Coaching Notes
How to Give a Half Time Team Talk That Actually Lands
You are 1-0 down, the players are walking off with their heads low, and you have roughly 12 minutes before the referee wants...
Player development and coaching writer
Priya has worked with youth academies on and off for over a decade, mostly at the age groups nobody writes about. She writes about development with a bias toward what actually happens on a Tuesday training session, not what looks good in a highlight reel.
Coaching Notes
You are 1-0 down, the players are walking off with their heads low, and you have roughly 12 minutes before the referee wants...
Youth Football
Picture a Saturday at 9:15. Fourteen under 10s are jogging two slow laps of the pitch, half of them chatting, three of them...
Youth Football
Every grassroots coach has had the conversation in the car park.
Match Tactics
The false nine gets described as if it were a clever diagram, a number nine who stands in a slightly odd spot.
Games
Ask any club football supporter about the international break and you will get a groan.
Games
The offside trap is one of the great high-wire acts in football, a defensive line stepping up in unison to leave an attacker...