Southside Soccer Club Development Director and Oregon ODP coach offers tips and advice to youth soccer coaches to help in development of players.
Qualified USSF National B License and English FA Certificates in coaching
Welcome to my blog, I hope you find it helpful in providing information on coaching all aspects of the game of soccer.
My main aim is to give you lesson plans and structure training sessions so you can get the best out of your players.
My philosophy is that winning is never to be expected, we as coaches and players need to do that little bit extra to reach our full potential. Winning can be a direct result of striving for greatness.
Not all teams have to play the 4-4-2 that has been so widely odopted by many teams. Picking the right formation is the hardest thing a coach will have to do. As a coach you must feel what is the best for the type of players you have in your team.
98 ODP Boys will play a 3-5-2 as we have alot of attacking players in the pool. If all players understand their roles and responsibilities we will be aggressive going forward and solid in defense even with 3 backs.
How much soccer training is it needed to become a top player? It depends on the efficiency of your training routine… I don’t believe there is such a thing as a ‘born’ soccer player. Perhaps you are born with certain skills and talents, but quite frankly it seems impossible to me that one is actually born to be an ace soccer player [...] Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
- Pele, Brazil World Cup Champion 1958, 1962, 1970
Extra fitness training will physically and mentally ready you for the ODP season and Inter regional tournament. The Portland Pool will be the best prepared.
You will do two fitness days that will work together with your two club training sessions. I will not be there to oversee players training but I want them to understand the commitment needed to get to the next level of their soccer. It is a commitment to not only the tactical and technical parts of the game but the physical and mental aspects also.
You can do this before or after club practice, get off that xbox, playstation and get out and do something that is going to benefit your soccer.!!!
Please keep records of your extra sessions and get a parent to sign off on them. You can make the training easier or harder by increase/decreasing length of sprints, increasing/decreasing time of activity, increasing/decreasing number of set or reps.
Monday:-
You will work through the 6 videos posted by IMG performance institute.
VIDEO 1. Warm up your body with movements on video 1 and any other dynamic stretches that ODP coaching staff have shown you through out the practice session
VIDEO 2. You will perform Vertical Jumps, Linear Jumps, Lateral Bounds ect for 25reps and 3 sets 1 minute rest in between each set.
VIDEO 3. You will perform each movements in the video for 4 sets of 15 secs with 10 secs rest in between
VIDEO 4. You will perform Linear Acceleration and deceleration for 10 sets rest for 5 secs. Reverse and go the other direction. Forward, back, forward=1 Set
VIDEO 5. You will perform Lateral Directional Change. Set up as above. 10 sets 5 secs rest. Reverse. Right, Left, Right= 1 set
VIDEO 6. You will perform 2 Cone drill 15 secs with sets of 10. 3 Cone drill Lateral weave 15 secs with sets of 10 and 4 cone drill set of 20
Set up below
Wednesday:- You will perform speed and endurance exercises
High Intensity Shuttle Run
Pace out 30 meters on grass or a running track. Place a cone at the start and at 5 meter intervals (7 cones in total).
Sprint from the starting cone to 5 meter cone and back. Turn and sprint to 10 meter cone and back to start. Sprint to 15meter cone and back to start and so on until you sprint the full 30 meters and back.
Rest for 90 seconds and repeat. Complete a total of 6 sets keeping rest periods to 90 seconds.
Pyramids
Pace out 50 meters placing a cone at the start and then at 10 meter intervals (6 cones in total).
Starting at the first cone sprint all out for 10 meters and walk the remaining 40 meters.
Turn and sprint 20 meters and walk for 30 meters.
Turn and sprint 30 meters and walk for 20 meters.
Turn and sprint 40 meters and walk for 10 meters. Finally...
Turn and sprint 50 meters and then turn and sprint 50 meters again back to the start.
This is classed as one set. Rest for 90 seconds and repeat for a total of 4 sets. Rest for a full 3 minutes and repeat.
Cruise And Sprint
Mark out a distance of 100 meters. From the start gradually accelerate to reach full speed at about 60 meters. Sprint all out for the final 40 meters.
Slow down gradually, turn and repeat.
Continue for 2 minutes and then rest for 2 minutes. This is one set. Repeat for a total of 6 sets.
Hollow sprint
Set 5 cones out in 30 meters intervals. Sprint 30 meters, jog 30 meters, sprint 30 meters and jog 30 meters to the final cone.
Turn around and repeat always alternating jogging and sprinting. Work for 2 minutes and then rest for 2 minutes.
This is one set. Try to complete a total of 6 sets.
Cross Drill
Using 4 cones mark a box 30 meters by 30 meters. Place another cone in the center of the box.
Starting at the center cone sprint to each corner and back in a clockwise direction. Once you have completed a circuit rest for 60 seconds.
Perform a total of 6 circuits to complete one set. A session could contain up to 4 sets with a 3 minute rest interval between sets
Sunday's Session was a little lighter due to a hard session Saturday with fitness
Warm up:- passing moving with increase in intensity and stretching and dynamic movement after pass
Warm up with strikers:- Short, short, long preparing for crossing. Technical training of long ball, different types of passing and receiving from the striker
Small sided game:- Possession and long ball. 4v2 looking to play long ball when under pressure into opposite grid. Once this happens 2 new defenders go and defend in that zone. If you lose the ball you become the defending team.
Coaching points:-
Preparation of the ball
Receiving of the ball
Passing accuracy and technique
Crossing patterns:-
Attacking the goal as a team. Movement off the ball. Technique of crossing and finishing.
1st move overlaps
2nd move wall pass
Expanded game:-
3 team crossing game. 1 team on the outside to provide chances to cross the ball. 2 teams compete in the middle. Possession and creating opportunities to get the ball wide and crossing and attacking the goal.
At times we may need to support if the ball is not prepared to be crossed, look to make combos with guys on the outside.
Saturday's ODP Session
Warm:- Dynamic Stretching increasing in intensity finishing with speed and agility.
Small Sided
3V1 with progression in number of touches to get players comfortable with the ball at the feet. Also looking for movement off the ball and giving angles of support.
5 V 3 Increase the amount of players to give more pressure. Players now looking to provide combinations to break pressure from defenders.
Expanded Small Sided 4v4+1:-
Players now going to goal, thinking about movement off the ball, being comfortable with it at their feet and also be patient with the ball.
Players also given the rule of making a combination with team mate before going to score. Use full pitch coverage and defending team apply pressure to make it more difficult for attacking team at times.
Game 9v9
Players looking now to play and make movement with attackers to keep possession but also to go forward. Defenders bringing the ball out of the back and progressing through midfield players.
Opportunities to beat players 1v1 or use combinations, penetration. When losing the ball press to win high up the field.
Finish with 11v11 to start finding out where players are best suited
Lastly players will finish with fitness and endurance work. Players from the Portland Region will be the better prepared both mentally and physically for the challenge of the ODP session
Coaches you can use practice sessions that use passing for this session but focus on how the players are controlling the ball.
Here is my session for tonight
Starting from the right of the picture in twos passing and checking to the ball to control and pass back. Switch after minute of work. Change to using different part of foot to control the ball. Ball then can be thrown in air.
Moving across to next picture. In threes guy in the middle checks to ball control, turn pass to player long at other end of field. Add pressure from a defender who now can pressure from behind, vision needed if pressure can not turn. Change after minute of work.
Top pic. Square control now players on the outside play the ball turn and pass to another player. Ball in air to increase difficulty. Progress to 1v1 control take player on and then pass.
Last picture go 3v3 with 4 goals and touch limit of 3
