Coaching individual skills and technique isn't just for young players. Older, more accomplished players, as well as top professional players, continually hone their technical skills with specialized training on a regular basis.

In Coaching Advanced Techniques, Rob Gale, Canadian U17 Men's National Team Assistant Coach and Technical Director of Manitoba Soccer Association, shares numerous drills and exercises designed to help the advanced player hone and improve techniques like shooting, passing, first touch, volley's, shielding and more. These exercises will challenge even the most accomplished players to perform, sharper, quicker and under greater pressure than ever before.

2010.

George Kuntz delivers a number of attacking options for your games and a variety of training sessions for your practices.

Kuntz coaches his players through his best small field drills and game variations. Using a small field creates as many goal-scoring opportunities as possible, more decisions in tight spaces, more touches on the ball, and ensures that every opportunity is dangerous to the defending team.

Drills include:

• 1v1 Transition Shooting Exercise - teaches attackers how to use time and space to create early shooting opportunities. This is a fast paced drill that maximizes the number of shots per player. This exercise also allows for immediate reaction in transition for the shooting player and forces immediate decisions.
• 2v1 Finishing Exercise - forces the attackers to read the defender and create problems for the defender by bending runs or making overlapping runs while remaining in an onside position. The attackers in this exercise must focus on receiving a pass and making a one or two touch finish on goal.
• 3v2 Continuous Exercise - focuses on movement off of the ball, finding the extra player, deciding to go to goal or to pass, and taking the earliest available shot.
• 3v2 to 2v1 Carry-over Exercise - Principles from the previous training still apply, but in this exercise the focus is on the transition from a defending state of mind to an attacking state of mind and vice versa.

In the small scrimmage games section of this video, the offense is provided a numbers advantage so that they can create extra options by utilizing neutral players and players in the wing positions.

For the final variation, Kuntz evens the number of players on each team and challenges the players to create numbers up situations on their own. Kuntz looks for players to be creative, maintain an attacking and defending shape, make runs off the ball and shoot high percentage shots on goal with the proper shooting principles established over the course of the video.

Throughout the video, Kuntz encourages the athletes to take as many shots on target as possible. He breaks down proper shooting technique and explains how technique directly relates to shots on target. Kuntz also distinguishes between placement of a shot vs. the power of a shot and identifies when to use one over the other.

This DVD will provide your the team the chance to get as many shots on goal as possible in a short amount of time.

44 minutes. 2010.

Teams that defend well ensure that their team is always competitive in a game and can initiate the attack for their team.

George Kuntz shows you how to improve your team's individual skills and group defending tactics using small group training. He begins by walking his athletes through proper body positioning for defending an attacker on the ball. He shows you how to apply pressure without the risk of getting beat and how to dictate your opponent's movement.

This DVD includes four basic small group exercises:

• Defensive Mechanics & Techniques - This progression will help program your players to keep their knees bent, eyes up, and read the attacker from the waist down. The exercise progresses to tackling and using your body properly to keep the opponent off of the ball.
• 1v1 Defending Progression - Emphasizes the proper defensive stance and tackling technique. As attackers progress to shooting on a target, the defender's positioning becomes even more crucial.
• 2v2 Defending Progression - Works on directing the attacker to the supporting defender for help with containment. During this exercise, Kuntz identifies the importance of communication between defenders as it relates to defensive coverage movements.
• 4v4 Support Exercise - Focuses on defensive vision, shifting, organizing and switching with supporting defenders that mimics the demands of a full size game.

As each exercise increases in difficulty, Kuntz adds objectives to each exercise for the offense and defense in order to increase confidence, effort and enjoyment for the players.

Build better support for your defense with these proven defensive principles and techniques.

47 minutes. 2010.

Improving your possession and passing is critical to winning more games. Combining these critical aspects of offense, George Kuntz presents 21 exercises and games to improve your team's possession and passing abilities.

POSSESSION
Coach Kuntz demonstrates 12 exercises including warm-up passing, numbers-up scenarios, target possession and possession games. He also includes variations of each drill with clear scoring objectives in order to get the most out of the exercises and his players.

These exercises will help your team maintain good supporting angles to the ball, maintain good shape and build numbers when attacking. Train your players to constantly move and adjust--possessing in deep and wide positions-while increasing vision and awareness and developing good communication. Teach your players when and how to play in tight spaces and when to play out of tight spaces.

PASSING
Nine passing exercises plus variations are demonstrated including motion passing, wall passing, and player vs. player games. These exercises stress proper execution of the pass such as body shape, angle of approach, weight of the pass, and more.˙ Kuntz coaches his athletes to follow their pass, make simple decisions, and many more elements of great passing.˙

These exercises start small and simple before progressing to larger, more complex exercises that build on the exercises before them.˙ Each exercise directly relates to the larger game by incorporating passing techniques and patterns for optimizing possession.

This season, increase your scoring opportunities while decreasing your opponent's time on the ball.

131 minutes. 2010.

How can you create a successful soccer team with players of varying levels of talent, experience and athletic ability? Sean Holmes gives you an inside look at how to systematically develop your team into a smarter, more effective entity. Coach Holmes delivers a teaching progression that runs from simple to complex that will help maximize your team's potential through individual technique, small group training and full team dynamics.

PROGRAM OUTLINE
Disc 1

• Warm-up Exercises
• Technical Passing Exercises
• Possession Exercises

• 5 vs. 2 Possession
• 5 vs. 2 Release to Goal
• 4 vs. 2 Release from Wing
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• Free Play˙
• Game Footage

WARM-UP EXERCISES
Sean Holmes presents eight cooperative, competitive and team-building warm-up exercises and progressive variations that maximize touches on the ball.

TECHNICAL PASSING EXERCISES
Holmes works his players through five technical passing exercises that have tactical implications, while encouraging his players to "play the way they face" to help relieve defensive pressure. These passing exercises involve receiving one- and two-touch passes from both the ground and in the air while under pressure. Holmes shows you why and how to implement an up-back-through passing pattern.

POSSESSION EXERCISES
Use Holmes' game-like possession exercises to reinforce concepts from the previous exercises. As the athletes run through each exercise, Holmes passes along coaching tips on how to maximize practice time, emphasize proper fundamentals, develop game fitness, implement tactical concepts and more.

He explains how to develop leadership in experienced athletes and how to utilize those leaders to dictate team expectations and concepts to the inexperienced athletes on the squad. Holmes teaches you how to study the exercises in order to identify each player's style of play, role on the team and skill level.

You will gain an understanding of why and how to employ variations of these exercises to mold your athletes' roles and styles of play to accentuate team concepts. Holmes distinguishes between technical and tactical errors as they occur during the exercises, showing you how to correct each as they occur.

DISC 2

In disc 2, Holmes presents ways of contextualizing possession exercises to the broader game.

Coach Holmes takes to the whiteboard to illustrate offensive exercises prior to each drill being demonstrated on the field. He emphasizes the importance of small technical details, such as spacing, clean touches, body angle when receiving passes and many more that are crucial to success.

Holmes begins practice with small possession games that transition to offensive attack options. He walks you through a variety of ways to build offensive attacks that begin from the defensive line and the wing areas to take advantage of the up-back-through passing pattern that is drilled extensively throughout the video.

The exercises start small and simple in order to build confidence and understanding in the athletes. As the video continues, the exercises become progressively more difficult and game-like. Finally, Holmes puts all of the concepts together into a full scrimmage.

During the exercises, Holmes works with his athletes to maintain possession through simplicity by playing away from defensive pressure, reducing touches on the ball, circulating the ball from one side of the field to the other, extending their vision, reading the game and acting decisively. Holmes ends by analyzing game footage and identifying the principles that were taught in this video as they occur in game settings.

Be prepared for any game situat