by Gareth Long (Author), Jonathan Brammer (Author), Darren Laver (Author)
A Season of Coaching Sessions for Youth Soccer assists coaches in planning relevant, challenging, and engaging coaching sessions for their players and teams. The sessions provide Youth Soccer Coaches with a coaching program that can be delivered over a minimum of 24 coaching sessions. The program provides flexibility for coaches to modify and adapt the session to the needs of their players but also provides: - Clear coaching content - Player challenges - Descriptions of skill learning, problem-solving games, and zone-in drills and games - Options, progressions, and variations for each session - Illustrations to help you understand each activity/game - Templates for the coach to evaluate their coaching - Templates to evaluate player learning and progression The book explores 6 coaching themes over the season to challenge and prepare players to embed the technical and tactical concepts learned into game day. The coaching themes explored in this program are: 1. 1v1 attacking 2. In-possession 3. Finishing 4. Transitions 5. 1v1 defending 6. Out of possession