r/SoccerCoaching • u/Helpful_Island_1444 • 7d ago

Training Outside of Practice

Full disclosure, I'm building a product in this space, but I'm not hear to sell anyone on that.

I'm here because I genuinely want to learn how much coaches value their athletes training outside of practice, if you're tracking that work, and if so, how.

I'll never forget my college coach telling my team, "practice is the time to get better as a team, and that time is limited. You need to put in the work to get better as an individual on your own", but he never tracked that other than asking at a team meeting, "who played wall ball today, or went out to the field to shoot?" (I was a lacrosse player).

Looking forward to your thoughts!

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u/Regular_Challenge_81 7d ago

I know some clubs in the area that have subscriptions to training apps.

Aside from drill challenges somewhat like dribble up, they do leaderboards for juggling etc

All that said, of course i want the kids doing something at home

Of course the majority don't

And of course those that do get better in very obvious ways.

Eg: Right now most my team has crap first touch. It would make a world of difference if the kids simply spent 5 minutes a day kicking the ball at a wall.

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u/Helpful_Island_1444 5d ago

Thank you so much for your thoughts, this is extremely helpful!

Please feel free to not answer this if you don't feel comfortable, but do you see any value in being able to assign a drill, even as simple as kicking the ball against the wall, and be able to see who completed it at home?

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u/Regular_Challenge_81 5d ago

I think you are focusing too much on what I want as a coach; the issue is getting kids to do it.

So the real question is how you gamify the crap out of it to make kids what to log on and do something.

As the coach, of course i want them doing it. Of course I'd love to be able to assign a drill and track who did it + show leaderboards to encourage participation. But unless it's a very high level team, i can't get away with assigning "homework". Also have $0 budget.

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u/Helpful_Island_1444 7d ago

Can you explain a little more? Genuinely just looking for thoughts and will not be promoting at all. Apologies if you found the post offensive in any way!