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on passing to break the lines of defense. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Review of the 4-3-3 v 4-2-3-1 in an EPL Game - Part 2

By Soren Schamberg Part One of this post can be seen here. After a sublime finish from Jadon Sancho for United in the 21st minute, City come back to score their second through a high press and overload in the six yard box. This sequence begins with Man United attempting to clear the ball but

0 A Training Curriculum for the 4-3-3 Formation

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how a training curriculum for the 4-3-3 formation.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Beat Opponents in Any Situation With these 1v1s and 2v1s

By Danny Carvalho Warm Up Get the players wound up with the one and only Sharks and minnows! Set up a middle zone for the “Shark”, a player without a ball who will be tagging the “minnows”, the other players with a ball each. The minnows’ goal is to get from one side to the

1 Attacking in the 4-3-3 Formation

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on attacking in the 4-3-3.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 How to Press as a Team and Not Get Beaten and Exposed

By Danny Carvalho Question - “I like to have my players press high when the other team has the ball. I like this because if we can force a turnover near their goal, we have a good chance of scoring. But I need help in coaching this to my players. Sometimes when we press, we

0 Drills to Improve Quick Reactions

By Danny Carvalho, Goalkeepers have always been demanded to react as quickly as possible to goal attempts. With the evolution of ball technology, the modern arenas and the growth of the game, GKs have been stimulated more than ever to work on their quick reactions at practice. And this drill is all about that! GK

1 Defending in the 4-3-3 Formation

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on defending in the 4-3-3. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 How to Create Space as a Team

By Soren Schamberg Being able to create space on a soccer field is essential to playing a progressive form of Soccer and for any team to feel and be successful on the field. Without space, the field becomes congested and impossible for attacking players to create and take scoring opportunities. After selecting the formation, discussing

0 How to Speed Up Your Counter-Attacks

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on counter-attacking. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 The Best Way to Coach Your Players to Build from the Back

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on build up play from the back. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

1 3v3 Rotational Game

By Matt Carroll - The 3v3 Rotation game is small sided game in which the player are introduced to a continuingly less restrictive environment starting with a 1v1 and ending with a fluid 3v3 situation. The drill starts with three boxes, one central, and two wide of the goal, all placed inside the 18. In

0 How to Break Up Counter-Attacks

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on how to break up counter-attacks.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Unopposed Cover and Press Defensive Training

By Jakub Pietrzak - Due to trying to make session attractive and enjoyable for the players, coaches often focus mainly on the attacking part of the game to maximise the amount of time on the ball and improving the quality of their technical skills. When working with younger players (u12s) it is advisable as they can

0 Switch Play and Disrupt the Opposition

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on switching play. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 How to Improve Your Possession Training Games

By Danny Carvalho Question - “Do you have some good possession games to share? My players are getting better at keeping possession, but I tend to use the same games and I need some new possessions drills to stimulate them and continue to improve their possession?" First thing is: do you really need new possession

1 Coaching 1v1s the Right Way

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on coaching 1v1s the right way.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Review of the 4-3-3 v 4-2-3-1 in an EPL Game

By Soren Schamberg The Manchester Derby on March 6 proved to be a game to watch. Manchester City at the top of the table, needing maximum points to keep ahead of closely trailing Liverpool, set up in their 4-3-3 formation while Manchester United, who is trying to spur a strong finish to the season in

0 1v1s and Scanning and Why It's Important

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on 1v1s and scanning.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Receiving the Ball to Play Forward

By Danny Carvalho That is one skill I truly appreciate immensely and in my humble opinion it makes a lot of difference on a player’s game. Even more if we are talking about a center midfielder or a center forward. Warm Up In groups of three, set up a grid and position one player with

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