Many managers of youth football teams don’t know how to pick out the weak points of a team, especially if they have been conscripted to run the team in their area. Many ask for tips about analyzing team members. Here are some tips.

Most footballers spend most of the game finding a position where they can support a defensive play or an attack. In other words, they won’t have the ball for most of the game. This is a key area to look at when analyzing your players. Although it’s a cliché to say ‘pass and move’ it’s still sound advice. Read The Rest……

All footballers must be skillful defenders. This means that they should be able to tackle effectively, think ahead of the opposition and play intelligently so that their opponents make errors.

Those who defend well are good at reading the game and can foresee when an attack is being mounted. They can then get themselves into place so they can stop the play. Footballers should be taught how to tackle correctly.

We will cover the three principal kinds of tackle in this article. These are the block, side and sliding tackles. When you are teaching your players how to tackle, the block tackle makes a good starting point.

This is because it’s the simplest way to let players know that even hard tackles can be safe. With many of us Junior Soccer Coaches involved with young players, sometimes there’s a reluctance to tackle because of fear of injury. Read The Rest……