The Coaches Series begins with Coaching 6, 7 & 8 Year Olds and 5 Year Olds too!, evolving into Coaching 9, 10 and 11 Year Olds. The series then grows to more advanced levels in Coaching the Team and Keeper II. New Coaches are able to grow with the books while experienced coaches can benefit from tactically advanced books such as Zonal Defending and Coaching Set Plays as well as the "Team" and "Keeper II" books.
Ace Coaching Card - easy for taking out on the practice field for quick reference, are rain & snow repellent and small enough to fit into pockets. The cards were created from the Coaches Series and excellent for creating practice plans.
 Join our mailing list!
[Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ] [Join]
 Â
Welcome to the January 2008 Byte Size Coaching Newsletter.
In this month’s Byte Size Coaching Newsletter we feature a thought-provoking article from US Youth Soccer’s Technical Director, Sam Snow, about a major ingredient of North American Soccer – the Tournament.
As well, we have changed our format slightly to feature the “Face of Byte Size Coaching.†In this segment we will highlight some of the top-class coaches we now have involved with our Byte Size Coaching clubs. This month we put Peter Mellor under the spotlight. He won’t mind that as he has been there many times before.
And an update on the new Byte Size Coaching platform. We’re not quite there yet, but we are not far off, either.
Tournamentitis. True, it's not a real word, but it does convey the condition of too many tournaments on the American soccer scene. Indoor, outdoor, 3-a-side or 11v11 -- on almost every weekend of the year there are hundreds of tournaments of one type or another taking place across the land. They are for old and young and every level of play.
Tournaments started as a means to supply games for teams when there were far fewer teams than today. The distance between the teams often meant that the investment in time and money to get to another soccer club caused everyone to maximize the effort by playing lots of games
These tournaments began in earnest in the 1970s. Clearly the number of soccer clubs has grown dramatically since then. The distance between teams has become closer simply because of the proliferation of teams in town after town.
