10 Football Coaching Tips For Kids You Can’t Do Without

Football coaching for kids can be just as demanding and hard work as it is for professional managers. No matter whether you are an experienced football coach or first time manager of a kids’ team, you can benefit from these 10 tips to become a better soccer coach. 1. Use Soccer drills Soccer drills are the foundations that help to teach the players the basics of the game. Skills such as dribbling round cones, passing games, running and fitness exercises are great for developing techniques and awareness. 2. Encourage players …

Gifts From the Opposing Youth Football Coach

Never question a “gift” from your opponent. Just make sure to make the most advantage of the situation you have just received. Every once in a while a gift may come from your youth football opponent and we live by the old saying never look a gift horse in the mouth. For example, you find yourself in a situation where the other team is overpowering your team at the line of scrimmage. I mean to the point where they are getting 4-5 yards per carry directly off tackle or up …

Liverpool Football Club – A Positive Outlook

LFC LFC – You’ll Never Walk Alone Welcome to the first edition of The LFC Times which is a new, independent view of the events at Liverpool FC. I have written a number of blogs on a wide range of subjects related to LFC, as well as being a regular contributor to posts in the LFC website fans forum, simply because Liverpool Football Club is my passion and just like millions of other fans worldwide, I have very firm views on everything to do with this world sporting icon that …

Football Coaching For Kids

If your child is starting to play football, you may want to get him some coaching to ensure he can keep up his end of the game and enjoy the sport. Kids are not usually good at something they do not enjoy doing, so if your child’s football skills are not crash-hot, coaching will certainly improve them and make his game more enjoyable. Football coaching for kids should include passing, blocking and other fundamentals of the sport. But above all it should be fun. Not every child can play for …

Fantasy Football Tips For Winning Your Fantasy Football League

Fantasy Football Season is upon us again, and there are many issues to consider for this season. One of the biggest early decisions is who to draft in the early rounds of the draft. I would like to take this time to share with you my strategy on when I draft players and why you should draft your players at certain times during the draft. The early rounds of the draft are the most important rounds for your fantasy team. The decisions you make with your early picks can make …

Age Differences When Coaching Youth Football

Coaching Considerations for Various Age Groups in Youth Football In previous posts, I have given numerous tips for working with younger aged youth football players. As mentioned in the book and in these posts, the 6-8 year old kids are very visual and we showed you many tricks on how use that to your advantage. How do the other youth football age groups vary from each other? These are generalizations that I have found have held true with my own teams as well as from what I have seen doing …

Glasgow Rangers Football Club

The 1919/20 season heralded the dawn of a new era for Glasgow Rangers as manager William Wilton and number two William Struth initiated a Glasgow Rangers dominance that was to last until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Though winning this season with 31 wins out of 42 games and scoring 106 goals, it was overshadowed by the subsequent death of manager, William Wilton. William Wilton When the Scottish League was formed in 1890, Wilton became its first treasurer as Glasgow Rangers shared the title with Dumbarton. …