Watching the MLS season is a great reminder of the opportunities we have to gain extra advantages on our opponents through video analysis.

As technology evolves, so does soccer, with the importance of video analysis skyrocketing in the past 5 years. As coaches, we can now understand the strengths and weaknesses of our opponents through studying them.

We can identify weak players, spaces to exploit, and overall, the best way to approach the game. This gives us a significant advantage over our opponents before the game starts.

However, analyzing our opponents effectively is difficult as it not only requires a knowledge of soccer analysis but also an understanding of the software involved.

Coach Hamza El Kadioui’s expertise lies within soccer analysis. He provides courses for the more experienced, and novices in video analysis.

Coach Hamza breaks down the method of analysis into three pillars, what/ why, how, and who. His concept stems from the importance of understanding your goals before you move to analyze.

As coaches, we often use videos from our games or opponent’s games to teach our players about where we can improve. By selecting relevant snips from games, we can more effectively convey a message to our players to speed up their learning curve. Coach Hamza pairs this with freeze frames and annotations as well as commentary.(Click on the arrow to play videos).

Time is limited as a coach as we are responsible for numerous processes in the organization. Coach Hamza provides a foundation for how to integrate this into your busy schedule. To make this as effective as possible, it must be tailored to you. (Click on the arrow to play videos).

This visual skill will not only improve your performance on the field, but it will also allow your players and coaches staff to fully understand your message and tactical goals. (Click on the arrow to play videos).

In the modern game, the importance of having the skills to create an effective analysis can not be emphasized enough. 

If you liked the video clips above check out these 5-star courses from Coach Hamza:

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Incorporating Goalkeepers in Team Training With Haley Carter,

Coach Carter is the current goalkeeping coach for Antigua and Barbuda Women’s National Team, offers her insight on goalkeeping, how to make the most out of training sessions to reflect on the modern trends she speaks in this course, and the importance of these current goalkeeping trends.

We are providing this drill to give you ideas on how to enhance your current practice drills. The idea is not to implement it exactly as is, but rather to tweak it to make it fit your system.

There is sound with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

This is a Vimeo video, so you will need to be on a network that does not block Vimeo videos.
 

 
If you would like to see more information about Coach Carter’s entire presentation, click this link: Modern Trends in Goalkeeping

7v7 Build vs. Press with Bobby Muuss,
Wake Forest University Head Men’s Soccer Coach;
2016 NCAA College Cup Runner-up;
3 straight appearances in the quarterfinals (2015-2017);
Muuss’ record in his first three years includes 55 wins – more than any other D I program in that same span.
3x ACC Coach of the Year;
former University of Denver Head Coach (2013 Summit League Coach of the Year);
former Assistant Coach at UConn (2000 NCAA Champions, 3x Big East Champions)

Bobby Muuss’ Wake Forest men’s soccer team has developed into a national powerhouse in his time on the sideline playing a modern, possession-based style of soccer. In this video, Coach Muuss elaborates on an element at the core of Wake Forest soccer – playing out of the back – and demonstrates 10 drills he uses regularly in his practices to prepare his team to successfully build out of the back when it counts. Each drill can be adapted to fit most age groups and/or skill levels as well as both three and four-back formations, and the tempo and intensity your players will face will help develop their technical skills and decision-making abilities with the ultimate goal of creating chances in the offensive third of the field.

We are providing this drill to give you ideas on how to enhance your current practice drills. The idea is not to implement it exactly as is, but rather to tweak it to make it fit your system.

There is sound with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

This is a YouTube video, so you will need to be on a network that does not block YouTube videos.

For more information about Bobby Muuss: Building Out of the Back – ‘The Wake Way’, click here: Bobby Muuss: Building Out of the Back – ‘The Wake Way’ – Soccer — Championship Productions, Inc.

In this video, Coach Lazaroe offers a unique perspective on running training sessions. At the end of the video, he also provided three exercises that he uses during his practice sessions.

Ryan Lazaroe is the Current Associate Head Coach with the New Orleans Jesters NPSL, U.S. Youth Soccer Region 3 Olympic Development Program coach, Director of Coaching for Slidell Youth Soccer Club, Women’s Head Soccer Coach at Northshore High School, U17 & U18 Boys Head Coach with the SuperClubs National Team, ODP Boys Director & State Coach for Louisiana Soccer Association, Former assistant coach at The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee,

Former Head Men’s Coach at Northshore High School for 15 years, Coaching instructor with U.S. Soccer Federation, United Soccer Coaches & USASA, Head Coach of the South & Technical Committee for the NPSL Pro Combine.

We are providing this drill to give you ideas on how to enhance your current practice drills. The idea is not to implement it exactly as is, but rather to tweak it to make it fit your system.

There is sound with the video, so please make sure that your sound is on.

This is a Vimeo video, so you will need to be on a network that does not block Vimeo videos.

If you would like to see more information about Coach Lazaroe’s entire presentation, click this link: Marginal Gains within a Soccer Program