FA Level 2
11 May 2016
Grassroots football coaches – Counter attacking tactics
Grassroots football coaches - Counter attacking tactics. Counter attacking is a very effective attacking football tactic. Once the ball is won, the counter attack has to be positive and quick, to advance down the pitch and attack the opposition, whilst the opposition team still have players forward and are caught out of position and briefly the wrong side of the ball and out of the play.
09 May 2016
UEFA B Coaching midfield combination play with strikers
UEFA B Coaching. This is a rotating football training drill which I have used on a UEFA B football coaching courses and is designed to help midfield players develop their attacking football skills and combine with their strikers in the attacking third. The midfield have to work together for an agreed number of passes, before they can break out and look to combine with and support their forward and try and score. If the opposition win it, they can immediately break out and counter attack by playing through their midfield.
05 May 2016
Football Coaching – How to develop quick thinking players
When coaching football what can you do to quicken the tempo of a players brain? Developing awareness with your players is the first step in getting them to think quicker. A player can’t accelerate their thinking if they don’t know what’s going on around them.
14 Apr 2016
Football Training Drill to help players understand how to create space
This is a football coaching drill to coach players on how to create space. The ball is passed quickly and accurately between the players within the square. Players look to make timed runs, outside of the square to receive a pass. Encourage more than one player to make a run, as in a game players will sometimes need to create space not just for themselves, but for others. After receiving the ball outside the square, the ball is played immediately back into the square to a supporting player and the practice is repeated. To progress, add a second and third ball.
13 Apr 2016
Football Coaching Repetition Without Being Repetitious
One of the messages that came out of the FA Level 2 Youth Award is that for players to learn and improve as players, they have to repetitively practice techniques and skills. But, if coaches only put on sessions where the players repeatedly practice the same thing, then very quickly, lose motivation and become bored. As a result, they become disinterested and sloppy and the whole process becomes self defeating.
12 Apr 2016
Coaching to improve strikers predatory instincts
Strikers are primarily judged on the goals they score. There are lots of skills that strikers need to possess, both from a goal scoring perspective and in general play and over the course of this series of blogs we will look at those skills and how coaches can improve and develop them.
08 Apr 2016
How to get your strikers to score more goals
Wayne Rooney is no doubt one of England's best strikers. His games to goals ratio during his career is fantastic - 661 games - 295 goals at an average of 0.45 goals per game. But in the 2009 - 10 season, he scored 40 goals in 53 games at an average of 0.75 goals per game. Why the dramatic increase?
02 Apr 2016
Coach your strikers to score more goals
Strikers need specific games and sessions that give them lots and lots of opportunities to create and take shots and finishes at goals.