The second in our installment of technical warm ups is another simple exercise that is great for coerver moves repetition. Players dribble (start at a slower pace for warm up and then build up to dribbling at pace in later rounds) at a cone and use a coerver move (scissors, double scissors, inside-inside-outside, the v, [...]

I have sat in on many coaches’ half time speeches and felt as though the players were looking at the coach like he or she was speaking a foreign language. I think that there is such a lack of match preparation during the week and then the coach is forced to cram in as many [...]

Good video from JuniorSoccerCoach.com … I think it helps to do more work on the chalk board so that players get a proper understanding of what they are trying to accomplish with their shape from a bird’s eye view. Make sure that you later build on the concept and incorporate the midfield block and defending [...]

Everyone believes that Brazilian players are naturally skillful and just learn the game on the street. Nothing could be further from the truth. Some of the reasons that Brazil exports close to 1,000 players to foreign leagues every year is a combination of huge population, intense scouting, and hours of technical training. I stayed at [...]

We have a series of our favorite technical warm ups and will be adding them with a TactFoot video (for all of those visual learners). The first in our series is a simple one that only requires a ball for every two players and a few disc cones or coaching sticks. If you have 10 [...]

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Emma Hayes was (at the time of this video) the assistant manager of Arsenal Ladies and now is the head coach of Chicago Red Star of the WPS. This is one of my personal all-time favorite sessions of the NSCAA Convention.

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