Teaching Youth Soccer – The Challenge

How fit are your players? You can gauge this by observing, how long your players take to revert to their normal heartbeat, after a really rigorous workout. Over a period of time, if this recovery time reduces, you know your players are making progress.

How To Improve Flexibility In Your Players

As a soccer trainer, use routines that involve the use of a ball for all fitness activities. Some ideas follow:

• Focusing on the heart rate, you can have your players bounce a ball, while jumping in time to its bounce. You can throw up the ball to them, while they on their toes, move and try to control the ball with their instep. Your players can practice passing the ball arms held above their heads from player to player, backward.

• Another set of anaerobic drills that you can use is have your players sit and throw the ball and jump up and catch it before it starts bouncing. Let your players stand and throw the ball up, then sit and immediately stand up to control the ball with their foot. A variation to this can be to do a push up posture and catch the ball.

• Goalkeepers can practice with the ball by sitting back to back with another player. Then, gradually increasing speed, they can pass a ball by twisting sideways to their partner, doing it on alternate sides.

Your players must practice stretching from time to time, juggling, and jogging slowly, when they rest. Teaching youth soccer can be very enjoyable, especially when you see them improve before your eyes, by teaching them the proper soccer techniques and soccer drills.