Tag Archives for " Mike Saif "

0 What Should I Focus On During Winter Indoor Training?

By Mike Saif Question - I have a 2 part question. I coach club U16's and U18's. We are beginning our indoor session next week. I treat this as an elongated preseason for our Spring outdoor season. This consists of time (2hrs) in a school gym - basketball court and down the road playing 8-10

0 Should I Focus on Conditioning or Technical/Tactical Training?

By Mike Saif Question - I have just signed the contract with my new team to coach (B Caf license), I realize that the players physical condition is not good enough (18 year + for Premier league) and the first match of the league will take place in just 10 days. Should I proceed with conditioning

0 How Do I Improve Possession For My Team?

By Mike Saif Question - I do a lot of possession work during my training sessions, but I still think we could do a better job of keeping possession during games, especially in midfield. What can I do to improve this? I don’t know exactly what kind of possession exercises you are doing with your team,

0 Why do my shooting drills not translate into good shots?

By Mike Saif Question - I coach U14’s and my players can shoot with reasonable technique and good power, but we waste lots of goal chances by shooting over the crossbar or right at the goalkeeper. Even in training sessions with shooting drills, there is lots of powerful shots but so many of them go over

0 My players don't seem interested in the drills I set up

By Mike Saif Question - My players don't seem interested in the drills I set up and get bored and distracted easily. What can I do make them more interested? I’m not sure exactly how you have your drills set up, but just by using the word drills leaves me to believe that they could be

0 How to Warm Up For a Training Session

By Mike Saif Question - How do you warm up for a training session? Does it change depending on what the training session topic is? One of the most important things for me with training sessions is to get them active right away. Although I would set up different warm-ups sometimes depending on the topic of

0 Favorite Shooting and Finishing SSG

By Mike Saif Diamond Shooting I was talking with someone recently who wasn't happy with the shooting and finishing drills he was using with his team. Most of them included having players in lines. My recommendation to him was to change his line drills and use more small-sided games for shooting to make it more game

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