Teaching Youth Soccer - The Various Fouls And Penalties

When teaching youth soccer, it's important to teach the players about the various fouls and the consequent penalties so that they can save their team from getting into problems.

• The Red Card And Yellow Card

There's one simple but overlooked way for younger players to avoid most of the penalties.

- They must keep their hands away from ball! During a soccer game, it is not the hand, but the feet that the players have to use.

However, you should teach your soccer players that it is not just touching the ball from hand that can result in penalty, but pushing, tripping or holding the other players will certainly bring penalties.

Keep in mind that in almost every soccer teams there are some malicious players that "attract" the most common penalty. When it is about young players, it is very difficult to have a "malicious free" team. Such players intentionally foul on their opponent players, but the coach must teach them that if they do so, they will get a warning in the form of a “yellow card”.

If a particular player repeats the same behavior again and again, he is “rewarded” with a red card and is taken out from the field and from the game. Let me just remind you that a player with a red card is not replaced, but the soccer game continues (with your team at disadvantage with less one player).

• Offside Player

When a player dribbles the ball, and gets nearer to the goal line of the opponent team than one defensive player and the goalkeeper, the player is offside.

The offside soccer rule is not applicable when it comes to goal kicks, throw-in's or corner kicks. The main objective of the offside rule is just to stop an offensive player from ‘camping-out’ at the goal awaiting passes.

The coach needs to train the players so that that "keep an eye" at the offside to avoid penalties.

Teaching youth soccer is a challenging task, and the soccer coach needs to train his players keeping in mind all these aspects.

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