Youth Football
Teaching Young Defenders to Stay on Their Feet
The most common mistake young defenders make is the slide tackle they did not need.
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Coaching notes and honest observations from grassroots and academy football.
Youth Football
The most common mistake young defenders make is the slide tackle they did not need.
Youth Football
Release day is the part of academy football nobody wants to talk about, but it shapes the sport more than almost any transfer.
Youth Football
A genuinely talented teenage winger, quick, direct, capable of beating a defender one on one with real regularity at academy...
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A grassroots club near where I did some of my early coaching lost its Sunday morning fixtures for an entire month two seasons...
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A grassroots club I have followed for years spent a full decade operating out of a converted shipping container that leaked...
Youth Football
I tracked ball touches for a group of nine year olds once, purely out of curiosity, comparing a full eleven a side match...