Okay, so you either you volunteered to coach your child's soccer team or you are facing another season as an experienced volunteer coach. Are you ready? Have you thought about how will you teach the fundamental skills, run effective practices, and keep your youngsters attention? As participation in youth soccer continues to grow, so does the need for youth soccer coaches and new ways to teach the fundamentals of the game. Whether you're a parent new to coaching or an experienced youth soccer coach, the task can be both exciting and frightening.
One of the things that helped me was boning up on the current terminology and coaching techniques. Without question, everything I've read-and it's been a lot-strongly suggests you must keep the kids moving and constantly touching the ball! A particular book, Coaching Youth Soccer, has become my handbook for planning practices and workouts. I found the book easy to follow. The book was written by American Sports Education Program and Sam Snow-director of coaching for US Youth Soccer.
Coaching Youth Soccer was perfect for me because it focuses on the needs of volunteer and novice coaches. More specifically, it targets the needs for instructing young soccer players ages 8 to 14. In the book, I found helpful tips on how to run my team, communicate with players, provide basic first aid, plan and conduct practices, and keep it all fun. I incorporated the gamelike activities outlined in the book to teach my players offensive and defensive skills. Hopefully, you'll find this book or others like it, helpful in preparing for your little monsters-I mean tikes!!!
Prior to the beginning of every soccer season, every coach begins to think about what they need to do to field a better-skilled soccer team for the coming season. Rest assured, your opposing coaches are pondering the same issue. Coaches also know they need fresh ideas to make practices interesting and fun for the kids. We all know keeping their attention is half of the battle!
Sure, I knew we'd have to focus on passing, dribbling, shooting, etc.-you know the fundamentals we all think about. However, I was looking for some news to instruct and teach these skills. My saving grace and source of new ideas for this past Fall season was a gift given to me on my birthday. The gift was a book titled Soccer Drills & Skills by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
I found Soccer Skills & Drills to be a comprehensive guide for both coaches and players. There were over 80 games and drills designed to practice those skills every soccer coach is trying to develop. The book included dozens of photographs and diagrams that illustrated technical instruction, while the application of each skill is described from both a tactical and positional perspective. Our coaches used the insightful teaching points and effective practice activities to develop our girls' techniques and tactics.
The end result-we won the county championship!!! In 10 games we scored 33 goals and gave up only 4.
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