Mike Saif, Author at WORLD CLASS COACHING Training Center

0 Dominating the Midfield to Create Scoring Opportunities Part One

By Soren Schamberg Part One Midfields are incredibly influential when it comes to the end result in a match. A team that can force transitions of the phases of play in the or near the midfield into their favor are more likely to be the team that is creating the most chances. This can be

0 Developing Numerical Overloads When Attacking

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

0 Creating 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 Training to Read the Play Quickly

By Danny Carvalho, In 1v1 situations, goalkeepers need to read the play well to make a good decision and win their tough duel against strikers. This activity is designed to attack this issue and work on GKs ability to read the play well. Set up two mini goals side to side at about 5 yards

0 Important Tips to Build Out of the Back

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

0 How the Back Four Can Use Space to Stop and Start an Attack Part Two

By Soren Schamberg Part Two Our second example demonstrates a slightly different use of defensive space. In the 21st minute, Thiago Silva is found with the ball as the last CB and an encroaching Leicester attacking front. Recognizing the oncoming pressure, Silva turns the ball back to their keeper Mendy, while Rüdiger and the wingbacks

0 How to Change the Point of Attack

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

0 Defending Restarts and Set Pieces

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares a session on how to teach your team to defend restarts and set pieces. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 How the Back Four Can Use Space to Stop and Start an Attack

By Soren Schamberg It seems the overwhelming majority of training emphasizes the use of space when moving forward by making runs behind the opposition, checking into the teammate with the ball, creating space and pulling the opposition out of their positions with intelligent runs. What may not be recognized as often is how defenders are

1 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

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