Enhance your soccer coaching skills with this comprehensive course on small sided games, designed for coaches at all levels to create and manage effective practices.
This course dives into the world of small sided games for youth soccer, helping you understand how to create and manage them. It offers practical insights, structured lectures, and a workbook that’ll get you started instantly while guiding your growth as a coach.
This course updates the material in an internationally recognized website and DVD. The DVD's workbook is included.
"Let the game be the teacher" is a commonly heard phrase in youth soccer coaching. But what happens when the teaching doesn't stick or worse, the players learn the wrong things?
This course will lay out the fundamental ideas about what small sided games (SSG's) are, how to create your own games, how to recognize when they need adjusting, how to make those adjustments and much more.
The course includes a series of structured lectures along with simple and clear graphics. A 186 page workbook, short files and additional external videos are supplied as supplementary material. This course builds on the internationally recognized Better Soccer More Fun website and Street Soccer, An Introduction to Small-sided Games DVD.
The course runs a little over an hour lays out a path for continual growth. In the short run, you will have your own SSG's up and running immediately. In the long run, your appreciation of their influence increases as you work with your own team. Learning never stops while your comfort and expertise continually grows.
The course is structured in seven sections:
1) What is the role of the soccer coach
2) Playing with the elements
3) Phases of learning
4) Festivals and tournaments (a training model)
5) Reading the game
6) Building your sessions
7) Some basic games to build from
This is an invaluable aid for young professional coaches just getting started in a career, parent/volunteer coaches in need of quick solutions and clubs looking for a simple and inexpensive curriculum. It is built on years of work with SSG's, youth players and the methods are recognized by International coaching associations.
By the end of this course you will be able to create and manage basic small sided soccer games.
You will be able to immediately use numerous games from the workbook and have a clear idea how to continue your own growth.
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Larry is the Program Director for the Chris Nedelcovych Soccer Foundation and is a leading advocate of small sided games. His work has been cited by United States Youth Soccer Association, the Canadian and numerous State Soccer Associations.Working with the Maryland State Youth Soccer Association and youth clubs he has conducted thousands of training sessions and hundreds coaching courses, workshops,...
The course is good for an upcoming coach. it takes one through the basic elements requires to coach and a great insight about factors required for developing a session better for budding young players.
Did not teach me much i didn't already know. Gave me some interesting ideas for new games to play in training though.
had no idea how to stimulate the variables to improve soccer abilities and am learning to coach soccer with the new strategies . also it was great to learn about futsal ball it will help improve skills.
Some good ideas.
Just what I need to improve my coaching sessions and be more effective at Improving the skills of young players! Thanks
I found this course to be an enormous help in preparing my youth training sessions. The small sided games presented will allow my players to develop technically and gain insight in field awareness. In essence, the small sided games will maximize my player touches on the ball in a variety of game situations. I am confident that myself and players will develop a better understanding of the game by incorporating the various games and coaching strategies that Coach Paul has outlined in his course.
This course complements Larry's video and helps to give some verbal connotation to his book "Playing Better Soccer is More Fun" and his website "bettersoccerismorefun.com", all of which I have used for the past 5 years as a coach. This is an excellent course, especially for the new coach trying to find his/her way through the myriad of websites and coaching books/manuals/videos. Short, sweet, and to the point. The kids love the games, the parents love the results, and the coach can truly focus on what is important in a player-focused approach to learning the greatest sport on earth!
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M J. P.
Fantastic material on how to make practice more fun, focused, and effective!