Short, practical pieces for anyone coaching kids: what to do on Tuesday, what to say on Saturday and what to stop worrying about entirely.
In possession, out of possession and the two transitions. A useful map of football - as long as you never say those words out loud to a child.
The stomach aches on Saturday morning, the quiet car, the child who plays brilliantly at training and hides in matches. What pre-game nerves really are and how adults can shrink them.
Twenty minutes in September saves you twenty conversations in February. What to say, in what order, and the one promise you should never make.
Most rondos are a warm-up with a ball in the middle. Here is how to turn the same circle into the best fifteen minutes of your session.
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.
Four against four gives a child five times the touches of a queue-based drill and forces a decision with every one of them. What the numbers look like, and how to run them well.
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.
Coaching feels like talking. It mostly is not. What happens when you cut your instructions in half, and the four questions worth more than any lecture.
The armband usually goes to the best player or the loudest voice, and stays there for years. What captaincy is actually for at youth level, and the case for rotating it through everyone.
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