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Coaching soccer is a job that comes with many responsibilities and challenges. The job goes far beyond teaching the sport and winning matches. Coaches have the opportunity to be tremendous influences in young people’s lives. Great coaches use their platform to teach the value of teamwork, hard work and goal setting. They demonstrate discipline and demand without being demeaning.

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The Soccer Toolbox is designed to help coaches with their many tasks and responsibilities. Many coaches are coaching because they have a wealth of knowledge about their sport. Others are coaching because the team needs a coach and maybe to played a little in high school.

Regardless of your experience, good coaches are the ones that are always learning. We have collected many helpful resources from a lifetime of coaching and from many well respected sources. By sharing those ideas with you, It is our hope that we can provide you with resources that can help you develop your program they way you have envisioned.

You can expect to find tools to help you develop individual fundamental skills like: dribbling, passing,receiving, tackling, heading, goalkeeping, throw ins, corner kicks, shooting (finishing). We will also provide drills to help you teach your team how to attack, defend and transition. We will share ideas from a variety of successful coaches on the strength and weakness of various tactics.

Thinking Through Your Personal Brand

How do you cultivate a dynamic personal brand?  Many coaches think that focusing  on personal branding is unnecessary.  They shy away from engaging in personal branding--viewing it as self-promotion.  However, the reality is that we all have personal … View this post

Putting the Person Before the Athlete

As a leadership educator your main task is to create a psychologically safe environment in which your players want to learn how to become team leaders.  This is not a trivial distinction. A learning climate characterized by trust and openness is … View this post

The World is not Fair and What Got You to Good Won’t Get You to Great

  Teamwork Intelligence Conversational Exercise The following questions are intended for leadership conversation involving coaches and players. The deeper your conversation goes the closer and clearer you get to understanding the heart and mind of each team member. … View this post

Possession Rondo

This drill was provided by World Class Coaching By Tug McTighe - Description: Here is a rondo that is not only good for ball possession and playing quickly, but also incorporates a real competition to ensure that the players aren’t just going … View this post


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