Learn to breakdown modern, compact defenses! Brandon Koons shares his key fundamentals of creating an aggressive, attacking soccer team.

As modern defenses become more sophisticated and difficult to breakdown, it is essential to employ effective attacking methods in order to stay ahead of the competition. Coach Koons explains the key principles of creating a successful attack and then demonstrates how to coach them with your team.

Using a combination of lecture, diagrams, competition and practice footage, Koons outlines how to coach these key attacking principles to the advanced soccer player. You will see how to:

• Create opportunities to break the line of defense by dribbling, passing and shooting.
• Make runs to break apart the defense - stretch, check and threaten.
• Train players functionally to attack defenses.
• Encourage your players to take risks through dribbling and passing to beat defenders.
• Make runs ahead of the ball to create offensive opportunities.

In addition to the drills and games, this DVD features many clear and concise coaching points that you can instantly put into your coaching toolbox and apply to any attacking situation.

53 minutes. 2011.

Win the ball and create more scoring opportunities using these time-tested set pieces!

There are different strategies to use when taking a corner kick or a free kick. In this detailed soccer DVD, Brandon Koons takes you through a variety of ways to use set pieces to your advantage when attacking and defending in the offensive half.

These set pieces will create numerous goal scoring chances for your team. Koons' instruction will help you teach your players to:

• Put pressure on your opponents by overloading an area
• Create space on throw-ins
• Time runs for various corner kicks
• Vary runs on corner kicks to keep the defense off balance
• Use a defensive wall to your advantage
• and more ...

Make the most of free kick opportunities with this detailed DVD from Coach Brandon Koons.

60 minutes. 2011.

Give up fewer goals this season using these proven defensive tactics and exercises.

Brandon Koons demonstrates fundamental tactics for successful team defending. Coach Koons begins with an easy to understand discussion of the basic defending principals - pressure, cover, depth and balance. He then reviews the roles of the first, second and third defenders, the importance of a team's line of confrontation, and includes a discussion on team shape.

Using live demonstrations, Koons shows exercises that will help your defenders understand their roles and responsibilities. The exercises begin simply and are built upon slowly by adding conditions and players. During these exercises players learn the importance of communication, compactness, side-to-side movement and overall team shape. This video is of benefit to both players trying to understand defensive responsibilities and coaches trying to train their players.

Coach Koons' philosophy of "building from the back" by training players in defending fundamentals has proven quite successful over the years. This DVD will help you understand a defender's role and responsibility and provides training exercises to help improve your team's defending shape.

66 minutes. 2011.

Casey Mann demonstrates a fundamental session for goalkeepers that can be adapted to any age or skill level.

From warm-up, to diving, to covering angles and more, this session will sharpen the skills your keepers need the most.

The warm-up concentrates on footwork, catching and diving. Through basic one and two touch drills, Mann focuses on planting and making good, clean contact with the feet. His drills train good habits for setting and preparing for the shot, attacking the ball and developing the catch.

His basic diving drill develops good technique for finding, driving, exploding to the ball and planting it into the ground. He combines these techniques with shots right at the goalkeeper to get the keepers comfortable seeing the ball off the foot and into the save. This fast-paced drill trains keepers to maintain good fundamental habits even when they're tired.

See drills that develop decision making, covering angles, regrouping, timing, handling rebounds and more.

Throughout the DVD, Mann passes along coaching tips to advance the drills and make them more game-like. He shows how to gradually increase the speed of your drills to work on your goalie's explosiveness while focusing on technique.

This effective session addresses such intangibles as intensity, competitiveness, decision making, fitness and more.

Give your goalies the tools they need to bring out their best and to keep the ball out of the net!

45 minutes. 2011.

Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper is a comprehensive book covering all aspects of goalkeeper training. The goalkeeper is a specialized position. Being able to control the ball with both hands and feet as well as manage all of the tactical demands of the game. The unique demands of this position were unappreciated by coaches for many years and only in the last 10 - 20 years have many teams added a specialized goalkeeper coach and training program.

Coaching the Complete Goalkeeper includes everything you need to know to train your goalkeepers to deal with the demands of the position. These drills and exercises are a must for both new and experienced coaches alike.

This book is essential for goalkeepers, their trainers and any coach that wants to have a more complete understanding of how to develop excellent goalkeepers.

Soccer, like all other sports, has basic skills which must be mastered for players to enjoy the game and to continue their skill development to whatever level their interests and abilities may take them. Soccer is not a complicated game and the basic skill requirements are clearly outlined in this DVD. Coaches of all levels of interest and experience can develop their own coaching technique to introduce these skills to new players and continue the development of more experienced players. The following skills are presented in detail:

• Juggling
• Passing
• Receiving
• Crossing
• Shielding
• Turning
• Heading
• Tackling

45 minutes. 2010.

Designed especially for team soccer coaches and soccer goalkeepers. The practices are demonstrated by a beginner, an intermediate and an advanced soccer goalkeeper, and show the 10 Key Principles of soccer Goalkeeping. Frequent use of world class professional players gives a clear and exciting dimension to the videos, and two high caliber U18 teams bring the team practices alive. This highly recommended series will help coaches to coach goalkeeping and goalkeepers to coach themselves.

Program one covers:

Program two covers:

172 minutes. 2004