Episode Description
Helping your players develop the ten core skills is an essential part of coaching football. We see them all when we observe matches, but it’s important to give each of them space in your sessions before matchday.
In this episode, Emily Senior returns to Coachcast to unpack exactly how to implement all ten core skills into your practices.
You’ll hear how to design practices that challenge your players, how to coach multiple core skills simultaneously when time is tight, and how to bridge the gap between training and matchday execution.
If you want to maximise your players’ development of the core skills and design practices that move their game forward, while keeping them engaged, this episode is for you.
Covered in this episode:
- what the ten core skills are
- which skills develop naturally and which need more focus
- top tips for teaching and reinforcing core skills
- when coaches should start focusing on core skills
- signs that a player is struggling and how to support them
- session ideas to develop multiple skills at once
- transferring the core skills to matchday
- how to challenge players to apply core skills creatively and make decisions in the moment
- and more...
Transcript on England Football community - (https://bit.ly/4p4s6bV)
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