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DOC of CUSC AND NCU FC,, TOVO: T1, and T2 license from Sitges, Spain ,USSF C, APFC NEXT certified coach, National Youth , USC: Advanced National
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I said before whenever I finished my Curriculums I would share them.
Is this Curriculum perfect? Of course not. I am not even sure if I like it but this for the most part has been what I have done for these ages.
Below is our curriculum for u5-8
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Please. Please.
Stop “conditioning” during your practice.
If you have 1.5 hours , don’t waste it making your players run before or after the practice.
They should be with a ball the entire time.
You a soccer coach, not a track coach.
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Driving 5.5 hours to play 1 league game for 11 year olds is the dumbest thing ever.
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Every single club / program should have a methodology. A training style that is taught and built upon every year. If your club does not have one it is not a club. It is a group of coaches who do their own thing as part of a business.
#methodology
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If your hiring a new coach, quit looking at the coaches coaching the top teams in u17.
Look at the coach who set them up for success in u8-12.
Coaching older players is so much easier yet everyone acts like it’s way harder.
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Tournaments are dumb and horrible for kids.
Playing 4 games in 2 days just totally destroys their body and increases the chances of injuries.
This is especially true for older teenagers.
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If you are not pushing these basic principles in a rondo CONSISTENTLY, then you are doing them wrong.
- Receive with the back foot
- hips open to the field
- check ur teammates/lines/defenders
- head up
- simple passes
Rondos are more than a warmup.
They are foundational.
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A great alternative to a rondo to mix things up
7v0.
Have the team set up in their formation on their side and possess within their actual positions. Every 5 passes add a defender until there is 7, then after 5 passes go to goal.
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I am going to be making a full curriculum for our programs this summer. One that a brand new coach could follow with a new team.
There are many curriculums out there for higher level teams but not so many for lower level ones.
Attached are the ages I will make them for.
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Development over winning looks like this.
My team at u9
- 13 wins 10 losses. Didn’t care about losses.
Same team now at u13
- 12 wins 3 losses. Expect to be 17-3 maybe 16-4
Develop early to win later. We still compete, we just don’t win at the cost of development.
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I have coached my u11 boys since they first started in u9. It has been 2.5 years and we have yet to do a single “technical activity.”
It has been 98% rondos, positional play and training games.
They currently are one of the best teams in the state for their age group.
#TOVO
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Someone asked me “how many wins do you have as a club coach?”
My reply “I have no idea but dear God who cares.”
Stop defining your success on wins or titles.
Define it by how many of your kids keep playing the game, or who truly developed to the next level.
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Wanna see how rondos improved your team? Take a raw team. No skill. Do rondos every day. Then a year later , watch them do a simple 3v3 and just enjoy. The intelligence will be through the roof compared to previous year.
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Parents / players will never realize how much coaches actually think about their team.
Constantly challenging their thoughts, strategizing etc.
The amount of sticky notes I waste just writing random things that pop in my head could fill a room.
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I have made a curriculum based on ball mastery , 1v1 and positional play for u5-8 ages. 1v1 to 5v5. I have pinned it on my page for feedback
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People will never truly realize how thankless coaching can be until they do it themselves.
You do everything for everyone else’s kids and are rarely shown any gratitude.
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If you consider yourself one of the best coaches at your club. Don’t just coach the best teams.
If you want to truly grow as a coach, challenge yourself to coach a team where it isn’t going to come easy.
It is also infinitely more satisfying when they have success
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MLS did a great job of making sure no one actually watches MLS with their new Apple deal.
Absolutely savage.
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Coaches who have a bunch of followers, but are not following any1 else imo are rly just saying
“I know more than everyone else. Listen to me. I don’t need to learn from any1 else”
I’ll be the first to say I absolutely steal ideas from other coaches. It’s the best thing about X
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Burnout is not from a specific sport,
But from a mismanagement of time,
From an accumulation of bad experiences,
From a lack of fun.
It is not because someone played too much.
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Practice tonight
Every player had ear plugs, and no talking allowed. Had to use vision to see, and body movements etc to try and get the ball
Rondos, position play etc
Result? As much success as any other practice. Was fantastic
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I am not the best coach and never will be the best coach. But I am open minded, while also having some steadfast beliefs.
My posts are about my current beliefs and experiences but they are ever changing.
My beliefs/experience may be entirely different than yours and that’s fine
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Sharing this again. For those who think BRAND NEW 5-6 year olds can’t start playing soccer the correct way.
These kids are less than a month in. (Blue team).
It’s not high level like many other videos but it’s more like what most people think of 5 year old capabilities
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Beep tests are pointless for all youth teams.
Beep tests are pointless for older club teams if there’s no actual fitness regimen, periodization etc
Beep tests are for higher up teams with actual planning and actual monitoring of fitness
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Paying for “technical training” is pointless if you don’t take what you learn there and do it at home.
You cannot go to a 1 hour session, once a week and expect to get better if that’s the only time you work on it.
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So many coaches spend their first 4+ years stumbling through trying to find their right direction/ ideas.
And I think it’s largely due to a lack of guidance. So few clubs have a true curriculum and it’s a figure it out as you go mindset.
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There is a massive difference between WINNING and SUCCESS. Youth teams need success to grow and improve. They do not necessarily need to win.
Parents and coaches alike need to learn this.
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Many didn’t like my post on tournaments being bad for kids.
Sure enough. We are in one this weekend, and one of my best players goes down with a calf injury in the second game.
Tournaments are so unsafe for older teenagers.
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Forfeited the 5.5 hour away game. Unfortunately it’s also associated with a 400$ fine.
Driving 5.5 hours away for 1 game or get fined. 🙄
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Perfect club system.
30 game season over a 9 month period with a month long break in the middle for Christmas. 2 tournaments spread out over a week for each. Beginning and end.
No more than 2 games in a weekend. Preferably just one.
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Coaches
Your players are capable of 10x of what you think they are.
Do not hold back.
And do not say they need better skills before they can try something.
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“Kids need to play for multiple coaches”
This is a false statement in most cases.
If your coaches are not following the same methodology. This is false.
If you’re going to go to a lower quality coach this is false.
Very few clubs have all their coaches follow same methodology
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I can’t take people who do pattern play consistently very serious for ages 12 and under.
It’s one thing to do it once to show them something cuz I’ve done that, but doing them all the time 🤦🏼♂️
Their players are probably so bored at practice.
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For the curriculum we are making, it will be free
I am by no means perfect
My mindset is to share all my ideas and hope others do the same with me. This way I can grow as a coach as well as help others to as well
I’m also too dumb to actually sell something correctly anyway 😂
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I’m against the change. This whole back and forth crap is dumb.
I wasn’t for it but we made the change and built around it. Changing throws every single team out of whack.
Birth Year vs School Year 🚨
What we’ve been told recently:
ECNL seems to be the one pushing this the hardest. As of now they are voting to go back to School Year but ECNL cannot stand alone with this rule change.
They need U.S 🇺🇸 Soccer Approval and the other club leagues
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There is a massive push for Multi-sports however in soccer once you get to a certain age you must specialize.
Many use American football as an ex. of why to do multi-sports in high school because that’s what they do but we have to stop looking at each sport the same
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There are 2 kinds soccer seasons in the spring in Alabama
1. Have a turf field
Practice potentially every day.
Never have games rained out.
Train on many different concepts, built upon each practice
2. Have a grass field
What is practice?
Play games occasionally
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Hard Truth. If you are a Director of a program, such as Academy or U13-15 Director, and you don’t know the name of every kid you are responsible for after one season, you are not doing your job.
Each child is on their own individual journey and we are on it with them.
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Team captains never wait to be named captain before leading.
The process starts before that with the hugest standards on and off the field, in the classroom, and the community.
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Small clubs should form partnerships and work together.
Small club DOCs should not try to take on the state alone and assume they can do it better than everyone else.
Nothing more frustrating than a small club DOC who wants to repeat the wheel.
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Pre game warmup
- 1 on 1 talks with a board reminding/showing of each’s tactical responsibilities
- team huddle of silence and clearing of the mind
- yoga/dynamic stretching
- rondos and activation exercises
- PPG and shooting
- Final team tactical/motivational talk
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Saying a player cannot do positional games because of lack of skill is like saying you should not give a book to someone learning to read.
Just provide more space and time. Have patience and they’ll learn.
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Do not make a new competitive team if you know there is not enough quality to compete. Don’t take peoples money just to watch them lose their spirit because the get pummeled every game.
Sometimes doing what’s best for the kids is sending them elsewhere.
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The most common feeling I have in self evaluating my coaching is
“Not good enough”
Constantly trying to be better is very self rewarding, but at the same time can be quite demoralizing as well.
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“If you’re an average player, you want to be left alone because you want to be able to slide by. If you’re a good player, you want to be coached. If you’re a great player, you want the coach to tell you the truth every day."
Nick Saban
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I’ll support the MLS when the MLS supports the youth.
Overseas the pro teams fund the youth. Here we profit off the youth.
#realchange
I see the "everyone needs to get on board with supporting MLS" conversation has sparked back up today.
My thoughts.
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The team I previously posted about in regards to development over winning.
Our team after 3 years has not lost a single player. We have only gained
They all love it because we have fun every practice with
#TOVO
based practices.
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I think one of the hardest things about coaching is trying to break bad habits a player has from being coached incorrectly.
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Honesty to me is the most important trait of a coach.
There’s no need to lie to kids, to parents, yourselves.
Embrace the truth and realize everyone’s paths are different. There’s. Strength in all walks of life and we don’t have to make ourselves seem better than we are
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U5 - 2v2 - to 1 goal each
U6 - 3v3 - funino (4 goals)
U7 - 4v4 - regular or funino
U8 - 5v5 - 4v4 plus keepers
Thoughts?
I cannot decide.
Current is
U5-6 - 3v3
U7 - 4v4
U8 - 5v5
All regular.
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Plan for today.
Stage 1. 3v3+2 to small goals
Stage 2. 6v6+4 position play
Stage 3. 6v6 thru ball Activity to Goal
Stage 4 9v9 game with an emphasis on penetrating a high defensive line / mid block
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You will learn more from a month of failure, than a year of success.
Success can be both the goal and the enemy.
Failure is the feared outcome, but potentially the greatest gift.
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Figuring out ways to improve soccer in your city to me is a neverending process.
These coaches who say they have the answers or that their way is the perfect way unfortunately have stopped their growth as a coach.
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From a pure soccer perspective. Judge a coach by how his team plays, not by one session
Even the best coaches have a bad session.
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Factors that made me a better coach.
1. Having kids
2. Losing / failure
3. Humbling myself
4. Being more open minded
5. Self reflection
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Looking for alternatives to veo and trace
Veo is too expensive.
Trace, you can’t even download games and customer support sucks.
Rly just want something affordable that follows the ball and can download.
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This is the worst of soccer twitter. Make a really dumb take to get engagement
Truly sad to see. At this level football should be all about expressing yourself and individual brilliance
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One thing I won’t do is fight on Twitter. It’s not worth it. I am only on here to share what I know but also learn from others. I desire to connect with other open minded coaches, however if you are closed minded, please don’t respond on mine to argue. There’s no need
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@rkramb
@TexasCoachMike
@hatrik10
@waltmerino
@jKokkoris8
@MHS_Nets_Soccer
@Coach_Boyle
@Softtop67
@Sockercoach
@_ToddBeane
@CoachRory
U6.
Rings game
Tennis ball skills square
U7
3v3+1 (coach) position play
Change of direction relay
U8
2v2+2 or 5v3 position play
1v1 games to the side
U10
4v4+2 training game to small goals
7v0 - add defenders every x pass up to 7
U11-12
4v4+4 position play
3v3+3
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No “passing activities, no dribbling activities, no pattern play, and nothing you’d ever see in a typical technical training practice.
I credit their growth to the TOVO methodology
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These high intensity activities are very demanding. Rondos. Position play, SSG, training games etc. they get in shape by actually playing the game. We have literally never had an issue of gassing out because we constantly play.
Lastly for older club teams they do require 👇
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Plan today
Stage 1: 3v1 rondos
Stage 2: 7v7+2 numerical superiority position play game
Stage 3: 6v6 thru ball activity (didn’t do yesterday)
Stage 4: 11v11 numerical superiority game
Topic: Progression against high structures and mid block
(I have 27 kids and another coach)
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Common Hoax/myth - for YOUTH sports, not high school, college etc
“It’s better to be on a good team and develop even if you never play because they’ll improve more than a lower team where they would play more”
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Here’s the thing. I occasionally turned on an MLS game when it was on cable.
I’ll also watch the NBA playoffs, March Madness etc.
And I have subscriptions that allow me to watch champions league.
However there’s no chance I’m paying 19$ a month for Apple and MLS.
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There was quite a bit of people interesting in working together on the curriculum.
To start.
What are everyone’s favorite activities for the u5-6 age?
Think low level, medium and high as well.
What principles do you feel are the most important for this age ?
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How many of you sometimes sit down in a practice and just watch?
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The best coaches are the ones who coach the small details more than the large.
Having your hips open correctly off the ball is more important than making a specific run, how to shoot, or a specific 1v1 move
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After watching many college games this year I believe that many teams do not even have a game model.
It looks like many just recruit a bunch of players and put them in positions with the most basic instructions and they go play.
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Twitter for me is for Soccer and Crypto.
I have zero interest to see or talk about politics.
It is unproductive on a social media platform.
Let’s focus on topics that bring us together, not divide.
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I have had an X account for 2 years now. I have never posted about politics or religion or anything controversial. I have simply posted about soccer and ignored the rest.
I have watched ppl who I love following for soccer post opinions I completely disagree with but I ignored 🧵
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People will never understand how much work goes on behind the scenes to try and grow a club.
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Gotta say. The new recruiting rules really kill the whole “join an ecnl etc club in 8-9th grade to get noticed”.
Now there’s really no reason to until junior year, or not at all
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A great coach may affect 10% of your game.
A bad coach can affect 90% of your game.
Do your research on what each club/coach is about.
#hardtruth
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First assignment done. Doing a 4v4+3 positional play activity that focuses on my 3-1 rest defense. Small part of my 4-2-3-1 rest defense.
Definitely one of my favorite activities to break this topic down.
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U6 all star teams might be the silliest thing I’ve ever heard
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Re-set
Re- adjust
Re-start
Re-focus
As many times as you need to.
Just don’t quit
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My ragtag group of boys. Proud to be their coach.
4 2011s
8 2012s
3 2013s
And about to move up to the highest division for 2011s.
17-4 for the season.
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Culture above all, belief , and then rondos , positional games, and training games. We taught intellect to overcome skill discrepancies and broke every school record in the process. I say this to say, the game is the best teacher and a good culture always overcomes
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Imo I’ve never gotten a coaching resource that is good enough on it’s own. When you combine them, and create a season plan based on what fits your style there is some real value in many.
My season plan includes tovo/apfc/phase of play/ and things I’ve done for years.
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After school. Conditioning NEVER takes place during practice but during an alotted period.
For my club teams we only practice 3 times a week for 1.5 hours. I am not doing sprints ,laps or anything without a ball during my sessions. What I WILL do is high intensity activities 👇
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Everyone says “MLS is so much better with Apple.” I understand the perspective if your a big fan of a team and will get it anyway
I’m referring to actually growing interest of the game in usa.
Or for the casual supporter
Or for bringing in NEW fans.
For these to me it’s bad
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I am all about making things like the game because the game is the best teacher.
However some people take that so far that it basically destroys the point. They criticize anything that isn’t exactly like the game without using context.
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Question for you.
How many of you would be willing to change how you coach if your DOC said they were incorporating a club wide methodology and every coach had to coach the same way?
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Another short video of my 2017 girls. I loved her vision to cut in and split the defenders to play the backside.
Still huge believer in this age being able to do more than what every1 says they are capable of.
There are plenty of typical 5 yr old soccer moments but a few gems
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Good day today. Our tiny school tied a good 6A program and lost 2-0 to one of the best teams in the state.
Going from getting 10-0ed by those teams 2 years ago to tying and competing.
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This activity is far better than any pattern play activity due to the constant decision making from the added pressure.
It is always better for them to choose the next best pass rather than dictate it.
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I think 1 of the most beautiful but also most frustrating things about the game we play is that every day, U question if there’s a better way
Is this right?
Could I be wrong?
You find a method to something that you’re so sure on, and the next day you’re thinking well maybe not
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To further explain my take. I coach club and high school. For high school, we have basically 6 months until the season that we can do “conditioning” before the season even begins. During this time when we can’t actually practice we will do like segments, 120s, sprints etc 👇
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When you spend 30 minutes trying to use the USSF learning center and it somehow deletes everything you just did …
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Yesterday we had an hour long practice. Plan was to do 3 activities, 20 minutes each. Second activity is below. It was going so well that we just stuck with it for 40 minutes. Tons of creativity, fun etc
Practice was
1. 4v4+3 narrow rondo
2. 5v5+GK
3. 8v8+1 game
#phaseofplay
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The ONLY REAL reason of paying someone else to train your child 6 and under is if your kid will not listen to you but will someone else.
Otherwise, work with your own kid as much as possible.
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If you are going to run a camp for 125$ per person, at least be honest and say it’s a fundraiser for your program. That’s a truly legitimate reason.
Stop saying it’s for development or getting an edge on the competition.
It’s just false advertising
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Not every great juggler is a great player, but every great player is a great juggler.
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I feel like Twitter is forcing me to weigh in on politics. It’s literally all that’s on my feed.
Do I have an opinion? Yes
Do I wanna share it? Sure but not if I’m ostracized.
Wish we could go back to where my feed was all soccer
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