Coaching Soccer Weekly: Methods, Trends, Techniques and Tactics from WORLD CLASS COACHING

By Tom Mura: Soccer Coach, Skills Director, Co-Owner WORLD CLASS COACHING and Blogger

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Get an in-depth look at the methods, strategies and techniques used by a youth coach working full time with players of every age and skill level. This includes training plans, team management and planning ideas, latest trends in coaching and education, as well as interviews with other coaches and trainers that are on the cutting edge of soccer development.

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#267 Two Training Sessions ...

03.05.2021

It’s great to get back outside for the start of the spring league season. My first game of the spring wasn’t even with my own team. I covered for another coach who had a conflict. It’s always difficult to step ...

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03.05.2021 #267 Two Training Sessions to Prepare for the First Game It’s great to get back outside for the start of the spring league season. My first game of the spring wasn’t even with my own team. I covered for another coach who had a conflict. It’s always difficult to step ...
02.26.2021 #266 Coaching Conversation with Travis Yoakum With no games last weekend I had time to complete the individual player and parent meetings for my high school girls team. They’re all freshman and sophomores getting ready to start high school tryouts. We discussed their feelings about the ...
02.19.2021 #265 What My Teams Learned from Futsal this Year We finished up our Futsal season last weekend with the US Youth Futsal Regional Tournament. It was a patch-work event because teams dropped out last minute due to a winter storm coming through. Then some left early because they were ...
02.12.2021 #264 Creating Game-Like Activities I find myself apologizing for missing an episode again last week. My hectic schedule got away from me again last week and I just didn’t have the time I needed to put the episode together. I had to use that ...
01.29.2021 #263 The Impact of Formations on Individual and Team Development I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to post an episode last week. It was a crazy week and with everything going on I just didn’t have the time to finish the episode and get it posted. I lead two virtual ...
01.15.2021 #262 Recognizing and Executing 2 v 1 Situations It was an easy weekend of Futsal for me last week. I only had seven games (seems like more when I say it like that). Three on Saturday and four on Sunday. At this point in the season my players ...
01.08.2021 #261 The Role of the Assistant Coach It was nice to have a break over the holidays. Although it was a strange time since we couldn’t see our extended family in person. We kept it to just my wife and children. That’s not the way we wanted ...
12.18.2020 #260 2020 Soccer Year Review Last weekend I coached 18 Futsal games from Friday to Sunday. That made for a long weekend for me but it was great for the teams to get a chance to play four games each in one weekend. There is ...
12.11.2020 #259 Technical Training in Game Like Environments I had a fun weekend with my two older teams playing the last of their outdoor games for a while. The 2009’s won one and lost two competitive games in another 2007 division. more important than the score, they played ...
12.04.2020 #258 Effective Futsal Defending After a very hectic fall season it was great to have break over the Thanksgiving week. As with everything in 2020, the holiday week was very different from the way it usually is. My extended family usually spends a lot ...
11.20.2020 #257 Activities in Small Spaces The boys divisions of the final tournament of the fall were held last weekend so I didn’t have any games on my calendar. For me the weekend was packed with home projects that have been neglected during the busy fall ...
11.13.2020 #256 Analyze your Opponent Well, We had a tough three games in State Cup last weekend. The level of competition and athleticism was just two much for us. We didn’t help ourselves with some unforced errors that cost us goals at key points in ...
11.06.2020 #255 How to Prepare Meaningful Player Evaluations My schedule has really slowed down in the last couple of weeks. The end of the fall always brings with it a much more relaxed pace. I’m grateful that we were able to complete our season. That was definitely not ...
10.30.2020 #254 Do You Need a Coaching License? Last weekend should have been State Cup for my 2005 but it was moved to the November because the facility that was supposed to host it was closed to all non-professional sports. I had blocked out the whole weekend for ...
10.23.2020 #253 Encourage Creativity and Confidence in Your Players One of the benefits of coaching as many teams as I do is that I see just about every situation you can imagine. Last weekend I had eight games from Friday through Sunday. Two games Friday, two Saturday and 4 ...
10.16.2020 #252 Training the #6 Two weeks ago three of my teams participated in a tournament. That meant that I had 10 games from Friday to Sunday. It’s not a huge physical challenge to coach 10 games in a weekend. But it is a mental ...
10.02.2020 #251 Soccer’s Biggest Problem I had a pretty easy schedule last weekend. With just four games over three days. One game on Friday and Saturday as well as two more on Sunday. That’s almost a weekend off by my usual standards. One of the ...
09.25.2020 #250 Training Players to Recognize and Create 2 v 1 Situations What is it about round numbers that make them more meaningful to us? Getting to 200 episodes was huge and now 250 seems like another milestone. I suppose it is but I’m looking at it as being halfway to 500. ...
09.18.2020 #249 Training Team Concepts with Young Players My teams were back to a full schedule of games last weekend. On Friday evening my U12 goalkeeper broke her hip taking a goal kick. It was the strangest injury I’ve ever seen. I watched the replay on the Veo ...
09.11.2020 #248 Playing with a Triangle in Midfield The season started quickly and we’ve packed a lot into the first six weeks. When I was planning the season I decided that Labor Day weekend would be a good one to take off for all of my teams. The ...
08.28.2020 #247 The Solution to Recording Soccer Games without a Camera Operator As I write this post it’s Thursday evening which marks the end of another week of training for me and my teams. I feel very fortunate to be able to train with my teams on the field because I know ...
08.21.2020 #246 Interview with Exact Sports I’ve been focusing my teams on a few key areas at the beginning of this season. Our attacking focus has been on finding 1v1’s, 2v1’s and through balls. I think you can break down just about every attacking situation into ...
08.14.2020 #245 Coaching Conversation with John Murphy We had our first 11 v 11 games of the year. Two teams played in the preseason tournament. The first is a 2009 team that’s playing up with the 2008’s. These were their first games in the larger format. Luckily ...
08.07.2020 #244 Creating Confident Female Players Last weekend my teams were finally able to get back on the field and play games. My youngest two teams played three games each as a way to get a jump start on the season. There was definitely a lot ...
07.31.2020 #243 The Pros and Cons of Counter Attacking Tactics Tonight was the end of my first week of training with my teams. My schedule is a bit crazy this fall. I’m at the fields every night until 9 pm expect Thursdays when I come home to record the podcast. ...
07.24.2020 #242 Club and Team Culture This was my last week of ‘Summer Training’. It’s been great to get the players back out on the field. I thought it was important to do something this summer to get them started. These sessions have also turned into ...
07.17.2020 #241 Debating the 4-3-3 vs 4-2-3-1 I’ve just finished my third week of ‘Social Distancing Practice’. To be honest, I’m really missing high fives and pats on the shoulder. I didn’t realize how much those simple acts helped me connect with players. Nothing can really replace ...
07.10.2020 #240 Sun Tzu Soccer: The Art of War in Soccer I’m sorry there wasn’t a podcast last week. I’d forgotten that it was the Fourth of July holiday. With family in town I didn’t have time to put the episode together. With everyday seeming like the day before I’d really ...
06.26.2020 #239 Developing as a Coach Our tryouts were last Friday. I don’t know of any coaches, players or parents who enjoy the necessary process of tryouts. Everything has been different this year and the same can be said for tryouts. We only had new players ...
06.19.2020 #238 Social Distance Training Session Well my voice is coming back slowly but it wasn’t helped by having Pre-Tryout Camp this week. It’s a four day camp that helps prepare new players to our club for tryouts and gives current players a chance to get ...
06.12.2020 #237 The Pros and Cons of Playing with a Back Four and a Back Three I’ve been really struggling with my voice (as you’ll hear in this episode) so I decided save the Social Distance Training Session for another week. I have uploaded the printable show notes with all of the diagrams and descriptions of ...
06.05.2020 #236 Coaching Conversation with Tim Wszalek This week was the start of our tryout process for the 2020-21 season. We started by contacting parents and finding out if they were planning to return to the club and let them know what tryouts would look like this ...
05.28.2020 #235 The Great Debate – Direct Play vs Possession Play Last weekend was Memorial Day weekend. This is the first time in years I wasn’t in Chicago. With soccer being on hold I actually forgot that it was coming up. Who looks at a calendar anymore. I had planned for ...
05.15.2020 #234 Using Play – Practice – Play vs. Progressive Training Method The discussion I’ll share this week is pretty long, like last week, so I’ll give you a quick update and then get right into the conversation. I feel that my players are experiencing a lot of, ‘At Home’ training fatigue. ...
05.08.2020 #233 What Should be Done with VAR? We have a pretty long conversation that I want to share with you about VAR today so I’ll just give you a short recap of my week and skip our usually Q & A. My team meetings followed the same ...
05.01.2020 #232 Using Game Design in Training Sessions One week is looking a lot like the last these days; lots of Zoom meetings with teams and coaches as well as a constant stream of webinars. I can feel my players starting to get a bit tired of isolated ...
04.24.2020 #231 ‘Soccer in the City’ with Director Michael Holstein It’s week six of, ‘Soccer Coaching through Social Distancing’. I don’t have any practices or games to tell you about so I’ll let you know how my team meetings went this week. We continue to use the Techne Futbol app ...
04.17.2020 #230 The Impact of Mindset on Performance Welcome to Week Five of Coaching at Home! This week my son and I build a new computer because my old one just wasn’t cutting it anymore. I’ve heard this described as, “Adult Legos”. It was a bit cheaper and ...
04.10.2020 #229 Getting FIT at Home with Rise Futbol In the fourth week away from training I’m starting to get into a routine. On Mondays and Tuesday’s meeting with my teams over Zoom. It gives us a chance to all see each other and interact. We go over our ...
04.03.2020 #228 Technical Training at Home with Techne Futbol We’re now into the second full week of the ‘Stay at Home’ order in Kansas. I wish that more people were following it strictly. I’m seeing too many people on the news that are just acting as if nothing is ...
03.27.2020 #227 Tactical Training at Home with Sports Lab 360 This is the first full week of the ‘Stay at Home’ order in Kansas. The schools are out for the spring, the league has been delayed until the end of April and now everyone has been asked to keep their ...
03.20.2020 #226 Dealing with a Season Postponed by COVID-19 Well, I can safely say that it’s been the weirdest week I’ve ever had during a spring season. Things seemed to be changing by the hour not just by the day. At the end of my intro last week I ...
03.13.2020 #225 The Art of Using Guided Questions My games last weekend were really a tale of two entirely different days. On Saturday my teams played well and were very successful. Part of that could have been due to the fact that we played teams that were were ...
03.06.2020 #224 Coaching Conversation with Ted Hansen It was great to get back to outdoor games last weekend. I was curious to see how the teams transitioned back to the outdoor game. Each team had a slightly different reaction. My youngest team that plays 7v7 didn’t really ...
02.28.2020 #223 Coaching Conversation with Marcus Walfridson This is the 5th Anniversary of the CSW Podcast! It’s hard to believe I’ve recorded 223 episodes that have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times. I really appreciate everyone who listens, contributes or spreads the word about the show. ...
02.21.2020 #222 The Importance of Normalizing Errors for Your Players The Futsal Nationals took place in Gardner Kansas last weekend. I had two teams competing. One team missed out on the semi-final due to a close loss in their third game. The other team reached the final but lost on ...
02.14.2020 #221 Coaching Conversation – Robert Scott I continued to focus on defending with my teams this week. With the younger teams it was more about individual defending while the older teams worked on defending as a team in preparation for the US Youth Futsal Nationals this ...
02.07.2020 #220 Five Year Review The last two weeks have been crazy; I finish the second meeting for the Grassroots Instructor’s License Wednesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. The first meeting back in November covered the course content for the Grassroots In-Person Courses (4v4 through 11v11). ...
01.24.2020 #219 Coaching Conversation with Mario Zúñiga Last weekend we had the U.S. Youth Futsal Central Regional Championship. It was a long weekend with all four of my teams participating. Two of the teams were actually playing up an age group while the other two played with ...
01.17.2020 #218 Developing as a Coach I’ve been working through some issues I’ve had with the audio quality of the podcast for the last few weeks. I’d appreciate it if you would leave a comment below if you’ve noticed a problem in previous episodes and if ...

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