#soccer coach problems

[littlepaperthoughts]

My field conditions are always a mess. I work outside and literally the weather has done nothing but make me want to throw shit everywhere. PS: The last photo was the worst. All of the clouds were moving North East and this mother fucker was moving south west right towards my car. I thought u was seeing things.

[spanishmatador]

Soccer Try-out drills

This was the drills I prepared for the first try-out I held as a coach for my team Darkside Utd. My responsibility was to come up with 2hrs of practice time. And I wanted to use that time to determine the player's: Form, stamina, speed, ball control, agility, passing, defensive skills, attacking skills, shot power, shot accuracy. And this is what I came up with: Stretching (random):

- legs, feet, hamstring, arms, torso, etc. (I let the assistant coach take care of that while I set up pylons).

Warm Up:  - Jog around the field x2.

- Shuffling the feet, zigzagging through cones (15' apart), high knees and butt kicks on the way back to the line. twice.

- Suicides, 1st cone at 10 feet, then 20 feet, and 30. twice.

Passing:

- Just passing back and forth with one touches.

- (1) passes to (2) horizontally, while (2) one touch passes diagonally forward, for (1) to get a shot on goal. Do this with a right and left diagonal, to work both foots.

Ball Control:

- Zigzag your way through cones with the ball. To finish with a shot on goal.

Defending:

- Set up two cones for the defence to shift back and forth, and the attacker trying to get through.

- Defender passes to attacker, then pivots on back foot jockeying back as the attacker presses on, while blocking any chance for a shot to the net.

Attack:

- One touch 1-2s, forward1 perpendicularly passes the ball to defender, which one touch passes it back to forward1  who one touch passes back to forward2 diagonally before running past the defender to set up for a one touch forward pass to the withdrawn forward1. to then have a shot at goal. - Power shots.

Total Time: 1 hr. 30 mins.

Followed by a 30 min. skirmish.