A Progressive Guide to Maximize Player Development by Nelson McAvoy - As a soccer coach, you need to know how to teach basic skills and run solid practices. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals explains how to maximize young athletes; learning of essential techniques and tactics through fun and effecient practice sessions. Teaching Soccer Fundamentals will make next season a more rewarding experience for you and your players. Learn More

Lesson Plans for Coaching 13-15 Year Old Soccer Players

The objective of this book is to share the actual training methodology used in the youth divisions of a professional Italian soccer club. The focus is on technical skills and at the same time teaching the fundamentals of individual tactics and group tactics as well as coordination and the fundamental aspects of conditioning. Learn More

Learn to dribble, receive, pass, shoot, head, tackle, and guard the goal with guidance from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, the top coaches organization in the United States. Learn More

The skills and techniques in this series are clearly demonstrated by Wiel Coerver and his young players. Slow motion is used to break down the skills and emphasize the key teaching points, while exciting game highlights show the skills used by such great players as Cruyff, Gullit, Planti, Vanenburg and VanBasten. Learn More

The definitive playing and coaching manual for youth soccer. Compiled by the coaching, educational, and technical staff of U.S. Soccer, this book offers extensive information on all aspects of the game: technique, tactics, laws, prevention and care of injury, coaching preparation, organizational structure, model training sessions, and more than 100 practice games suitable for developing aspects of every players' game. Learn More

with Jamie Kohl and Andy Kohl, Kohl's Professional Kicking Camps, - both 1st Team All-State kickers, both played at the D-I level and signed with NFL teams after graduation - In this impressive DVD, Jamie and Andy Kohl break down every aspect of field goal kicking and kickoffs - from stretching to technique to drills. Based on their Division I college and NFL experience, as well as their nationwide kicking camps in which they analyze thousands of kicks using slow motion digital technology, they focus only on the teaching points that lead to successful kicking at all levels. Throughout this presentation, the fundamentals of alignment and body balance are a consistent theme. This on-field demonstration details equipment, holding, steps, leg swing, ball-foot contact and follow-through. Several core and dynamic stretches are illustrated that prepare kickers for their best effort on the field. They share the advantages of three different styles of field goal kicking: soccer style, the club and the _ club style and demonstrate several kick off techniques; the hurdle motion, directional kick-off, the pooch kick and on-side kick. Each drill shared in this DVD incorporates valuable techniques presented throughout the presentation. These kicking gurus cover every important aspect of this critical skill! No football coach, or kicker, should go without learning from the Kohls, who have made teaching successful kicking their passion! - 64 minutes. 2006. Learn More

with Randy Evans, former University of Oklahoma Women's Head Soccer Coach - Coach Evans shows in this video the technical and tactical drills used to train your soccer players the Triangle Offense. Coach Evans illustrates the fundamentals of outside and inside foot cutting that you can do either with cones or with the presence of a defender. This video also presents the many techniques that Coach Evans uses when teaching his players how to beat defenders one on one. This includes the different uses of the crossover and even how to beat two defenders with the double crossover. Coach Evans stresses the accuracy of your players shooting, demonstrating the different drills he uses when teaching his players, including the use of benches in front of the net as a goalie's weak spot. Coach Evans uses some of his own team video highlights to prove how these drills have taught his players and brought success to the Oklahoma program over the years. This video is an excellent guide to teach any age group the fundamentals and techniques needed to be successful! - 59 minutes. 2003. Learn More