Short, practical pieces for anyone coaching kids: what to do on Tuesday, what to say on Saturday and what to stop worrying about entirely.
Eleven kids, three minutes, one adult who is annoyed. The half-time talk is the easiest thing in youth football to get badly wrong.
Sooner or later a tournament ends in penalties and a ten-year-old walks eighty metres alone. How to prepare young players for shootouts - technically, and for the feelings.
The kid who needs the minutes most is the kid getting the fewest. A look at why fair rotation is a development decision, not a kindness, and how to build one nobody argues with.
Twenty minutes of sprints and shooting practice, then a kick-off with eleven tired children. The match warm-up has one job and it is not fitness.
Half of all youth substitutions are made because the coach needs to feel useful. A short guide to the ones that are actually worth making.
He is fifteen years old, he is being paid twelve euros, and he has just given a decision that was clearly wrong. Everything your team learns about respect happens in the next four seconds.
Tournaments are the best day of the season and the easiest to get wrong. A plan for the whole day, from the car park at eight to the medals at four.
7v7 and 9v9 formats are not miniature 11-a-side. How to choose a shape that develops players, why the strongest formation is often the wrong one, and what to fix before blaming the system.
Every coach ends up on both ends of a hammering eventually. What to change at 5-0, what to say at full-time, and how to win or lose big without anyone learning the wrong lesson.
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