Mike Saif, Author at WORLD CLASS COACHING Training Center

1 Switching Points of Attack

By Danny Carvalho Warm Up (10 – 15 minutes) Working in groups of three being one starting central with the ball and two starting wide. Players pass and overlap the player they passed the ball to. This goes all the way up the field and ends with a shot on goal. Have the players rotate

0 How to Build Up From the Back Like the Pro's - Part 2

Part 2 of 3. In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to coach your team to build out of the back like the pro's.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Rondo for Defensive Pressing

By Danny Carvalho - When talking about pressing, we must consider a lot of intensity and effort to apply good pressure on your opponent. And it comes without saying that your players must be grinding remarkably on their physicality. This rondo was totally designed to work on your players capacity to endure the defensive demand.

2 How to Build Up From the Back Like the Pro's - Part 1

Part 1 of 3. In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to coach your team to build out of the back like the pro's. These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Shooting in Tight Spaces Drills and Exercises

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some shooting in tight spaces drills and exercises that you can add to your own training sessions.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Get Your Goalkeeper Involved In the Possession Phase Part 4

By Jakub Pietrzak, Goalkeeper involvement during the possession phase is growing. Most coaches try to make their teams play out from the back, straight from goal kicks, using their goalkeeper. That makes the ability to receive and pass the ball very important for the goalkeepers aspiring to make it at the highest level. In the

0 A Shooting Session Your Players Will Love

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

0 Games Are Won and Lost in Transition - Part Two

By Soren Schamberg See Part One Here Transitions are where games of football can be won and lost. Coaches are familiar with the four phases of a game - 1.) Attacking with the Ball 2.) Losing the Ball 3.) Defending without the ball and 4.) Winning the ball back. There are two additional phases coaches

0 1v1 Fishbowl

By Matt Carroll - In a number of 1v1 scenarios, many drills focus on players squaring off face to face either off the dribble, or reacting to a pass from the opposing defender. We do these things because they create a 1v1 head to head scenario that looks clean, is effective, and is easily replicable,

1 Why Spanish Style Possession is So Effective

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares drills and exercises you can add to your own sessions that will help train your team to better possess the ball.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 How to Develop Smarter Players

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll sessions and exercises that will help you develop smarter players.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Color Line Game

By Matt Carroll - This drill is a solid warm up activity for technical and mental activation for any age. The basic drill can be used for younger ages, while the rigor can be ramped up for more advanced ages. The drill starts with three cones, all different colors, each player with a ball lined

0 Effective Throw-Ins and How to Train Them

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to train your team throw-ins that are effective and work.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 New and Innovative Shooting Drills

By Danny Carvalho Question - “My players love shooting drills, but I keep doing the same drills. Do you have some good and new shooting drills that will keep my players interested?" One of my favourite topics! It can be very challenging to set up shooting drills that won’t bore players after a while waiting

0 The Role of the Center Forward When Defending

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to best utilize your center midfielders when your team is defending.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Low Block Defensive Tactics

By Soren Schamberg As of the writing of this article, Everton Football club are sitting in 16th place having played 20 games. Having lost 4 of their last 5 games and seeing their manager Rafa Benitez being released from the managers duties finds Everton in a bit of crisis both in the leagues table and

0 The Role of the Center Midfielder When Defending

0 Fun Olympic Style Training Session

By Danny Carvalho It is hard to find someone who doesn’t get excited about the Olympics! And if you work with kids, it is your job to talk about it and introduce some different sports to your kids knowledge. So how about mix soccer with some other sports? Warm Up – Activity 1 This is

0 The Role of the Wide Midfielder When Defending

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to best utilize your wide midfielders when your team is defendingThese diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

1 The Role of the Wide Midfielder When Attacking

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to best utilize your wide midfielders when your team is attacking.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 High Intensity Shooting and Conditioning Drill

By Danny Carvalho - This small sided game was designed to make players keep a very high intensity throughout the rounds playing. Set up In an approximately 35x25 yards field, have one regular size goal in one end and two mini-goals at the other end, with as many balls as possible outside the mini goals

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