New Football Coaching Website

Football coaches in the UK and Europe stuck for inspiration or just looking for a new training idea can now get professional tips, tools and techniques free on a new website.

Better Football Coaching aims to benefit UK and Europe based coaches with online advice and tactics and a free weekly email football coaching tip.

The website contains advice from two English Premier League academy coaches – Tony Carr of the West Ham Utd FC Academy and Mike Beale from the Chelsea FC Academy.

Football coaches who register can learn basic and advanced techniques covering core skills, defending, attacking, goalkeeping, team management, tactics, fitness, refereeing and small-sided training games.

Publisher Dwyer Scullion said: “We provide great free coaching guidance and want all coaches to be able to access it through our website.”

The website has more than 100 football coaching topics with new ones added each week.

New Soccer Coaching Blog

A blog dedicated to soccer coaching has been launched by Better Soccer Coaching, a leading online publisher of soccer coaching advice.

Soccer Coaching Blog is a website where anyone who coaches soccer anywhere in the world and understands English can come to find articles and comments relevant to their coaching issues.

The blog will feature new posts at least twice a week on a diverse range of coaching topics including:

· individual and team skills

· coach development

· refereeing

· player behaviour

· discipline

· the role of parents

· team management and selection

· talent spotting

· fitness

Anyone can comment on blog entries (subject to editing). The publishers want to highlight issues that grassroots coaches face and they will use the insight gained to help come up with solutions.

Contributors include:

Mike Beale: Chelsea FC Youth Development Officer. A professional with (then) English Premier League club Charlton Athletic and FC Twente of the Eredivisie in the Netherlands before gaining the top-rated UEFA A Licence for coaching.

Dave Clarke: experienced and highly successful youth team coach, professional journalist and writer, author of Soccer Coach Weekly with several other titles in the pipeline, Leeds Utd fan.

Dwyer Scullion: Publisher, youth team coach in Oxfordshire, England, experienced writer and publisher and Liverpool FC fan.

Andrew Griffiths: Managing Director, responsible for strategy and direction, soccer Dad.

Soccer Coaching Blog will also feature contributions from well-known names from the soccer coaching profession and sports media.

Publisher Dwyer Scullion said: “Better Soccer Coaching currently communicates regularly with around 50,000 soccer coaches around the world. Soccer Coaching Blog will help us to get closer to our members and find out more about their issues and requirements and it will become a key part of our strategy to become the leading publisher of soccer coaching advice.”

New Soccer Coaching Website

Soccer coaches stuck for inspiration or just looking for a new training idea can now get professional tips, tools and techniques free on a new website.

Better Soccer Coaching will help English-speaking coaches anywhere in the world with online advice and tactics and a weekly email soccer coaching tip.

The website contains advice from two English Premier League academy coaches – Tony Carr of the West Ham Utd FC Academy and Mike Beale from the Chelsea FC Academy.

Soccer coaches who register can learn basic and advanced techniques covering, core skills, defending, attacking, goalkeeping, team management, tactics, fitness, refereeing and small-sided training games.

Publisher Dwyer Scullion said: “Coaches will find it very easy to put the ideas and techniques into practice and start seeing the benefits in player and team performance immediately.”

The website has more than 100 soccer coaching topics with new ones added each week. The Better Soccer Coaching weekly email tip is sent to more than 40,000 soccer coaches worldwide.

Publisher Dwyer Scullion said: “Better Soccer Coaching makes available a valuable resource of top soccer coaching advice to coaches around the world. The new website is a key part of our strategy to become the leading publisher of soccer coaching advice.”

New Small-Sided Soccer Games Coaching Manual

A unique coaching manual for small-sided soccer training games – widely acknowledged as one of the best ways for players to learn essential skills – is published today.

Small-sided games (typically 4 v 4 players) mean more player participation and more touches of the ball per player. This forces players to move into space and make better decisions about passing and positioning, leading to faster individual improvement.

The manual, 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games contains easy, medium and advanced games devised by Mike Beale, Youth Development Officer at English Premiership club Chelsea FC.

Mike is a former professional with Premiership club Charlton Athletic and Dutch team FC Twente and holds a UEFA A coaching licence.

The book is unique because it is available in both hard copy and electronic versions (PDF). The electronic version allows coaches to print out just one game at a time for use on the pitch, or to print several copies for sharing with coaches or players.

Each game lists the equipment required together with clear set up instructions, rules of each game and three illustrations showing how the game progresses.

Mike Beale said: “I'm a firm believer in the idea that players learn the game from playing. I've designed these games to help coach players in every aspect of the game, from individual core skills, to team-based attacking strategies. They are designed to stimulate players and lead them down the most effective paths of learning.”

“Some games get your players working on passing skills in competitive scenarios, while others are more tactically focused, providing your players with the skills to see the opportunities before them on the pitch.

“Players will develop core skills through the sheer number of touches that each game guarantees. At the same time they will develop "soccer vision" - the ability to see spaces on the pitch - as each game is played in realistic game conditions.”

64 Small-Sided Soccer Games is published by Better Soccer Coaching, which publishes training plans, coaching manuals and guides for soccer coaches in more than 50 countries.

Publisher Dwyer Scullion said: “64 Small-Sided Soccer Games is designed as a resource for coaches who want to find effective and fun ways to improve their players’ core skills and to help them see the bigger picture on the pitch.”

“Because it is available electronically, coaches anywhere in the world can be using the games within minutes of purchase.”

The electronic version is priced at US$47 and the hard copy version is US$57 (plus shipping). Best value deal is to buy both for $58 (plus shipping).

To view a sample game, learn more or order, visit

http://www.coach-soccer.com/64ssgs/indexusd.asp