I had last weekend completely off. No games! I always take the first weekend of the futsal season off. This provides a welcome break between the outdoor and indoor seasons. It also gives me one more week of practice with my teams before we play our first futsal games. For the first two weeks of indoor practice we focused on finding the openings or creating the openings when attacking. This week we switched and worked on defending so it was all about closing … [Read more...]
#209 Experiencing Different Soccer Cultures
Thanks to an email from listener Kevin I discovered how to allow iTunes to include up to 300 podcast episodes in the feed. I've made that adjustment so we have a couple of years before we have to worry about older episodes dropping off of the feed. Thanks Kevin! I don't usually use guest players for my teams unless we're very short on players. This weekend one of my teams really need a couple of guests because of illnesses but none were available to we had … [Read more...]
#204 A Coaching Conversation with Scott Moore
Last weekend I only had one game for each of my teams! It seemed like a weekend off :-) The great part about it is that the games were spread out; one on Friday, one on Saturday and two on Sunday. Even the games on Sunday were spread out by a couple of hours so it gave me some time in between. I've been trying (sometimes unsuccessfully) to only talk to the players on the field when there's a stoppage in play. My hope is that this leaves the decision making … [Read more...]
#203 Session Template Software
Last weekend I took one team to Omaha for a Labor Day tournament. This is a tournament hosted by Sporting Omaha that is played on a nice complex of grass fields. When we got to our first game we discovered that it was going to be played on a field that just had turf installed. Our players were very pleasantly surprised. We got off to a good start with a win and then came back in the afternoon to play a very physical team with one outstanding player. We were … [Read more...]
#199 A Coaching Conversation with Ricardo Diaz
It was great to get back to training with my kids this week. I've missed being on the field with them. Everyday this week I've enjoyed taking a break from preparing for the rec season and running training sessions. The first session of the week for all of my teams used the Play - Practice - Play methodology. The second session involved some technical training mixed in with the game related activities. The kids really seemed to enjoy the sessions and it's … [Read more...]
#191 The Techne App – Individual Training made Simple
I had a team play in a tournament that used grass fields last weekend. This is the first time any of my teams have played on grass this spring. In my opinion a good grass field is better than a turf field but it has to be a good grass field. The fields we played on this weekend were good in the past but aren't what they used to be. We're just not used to playing on grass anymore. It slows everything down so much that it's hard for the players to get their … [Read more...]
#190 Owning Your Development with Yael Averbuch
We're starting to wind down the 2018-19 soccer year. This is the last week of practice for one of my teams while the other two just have one tournament left for each of them. I'm always surprised at how fast the spring season goes. It's no shorter than the fall but it just seems to move so quickly. It may be because we're in the process of planning the tryouts and looking toward next fall already. During this time of year I do a lot of multi-themed … [Read more...]
#175 Using Tactical Periodization to Plan for the Season
Last week we had a major snow storm in the midwest and it forced the cancelation of games on Saturday. This came at the worst time for me because we just came off of a two week Christmas break and no games scheduled last weekend. Unfortunately, we're going right into the US Youth Futsal Regionals this weekend. With no game time in the last month it made this week's training session especially important. Listen to the episode for my description of our … [Read more...]
#153 Off Season and Pre Season Conditioning
I enjoyed the bit of time off I took over the last couple of weeks. It gave me some extra time to spend with friends and family over the 4th of July holiday. Things are still in full swing with preparations for the recreational season coming up so it wasn't a complete break but still a nice change of pace. It also gave me time to enjoy watching the quarter finals of the World Cup and a few Sporting KC games (we won't talk about those). My frustration with … [Read more...]
#147 The Game-Based Approach to Training Sessions
We're finishing up our spring league season in the next couple of weeks. Then there are a couple of tournaments to end the season and we're back to tryout time again! This is also the time of year I set aside time to complete player evaluations for all of my teams. If you've listen to the podcast over the last three years you know that our club uses ZoomReports.com to communicate and save the evaluations for our teams. It's a great system and if you're still … [Read more...]
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