How To Play Soccer - Planning a Soccer Practice

As a youth soccer coach you should always take time to design and plan your practices. Soccer practice planning can be completed a week or so in advanced and will make your life as a coach easier, and will make your practices flow much smoother. A soccer practice plan should a “one-pager” that contains short notes that you can fold up and put in your pocket or clip onto your coaching boardWhen planning a soccer practice, you should design a session to improve a skill or tactic in which your team needs to improve. Whether it’s on the team level or individual level, you should have a clear, defined goal of what you want to achieve. To do this, you must first have a good idea of your team’s deficiencies. This can be discovered by analyzing the team during scrimmages or games.

Now that you know the goal of your practice sessions, now you must figure out what drill or game to use. Make sure the practice is in line with the age and ability of your players and make the relevancy clear and apparent to the players. Be sure to choose drills that keep the kids moving. Stationary drills with lines will only bore kids. Also, be sure to have enough soccer balls so that each player has a ball as this will assure more touches on the ball.

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