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  1. Sunset Soccer’s Biggest Shoe Sale Ever
  2. Coaching Corner: Uses of Small-Sided Games in Training (Part 1 of 4)
  3. Coaching Corner: Teaching Vision and Support Play  
  4. NOR CAL Relief Risk Management Commitee Special Bulletin - Soccer Goals
  5. U.S. Soccer Announces Goalkeeping License for Coaches
  6. Coaching Corner: Center Goal Game
  7. Girl Soccer Players Ages 6-14 Wanted for Jamestown Team
  8. E/D Clinic in San Francisco on June 19,20, 26 and 27th
  9. Good Friend Jim Broshar Finds Beep Test Online
  10. Town School Looking for One or More Soccer Coaches
  11. Lessons Learned From The 2003 Women's World Cup, and How to Apply Them to the Youth Game
  12. High School Looking for JV Coach
  13. Subjects Needed For UCSF Soccer Study
  14. A Few Fun Bad Luck Videos
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Coaching Corner: Uses of Small-Sided Games in Training (Part 1 of 4)
By Vince Ganzberg, Regional Technical Director
  (from the NSCAA Coaching Newsletter - June 10th, 2004)
        This is part one in a four-part series that outlines the uses of small-sided games in training. Part 1 will focus on attacking and defending in 2v2 and 3v3 situations. Part 2 will deal with 4v4 training games, Part 3 with 6v6 games, and the series will wrap up with training suggestions for 8v8 games.

Attacking  
2v2v2 Possession

Three teams of 2. One team of two is defending for a period of time. The other two teams combine and work together to try and complete a certain number of passes. If defending team wins the ball, the keep it.

2v2 to 2 targets

Two teams of four. Each team has two players in the inside of the playing area and a player on each end as a target. The objective is to get the ball from one target to the next without losing possession. The two teams play in two different directions. One team plays north-south, the other east-west.


3v2 in groups of 3

Each team attacks with 3 and defends with two. Whenever a team loses possession, one player must run back and play goalkeeper.

3v3 Finishing

Two groups. Each group of 3 has one player at midfield and two next to each post by the goal. The team that gets a shot on goal gets rewarded by staying on the field. The first pass must be made by a player next to the post to their teammate at midfield.
 

Defending


2v2 battles

Some pairs have a ball, some do not. If they have a ball, they should try and keep it. If not, they need to work with their partner and try and win one back.
2v2 to lines 

Three teams of two. Each team has a pair that plays inside the playing area and then two other pairs are on each end. Two pairs in middle play 2v2 against each other. If they dribble ball to the line, then the team that gets scored on, steps off and a pair from the team that got scored on brings on a ball and attacks. So the team that successfully attacked a line, must know transition into defending.

3v3 to 3 goals 

Two teams of three. Each team has 3 goals to attack and 3 goals to defend. This activity works on pressure, cover and balance.
Coaching Corner: Teaching Vision and Support Play
By Vince Ganzberg, Regional Technical Director
  (from the NSCAA Coaching Newsletter - April 28, 2004)

       This session is geared for the advanced level player about the ages of 14 and up. The technical ability to play 1-2 touch, possessing a good first touch, and the ability to receive under pressure is something for you to consider if you are to do this type of training session with your players. The purpose is to work on player’s vision and getting support in order to have more productive possessions. This training session also works on speed of play.  
Warm-up - 3 color passing

In an area, have 3 different groups of colors. Have one ball to start. Instruct each color that they must pass to another color yet receive from a third color. For example: Reds pass to Greens, Greens pass to yellows, and Yellows pass to reds. After a little bit add a second and third ball.
 


1st Activity - 3v3v3

3 Teams of 3. One of the colored teams is the defending team. The other two teams are trying to see how many passes they can get against the defending team. The 2 attacking teams are counting the total number of passes in a time period. When the defense wins the ball or the attacking team plays out the ball, they keep the ball from the two attacking teams. It is then up to the attacking teams to win the ball back and keep possession. To work on vision and support, tell the attacking teams that they cannot pass the ball to their own color. They must pass the ball to another color, like the warm-up. Another variation is to put a touch restriction on like 1-2 touch.

 


 2nd Activity - Multiple Goals

Two even teams of 5-8 players. Make small goals around a half field area with cones. Make one more goal than each team has players. So if there are teams of 6, have 7 small goals scattered around half a field. This is a familiar possession game in which a point is scored when a team plays the ball thru a coned goal to another teammate. A bonus point is scored If the ball gets thru a coned goal to a teammate who then plays one touch to a third player. Could also make this way the only way to get a point If your emphasis is getting support.
 


 3rd Activity - 5v5 plus 2

Play 5 aside to two goals. Two teams of 7 players. Play to two goals. Each team has 2 target players on their attacking endline. Before a goal can be scored, the attacking team must play the ball to one of their two target players who then only have one touch to play the ball back in the field to their own team. Could play that whomever plays the ball to the end target must replace them. The target player then plays the ball in and can join their teammates on the field.
 


4th Activity - Play 7v7 plus 2 to goals

Play 7v7 and have 2 plus players who are always with the attack. The plus players are now on the field. To work on possession, vision, and support limit the plus player to 1 touch while everyone else has 2 touches. First team to 3 wins.
 


Concluding Activity - Play 8v8 - 11v11

Could put a touch restriction on them like 1-2 touch, but one of my favorite twists is to make them play silently, no clapping, hooting, hollering, etc.  After a bit, then play normally.

NOR CAL RELIEF RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
SPECIAL BULLETIN - SOCCER GOALS
Last week a middle-school child was killed in an accident at their school involving a portable soccer goal. The details of the accident are not for discussion here, only to say that it happened during the process of raising the goal from the ground to vertical. The overall issue of soccer goal safety has been addressed by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC - see link below) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) has also developed guidelines for soccer goals.

For school districts, controlling goal hazards is especially difficult. Funding for alternatives to the current equipment is limited, as is the availability of staff to monitor its usage. In most cases, districts have both formal arrangements with local leagues (often the leagues actually own the posts) for use of the soccer pitches on nights and weekends, and a generally accepted role as a place for the locals to kick a ball around at any time. Realistically, no matter how good an effort a district makes to establish procedures regarding storing, chaining, assembling, staking, etc., a moveable soccer goal can get put up and down up to fifteen times a week by fifteen different groups of parent/player goalpost "volunteers" and enforcing the rules is extremely problematic.

The wide range in ownership, equipment, usage of, and security arrangements for the goals makes setting global real-world recommendations for control of their hazards difficult. Certainly the stability of standing goals can be and is assessed during inspections, but most often the goals are chained or lying down, and last week's tragedy reminds us all that the real danger is present as the posts are being lifted up from the ground.

You can raise the posts (which CPSC states can range from 150-500 pounds) up to vertical using hand over hand to a certain height, but, for the larger goals, you have to 'throw' it up the last foot or two and trust it makes it to the upright before falling back down. It is a hazardous moment, and requires awareness, some teamwork and a significant amount of combined strength. Lack of focus or any horseplay simply adds to the danger.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

The recommendations listed below address the soccer goals issue on the three levels detailed above: the global picture, district-level policies and procedures, and the specific hazard associated with the recent tragedy, but in reverse order since that should be the priority of the action items.

Conduct an immediate review of the current procedures for raising and lowering the goals and correct any bad habits, unsafe acts, improperly followed procedures and undefined policies identified in the review.

· If students have been allowed to raise the goal unsupervised, discontinue that practice immediately.
· Define clearly the level of supervision required during every raising and lowering of the posts for student use and define specifically who can approve moving ahead with the procedure each time.
· Retrain the approved supervisors on the safe way to raise a goal; ideally the manufacturer's handbook has the information specific to their model, but, failing that, use common sense to ensure:
o If the weight is clearly too much or too awkward for those present to handle without a struggle, wait for reinforcements.
o Lift from outside the plane of the posts.
o At the final throw, lift only from the side and have those in the front and back step back from the falling zone of the crossbar and back brace.
o Insist that those not involved in the actual lift remain several feet outside the possible falling zone.
· Remind the students that any horseplay such as swinging on the goals is forbidden at any time but will lead to particularly severe discipline if conducted during the lifting or lowering process (enforce that rule consistently and firmly).
· Establish that only manufactured posts are to be placed on the fields. Homemade efforts, no matter how well intentioned, cannot ensure the needed stability and safety.

Review the existing procedures - including those established with local leagues - for the storing, chaining, installing, staking of the goals and assess the procedures for real-world achievability and functionality.

A District is better served by being honest about its ability to monitor rules and committing only to those procedures it can actively enforce itself. Wherever possible, it should contractually transfer the risk associated with the goals to the parties who have arrangements to use them.

The standards presented in the CPSC link below are valuable recommendations with which to compare your existing procedures. Chaining the goals during all non-use times is a good idea, of course, as is staking the back bar and padding the goalposts and ensuring safety labels are clearly visible, but the District will need to make its own Risk Management decisions as to the functionality and enforceability of all of them. Some districts, for example, have placed warning signs about the goals either on and around the equipment - a particularly worthy initiative if the signs are also in Spanish - but setting guidelines without the intent or ability to monitor them can be problematic in itself. This issue will be an agenda item at the next NCR Risk Management committee meeting, and all members are encouraged to share their own real-world best practices with both the committee and the full membership.

Conduct a district-wide strategic overview of the soccer goal issue and develop a longer-term Risk Management plan for improving the safety of the goals pending available funding.

As with the playground regulations, districts are well served by being able to demonstrate their intent - formalized in a prioritized plan - to upgrade the equipment as soon as funding is available. A good suggestion is for a District to make decisions now on future purchase preferences. If possible, involving the PTO in the process is a good idea.

There are a number of catalogues available for maintenance and operations staff, purchasing managers, site administrators and even parent groups to review for options on material, size, portability, etc. Maintenance Supervisors report durability issues with the PVC material, but generally they report positively on the wheeled goals. Once again, real-world experiences will be shared at the next Risk Management meeting.

If member Districts would like an assessment of the current condition of their soccer goals and/or a review of the existing policies and procedures, they are encouraged to contact their local safety contact or one of Keenan's regional Risk Management Directors: Trina Caton in Rancho Cordova, Dante Bellino in Redding and Ben Hertzler in San Jose.

Web link to CPSC:

http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/Soccer.pdf
U.S. Soccer Announces Goalkeeping License for Coaches

As part of our continuing effort to service and educate our membership, U.S. Soccer Communications Center will send out an informative articles from one of its departments. As part of our Resource Center, you will receive an article/paper/essay in your inbox that will hopefully enhance your enjoyment and knowledge of the game of soccer - on and off the field.

This article talks about a newly created Goalkeeping License for coaches.

While the U.S. has successful goalkeepers at international and top club levels around the world, there is still more work to be done developing the talent at this position at the lower levels. With this in mind, the U.S. Soccer Coaching Education Department has worked with goalkeeping coaches from around the nation to create the federation’s first-ever U.S. Soccer National Goalkeeper License for coaches.

National Goalkeeping Coach & Staff Coach Peter Mellor and U.S. Women’s National Team Goalkeeper Coach Phil Wheddon led the way in the development of the course for this license. The course will debut with a one-week session this August.

“We are excited that we can continue to increase the educational opportunities for our coaches,” said U.S. Director of Youth Development and Under-17 Men's National Team head coach John Ellinger. “We have put countless hours into developing this license, and this will benefit players and coaches as we continue to improve player development."

The U.S. Soccer National Goalkeeper License is designed for the more experienced team coach who has never played the goalkeeper position. The license will develop their goalkeeping knowledge useful at the youth, collegiate, senior and professional levels. It will cover the principles and the components that go into developing goalkeepers, and it will encourage the team coach to prepare and plan for the goalkeepers development needs - not just daily - but over an entire season.

Designed as a compliment to the U.S. Soccer A, B & C License courses, the seven-day school includes field and classroom sessions and concludes with intensive testing on theoretical and practical applications of the game.  The course also includes valuable instruction in coaching methodology, team management and fitness.

The course will instruct coaches how to plan and manage their goalkeeper’s development over the course of an entire season at a high level. It features in-depth coverage of the technical, tactical, psychological and fitness components of the goalkeeper position. Similar to other U.S. Soccer Coaching Courses, this course promises to be an interactive learning experience featuring field sessions, audio and video as well as traditional lectures.  

The inaugural school for the license will be held at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. from July 31 – Aug. 6, 2004. Registration for this course will open May 17 at ussoccer.com, and course registration will be limited.

Applicants must hold the following pre-requisites:

  • USSF “A” License or,
  • NSCAA Premier Diploma and a Goalkeeper level one diploma or,
  • USSF “B” License or a NSCAA Advanced National Diploma and a Goalkeeper level one diploma or,
  • USSF “C” License or a NSCAA National Diploma and a Goalkeeper level two diploma.

Upon successful completion of the U.S. Soccer Goalkeeping License, attendees to this school with an A License will receive eight Continuing Education credits  - the entire compliment needed to keep their license fresh.

For more information, please contact the U.S. Soccer Coaching Department at (312) 528-1219 or coaches@ussoccer.org.

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Coaching Corner: Center Goal Game
By Paul Payne, Regional Technical Director

Craig Brown, former Scottish National Team Manager used this several years ago at a NSCAA course and I have found it to be useful for all ages of players. Players are faced with several tactical dilemmas on both sides of the ball as well as challenged physically and technically to produce.

  1. 2 teams of 4-5 players playing in area 50 x 35 (can adjust given ages and abilities of players) with two corner flags in the center forming a 10 yd. goal with 2 neutral zones at each end.
  2. One team attacks with 5 players against 4 with the extra defender assuming the position of GK (you decide if hands are allowed-if not will challenge the field players). The attacking team looks to score through the center goal flags and if successful play to the opposite neutral zone, reorganize and then turn and attack in the other direction.
  3. If the defenders win the ball, they play back to their GK who then carries the ball back to the opposite end and joins with the others to attack 5v4

This small sided training exercise is great to teach several points to players. A few are listed but obviously as the game is played you, the coach, need to be able to recognize the “coachable moment.”

  • Attacking with numbers up, look at team shape, spacing of players.
  • Defending numbers down, idea of pressure on the ball is key to other defenders actions
  • Communication on both sides of the ball
  • Recognizing moment of transition from attacking to defending and vice-versa

What is nice about this activity is that it can be played with kids of all ages and without the need for full-sized goals. You can also add numbers and other restrictions to challenge the players even more.
Girl Soccer Players Ages 6-14 Wanted for Jamestown Team
Hello people.

If you run into any girls ages 6-14 years old who would be interested in joining a girls soccer team with Jamestown Community Center in the Mission, please give them my info. I am currently registering my u-8, u-10, u-12 and u-14 teams in the Vikings recreation league this fall and the deadline is coming up quick!! Please help by harrassing/informing parents, neighbors, teachers, and of course, any girls who you think should be playing soccer!! :) The teams practice 1-2 times a week starting late August and the games will be on saturdays.

And we have teams for boys too, ages 6-12.

THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD.

Deirdre
 Jamestown Community Center
647-4709 x118

E/D Clinic in San Francisco on June 19,20, 26 and 27th
The Viking League is sponsoring an E/D Clinic in San Francisco on June 19,20, 26 and 27th at Washington HS.
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Good Friend Jim Broshar Finds Beep Test Online

one note: this is calibrated to 15 meters = 16.5 yards. Most beep tests are 20 yards, I hear... 

source: http://www.topendsports.com/testing/faq.htm#glossary

The only link that I have come across for a downloadable beep test is the following. Unfortunately, reading the details of this test, it is only conducted over 15 meters. Therefore, the timing may be different to the 20m beep test. Use with caution.

http://www.policecareer.co.uk/fitnessmedical/thebleeptest.asp

Tonight I just found this, Australian army?

http://www.defence.gov.au/army/hq8bde/jobs/fitness.htm

1) The Beep Test

The first test is the 'Multistage fitness test' or 'beep test'. In this test, you run to and fro along a 20 metre track (usually in a Gym), keeping up with a series of beeps on a cassette. The timing of the beeps gradually increases until you can no longer keep up and this defines the level achieved. The minimum requirement for both males and females is Level 7.5 or 56 shuttles for a total of 1,120 metres in 6 minutes 30 seconds.

            Click here to download or hear the Beep Test
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Town School Looking for One or More Soccer Coaches

My sons’ school is looking for one or more soccer coaches to coach one or two grade 8 school teams for Town School.  This would be a September to mid-November opportunity.  The requirement, as I understand it, is two to three times weekly (depending on the game schedule) on weekday afternoons, sometime in the 3pm to 5:30 pm time slot.  Practices and games would be on weekdays.  Practices would be at Morton Field in the Presidio. 

Compensation would be competitive.   

Interested coaches should contact me at my e-mail: srkoch@earthlink.net with a summary of their coaching experience. 

Stephen Koch
Lessons Learned From The 2003 Women's World Cup, and How to Apply Them to the Youth Game

As part of our continuing effort to service and educate our membership, U.S. Soccer Communications Center will send out an informative article from one of its departments. Once a week, you will receive an article/paper/essay in your inbox that will hopefully enhance your enjoyment and knowledge of the game of soccer - on and off the field.

This week, April Heinrichs and the U.S. Women’s National Team Staff bring you a document that evaluates the development needs of the U.S at all levels following the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup.


By April Heinrichs and the U.S. Women's National Staff Coaches


We are pleased to provide America’s soccer community with an evaluation of the needs of the youth game. This has been compiled through observations made while coaching and scouting at the 2003 Women’s World Cup and evaluating talented female players at the club, state, regional and national team levels.

The positive strides our young players are making in every aspect of the game has been exciting to watch over the years. Evaluations of our U-14, U-16, U-17, U-19 and U-21 Youth National Team players bear out the facts that they are more athletically gifted, technically sound and tactically sophisticated than players of previous generations.

However, we must constantly search for ways to improve in order to continue to develop some of the world’s best players and teams. After observing our youth players and reflecting on the 2003 Women’s World Cup, our staff has identified several specific topics for all coaches to address on a daily basis, including the U.S. Women’s National Team, which aspires to win gold at the 2004 Olympic Games.

The following document is a list of priorities that is provided to help enhance player and team development throughout the country.

It is impossible to write a post-World Cup document and include all our thoughts and analysis without it becoming a hard cover book. With that in mind, we judiciously chose topics of urgency for all levels.

To read the complete document, please click on the following link: http://www.ussoccer.com/templates/includes/misc_pdfs/lessons_from_WWC03.pdf

For more information, please contact the U.S. Soccer Coaching Department at (312) 528-1219 or coaches@ussoccer.org. ****************************************************************
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High School Looking for JV Coach

Position Announcement

Junior Varsity Soccer Coach
Winter 2004-2005

Mercy High School, Burlingame, a private, all girls’ college preparatory school in Burlingame is seeking a coach for the junior varsity soccer team. The team competes in the West Bay Athletic League and preseason tournaments.  We practice at Skyline College in San Bruno, Mondays through Fridays 3:30-5:00 pm from November 1, 2004 through early February 2005. 

Collegiate or club soccer experience recommended.  A competitive stipend is available.

Anyone interested in this position contact:

Meave Fallon
Athletic Director
2750 Adeline Dr.
Burlingame, CA 94010
650-762-1107
mfallon@mercyhsb.com

www.mercyhsb.com
Subjects Needed For UCSF Soccer Study

FREE MOVIE TICKETS! 

 You may be eligible if:

·       You are between the ages of 20 and 25 or over 35 years of age

·       You are in good health

·       You are a recreational athlete who plays soccer at least 2 times per week

·       You have not had a major knee, ankle, hip or back surgery

 

What does the study involve?

·       You will be asked to make 1 visit to the Movement Analysis Laboratory at Mt. Zion Hospital

·       The visit will last 2-3 hours

·       Study procedures will include a medical history, range of motion testing, and gait analysis

·       You will be asked to perform various cutting and landing tasks after a warm-up session.

·       You will receive 2 free movie tickets for your participation

If you are interested in participating, please call Dr. Kate Hamel at (415) 353-7695 or email hamelk@ptrehab.ucsf.edu
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