Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching | Tags: goal misses, goal mistakes, lucky goals
Often in youth soccer the ball will be pinging around in the penalty area and it will hit someone or something and you’re left wondering how on earth it ended up in the net.
Well here’s five of the best:
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Skills | Tags: Christiano Ronaldo, how to warm up, Ronaldo, Ronaldo free-kicks, warm up tips, warm ups
Watch the professionals warm up before a game and you can see the concentration and the effort they put in to make sure they are ready to do on the pitch what they practice in training.
Before Manchester United played Middlesborough the Sky Sports team were on hand to watch Christiano Ronaldo warm up for his skills and for his free-kicks.
When the whistle blows he will be ready – this is what coaches of young soccer teams must do. Don’t waste the time before kick offs with long speeches and boring jogging – get your players doing what you want them to be doing in matches.
Visit Better Soccer Coaching for some good warm up tips.
Watch Ronaldo warm up:
Filed under: Dave Clarke, Soccer Coaching, Soccer Skills, Uncategorized | Tags: Chelsea, Frank Lampard, free-kick training, how to take free-kick, shot on the turn, soccer kicking skills, Stamford Bridge, turn and shoot
I once paid a visit to the ground of Chelsea, Stamford Bridge, to have a look around. I was lucky enough to witness Frank Lampard with his trainer on the Stamford Bridge pitch.
He was standing with his back to goal, and the trainer was feeding the ball in behind him. On his shout of “turn” Lampard turned and shot at the goal.
At first he was hitting the ball miles past the post or over the bar, but after a while he was turning and hitting both corners. When I looked out of the window an hour later he was still doing it.
I write a lot for Better Soccer Coaching about putting in time at practice sessions, and there was Frank Lampard doing just what I was writing about.
Watch this video for a good way to get your players practicing shooting into the top corners of the net:
