Youth Coaching Podcast: Recent Episodes
Football Training and Development
A podcast dealing with the issues behind youth football coaching. Going through the many joys and challenges you face, while also discussing the game of football as a whole.
In this episode we look at positional rotation and why it is an important consideration when managing your team:
- We look at the benefits of positional rotational and how it can help your players.
- We look at the challenges and negative effects of positional rotation
- We look at the best ways to rotate your players
Once again if you have any questions from this or want any advice or support please feel free to contact me on admin@soccertraininganddevelopment.co.uk
Or you can visit our website www.soccertraininganddevelopment.co.uk where we have many other resources to support coaches or players.
This episode address that popular coaching topic of playing out of the back addressing various issues around it:
- What actual is it
- Why do we do it
- What are the benefits to it in a performance, development and enjoyment perspective
- How do you make your team play this way
In this episode we go into all the key considerations of planning training for a whole season:
- Why its important to plan training for a season
- How to be reactive and proactive
- What guides your season planning
- The importance of conditioned games
- The importance of evaluation and analysis
- How to implement a development plan within your seasons training
In this episode we go into more detail about the skills you need to be a great football coach:
- We details the wide range of skills you need and explain why
- We look at the challenges you may face with achieving them
- We go through how you can improve them to become a great coach
In this episode I will be giving you advice on how to plan fun, safe social distancing training sessions based on my own experience and all the week of planning I've been doing recently in preparation for social distancing training. In this episode we will include:
- The actual regulations proposed by the FA
- The restrictions you face
- How to set up your sessions
- How to work on different elements within these restrictions
- How to make your sessions fun and engaging
- Examples of sessions and drill to work on different elements
If at the end of this you still aren't sure what to do I have 12 session plans which fully conform to the social distancing guidelines and work on passing, 1st touch, shooting and ball skills here https://www.soccertraininganddevelopment.co.uk/product-page/12-social-distancing-training-plans
In this episode we look at addressing a great challenge for coaches. How can I work on all the different needs of my individual players while also working on my team at the same time. In this podcast we addressed:
- Assessing your individual players
- Developing shared goals for the team and individual
- The issues faced trying to do this
- Strategies to overcome these challenges
- Examples of how this is done in an actual session
In this episode we look at how you develop a footballing philosophy. Your philosophy underpins everything you do and it is what controls your results. It s something that is essential for a coach to develop, understand, critique and perfect. Something that really has to represent you and your team. We consider this with:
- How to make a philosophy that represents you
- The influence on your training and matches
- My philosophy and my experience of the challenges I have faced
- How the players in your team are effected by it
- Why it is so important
In this episode we outline the key considerations in coaching defending. A topic that can sometimes be quite challenging we break down to make it much easier for you to understand all the important considerations that go into building good individual defenders and a good defensive team:
- The physical, social, tactical, psychological and technical considerations of defending
- A breakdown of the skills to teach to coach defending
- Examples of defending sessions
In this episode we look at how to develop shooting in your training sessions. There are many aspects to this including:
- The key aspects of the shooting skill
- The steps in teaching the skill effectively
- Problems with coaching shooting in training sessions
- Examples of how to coach shooting in training sessions
In this episode we look at how to coach passing in our training sessions:
- We break down the elements needed to develop their passing
- We break down the development list you need to work through with their passing
- We give examples of how you can do this in training sessions
- We help you understand the different challenges within this
In this episode we look at how to coach dribbling effectively:
- Look at the aspects of technique, understanding, application and confidence
- Breaking down how to apply these in sessions
- Looking at examples of training sessions to coach dribbling for different age groups
In this episode we look at how you can improve fitness in football on a team and individual perspective:
- The aspects of fitness that are important for a football player
- What you need to focus on to incorporate fitness into a game
- How to work on fitness as an individual and with your team
In this episode we break down the best formations to use for 5 a side football for youth football and Adult football. Looking at:
- The strengths and weaknesses of them
- The key considerations into choosing each formations
- The roles of the different positions in each formation
This episode is based around helping you understand what you need to do to help your team play fantastic, attractive football. Looking at the key principles behind this of:
- Developing technical abilities and what you need to able to do to play this way
- Organisation of the team and the key parts to focus on
- Developing composure and confidence
- Building the intelligence needed for your players to do this
- The importance of your coaching philosophy
This podcast is looking at the issues many if not all grassroots coaches face with including players of different ability levels in your team. Looking at the keys aspects of this:
- Stopping any team disharmony from a players or parents perspective
- How to develop the abilities of players on different levels at the same time
- How to get players of different abilities playing together successfully
- How to find the correct balance in your team.
In this episode we are looking at the key elements of improving players:
How to structure their training, how to build their enthusiasm, how to implement this with your child, how to take account of all the different aspects to get them to improve, what are the key points to focus on and where can I get help with this.
For more episodes, training plans, information blogs and challenges please go to my website https://www.soccertraininganddevelopment.co.uk/
In this episode I discuss how we can limit the negative impact of Isolation and the long break from football.
- The issues we need to consider with our players.
- Where you can get help
- What you could do to combat these issues
- How to help yourself
- How to start preparing for next season
This episode looks at how you can prepare for Match days and deal with all the associated issues with it. I use my experience and knowledge to hopefully help you consider different parts of how you prepare for your games. Working to develop your knowledge of how to become a great youth football coach.
Detailed information and advice on the key things that comprise great training sessions. The main criteria to follow and lessons to learn to make sure that you have fun, inventive, informative training sessions to help your players soar and give you real satisfaction in your coaching.
Using my 19 years of experience with over 20 different teams from every age group I share what I feel are the most important things to consider to be a good grassroots football/soccer coach.
Outlined are tips on how to make sure your team are successful and the wide range of issues you may face as you venture into coaching and management.