Youth Soccer Coaching: Teaching The Advance Defensive Techniques

Youth soccer coaching session must be planned, keeping in view the specific age group of the players you have to coach. If you are coaching the high school soccer players i.e. players above 14 years of age, you can teach them about the following advance defensive techniques:

If the attacker is quite near your goal line, the defender must focus on putting much higher amount of pressure on the ball and the ball carrier.

Here, you have to clarify to your players that putting pressure does not mean, try to win the ball and get the possession of the same.

Applying pressure on the ball carrier only means that you have to leave no way for the attacker, but to lose the possession of the ball because of his or her mistake.

Teach your youth soccer players that this can be done effectively by putting yourself in a strong way between the ball carrier and the goal line.

When it comes to youth soccer coaching, another advance defensive technique is to effectively mark your enemy and block his or her way. Such techniques will effectively create a very hard defence that will be very hard to crack by the opponent team.

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