I started thinking about the following while working with coaches during a session for the US Soccer federation—but it also reflects a couple of broader teaching thoughts that have been cooking away for a while. It’s pretty rough–still thinking of it as a draft but i I hope it will be useful to those who work…
If you’re a soccer geek, or just a practice geek, you should check out the Bayern Munich full training sessions that are available on YouTube. With only light narration they run the camera straight through their training sessions in real time, which is a great thing for coaches to get to watch. I had an hour…
My son is a soccer junkie- a football junkie I should say because if you used that word with him he would think first of it in the rest of the world’s usage. If you asked him about football last week, he’d tell you about Palace beating Spurs more than Colts beating Broncos We watch…
This video is for coaches. Mostly. It’s about how to make some apparently simple changes that can make your practices dramatically more efficient and productive. And it can help you build the sort of culture you want into your team as well. But I should note that this is also about a topic that’s central to…
My new favorite word is ‘pause’- especially when it’s used in place of the word ‘stop.’ We’ve been discussing this a lot lately at our workshops- in a lot of different settings. Consider, for example, a ‘rally-killer,’ a student who hogs the stage at exactly the wrong time: you ask for a piece of evidence that…