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- Herausgeber: Coaching Zone AG
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
Developing kids soccer skills and awakening their passion for soccer – that is the purpose of every soccer training session. This ebook is written for coaches, supervisors and teachers in sports clubs, soccer academies and schools. It explains how to create effective kids soccer training and teach basic techniques such as dribbling, passing, ball control, shooting, coordination and small sided soccer games. All technical and tactical skills are improved in a playful and structured way. The book explains the desires of kids in sports, the training principles of kids soccer, the structure of training sessions, the most important training content for kids and the integration of training materials. A practice catalog with many games and drills and also complete sample training sessions enables a high-intensity training for several weeks.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025
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PROLOG - AWAKENING KIDS JOY OF SOCCER
Happy kids who enthusiastically play soccer and constantly improve themselves have fascinated me for many years. Whether I see them on the sports field as a coach, reflect on their training as an author, or convey content for kids to other coaches as a speaker – the fun of soccer and the further development of kids training are always at the center of my considerations. With this ebook for coaches, teachers and managers in sports clubs, soccer camps, and schools, I want to explain how to create effective kids soccer training that addresses kids everyday lives, teaches them the fundamentals of soccer in the form of coordination, dribbling, passing, ball control, shooting, and small sided soccer games, and improves their technical and tactical skills in a playful and structured way. The book contains the desires of kids in sports, the training principles of kids soccer, the structure of training sessions, the most important training content for kids, and the integration of training materials. A practice catalog with many games and drills and complete training sessions enables a high-intensity training for many weeks. Additional games and drills, prepared training sessions, and annual plans for the entire season are available on the Coaching Zone Kids training portal. My eBook "Kids Soccer Training - Coaching Zone Kids" was created based on requests from readers. To this day, I am often asked whether my books about kids soccer, training methods, and training content are available in English language. Now I have been able to fulfill this wish with help of the team of Coaching Zone. My special thanks for the tremendous support and long-standing professional exchange about kids soccer go to Daniel Widmer, Thomas Stehle, Dimitrios Hrissanthou, Torsten Bartsch, Peter Bedkowski, Heike Michels, and my family, among others.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Staack has been committed to youth soccer since his studies in Freiburg. He works as a coach, sports director, and coordinator at various soccer clubs in Germany. He is particularly well-known for his German book "Der neue Kinderfußball - Trainieren in den kleinen Wettspielformen” (The New Kids Soccer - Training in Small Sided Soccer Games) and the training portal Coaching Zone Kids, which he designed. The creative and versatile author writes books, articles, and training content for soccer magazine Fußballtraining Junior (Soccer Training Junior), the DFB-Kartotheken series (German Football Association), the training app Coaching Zone, and for many years for DFB Training Online. As a consultant of the Middle Rhine Football Association and coordinator of the 3v3 League in Cologne, he supports the integration of small sided soccer games in youth soccer.
CHAPTER 1 - KIDS AND SOCCER
SIMPLE AND EXCITING TRAINING
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. In life nearly every kid gets in touch with soccer once, several times, or even daily, kicking the ball around with friends and family. This is easy to explain. Soccer is a simple sport. It requires very little equipment – a ball, goals, a few players, and perhaps a field boundary. None of this is expensive. Everything can be replaced with everyday objects, be it cans or plastic bottles as substitutes for balls or jackets and sweaters as goalposts. Soccer is easily accessible to all kids. Everyone can play, everyone can participate, regardless of their skill level. Soccer is a sociable sport, a team sport. Kids play and interact together with others of a similar age and learn to adapt, fit into the group, and socialize. This means that soccer training with kids should be simple, easy to understand and implement, and should involve all players – as simple as the sport itself. Simple and motivating – that is the standard we must set ourselves as kids soccer coaches.
KIDS WISHES IN SOCCER
When kids step onto a soccer field or join a soccer club, they want two things above all: to score lots of goals and to play a lot of free and uninhibited soccer games. They emulate their idols from the professional leagues, want to celebrate goals and victories, cheer on amazing moves, and experience soccer with great joy. Some want to try out being goalkeepers and catch as many shots at goal as possible with flying saves. Accordingly, two main behaviors can be observed when kids arrive on the sports field before training begins: either one kid stands in goal and the others shoot, or they divide themselves into teams and play soccer straight away. Our job as coaches is to fulfill such wishes of kids, to adapt our training to the needs of young players, and to make it kid-friendly. Soccer training should be designed for kids, should meet kids in their everyday lives and guide them through sport. It should not be based on the game of adults, but should incorporate the abilities, will, and needs of kids into training. Kids training is not a scaled-down version of adult training, but something completely different, something new. There is a special, independent part of soccer, namely kids soccer.
