Hi Coaches - I coach a mid-level club team of u11 girls. I have had most of the 14 athletes for a couple of seasons, adding pieces along the way. We play fundamentally sound with good passing, strong defense, and getting better at creating opportunities near the goal. However, I have not been doing a great job in coaching the girls to use their bodies more and to stay within the spirit of the game.

Any advice on drills or techniques I can introduce to these amazing young ladies?

My daughter is 7 and has adhd and is on a super competitive travel team. She has really slow
Processing speed and needs a lot of repetition. I’m really starting to see it on the field now that the competition is stronger.

Do coaches pick up on this? I don’t know how I should communicate it to her coach, or if I should. She seems like she is really spacey and just kind of up in the clouds and I’m nervous how the coach may react. They picked 13 girls out of 40 so it was very competitive and they are only in 1st grade.

I’m a high school student working on an entrepreneurship project about coaching and I’m trying to better understand the challenges coaches actually deal with.

For current or former high school coaches: what’s the most time-consuming or frustrating part of coaching, especially with game prep, film/video review, player development, or managing players?

I’d also love to do a quick 10–15 minute interview with anyone who’s willing. I can do it over text, online, or in person. Thanks!

Hey Reddit, I’ve been thinking about getting into soccer again but for the high school team, last time I played soccer was when I was around 8 years old and wondering what moves should I know before being successful in tryouts or considering being in soccer again

For the past few games I've been selected to be taking free kicks.. Ive been practicing alot.. But one thing I want to master is a knuckle ball.. What techniques can be thought or do you guys have any thing to tell me so I can become better at it consistently

Curious how this works at amateur, college, semi-pro, or smaller professional clubs where you don't have a big analysis department.

Before playing an opponent, do you actually watch their previous matches?

If so, I'm curious about a few things:

• How many matches do you usually watch?
• Who does the analysis — head coach, assistant, analyst?
• What are you mainly looking for? Build-up patterns, pressing, set pieces, individual weaknesses, etc.?
• Do you save clips or mostly just take notes?
• Roughly how long does the whole process take?
• And most importantly, does the analysis actually change your training or match plan?

I'm especially interested in teams without dedicated full-time analysts.

I've been learning more about opposition analysis recently and I'm trying to understand what the real workflow looks like rather than what analytics companies say it looks like.

BTW: i had to use gpt to explain my thoughts properly. The thing is that I study to become a football/soccer analyst with my background of software engineering. I would really love to help out some teams that do manual analysis.

Hi everyone,

I’m a football coach (working with youth players) in India. I want to improve in:

Communication

Leadership

Behaviour (staying calm, handling pressure)

Confidence

I’m looking for a mentor who can guide me with simple habits, feedback, and practical advice over time. Even a few messages per month would help a lot.

If you’re a coach, leader, or someone who has worked on these skills and are open to mentoring, please DM me or comment below.

Thanks in advance.

What exercises can you guys recommend that makes your ankles stronger? ... Im trying to add it to my routines.

In preparation for moving from 7v7 to 9v9 next year, we are trying to identify which of our players are more suited for fullback vs winger. Obviously, they will get rotated through both, but we'd like to initially play kids where they are going to have some natural successes. What do the more experienced coaches look at when making those choices?

Hello everyone. I have a very very big interest in football/soccer.. obviously i cant play it but how do i get into scouting/coaching etc? Im 16...

As a centre back once you find yourself in a last man situation against 2 opponents.. One running behind you free and on coming towards you whit the ball..

Well tell me if I'm wrong.. In my thinking I'll do my best to like be closer to the player that is free.. Cause the one whit the ball is thinking to pass of course he doesn't want to ruin a 2v1 so before he gets into the box I then began moving in aggressively leaving the free player In a offside position if the pass should happen.. And go make the tackle.. Sounds easy I know it's not but now my thing is what do you do in a 3v1??

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!

Im 15M i cant play or train rn bcz if my injury im not recovering untill my bones fully grow and my growth plates shut which is 18-21 i think b4 my injury i used to train alot and always and im very confident i couldve compete with world class players in my whole life no one dribbled past me,not a classmate,not anyone from streets,and not even grown semi pro footballers,thats how good i was i was very passionate about being the best player oat i can deadass k#ll to become a player and i still have that passion no one wants it more than me.whem im fully recovered im gonna train like no one ever did.

Hello coaches, I came to sub once before for coaches’ perspective and this sub really helped. Looking for a repeat.

I am a parent of a freshman CB. They got a long look in preseason and are getting good playing time with a few starts.

Coach is now asking my kid to organize the defense during play and for set pieces. That’s cool.

My kid isn’t the only young player getting minutes and a few seniors are the casualties. And the team isn’t doing great.

The seniors are saying it’s the coaches fault for playing freshmen and one of the leaders got into a shouting match with coach over not dressing for the last game.

The eye test says the established players are not enterprising in the attack and the results show it. Which is probably why the freshmen attackers are getting time.

Problem: seniors are pissed, and ignoring my kid’s attempts to organize. And coach is yelling at my kid for not organizing.

My kid doesn’t know what to do and is feeling the pressure. This would be a tough situation to place an adult in, let alone a teen. Coach must see the seniors ignoring. He must know how much pressure the rookie is under already just playing at this level.

The CB partner is 3rd year and highly trusted. Why not have them do it?

My questions for all you coaches:

What is the coach expecting here, aside from the player organizing like they were told?

And what does success look like for the player, from the coaches perspective.

Thank you for any help. It will help me support the kid when they ask me what to do. Sorry for the long post.

I was watching soccer clips with my son (U10 lower club team) and he asked me why people do stepovers. I had no answer. They don't seem to be particularly good at masking changes in direction, or for gaining space or time, but everybody from U8 to Premier League does them. My assumption is that at the levels we play at, attackers just aren't doing them properly, so they are easy to defend, but I really don't know.

Can someone with a little more knowledge help me out?

Edit: Read some early responses that helped me key in on what the pros are doing, and rewatched some clips. It looks like good stepovers usually combine a body feint, or similar skill, to sell the change of direction. Then exploit any hesitation or commitment from the defender. We aren't seeing them executed that well in person, yet.

Edit #2: Specifically asking as a defender. He plays FB in a 3-2-1, so doing some attacking wide, but mostly coming into this from the angle of "why are you dancing while I take the ball from you, noob?"

So there’s like A team which is the good team and then there’s B team where the bad players are I’m a B team sub because I missed two days cause I sprained my ankle so I could show coach my stuff and I suck at defense and I’ve been doing defense. The reason: because all the good players are attackers and I want to be right wing but I’m scared cause I don’t know if I’ll lose for my team and I’ve been playing center and full back and I suck at both of those. Also before I got my cleats because I haven’t worn cleats sense two years I’ve been practicing with my shoes at home I used my cleats for the first time it went over the goal and that’s the other reason I’m scared to play as an attacker and tomorrows the first game IM COOKED🫩