Blake's High Performance Soccer

 We are Blakesoccer believe in improving the quality of coaching for youth soccer players in our community.  Blakesoccer staff share our expertise, knowledge and coaching resources with area coaches to meet our mission. We aim to provide area coaches with current and updated resources to further their knowledge of teaching the beautiful sport of soccer.

"Far too many players have no idea how one position on the field relates to another. They just know what they should do in one position, get in a comfort zone and do their thing. Soccer is like an orchestra. If the trumpets play a piece of music as a march, the woodwinds play it like a waltz, the drummer plays it like a jazz piece it just doesn’t work that way.

Ever seen a team win the ball in its defensive third and start up field only to have all of the forwards run away from the ball looking for a long ball to be played 70 yards from the opposing goal? Looks like a track meet!

Those forwards, and probably the midfielders too, don’t understand what they need to do to maintain possession and string passes together in order to get the ball well into the opponent’s half of the field, and then attack!

Now I am not saying this is easy for a coach to accomplish. You don’t find out how to do this by reading “how to” books and/or watching videos. If you don’t understand how it all comes together, how can you teach your players?

The best way is to find a soccer mentor who understands how to teach a team and its individual players “how to play”, ask questions and remember the answers.

Then go and teach your players!"- Ray Alley

Below are drills, articles, and links from websites dedicated to coaching education. Please visit the contributing websites for more resources and other educational products. The drills below were because they focus heavily of the improvement of key technical areas while developing tactical awareness.

Coaching Articles and References

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