Coaches, we still think about coaching our soccer / football teams, don’t we? This is the time of year we should be studying, refining our approach, developing new strategies, and planning for the first time we get our new team on the field and ready to practice.

Much of our success on the field comes from our study, training, planning off the field, doesn’t it? A prepared coach makes for a prepared team, which can put the odds in your favor to win more games, and have more fun!

The team over at Youth Soccer Coach have added a bunch of new documents to the website so you can work on your coaching over the long hard winter. Recently, we’ve added a labeled soccer / football field diagram, with labels for every line, arc, mark or circle on the field. It’s a great teaching tool.

We’ve also added a 4V4 soccer field formation diagram, a 2-1-3 soccer formation diagram for the 7V7 format, and a 3-2-2 soccer position diagram for those that play 8V8.

Lastly, we’ve added a game analysis worksheet (one of my favorites!). It’s an awesome worksheet that allows you or your coaches to document your team’s strengths and weaknesses against an opponent, and also your opponents strengths and weaknesses. It includes space for noting the opponent’s best players, the formation(s) the opponents use, the opposing coaches strategies/tendencies, and much more. You have to check it out!

That’s it for today. Just remember, if you are in a cold climate and are maybe seeing snow on the ground, it doesn’t mean you can still “work on your game”!

To your soccer success,

Coach Mark

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

Coaches, months of hard work, long development hours, and constant refinement have paid off. What better time to open the doors than World Cup time?

I’d like to announce the grand opening of the Youth Soccer Coach site! This new site has been a labor of love for this beautiful game and aspiring soccer coaches around the world. This new site is a membership site where coaches can join to download coaching information that is much more detailed than what you might have seen in the past, and all applicable files can be edited to make them your own!

Yes, it’s true. No other website I’ve seen is offering information like this! You can edit the files and put your club or team logo on them, change the terminology to match your own, and modify them any way you see fit.

Many of the soccer formation diagrams we are famous for now have multiple versions of each diagram included, and up to 4, 5, and 6 or more pages of description, strategy recommendations, variation discussion, and more.

If you’ve seen what is available at the Coach Mark Soccer Club website, you’re going to be blown away by what you see at the new site!

We’ve got soccer player evaluation forms with 160 categories of skills and personality traits to assess. We’ve got over 130 of the best training, conditioning, skill development and technique videos to be seen anywhere on the Internet. Soccer information for coaches, players, parents and team managers are all available. I promise you’ve never seen anything like this before.

Please visit the Youth Soccer Coach site now and receive introductory pricing that won’t last for long. Join the site before the Fall price increase!

(Dedicated) To your soccer success,

Coach Mark

Coaches, how many of you are really utilizing a soccer field diagram in your practices, your games and anywhere else you interact with your youth soccer players? If you’re not using them every day, Coach Mark thinks you’re missing out on a very valuable communication method. Youth are visual learners; a simple diagram can make all the difference.

Check out my Squidoo lens for much more valuable information on soccer field diagrams.

Then remember to go to Coach Mark Soccer Club to download free soccer diagrams for your use.

To your soccer success,

Coach Mark