Pages: 335

Official Soccer Coaching Book of the German Soccer Association with DFB coaches and educators Ralf Peter and Gerd Bode. 

• A new approach to children's soccer: Guidelines for practice, match play and player guidance
• Get Information about the German Soccer Education System
• Making your program age-appropriate
• This soccer book shows how youth coaches in Germany run soccer practice sessions and games for players between the ages of five and twelve.

The comprehensive soccer training section provides:

• specific recommendations for attractive, child-oriented soccer exercises that build a solid athletic foundation,
• basic soccer techniques.
  With an abundance of age-appropriate small-sided soccer games and sample practice sessions, both indoor and outdoor, this book is a gold mine for every youth soccer coach! The book can also be used as a basis for continuing education.

Children's soccer should be different from adult soccer

PRACTICE

• Adult soccer is oriented toward performance and competition
• Children's soccer: new experiences, fun, learning soccer

MATCH PLAY

• Adult soccer: game formation, tactics
• Children's soccer: free play without interference

OBJECTIVES

• Adult soccer: championship, promotion
• Children's soccer: basis for lifelong enjoyment of sports

SUCCESS

• Adult soccer: final score
• Children's soccer: positive experiences and learning for all children!

COACH

• Adult soccer: judged by success (score)
• Children's soccer: judged by progress of all children

To fully develop their creativity and enjoyment of the game, children have to have the freedom to try things out at practice, to play freely and without interference

Table of Content - Modern Youth Soccer

Soccer in today's world Methods and objectives
Building Block 1: General movement training
Building Block 2: Soccer-oriented movement training
Building Block 3: Soccer-specific technique training
Buiding Block 4: Playing soccer Matchplay Guidance

PLAYING AND PRACTICING WITH FIVE· TO SIX·YEAR·OLDS
Guidelines
Building Block 1: General movement training
Building Block 2: Soccer-oriented movement training
Building Block 3: Playing soccer
Play sessions
Play days

PLAVING AND PRACTICING WITH SIX· TO EIGHT·VEAR·OLDS
Guidelines
Building Block 1: General movement training
Building Block 2: Soccer-oriented movement training
Building Block 3: Soccer-specific technique training Building
Block 4: Playing soccer Practice sessions

PRACTICING WITH EIGHT· TO 12-VEAR·OLDS
Guidelines
Building Block 1: General movement training
Building Block 2: Soccer-oriented movement training
Building Block 3: Soccer-specific technique training
Building Block 4: Playing soccer
Practice sessions

ORGANIZING PRACTICE SESSIONS
lntroduction
Age-appropriate configurations
lndoor training

THE CHILDREN'S COACH
Qualifications