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When using these practice plans....try to insert your own ideas to make the drills more fun, more difficult, or simpler depending on the progress of your players. Use your imagination, be creative, design your own drill or practice using these plans as a foundation. Try to disguise an exercise you’re repeating so it looks like a totally different practice. This will keep things fresh for you and your players and they will be more receptive. Feel free to explore practice plans of older and younger age groups to build your base of ideas. Even professional teams still perform some of the drills in the U7 plans because they are simple and provide a change of pace from the more complicated activities, which keeps the training environment in a state of constant change, which keeps players tuned in.
Be aware of any drills/exercises that keep players in lines or waiting for their turn. If you have an assistant coach or two, get a couple of lines going at once or get those players waiting to do something different on the side. Make sure you try to use every minute of your practice time to the maximum.
These plans cover all aspects of the fundamentals of the game and should provide you with a good base of ideas to work from. They should help you in your preparation for your team’s practices and consequently play a positive role in your team’s preparation for games. However, hopefully this program goes even farther than that and facilitates the development of your own ideas and training methods.
I was very pleased to have been able to work with Former Canadian National Team Coach Tony Waiters in the preparation and delivery of this program to the coaches at the Dunbar Soccer Association.
Thanks,
Steve Kindel
DSA Head Coach
Learn to play... play to learn!
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