COACHES INFORMATION COACHING DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE OUTLINE ORGANIZATION and SCHEDULE: Schedule for all CDI sessions at Urbandale with assignments is included below. CDI Director will send out a proposed practice plan, ahead of scheduled session. Team coaches will be asked to assist and facilitate to lower coach-to-player ratio and help in their own development as a coach. Individual teams assigned to a session are asked to attend and send out reminder note to their group about CDI practice. Practice plans and activities may be adjusted to fit numbers and ability levels.
OUTLINE of SESSION: EXPLORER ACTIVITY: Players get 5 minutes to explore ball and show you what they can do with it. SURFACES: 5 minutes of using different surfaces in one ball, one person skill work followed by a5 minute series of games/activities that utilize different surfaces or one particular surface in game. MOVES AND FEINTS: 5 minutes of learning 2 different moves each night. Build on the moves each week. 5 minutes of a game or two that incorporates move/feint. THE GAME: play 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4 for final game. Try to focus on topic and celebrate or correct decision/technique. Final 10-20 minutes play!
THEMES AND TOPICS: Manipulating the Ball: becoming familiar with using different surfaces to dribble and contact the ball. Protecting and Possessing the Ball: learning how to use their body to protect and possess the ball, using different surfaces. Moves and Feints: learning different moves, fakes, and feints, concentrating on Scissors, Step-over, Cruyuff, Fake Kick, Zico, Rivelino, Stop-&-Go, Wave, and Blanco. Penetrating with the ball: attacking space on the dribble behind defenders and the goal. Introducing spatial awareness and shape to the group. Collecting and Receiving the ball. Introducing inside of the foot passing. U7/8 AGE GROUP NOTE: this group may need to be targeted differently over course of season with substantially diverse levels of interest and ability within each training group and team.
METHODS: Coaching in the Flow: cueing players without interrupting play Freezing play: Celebrate or Correct after stopping play Natural Stoppages: coach players during water breaks, in between games, and at end of session Individual Referencing: take individual players aside during activities without stopping play
APPROACH: Games Approach to learning with one ball, one-person skill-work activity.
URBANDALE SOCCER CLUB COACHING DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: Mondays on Field 2 from 5:00-6:00 pm DATE SEPTEMBER 11 SEPTEMBER 18 SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 2 OCTOBER 9
TRAINING SCHEDULE FALL 2017 COACHES TEAMS MUHAMEDAGIC, MOTRONI, KAZIC, U8A, U8B, U8C, U8D STONE, ROTERT JONES, HENSLEY, SLUMP, MILLER, U8E, U8F, U8H, U8I BRIGGS DURIC, HEGGEN, DEWITT, ROBERTS, REGIER. SEARS, SMITH, U8R, U8S, U8T, U8V, U8W FRITZ DOSTAL, KELLEHER, CODDINGTON, U7A, U7B, U7C, U7D CASTEEL HUYNH, SUBRAMANI, TAYLOR, VENDOURES WALSH, SANCHEZ, U7E, U7F, U7H, U7I WALSH, HORRICK
AGE/GENDER 8U BOYS 8U BOYS 7U/8U GIRLS 7U BOYS 7U BOYS