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Kirkwood Soccer Club

• Coaches Handbook
• Ages 14 and above

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US Soccer Hierarchy
United States Soccer Federation USSF National and
Olympic Teams
American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) Soccer
Association for Youth (SAY)
United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) 55
State Associations, 4 Regions 5 Million
Registered Players
US Club Soccer -Super Y
Kirkwood Soccer Club KSC - Registration -
Coaches Association - Insurance (player, league,
tournament) - Coaches Education - Top
Soccer - Olympic Development -
State run Tournaments -
Risk Management
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Why Coach?

• 1- Former Player
• 2- Parent getting Involved
• 3- Passion for Soccer
• 4- Default
• WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

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Purpose of Handbook

• Player Development Philosophy
• Resource for Coaching Education
• Motivate YOU to continue your coaching education
• Empower YOU with resources for future
  self-education

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KSC Coaching Principles

• Respect the Sport
• Respect the Club
• Respect the Player, the individual
• Encourage individual responsibility
• Create an challenging environment

• Promote Fair Play
• Follow a code of player/coach conduct
• Ensure safety at all times
• Provide constant communication with both player
  and parent in terms of education and development
• Always seek to learn from and within the game of
  SOCCER

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Role of the Coach

• Positive Role Model
• Treat all players with respect
• Treat each player as a unique individual
• Encourage players to ask questions and express
  feelings
• Have patience and understanding
• Demonstrate responsibility to the game,
  opponents, officials etc

• Empathy Understanding
• Players participate for different reasons
• Age/Maturity differences
• Serve as a Facilitator
• Control conditions and environment for learning
• Enthusiastic, demanding, motivating, and
  positive!
• Sandwich technique PRAISE / CRITICISM / PRAISE
• Appropriate activities challenging and
  exciting/fun
• Objective passes, spacing, goals, movement etc

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The 4 Pillars of the Game

• Technical Ability to consistently manipulate the
  ball successfully. What the player is able to do
  with the ball.
• Physical
• a) Speed.
• b) Endurance.
• c) Strength.
• d) Flexibility.
• e) Agility.
• f) Aerobic with oxygen.
• g) Anaerobic with oxygen.

• Tactical Game Insight or Game Instinct.
  Decision-making.
• a) Individual (1 v 1).
• b) Group (2 v 2 ) or (7 v 7).
• c) Team (8 v 8) or (11 v 11).
• Psychological
• a) Age specific.
• b) Sex.
• c) Training rhythm.
• d) Motivation, enthusiasm, determination,
  ability to deal with set-back, etc.
• e) Individual vs. team.

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How Do Players Learn?

• They receive information and process it in order
  of importance.
• (LISTEN)
• They block out unnecessary cues attend to the
  most important.
• (FOCUS)
• They concentrate on the execution of decisions
  they have made.
• (DECIDE)
• They initiate the execution of mechanics from
  that decision.
• (DO IT)
• Coaches should talk to players in a language that
  players will understand.?

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INSTRUCTING

• The communication of knowledge is the sole
  purpose of education.
• Our method of translating knowledge needs to be
  effective and attuned to the PLAYER and the TEAM.

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INSTRUCTING

• Provide clearly defined goals (objectives,
  targets, rules, etc.).
• Overriding Generalized or total application,
  i.e., the transition to a positive mentality
  towards shooting.
• Specific Play of pressuring defender. When you
  win the ball can you play it forward immediately?
• Provide information in a logical progression.
• Correct sequence simple to complex general to
  specific.
• Feedback about performance.
• Should be specific and address what is happening
  in game and in practice.
• Corrections addressing the group as well as the
  individual.

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Training Progression

• 1. Warm-up - Lack of pressure from opponent.
  Pressure from ball and imposed demands.
• 2. Small Sided Activity - Introduce pressure /
  some elements may not be realistic. Does not have
  to be directional.
• 3. Expanded Small Sided Activity close to the
  big picture. Directional.
• 4. Match Conditions Game, with all rules (5v5
  includes GKs).

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Economical Training and SAID Principle

• Economical Training combining as many of the
  pillars of soccer in one activity as possible.
• Specificity of Training
• S Specific
• A Adaptations
• I Imposed
• D Demands

• All training should be specific to the technical,
  tactical, physical and psychological demands of
  the game and the principles of the game.
• Soccer training must replicate the game what is
  done in training must be what happens in the
  game.
• To be fit to play soccer, training must be
  specific to the needs and demands of actual
  competition.

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Methods

• Preview
• What are you going to coach?
• Why? Purpose?
• Time
• When? Frequency? Weekly/Seasonal?
• Explanation
• Explain why
• Explain rules/organization
• Paint a Picture Show it Talk it Do it

• Elements of Practice
• Organization size, space, numbers, equipment,
  realistic to game?
• Create a Transition Zone blocks distractions,
  fun, creates a positive tone for practice

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The Freeze Method

• A technical freeze
• allows the coach to correct incorrect technique
  and is coach directed.
• demonstrate proper technique and have the player
  rehearse the technique.

• A tactical freeze
• is often coach directed, but can benefit from
  guided questions as well. e.g., we are giving
  the ball away coming out of the back, how can we
  prevent that from happening?
• The tactical freeze should be reserved for big
  picture situations involving several players.
  Optimally, the play should be frozen just as
  the situation presents itself. e.g., as the
  defenders should be stepping to the ball.
• Technique should still be addressed when
  appropriate.

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Phase Coaching

• First Phase
• Identify coaching moment
• Address technical breakdown or positive execution
• Demonstrate proper technique and have the player
  rehearse the technique
• Rehearse technique with player
• Re-Start

• Second Phase Coaching
• The second phase is reserved for big picture
  situations involving several players
• Address First Phase Element
• Address Decision of individual player
• Demonstrate options, eg switch fields, overlaps
  et al.
• Rehearse big picture
• Re-Start

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Are todays coaches empowering our players, or
are they encouraging a coaching dependency?

• Over-coaching is when your players look at you
  for every move.
• Under-coaching is when your players cant find
  you.
• Dr. Ron Quinn

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Training Format

• In an effort to improve our Technical Speed, it
  is imperative WE begin to teach our players how
  to handle the ball under pressure.
• Begin with teaching technique in a dynamic
  fashion.
• Dynamic Technical Training is defined by learning
  the aspects/ intricacies of passing/receiving/drib
  bling while in motion. NO static standing!!!

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Training Format
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Fundamentals of Coaching Preparation

• Organization- Pre-planned.
• What is the topic/ theme of the session?
• How players are active?
• How many balls, cones, vests, field space?
• What is the player setup?
• What are the dimensions of the field?
• Where is the best coaching position?
• What are the rules of the exercise?
• What are the coaching points of the session?

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Fundamentals of Coaching Preparation

• When coaching we must
• Plan
• Prepare
• Organize
• Coach
• Evaluate
• This process needs to occur with long-term
  development as our goal. Two questions we need
  to ask ourselves, where are they now? Where do
  we want to take them?

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Training Format

• Individual/ Group Technical Warm-up
• This is the first stage of the training session
• It should carry some common thread to the overall
  theme of training. The idea behind this stage is
  to get the body warm and the mind prepared to
  perform the desired techniques necessary for the
  session. It is imperative to include functional
  technical exercises into the warm-up. Look to
  develop the technical speed of your players.

• What is Technical Speed can be defined in two
  ways
• Speed of mental acquisition choosing the
  surface of reception/ pass before the ball
  arrives based upon the surroundings
• Speed of technical execution the application of
  mental acquisition. The speed by which a player
  can execute his/her thoughts.

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Training Format

• In an effort to improve our Technical Speed, it
  is imperative WE begin to teach our players how
  to handle the ball under pressure.
• Begin with teaching technique in a dynamic
  fashion.
• Dynamic Technical Training is defined by learning
  the aspects/ intricacies of passing/receiving/drib
  bling while in motion. NO static standing!!!

• Small/ Large Group Functional Exercise(s)
• This is the middle of the session, the meat,
  the substance. The theme of the session is
  expressed and instructed.
• The format can be two forms
• Small to Large Group functional exercises-
  defined as groups of 4-6 players then to 8 or
  more.
• Large Group functional exercises- defined as 8 or
  more players.

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Training Format

• Shadow/ Pattern Training
• This is the final stage of the session. This is
  where the Coach needs to translate the Functional
  Theme into the 11-a-side game.
• How do we attack wide areas of the field in the
  final 1/3, middle 1/3, defending 1/3?
• How do we attack wide areas when the opposition
  is playing with 4-4-2, with two standard blocks
  to eliminate width?
• How do we attack wide areas when the opposition
  is playing high pressure against our back 4?

• Shadow/ Pattern Training takes three formats
• 8 v. 4 8 players are the teaching team and the
  4 players are used as opposition. Move the 4
  players around the 1/3s and width of the field to
  create scenarios.
• 11 v. 5 11 players are the teaching team and the
  5 players are used as opposition. Move the 5
  players around the 1/3s and width of the field to
  create scenarios.
• Pattern Training is small/large group of players
  placed on the field by position to script
  scenarios without opposition.

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Training Format

• Keys to Functional Exercises
• The exercises should include some form of
  opposition (players, time, touches)
• The exercises should be specific to
  functions/roles of players as well as areas of
  the field, ie attacking wide areas (wide
  defenders/ wide midfielders).

• There is an element of technical functional
  training, ie attacking wide areas
  (crossing/serving balls).
• An element of scenario training is necessary.
  Scenario Training is a concept by which the Coach
  creates a problem for the players to re-solve, ie
  attacking wide areas (must score off a cross
  switch fields with a diagonal).

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Principles of Coaching

• Keep in mind, words.
• Some terms to remember and use
• Shape The positioning of fellow players in
  relation to each other, the goal, and the ball.
  Good shape relates to good soccer. Look for
  angles that involve triangles.
• Technical Speed The speed by which an individual
  player can perform the technique under pressure.

• Speed of execution/ Decisions The speed and
  quality of decisions to maintain possession or
  score.
• Speed of Play The overall speed of the team to
  perform the technical and tactical requirements
  necessary to maintain possession or score.
• Compress When defending, make the field smaller
  by moving players in positions to deny
  penetration.

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Principles of Coaching

• Transition Gain control immediately and apply
  the attacking principles necessary. If control
  is not gained, quickly apply the defending
  principles. The key to transition is field
  sense.
• Field Sense is knowing where you are on the
  field, where is your help, where is your
  opposition, how much time is left and of courses
  where is the ball in relation to your goal versus
  the opposing goal.

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Principles of Play

• The game of soccer can be broken down into two
  (2) basic concepts
• SPACE
• TIME
• When in possession of the ball, WE want to
  create more space and time on the ball.
• When not in possession, WE want to deny space and
  time on the ball for the opposition.

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Principles of Play

• When in Possession Create more space and time!
• Look to score. Utilize combination plays to
  maintain possession. Player movement is crucial.
  Be creative.
• Attacking principles for an attack-oriented
  style
• Attack with Pace.
• Immediately after winning the ball, look forward
  first.

• Utilize possession to probe with quick accurate
  passing.
• Create 2 versus 1 situations, numbers up.
• Transition from defense to attack needs to be
  quick.
• Define player roles and objectives when in
  possession.

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Principles of Play

• When NOT in Possession
• Deny space and time for the opposition.
• Pressure the ball. Apply cover and balance
  according to the goal, opposition, and the ball.
• Defensive Principles in an attack-oriented style
• Transition from attacking to defending needs to
  be quick.
• Pressurize opponent immediately.

• Defend up field.
• Deny space by keeping the field compact.
• Define the player roles and objectives when
  defending.

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Principles of Play

• Roles of Attackers
• 1st Attacker Player with the ball. Look to
  score first, then penetrate with a pass or
  dribble. Look to maintain possession.
• 2nd Attacker Player(s) in immediate support of
  the 1st Attacker. Look to combine with the 1st
  Attacker to help maintain possession.
• 3rd Attacker Player(s) whom provide length and
  width. Their runs create space and opportunities
  for penetration.

• Roles of Defenders
• 1st Defender Player whom applies immediate
  pressure on the ball, closest to the ball.
• 2nd Defender Player(s) whom provide cover and
  depth for the 1st defender. Position self at an
  appropriate angle to deny penetration on the
  dribble and by a forward pass.
• 3rd Defender Player(s) who are providing balance
  across the field to deny penetration from long
  balls. Look to track players away from the ball.
  

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Principles of Play

• SAFETY v RISK- Thirds of the field
• Safety decisions to insure safety is maintained
  (no chances)
• Risk decisions allow for a degree of risk to
  gain an advantage
• Attacking 1/3 (More Risk Less Safety)
• Move Receive Finish

• Middle 1/3 (Even Risk Safety)
• Build Connect Support
• Defensive 1/3 (More Safety Little Risk)
• Deny Destroy Develop

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• Simple
• Is the exercise game related?
• Is the exercise soccer specific?

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• Instruction
• Brief
• Simple
• Soccer specific

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Demands

• Demands/ Goals/ Objectives
• It is imperative that the Coach sets the tone for
  the season, session, and game.
• Coaches are expected to create a learning
  environment that is challenging. This requires
  certain expectations
• Shirts tucked in, socks pulled up
• NO foul language

• NO talking when the coach is talking
• Coaches must look PROFESSIONAL
• Demand Quality and you will get QUALITY
• Mistakes will happen, STOP, REPLAY, RESTART
• DO NOT let the STANDARD DROP!!!
• Use tone and inflection to maintain the standard.

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Training Topics, ex.

• Zonal Defending
• Defending Wide Areas
• Team Pressing
• Speed of Play, Rhythm of Play
• Attacking Wide Areas
• Attacking out of the Back
• Counter Attacks

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Targets, ex.
U13 U14 U15, U16 U17, U18
Ball competence Ball competence Technical Ball Speed Technical Ball Speed
Receiving air balls into space, add fake/ feint Receiving air balls into space Functional games Functional games
Serve balls over 20-25 yards, both feet Serve balls off the dribble Serving balls over 35yds Technical Composure
Strive for personal excellence Strive for advancement to RED Team Strive for higher levels Strive for higher levels
Knowledge of structured games, 64, 75 Introduction to structured games, 64 Functional games, 95 Functional games, 88
Introduction to Zonal Defending Fundamentals of Defending- 1st,2nd,3rd Understand System and Positional Roles Knowledge of Attacking and Defending Scenarios
Introduction to Speed of Play Introduction to Technical Speed Recognizing Attacking and Defending Scenarios Knowledge of Transitional Play
Introduction to Pattern Play Introduction to Passing Patterns Knowledge of Pattern Play Changing Rhythm of Game
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Game Management

• What is Game Management?
• risk management, first aid
• coach presence appearance, voice, tone
• analysis
• Pre-Game
• warm-up
• review goals/ objectives
• motivate

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Game Management

• First Half
• What is our focus for the game? How does it
  relate to previous training?
• Questions to ask throughout the first half
• What system are we playing? Our opponent?
• How is our team performing on the focused items
  from the previous week?
• How is our opposition causing us problems? Where
  and why?
• Are WE meeting our objectives for the game?
• Do WE need to make an adjustment? How can we
  address the issue?
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Game Management

• Half Time
• Review- What were OUR objectives for the first
  half?
• Adjustments- What can be done to fix the problems
  or raise the level?
• Limit to three points to consider
• Motivate- What can WE do to get them hyped for
  the second half?
• Challenges to consider
• injuries
• weather
• game importance league versus tournament,
  relegation versus promotion
• age appropriate information

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Game Management

• Second Half
• What is our focus for the game? How does it
  relate to previous training?
• Questions to ask throughout the first half
• What system are we playing? Our opponent?
• How is our team performing on the focused items
  from the previous week?
• How is our opposition causing us problems? Where
  and why?
• Are WE meeting our objectives for the game?
• Do WE need to make an adjustment? How can we
  address the issue?

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Game Management

• Post Game Wrap- up
• Three things the team did well
• Three things to improve on
• Training focus for the upcoming week.
• Always end on a positive.