By Mike Smith I constantly catch myself reminding my team, “it’s” not always about what you are doing, it’s about what you are doing to the other team. Many times, the player in possession of the ball doesn’t look for or see the space that is created by team movement, but IF you have players who
Continue readingBy Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on defending a diagonal ball and staying on balance.
Start with a player with a ball just outside the 18 on a slight angle (even with a goal post) and a second player a little further back but more toward the middle of the field. A keeper is in goal.
The keeper has to cut off the angle, in case there is a shot. The player with the ball has two options
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