How To Plan Soccer Training Session For Youth Players

By Author: Saurabh Shelke
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It’s vital for every coach to prepare better training sessions and get the best out of the players, accordingly this will help them to perform better and improve. Hence the process of session planning plays important role.

Below are key considerations to plan soccer training session

PRE-PLANNING
• Identify the exact match scenario to replicate in the training session. Idea is to select objective such as passing, receiving, dribbling, ball control to work on with the team during the session.
• Considering age and ability of the players to replicate the training session
• Identifying external conditions such as weather, parents, ground condition, availability of coach, overall time for the session

WARM UP
• Warm up must not be more than 15 min. Players must be instructed to gradually increase the intensity of the actions performed
• Core idea is to activate muscle for football actions by increasing blood flow from heart to all the muscles improving supply of oxygen and nutrients
• It reduces the likely hood of injuries, increases efficiency and elasticity.
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... • Mental preparation plays key role to get the best out of your players before the actual session starts

TECHNICAL PROGRESSION
• Technical activities to be performed by the players are repeated to improve the skills of the players
• Coach can decide to increase or decrease difficulty level to challenge players and get the best output from them.
• Progression is done when the players finds the given activities to be easy and achievable.
• Regression is done when the activities to be performed by the players is difficult for the players to achieve success ratio.
• Idea is to get better communication, technical actions and decision-making skills from the players against opponents

TACTICAL PROGRESSION
• Most of these activities are close to match situation that picturize scenarios that the group of player have faced in earlier matches and must improve on them.
• These activities prepares players to performs technical skills in match-related scenarios against opponents that improvises decision making and critical thinking in match scenarios.
• Players must identify situations and execute technical actions in best possible way to get the desired learning.
• Coach can decide to make it easy by overloading with maximum attacker versus less number of defenders

SMALL SIDED GAMES
• Small sided games helps players to implement learned skill without worrying about making mistakes.
• At this stage players learn to express themselves freely while coach can observe for improvements within the players during the session.
• Coach apply restrictions, give bonus points to get desired actions from the group of players

Conclusion:- It’s always good to plan your session considering age and ability of the players. Every coach whether at grassroots or senior level must plan and conduct session to get the best out their players

You can learn in more detail about creating session plan on Sorehigher.com