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    Season Planner

    Communication is the key to having a positive working environment as is your values, beliefs and philosophy. By gathering information received from the players and parents on the previous years work, you should then devise the following years plan based on those suggestions but ultimately it’s your ideas that the team will abide to. Put it all in writing and hand it to each parent at your Pre-season meeting. Time spent with the parents will be a worthwhile exercise, it allows you to share the ground rules and it also inform them of your plan.

    Write your pledge about the playing time each player will get and those parents who want only the best to play can see in advance what your about. This will let everyone know where they stand. Remember breaks are important, so always schedule a break in the season, particular when the season finishes. Everyone needs to recharge. Playing sport is just one part of a family life and above sport is education and belong sport is a social life. 

    Plan for season

    • Explain how the try-outs will work. (Most clubs will have a team for all levels)
    • Explain how the teams will be chosen to the players and parents. (Be open and honest, kids will know if they aren’t at a certain level)
    • Don’t take on to many players, although it might seem like the best thing to do at the time. It usually always leads to the same players not getting enough game time. For 7 aside football I suggest 9  committed players; for 9 aside i suggest 11 committed players and for 11 aside football 14 to 15 committed players is ideal depending on the age and length of each game. Some leagues have role on role off and others don’t, so you will need to take this into account.
    • The kids should all be playing at their best level, so don’t hold kids back. If they are good enough then they should move up. The same goes for players who can’t compete at a certain level they should be playing at a level where they are enjoying their sport.
    • New season should be a clean slate for all players.
    • Players will be evaluated based on their overall season performance and their ability, effort, attitude at the time of the try-out not based on previous clubs, or what they won or who their parents are.
    • Explain how playing time will be determined – Be specific – don’t just say everyone will play. Commit to giving each child at least half of every game and if a player doesn’t start a game then make sure he starts the next for example.
    • If you don’t train, you don’t play.
    • If you don’t pay, you don’t play.
    • Defend how you play and develop versus long ball tactics and winning. If you like playing from the back but lose goals over it, explain to the parents why you are doing it but make sure you are improving the team. You won’t be able to get them on your side if you continue to leak goals and do nothing about it.
    • Move players around in positions, this will help them develop an understanding for the other positions on the pitch.

    ‘When the adults want to win more than the kids, therein lies a lot of whats wrong with kids sports’

    Poll your Players

    • Ask the players what they want and need?
    • What is their favourite thing about playing football?
    • What is the least favourite thing?
    • I suggest doing a player evaluation session and get them to evaluate themselves. This way you will be able to understand their goals and areas they want to improve in.
    • How important is winning? 5 being extremely and 1 being not important
    • How important is it for you to play equal time versus minimum meaningful time?
    • Ask players for 5 ideas that will make training and games more fun?
    • Ask players to define what would be a successful season for him/her?
    • Do you know if your players other sports?
    • Are they thinking of taking up any other sports?
    • Get to know them outside of sport. Education, family and social life etc

    Poll the Yourself

    • Why did you sign up to coach a team?
    • How does it feel to be coached by me?
    • What is your favourite thing about coaching?
    • What is your least favourite?
    • How will you organise the team?
    • How do you define a successful season?
    • How can I improve?

    Poll your Parents

    • How many training sessions per week do you think is sufficient?
    • How many games per week?
    • Is there anything we should know or understand about your child?
    • Many kids come from single parent families, what are the issues, if any the child has?
    • How do you define a successful season?
    • What are the parents concerns?
    • How is the player doing in school?
    • Any further comments or issues?

    “The single most important question you can ask your child is, why do you play sport? Before you ask that question, ask you yourself the same question. If their reason is not the same as yours, – then you have one choice, forget about yours and accept theirs” – TCD

    The Plan

    You may be surprised at some of the ‘Answers’ you get, including your own.

    Gather the information received from players and parents and daft a plan for your team for the season ahead.

    • Put your plans, commitments, in writing – your pledge.
    • Make a copy for everyone and set up a pre season meeting.
    • Time spent with the parents will be a worthwhile and it is essential.
    • Write a pledge that states clearly how playing time will be divided. (Your most committed and loyal players will be the ones with the most attendance.)
    • Write that everyone will get a minimum amount of minutes (once they train like everyone else), it will keep things honest.
    • The parents that want to play the “best” can see in advance what you’re about and how you like to do things.
    • The parents that want everyone to play “everyone the same” can see where you stand on team playing time.
    • Explain how places will be defined, I know this can be difficult, the better you plan in advance and commit on paper, the better off you will be during the season. This helps to take personalities and politics out of the picture.
    • If you are improving everyone and the players are all committed you will create a competitive and healthy team environment.
    • Devise some team rules.

    Gather All The Data & Devise Plan

    • How many training sessions per week, how long each practice will be?
    • How many weeks the season will last.
    • Plans for post season tournaments, trips etc?
    • Players and parents to get days off during the season. Breaks, rest , family time is just as important.  Lets players and parents know that organised football is a small part of a balanced family life. Parents may have other kids to keep happy.
    • It’s as important for parents to take time away from the weekend game as it is for players to play without always having parents watching from the line every week.
    • Be clear about what you expect from the parents and players. Commitment has to work both ways. Without involvement there is no commitment.
    • State rules for missing training or games, what the procedure is to notify the coach (the need to know in advance) and what the consequences are for missing training and games.
    • Come up with some team rules and involve the players. When you have defined 2/3 team rules and the players contribute to them they are more likely to buy into them.  This way parents & players, know the consequences when team rules are broken.
    • Commit to the rules and always be in control of team dynamics.
    • The one thing players want the most, is to play. Taking this away is one way of preventing them from breaking rules.
    • Being good in school can bring rewards. Education is the most important factor, without it they have very little.
    • Define your overall ethos and coaching methods.
    • Define coaches role and managers role.
    • Communication is key, but you don’t need to get personal with parents. Getting over personal makes it harder if you ever have to release a player.
    • Be in control of the sideline. Don’t allow the parents to control the line.
    • Create a culture of encouragement and praise and don’t let the parents talk over you.
    • Devise your values and make everyone aware of them. Values define who you are.
    • If you value respect then expect you players too.
    • Organise a pre-season team building exercise and make sure it doesn’t involve the sport.

    “Without involvement there is no commitment. No involvement, no commitment”

    Meeting The Parents

    Invites players and all parents along to the meeting, don’t complicate things and keep is short and simple. Parents are about to place their child in your hands, they want to know what your about. At least one parent of every child should attend the meeting, make it compulsory to attend.

    1. You’re number one aim should be to let parents know that primarily kids will be in safe hands.
    2. They will be having fun (as you will) and they will be learning (improving).
    3. It’s also a good ice breaker
    4. It also reminds parents how much they know and don’t know about the game.
    5. It should stop all that screaming and shouting at kids on the sidelines, when you let them know what their role is.
    6. Allow about 30 minutes for your talk.
    7. Then take questions until there are no more.

    Good Luck! 

    If you want a player evaluation form, drop me an email.

    -End

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  • 10th Fingal Festival of Football – Girls Football Festival 2012

    10th Fingal Festival of Football – Girls Football Festival 2012

    The Fingal Festival of Football, now in its 10th year will take place in Sportslink, Santry, on August 18th.  The competition was initially developed as a cross border football tournament for boys. It now caters for 32 teams across five sections: boys, girls, Special Olympics, Powerchair and Irish Street Leagues with teams coming from communities in Ireland & Northern Ireland.

    This year’s event will see the 2nd running of the U10 and U12 girls Soccer Festival being held on the day to promote the underage girl’s game. This event will consist of a 5 a side blitz and other fun events with the major emphasis being on the girls enjoying themselves.

    Commenting on the Girls soccer festival, Paul Keogh – FAI/Fingal County Council Development officer added:

    “we hope for a great turnout of girls for what is sure to be a great day out.  Girls can enter by forming teams, entering club teams or by individual registration. With the success of the Metropolitan girl’s league under the auspice of the NDSL it is an exciting time for girl’s football. This year sees support from FIFA with their ‘Live Your Goals programme’ which will only enhance the event with current Ireland female internationals expected to attend”

     For more information on the Girls Football Festival in conjunction with the Fingal Festival of Football contact paul.keogh@fai.ie or 086-0444435 or your local FAI/Fingal County Council Development officer.

    Download Brochure here → Girls Soccer Festival 2012

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  • NDSL keep U12s at 9v9.

    NDSL keep U12s at 9v9.

    Great to hear that the NDSL are keeping with the 9v9 game for 2001’s, u12s for the coming season 2012-2013. This is a welcome step and probably the best bit of news I have heard all summer. NDSL I salute you for this forward thinking change.

    “How absurd it is for adults to demand players as young as nine or 10 to play in an 11 v. 11 environment on a regulation pitch. While soccer for adults is played in an 11 v. 11 environment, the same setting is not the best for younger soccer players. That is why small-sided soccer is being used more frequently at the younger ages, and continues to play a vital role in soccer training for all ages. We must continue with the SSG games for the purpose of development. Soccer must be FUN for kids!”

    So what does these mean and what are the benefits of small sided games?

    1. The players get to touch the  ball more often which will help improve their technique.
    2. The game is less complicated therefore the players make more, less-complicated decisions. 
    3. The players can adapt more to a pitch that is for their size they become more physically efficient on the pitch they’re playing on.
    4. Gives the coaches more individual teaching time. Less players on the field and less players on the team will guarantee this! More technical training as oppose to tactical in the 11v11.
    5. The SSG is less complicated giving players more involved playing time in the game! Much more opportunities to solve problems.
    6. Simpler decisions to make.
    7. Better game-related fitness, short duration of high-intensity.
    8. More opportunities for the full range of skills.
    9. Encourages faster play, more opportunity to attack and defend (more exposure to attacking and defending situations)
    10. More opportunities to score goals! (fun)
    11. More opportunities for keepers to safe them!
    12. Developmentally appropriate environment with less emphasis on winning.
    13. Players can’t ‘hide’ on the pitch.
    14. More playing time and participation.
    15. Easier for young players to have success – which means fun and retention for these players in the game.
    16. Passing distances are reduced.

    Using small-sided games, players get more touches on the ball and more decisions are being made, with less players on the field. Everyone is always involved or at least they are much more involved then in a 11v11 game at the young ages.

    Best of all, the game is simple, can be played without adult involvement and it’s still FUN! When used properly, small-sided soccer can give developing players the tools they need to become a better player and reach their potential.

    “Small sided games are important because they allow opportunities (many repetitions) for technical development under competitive pressure, such that players are able to turn ‘technique’ into ‘skill.’  They also allow a player to experience tactical decision-making and implement the principles of attacking and defending in relatively clear situations and that learning will translate well to larger number situations in the 11 v. 11 game as players grow and develop.”

    Smaller numbers is always better and going forward even keeping u11s at 7v7 would be something.

    Note: Paul C thanks for updating me on this change. Declan thanks for clearing it up. 9V9 for another season, the kids will be delighted!

     

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  • Dog dirt on our pitches is causing a mess..

    Dog dirt on our pitches is causing a mess..

    I know is not a subject related to what I usually post, but I find myself getting increasingly annoyed by the amount of dog dirt on our pitches. I’m sick of having to move a session after setting it up, due to dog dirt. As far as i’m concerned Dog owners have no consideration for the kids that play sport on green fields and even more now that alot of pitches aren’t lined. But this is no excuse as most bring their dogs to the same locations every week.

    Here are the top 5 things you should know:

    1. The eggs from roundworms, Toxocara Canis, are deposited with the feaces and embryonate (becoming infectious) 2-3 weeks later. They can be viable for up to 10 years in the soil and are resistant to disinfectants and to the frost. Each toxocara canis female can lay 700 eggs per day and are only visible under a powerful microscope. If ingested by humans and untreated can cause infections to your organs most commonly the brain (nervous system), liver, lungs and your eyes causing tumours and detached retinas and can lead to blindness. This can easily be transferred from a football to kids hands and into there mouth or eyes.
    2. Dog poo does not act as a fertilizer, when it breaks down it leaves toxins in the ground which are harmful to other animals, humans and the environment. In the past farmers have been blamed for poisoning the land and rivers but it has now been proved that leaving dog waste on farm land can lead to sheep being infected with Canine worms, which doesn’t have an adverse affect on the sheep but if humans then eat the infected meat can lead to cysts on the liver and lungs which have to be removed surgically.
    3. Dog poo being left to wash into rivers and seas is the equivalent of pumping our raw sewage into the water.
    4. It is estimated that 20-30% of stream pollution is caused by the toxins from dog waste being washed in to the water system causing a build up in algae which is harmful to fish and by infecting the water with E-Coli, leading to the closer of some beaches.
    5. It has been estimated that for watersheds of up to 20 square miles draining to small coastal bays, 2 -3 days of faeces from a population of 100 dogs would contribute enough bacteria and nutrients to close a bay to swimming (US EPA, 1993)

    In America and Canada scientist are investigating ways to get a useful end product from dog waste, be it fertilizer or energy, a much better option than landfill. As one learned journalist said “If you think stepping in it is bad, try drinking it!”  Makes you think doesn’t it.

    It’s never good to leave dog poo, use a bag, the complete dog fouling solution and spread the word to dog owners world wide.

    Get informed about your dogs mess..

    I think if dog owners were better informed they would think twice about leaving dog dirt in areas where kids play. Local councils and club should be doing more, I plan to put up my own signs and hand out notices at our pitches to inform dog owners.

    This is an article about a toddler who feel on dog dirt and then wiped her eye with the mess. The young girl is better now, but she still has to have antibiotics even now because her eye still flares up! She could still be on them for the rest of her life and, if left untreated, could still lose her eye.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11012044 

    From news.discovery.com: Mexican Internet portal Terra is tapping into the online pulse of the modern era and has come up with a truly contemporary way to inspire dog owners to get out their plastics bags.

    The company has teamed up with ad agency DDB to create a pilot program in 10 parks in Mexico City and it definitely gets my seal of approval. After pet owners pick up their dog’s turds, they can place the bag in a special box that calculates its weight in exchange for a few minutes of free Wi-Fi.  Welcome to 21st Century.

    Of course, that didn’t stop park habitués from dropping bags of garbage in the box to claim their free Wi-Fi, but DDB said they didn’t mind. In their opinion, if people want to pick up trash — so be it — that just means a cleaner park.

    A very innovative idea!

    We urge you to PLEASE worm your dogs and pick up after them. Its totally unfair on kids and the coaches you volunteer there time to have to put up with this mess!

    Research: dickybag.com, news.discovery.com

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  • 3 : 1

    3 : 1

    A good goalkeeper can mean the difference between success and failure for a team.

    Since I started coaching I have witnessed very few goalkeepers that can play with their feet. We have a tendency to produce great keepers in Ireland but very few are actually technically good on the floor.

    If games stats tell us that a keeper touches the ball 3 times with his feet versus 1 with his hands, then why do we focus so much on shot stopping?

    Could it be, that managers are more concerned with winning then developing? Is this the reason why the big lad takes all the goal kicks? I believe this mentality is preventing the goalie from being the creator of most attacks. It is also putting your team at a disadvantage, having a player drop back to take the goal kicks.

    Move those feet…

    The success or failure of any goalkeeper revolves around their ability or inability to move their feet, get set or deal with a situation.  It simply does not matter that you have the softest hands in the world if your feet do not get those “soft” hands to the ball.  But, once you can get there and get set, these hands are the next critical step in having success.  I’m not forgetting that there are a lot of other very important aspects of the game that the goalkeeper needs to possess (reading the game, communication, distribution, etc.), but having good feet and not just hands is what will make you stand our from the rest.

    If you watch the very best goalkeepers, they always seem to be in the right position, make easy saves and dive very little.  Well, it is not just a coincidence that this happens.  They have great feet that are quick, agile and strong.  Oh yeah, and they have great hands that typically catch everything within their grasp with little rebounds or dropped balls.  This is the true mark of a quality goalkeeper. Most goalkeepers can only make 2-3 saves per game, yet they distribute the ball with their feet well over ten times per game.

    One to One coaching

    Its is now common for keepers to be instructed by a teams goalkeeping coach and some even pay for extra tuition. Yes, I see an improvement with their shot stopping but I rarely see any difference from one season to the next with their ball distribution (FEET).

    It amazes me how many goalkeepers and the coaches want to spend most of their goalkeeper training diving after balls…why do this, if you don’t need to?  Why not work on your feet, after all you use them more in a game then you would your hands and diving around that much could cause injury, especially when most kids train on hard astro pitches.

    The goalkeeper is one of the most important players on the field – they are the last line of defense and the first line of attack. To play the position well, requires special skills and training.

    Good footwork is the foundation of solid goalkeeping. If a keeper has quick feet, they can easily get themselves into position to make the easy catch, rather than having to dive at balls just at the edge of their reach all the time. Good goalkeepers make every save look easy, and the key to that is good footwork.

    Work those feet..

    1. Start with some speed and agility training
    2. Don’t separatethe keeper from the rest of the training, involve them in all ball work.
    3. When working the keeper, work the feet and then hands. Use ladders and cones for quick feet. For example, moving your feet quickly through a few cones to get set, deal with a shot and handle it clean.  Keep everything below your waist quick and above the waist very RELAXED…the reason?  Keepers need their feet to get places quickly and get set, but their upper body is what they catch the ball with and it needs to be soft and relaxed.
    4. Get your keepers to do extra work outside of training and if you or they are paying for coaching, ask your coach to work the feet more.
    5. Distributing the ball: work on receivingthe ball, control and distribution. This can be done with phases of play allowing the goalkeepers to have free play and the freedom to distribute without being tackled during practice.
    6. Get your keeper to make up his/her own exercises.
    7. Always be moving during the game, keep those feet busy!

    You can find hundreds of videos on the net relating to this topic.

    Often the difference between a save and a goal is just half a step. Use the feet to get the body behind the ball.

    Research: Todd Hoffard – Goalkeeper

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  • Not one Question was asked at the FAI AGM.

    Not one Question was asked at the FAI AGM.

    There was no fanfare. But neither was there furore. 

    As FAI chief executive John Delaney announced a 10% wage cut to bring his salary down to a still-significant €360,000 at Saturday’s FAI annual general meeting, there was only a muted ripple of applause around the conference room of the Mount Errigal Hotel in Letterkenny.

    That, however, shouldn’t be confused with dissent or disgruntlement among the association’s members. Throughout the entire course of the AGM, there wasn’t a single question asked from the floor and barely a vote against any of the motions.

    A handful of members said afterwards that there wasn’t the opportunity to ask anything but, in his press conference following the event, Delaney explained that they  “invited questions in advance of the meeting”.

    “Obviously, the members are very happy with the way the association is being run,’’ he said. “You asked are the members concerned. The answer to that, in the majority, is no.”

    The AGM itself, however, hardly went to any extremes at all. It generally stayed around the same level: sedate.

    That was in stark contrast to the noise and colour around Donegal in the previous week as the FAI staged its ‘Festival of Football’ there. The event, which began in 2007, remains a hugely clever move given how it builds goodwill around individual counties and also helps deepen connections in a wider football structure that can still be criticised for having too many gaps and no real shape.

    Certainly, there was a very welcoming atmosphere around Donegal. And, when it came to ‘3’ marketing director Elaine Carey having her say at the AGM, she gave one reason for the contrasting absence of vigour at the event itself: a late night in Letterkenny and “a lot of sore heads”.

    With the ‘Festival of Football’ now becoming so all-consuming in the week and the accounts released two weeks beforehand, though, it is possible that the AGM has simply become a mass box-ticking exercise rather than a genuine meeting for discussion.

    Delaney tried to tick the biggest box of all on Saturday: his salary. Whatever about certain obsessions with the minutiae of FAI finances, it remains the only such issue that truly commands immediate public attention. It dominated discussion after the AGM. The general public agitation, however, seems to be at odds with the acceptance of it from the actual members of the association. Delaney’s salary becomes an even more emotive public issue when it is put into the context of comparable positions in other associations, the financial problems in the League of Ireland and ongoing redundancies at the FAI. And, after the AGM, such basic disparities were put to Delaney.

    “I think the president (Paddy McCaul) addressed that today. I think the FAI’s revenues (when Delaney took over in 2005) were about €7m. Today, they are about €45m. I think it’s easy for people to say ‘there’s the prize money’ (for the League of Ireland).

    “The FAI does a lot more work for the League of Ireland at a significant cost, in terms of how it resources it in all aspects. I don’t know what my counterparts (in other associations) earn. I know what I was offered. I know what I signed.”

    Delaney’s key point in the press conference was that he voluntarily took the pay cut in order “to show leadership”. 

    Ultimately, though, much of this should be colour to the main question: is the FAI doing its job correctly? Is it safeguarding and improving the sport in this country? When a series of financial issues, from debt to international attendances, were put to Delaney, he kept coming back to one main point.

    “I think the message today is that we’re managing our debt. The next 18-24 months are going to be difficult but, once we get through that period, we’ll be in decent shape. You heard the treasurer, the finance director, you heard me say… we owe our bankers €50m. That will be cleared by 2020.”

    If Delaney argues strongly when it comes to finances, though, one striking aspect of the AGM was the complete absence of debate or discussion about the point of all this money.

    Glossing over the real issues…

    It was remarkable, for example, how Ireland’s Euro 2012 campaign was glossed over. A video was shown but clips of actual events on the pitch were sparse. At the time of those three defeats, one figure involved in Irish sport at elite levels told the Irish Examiner how, if they happened in most other bodies in most other countries, “the consultants would be called in to do a root-and-branch review of why that happened”. 

    That doesn’t come down to the micro details of Giovanni Trapattoni’s management — which should, of course, be separate to the AGM. But it does involve the macro details of whether Ireland’s football structure is capable of producing players of sufficient technical quality. Other than a few points in speeches about the grassroots, this wasn’t raised despite the fact €377,000 was cut from such funding in 2011. If such issues are not asked about at the AGM, when are they asked about? “You’ll never have enough money,” Delaney said when quizzed afterwards. “I think the message today from the grassroots was that we still need the volunteers to support the association in terms of implementing the strategies that we’ve all agreed together: be it the underage review, the amateur review, the high-performance review.” 

    At the tip of all that, of course, is the beleaguered League of Ireland. Delaney insisted that the competition is going in the right direction even if the road is bumpy, that he is confident Dundalk can be saved and that some of the actions and comments from Monaghan United were simply surprising.

    “I opened this conference by asking whether the clubs are, in general, in a better place than before we took over? Absolutely, yes. Is the league where I’d want it to be today? No… but we’ve all got to work together to try and bring it to a better place.”

    By Miguel Delaney Monday, July 23, 2012

    This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, July 23, 2012

    Another year gone and not only have the yes men of the leagues done nothing to improve grassroots development, they don’t even ask the questions. How can a team perform so dismally at a major championship and not even a single question be asked????? C’mon!

    How can the most popular sport in the country, grassroots structure not be a topic for discussion at the annual Football Association of Ireland AGM?  This should have been the number one topic. Not one questions from the floor, no comments or topics to discuss. So Irish soccer has no issues, apparently. Clearly the people at the top can’t see the problems at the bottom, just proves how far removed they are from the game……..they really are!

    What now for Irish soccer? 

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  • Coerver @ the NDSL Academy, earlier tonight…

    Coerver @ the NDSL Academy, earlier tonight…

    Considering the winter conditions, there was great turn out for the Coaches Club at the NDSL Academy tonight. From start to finish this was an extremely well organised session; fun, fast and thoroughly enjoyable.

    Austin and Ross from Coerver Coaching, put on one of the best Technical skills sessions I have ever witnessed. The 16 NSDL Academy players were put through a fast and exciting session working on speed, agility, coordination, stamina and strength. The drills required the players to use both feet at all times, change of direction, step overs and feints in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 and 8v8 practices.

    5 changes of direction: 1.Inside cut, 2. outside cut, 3. U Turn, 4. Hook, 5. Turn Step on

    What I liked so much about tonight was that every player was on the ball from start to finish and they even experimented with size 1 balls up to size 5. They also worked on decision making for both defender and attackers, combined with running with the ball and finishing under pressure.

    The players had to be sharp, working on Speed, Game intelligence and finishing. The session was completed with a shadow practice session on a full pitch, playing in a 4-3-3 formation. Playing out from the back, into midfield and up to the front man with variations using the wide men and over-lapping fullbacks. At all times the players were encouraged to be sharp, quick on the ball, moving it at speed and keeping the shape of the team intact.

    This was my second ever live Coerver session and already I can’t wait for the the next one.

    Next Month

    Coerver are back in Dublin for the Diploma Course, which I will de-fin-itely be attending.

    Each Attending Coach Will Receive:

    • 2-days of expert tuition from Coerver® Coaching co-founder Charlie Cooke & Coerver Ireland Director Austin Speight.
    • Full course resource material & New Coerver® Coaching 5-disc   “Session Planner“ DVD (Worth € 69.99)
    • Coerver® Coaching Youth Diploma Certificate of Attendance

    Dates: August 25th, 26th 2012

    Venue: NDSL, Oscar Traynor Centre, Coolock,Dublin.

    Times: 9.30 registration, 10am start, 16.00 finish. 

    Price: €229

    To book call 086 796. 9974 or email austin.speight@coerver.ie

    PS. A huge shout out to Mitch Whitty on the continued success of the coaches club. Well Done Mitch!

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