Use this decision tree to help guide your session progression. This is targeted at 10u-14u. If you adhering to our Play-Practice-Play philosophy, here are the key questions to help guide your players to solutions in a given situation: Opponent has possession (left side of diagram): Defending when not closest/2nd closest to ball - How do [...]
As we've covered, there is no expectation that you understand at a detailed level (especially in 8u and below) all of the specific technical and tactical skills that you should be covering during a season. There are pre-built session plans that will help direct you. Looking at these sessions plans, however, can still leave it difficult for [...]
A "session" is simply a combination of multiple (great!) drills put together (ideally) around a particular theme. First, you should never feel obligated to create your own practices. With all the research and planning done by top coaches to put together ready-made plans for you, you should feel comfortable leveraging these throughout your season. At the 8u [...]
All other things being equal, the more: Touches on ball, Physical conditioning, and Digestible tactics you can incorporate into each activity, the faster your players will develop and the more fun they will have. So how can we incorporate this knowledge into our drill design? Increasing Touches on Ball Sitting in traffic is one of the [...]