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Are you struggling to transfer success on the training ground to the field?

Coach Daniel explains in detail the methods along with the scientific proof about how to structure training at all age groups to reap success in games. Through comparing other sports, looking at historical success with the top player, and incorporating modern science, this course provides you with the knowledge to transform your team. 

The combination of an enjoyable, tightly knit group, as well as the technique that is crafted through short-sided games further, proves the theory of Coach Daniel. There is no better way to learn about the benefits of Futsal and SSG for soccer than to learn from one of the most sought after coaches in the industry.

A topic on Formations: 3 or 4 Back? Dr. Peter McGahey, Saint Leo's Women Soccer Head Coach, speaks about the conversation on 3 or 4 players in the backline and how to analyze which formation is best for your team. McGahey offers some strategies and practical talk through a PowerPoint presentation and interactive questions to answer. 

Futsal is a smaller sided, more intense, and involving version of soccer. Because of this, it requires similar but more specific areas of physicality. Being able to understand how to improve your team on their strength, fitness, and speed whilst incorporating real game situations is difficult. Coach Daniel not only provides the most up to date, professional training methods available, but also ties it into how it relates to the game.
 
This course delves into how the elite players are training and relates not only to Futsal but also 11v11. He shows you how to best approach training, in the workout and the recovery, whilst providing you with an elite level plan. 
 
If you want to push your team and yourself to the next level of performance, this course provides you will ALL the tools necessary.

Do you want to exploit your opponent's weakness by maximizing your strengths?

Do you want to play out from the back but are struggling to find gaps to progress to the final third?

This course is the key to the problems faced by high school coaches who are trying to play free-flowing passing soccer.

Since the 3-4-3 formation is very rare in the high school game, there are significant advantages when using it correctly. This video not only shows the effectiveness within a game but also presents sessions you can adopt in training to help your players understand the critical movements.

This course offers insight into: 

1. Bulding Your Culture: Putting Values into Action

2. Prioritizing Your Growth Over Outcome

3. Being Trustworthy and Action-Oriented

4. Coaching Journey

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All Proceed Donated to Charity.

Coach Paul Holocher walks through how he and the staff at Houston Dynamo Academy, develop youth soccer players at different stages of development. This course covers things like specific programs for specific age groups, social media outreach, and ideas for how to train youth players beyond the pitch!

This course is a toolkit for current and prospective youth soccer coaches at any level. Coach Holocher dives deep into what works for them at Houston Dynamo Academy, and it can work for other teams as well. 

The course ends with a thoughtful Q and A with Coach Holocher. 

Looking for new ways to implement the attacking mindset to the pitch? Oakland Roots SC’s Head Coach, Jordan Ferrell, offers his attacking theory and how to apply it on the field. Jordan Ferrell shares:

• Oakland’s Style of Play
• His Attacking Theory
• Interchangeability: what it is and how to apply it
• Attacking formations, drills, and exercises on Interchangeability
• Q+A 

This course analyzes: 

1. The 21st Century Model Timeline

• What is the model about
• Support of 21st Cenutry Model
• 21st Century Model for D2 & D3

2. The Current State of College Soccer

• Importance of its platform
• College Soccer Recruitment

3. College Soccer: The Best U23 Development Platform in the World

4. Growing the Game in America

• Impact of Academys and the MLS

Learn from NCAA National Champion Coach Mike Noonan on how to boost your program to improve performance in the big moments. If you are looking to find that extra inch to transform your soccer program into one of the best in the game, this is the course to study.

How to DEVELOP and IMPROVE your soccer skills with or without a coach. Legendary Coach, Anson Dorrance, discusses key points that he has instilled with his women's soccer program at UNC. Progress your skills from beginner, intermediate, or advanced player to become an ELITE player.

The goalkeeper is often the last line of defense and so, arguably, it is important to get them involved in training from an early age. However, coaching youth goalkeepers presents a unique set of challenges based on the physiological and developmental differences between this group and their peers. Having worked with both collegiate-level and youth teams for many years, Coach Howell provides advice on integrating younger players into team training while still maintaining the focus on the team rather than individual players. Using information from scientific data on perceptive anticipation, coaches will learn how to coach the skill of perception in training and why developing it should be a priority for developing top-performing goalkeepers.

This course offers an overview of: 

1. The Developing Brain

• Soccer Brain
• Understanding the Brain During the Game
• Decision-Making

2. Game is unpredicatable, Fluid Always Changing

3. Constraints

• Restricting Vision, Hearing, and Running Speed

4. Cognitive Soccer Training

5. Rapid Skill Acquisition Fundamentals

This course offers an overview of: 

1. The Art of Goal Scoring

• Where Are Goals Scored
• Positioning in Seams
• Approaching the Ball and Utilizing Screens

2. Developing Your Striker

• Motion and Re-Directing the Ball
• Knowledge of How to Read a Line

3. Leading Through and Weakside Goal Scoring

4. Where Goals Come From

5. Developing Your Forwards 

Looking to improve your athletes' health and performance? Darcy Norman, Performance Coach for USMNT, and Leo Shveyd, Owner of Advanced Wellness Personalized Training & Sports Performance, speak about their key frameworks and strategies they apply to their athletes to enhance their mental and physical performance on the field. 

This course offers insight into:

1. Practicing and Growing During Shutdown Period

• Competitive mindset during isolation
• Protecting the Joy of the Game

2. Tactical Overview

• Vertical Passing
• Coaching Communication

3. The Dynamic between staff, veteran players, and young players

4. Coaching Journies for Coach Olsen and Sheldon

5. Bringing MLS tutelage to youth level

This course offers insight and analysis into: 

1. Cross Taking & High Balls

2. Need for Just 1 Second of Patience

3. Impact on Range and and Ability to Get Back to Goal

4. Drop Steps

5. Use Advantage: Catch Above the Head

Former FC Chelsea Professional, Sebastian Kneissl, speaks on Self-Leadership and his philosophies on ideal decision making. Provides different ways of critical thinking towards motivation on and off the pitch. 

This course offers an overview of: 

1. Philosophy on Upfield Progressions

2. Insight for Goalkeepers

• Goal Kicks and Dead Balls
• Goalkeeper Hands
• GK as a Field Player
• Alignments v. GK (Film Included)

3. Adjusting to Opposing Team's Formations

• Defensive Adjustments
• Player Positioning
• Reading Plays and Player Anticipation

4. Practice Habits

• Don't Score: Play the Target
• Implementing Phases and Defensive Pressure in Practice
• Exercises and Warmups
• Player Development
• Importance of Film

5. Completing the Pass