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Sunday, June 22, 2008


Coaching High School Soccer: Various Drill To Enhance The Shooting Skills Of The Players

When it comes to coaching high school soccer, “Quick Shot” is one of the most effective soccer drills to improve the shooting skills of your players.

As per this drill, you can begin with dividing the players into small teams of three.

  • Make sure that every team has one ball and two cones.
  • Place the cones in a way to create the goalpost for every team.
  • One player of every team will act as a goalie.
  • You have to have the other two players take their position on the opposite sides of the goals in a way that they both should face each other.
  • Now, each of these two players will attempt shooting the ball in an effort to score a goal. The goalie will try to save the goal.
  • Once saved, the soccer goalie will pass on the ball to the other player.
A thorough practice of this drill will be very effective for both the players and the goalie. Please note that while coaching high school soccer using this youth soccer coaching drill, you have to make sure that you are switching the goalie quite often at regular intervals.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008


Soccer Coaching Techniques: Things That You Should Not Do

While you are running the soccer practice session, in order to teach your players about the various soccer coaching techniques, you must keep in mind the following don’ts:

  • Some coaches are very aggressive in their nature and they just cannot tolerate a bad performance from their players. They get irritated very quickly. Make sure that you are not one of them. A soccer coach desirous to build a winning team out of the players they are coaching, must learn to have patience. When teaching youth soccer coaching drills, you must criticize the bad performance of a player, but in a creative and impressive way, so that the player must not feel discouraged.
  • Shouting at the young players and humiliating them in various ways are also very common to see among soccer coaches. Well, it is very important for you to store in mind that these are some of the things that you should never do in your entire soccer coaching career.
  • Sometimes, the players approach the coach regarding soccer coaching techniques or any other query or problem, but the coach does not pay heed to their problems. This is also not something a good soccer coach should do.
  • Appreciate or criticize the performance of a player, make sure that you are genuine in what you say.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007


Coaching High School Soccer - An Essential Element

  • Playing With Much Slower Or Weaker Team

It is very important for the coach and players to keep in mind that playing soccer with a much slower and weaker team can slow down the team’s play. A wise soccer coach understands that this is a potential problem when coaching high school soccer.

Actually, when you play against a much weaker or slower team, your team will dribble more or play more slowly. This can work as a disaster because when you get to play a good team, it is obvious that your team will take ten to twenty minutes to adjust back to the faster game speed. This will give enough time to your opponent team to take control of the game.

Regarding coaching high school soccer, always remember that even a single goal deficit against a tough opponent will not be an easy cake to overcome. Therefore, a good approach is to consider playing your substitutes or second team against a weaker or slower team.

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