Does Your Soccer Team

Have fun...and Win?

Learn to develop players and
dominate teams

We developed the CoachingSphere as a

Sometimes well-intended coaches take tons of
practice time lining up their players on the field
like pieces in a World Chess Championship.
What’s the end result? A big fat waste of time!
Understanding the capabilities of the U6 player,
we know that players at this age group have:
No sense of direction
No sense of boundaries
No soccer vision – they are only aware of their
most immediate surroundings
Given those characteristics, does it make any
sense to try and setup your players on the field?
We don’t think so either.
framework to help you visualize your
role as coach and to cultivate the best
development of players and teams. The
five areas are: team management,
player psychology, technical skills &
drills, soccer tactics and fitness &
nutrition. Utilizing this framework
enables us to easily break down each of
the five building block components
and examine them individually and in
context for the team and the player for
maximum player development.
 Team Management

 Before you even meet your players or step onto the field, you
are managing the team. This area encompasses all aspects of
the game because you are the director. Not only does this
include the four on-field aspects of the game, but also all the
things that need to happen off the field: coaching philosophy,
team meetings, paperwork, interfacing with parents, quickly
disseminating information, injuries, tryouts, etc. We will
explore in depth the ways in which you can efficiently
become the CEO of your team to ensure everyone’s success.
Ultimately, the goal is to ensure that everyone has more fun
on the field and develops – including you as the coach!
Technical Skills & Drills
 This is really the core of our work as youth coaches. How
do we help develop the necessary technical skills within our
players? What are the best drills and where should we start?
Dribbling, trapping, heading…it’s all so overwhelming.
 At younger ages, soccer is mostly an individual sport. Yep,
read that again. Think about your son or daughter at age
five, six or seven. Do they naturally share? And why don’t
they? They’re naturally selfish and because they don’t get
the play toy back. And, so, armed with this information, it is
foolish to emphasize passing.
 Soccer Tactics
 This area encompasses the all the strategies behind
playing: formations, set plays and restarts,
positions and spacing. Many times, coaches spend
far too much time on this area – at the youth level
– instead of the more fundamental technical skills.
It is curious and looking inside our sports culture
provides some insight.
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