Mike Saif, Author at WORLD CLASS COACHING Training Center

1 The 17 Zones of the Pitch

By Soren Schamberg During the heat of a game, it can be a challenge to communicate to your team and/or teammates where to move next. “Over There!”, “Up Front”, “This way!” fall short of being descriptive enough when fractions of a second matter and “Move up, move over, up more...right there...good” takes both the player

0 The Role of the Holding Midfielder When Defending

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

0 Attacking and Defending SSG

By Søren Schamberg - Set up Create the playing area by making a box 15 x 15 yards with two cones on opposing sides about 5 yards beyond the border of the 15 x 15 box. Divide the team in half, with one group of players assigned as “Attackers” and the other as “Defenders”. On

0 The Role of the Holding Midfielder When Attacking

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

0 Session For Maximizing Touches of the Ball

By Matt Carroll - Description: This drill is designed to teach players balance and dribbling ability by maximizing the amount of touches a player will get during the drill and giving them a defined target of control in the shape of Paint or floor lines. Setup: Every player gets a ball and sets up somewhere

0 How the Pro Teams Keep Possession

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares various tactics that pro teams utilize to keep possession.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Triangle Midfield - One or Two Holding Midfielders

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We play with a 4-3-3, but not sure whether to play with a diamond midfield with one holding midfielder or the triangle the opposite way round with two holding midfielders. Do you have any suggestions?" The answer to that question is 100% connected to: 1- What does your squad offers

3 Develop Smarter Players With These 4v4 Games

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how to develop smarter players with 4v4 games as part of your training sessions.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

2 Thomas Frank and Brentfords Tactics

By Soren Schamberg Being promoted to Premiere League, Thomas Frank and his Brentford side have brought a dynamic addition to the weekend lineups. To highlight their playing style and tactics, we don’t have to look any further than this months game against Aston Villa. Lining up as a 3-5-2 formation allows Brentford to adjust their

0 Create Chaos in Your Training Sessions for Better Results

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares how creating chaos in your training session can lead to better performances and results.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 2v1 Shooting Drills With Throw-Ins in the Attacking Third

By Danny Carvalho Warm up – Activity 1 Important to give everyone the chance to shoot on goal without a direct opposition except from the GK, to give them successful repetitions and confidence to confront opponents later on. In this first activity the players will perform a 1vGK, dibbling the ball as much as they

0 The Tactics of Mauricio Pochettino

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some of the tactics that have made Mauricio Pochettino one of the best coaches in the world.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 1v1 Conditioning Game

By Matt Carroll - The 1v1 Conditioning Game is a great way to involved players in conditioning while keeping them on the ball for the majority of the drill. The drill starts with two 10 foot endzones set 20 feet apart with cones connecting each creating a grid. There should be two players in each

0 How to Use Your Center Backs When Defending

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

1 Ball Handling and Catching

By Jakub Pietrzak, These drills focus on the improving the ability of handling and catching the ball. That’s the basic skill for a goalkeeper at any level. Currently we see a big trend among the goalkeepers, being very good with the ball at their feet and playing far away from their goal. Despite that handling

0 How to Use Your Center Backs When Attacking

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some tactical ideas on how best to use your center backs in an attacking role.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

2 Using a Withdrawn Forward When Attacking

By Soren Schamberg On a team lineup, the Center Forward position (CF) looks like the player who stands up front and runs onto the ball to shoot and score and not much else. This may be true in years past, but to play the modern game, more skillful deployment of this position is required. Today,

0 Rondos to Improve Your Transition Game

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some rondos to train your team to better take advantage of transition situations.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 SSG to Help Train Movement OFF the Ball

By Søren Schamberg - This small sided game is meant to help players with movement off of the ball during a game. Most instruction about movement of the ball can be lost because of the frenetic pace of a scrimmage or game. During the introduction, slowing down the game will be helpful. Again, the emphasis

0 Possession Based Training Sessions

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some possession based sessions that will help your team better keep possession during games.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

1 Frank Lampard Finishing Drill

By Matt Carroll - Description: This drill can be used to teach the principles behind set pieces such as delayed runs, cutting across the defender, and proper heading technique in a set pieces scenario. Setup: Three cones should be set up about 10 feet apart and 15 feet from the top of the 18, then

0 Score More Goals With These Sessions for the Final Third

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some sessions in the final third that will help your team score more goals.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

0 Switching the Field to Create Goal Chances

By Soren Schamberg In today’s modern game, most displays of switching the field are high arching passes executed and brought down with the precision only years and years of practice can produce, or, passing on the ground around half field or further to build out from the back. We don’t always get a display of

0 How to Best Use Your Fullbacks When Defending

In this week's Animated Drills Video, Matthew Carroll shares some ideas on how best to use your fullbacks when defending.These diagrams are created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at https://www.academysoccercoach.co.uk/

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