Soccer IQ Training Sessions for Young Players

50 Small-Sided Games and Constraints That Teach Scanning, Positioning, and Decision-Making, Without a Whiteboard

von Valerio Di Rosa

172 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

You understood game intelligence. Now it is Tuesday evening, and twenty kids are waiting for you to tell them what to do.Soccer IQ for Young Players explained what game intelligence is and how to see it: See, Think, Act. This book begins where that one ends, on the field, with the cones in your hand.Fifty games, one constraint eachEvery game in this book is a small-sided game with a single rule that makes a decision visible: to the player who has to make it, and to the coach who has to see it. No drill lines, no whiteboard, nothing that is not already in your bag: cones, two small goals, two colors of bibs and balls.- Ten scanning games, from a finger-counting game you can run with seven-year-olds to a silent match where the only information is what you see- Ten games for space and body shape: the half-turn rondo, three lanes, the empty box, the line that moves- Ten decision games, including Count Your Options and Freeze in Flight, a way to find out what your players are actually thinking before the ball arrives- Ten positioning and movement games for the player who is never on the ball and never in the right place- Ten defending and transition games, and one, Rest Defense, that brings all five families togetherEvery game fits on one card: the IQ target, players and space, setup, how it works, the constraint, three coaching questions, progressions by age, what you are watching for, and the mistake coaches make with it.And the part most drill books leave outThree chapters on how to run a game that teaches: when to freeze it and when to let it run, what to ask after a mistake, how to build a session and a six-week block. Twelve ready-made sessions, three for each age group from U8 to U18. A four-month plan that follows the first book, session by session, with the games to use at the start and end of each block to see whether it worked.For coaches of players aged 8 to 18, and for the parent-coach who has read enough theory. Works on its own; works better after Soccer IQ for Young Players.

• Reihe: Soccer IQ Training Sessions for Young Players
• ISBN: 9798174794788
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published