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Coaching Education | Reading the Game

US Youth Soccer’s Olympic Development Program goes into detail on how to better read the game of soccer. Read More

Coaching Education | Why Young Athletes Excel with Backyard Play

Gary Simmons, author of “Gymbag Wisdoms,” provides some interesting stories about athletes he worked with in high school. Read More

Coaching Education | Parallel Play

US Youth Soccer Director of Coaching, Sam Snow, provides us with an article explaining what parallel play is and how it is seen in youth soccer. Read More

U10-U12 Online Coaching Education Module now available

As the largest youth sports organization in the country, US Youth Soccer created an online coaching education platform to enhance the experience and opportunities of US Youth Soccer players, coaches and parents. Read More

Schellas Hyndman's Do's and Dont's of College Recruiting

Who is Coach Hyndman? The US Youth Soccer Show recently sat down with Schellas Hyndman, head coach of FC Dallas in Major League Soccer, to talk about the do’s and don’ts of college recruiting. In addition to being a former collegiate and professional player, Coach Hyndman is one of the most successful college soccer coaches in American sports history, compiling a 466-122-49 record as the head coach at Southern Methodist University. Read More

Coaching Education | Club Development Manual

Sep 13, 2012 10:15 AM

Georgia Soccer Director of Coaching, Jacob Daniel, provides over 100 pages of guidelines for designing a club structure and programs for player development. Read More

US Youth Soccer releases latest coaching manual

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Sep 11, 2012 10:25 AM

The US Youth Soccer Coaching Department has introduced the latest coaching resource with How to Write a Training Session Plan. The manual will help guide coaches in conducting the most efficient and effective training sessions for their team and compliments previous US Youth Soccer coaching resources such as the Player Development Model, Vision document and Skills School technical manual. Read More

Hey Coach! Get connected for the Fall season

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Are you a coach? Would you like great information that is easy to understand and at a great price? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, keep reading about how you can get connected to the Coaches Connection. The US Youth Soccer Coaches Connection provides members with a link to the US Youth Soccer Coaching Education Network: National Staff Coaches, plus 55 State Association Directors of Coaching Education and their staffs, as well as guest lectures from around the world! Read More

Coaching Education | Recuperation training session

May 25, 2012 10:26 AM

The Olympic Development Program Europe provides an in depth, 90 minute recuperation session that allows the players to get a lot of touches on the ball without working at a high pace. Read More

Coaching Education | The Substitute Coach

The experience of serving as a “substitute coach,” as one u-8 player bluntly referred to me to one of his teammates, provided to me a significant source of enlightenment relative to the pulse of the teaching and learning culture within our club. Read More

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