Dear Coaches:
Thank you for volunteering your time to help make Downtown United Soccer Club’s Recreational League a positive and memorable experience for all the kids!!
Below are session plans that you can follow each week of your soccer season. These plans focus on the fundamental technical skills in soccer. The activities are designed to be realistic to situations in the game, allow for lots of touches on the ball and most importantly are lots of competitve fun. I hope you find them simple, useful and effective.
DUSC offers professional coaches who will run short clinics for your teams before games. DUSC plans to get to individual teams at least three times in a season.
A couple of points:
- Please start your session on time even if you only have one player.
- Prepare ahead of time for the 30 minutes you have to warm-up the players and run through some skills drills presented in the curriculum.
- Resist the temptation of over-coaching. Allow the players room to learn from their mistakes and the freedom to make their own decisions on the field. It’s their game.
HAVE FUN!!
Yours in Soccer,
Paul Jeffries
Director of Recreational Programs and Central City Initiative
DUSC Coach’s Library
