E M A G G N I V L O THE EV December 2012
Issue 2 Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Coaching Newsletter
Planning Weekly Training Sessions for Your Team
Mike Barr EPA Youth Soccer Director of Coaching
A coach’s role becomes more complex when a team is in an elite category or the coach has to arrange training around other sports or other soccer teams. There may be a tendency to follow your normal schedule but following routine methodology may cause possible injuries, make for minimal progress in team preparation and cause your team to not play up to potential in matches.
What if some of your players have outside soccer training on Thursday or play basketball games for their school on Tuesday or Friday evenings? How would that impact your team training and the individuals who have extra training or play other sports? Would you have conUidence in your expertise to alter individual training to get the full potential from your team on match day? Can you expect players to reach maximum potential if they never A coach should have the complete schedule for each train at peak overload with the ball? individual player at least a month in advance. This schedule includes academics, family outings, The modern coach must become aware of intensity activities, other sports and further potential levels of training for their team, when to lower or conUlicts. Each schedule should be examined before increase training loads for individuals, when to arranging the weekly schedule for your team, with lower expectations of individuals or even cut down an understanding that individual players may be on playing time because of participation in other training but work at different workloads based on sports or outside training by an individual player. If their schedules. a coach ignores these conUlicts he or she may jeopardize the player’s health, the quality of play of In a perfect world where a team is training three the individual and the type of soccer your team plays days a week with games on Saturday, the team in matches. would train on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Sunday would be a complete recovery day with no US Soccer is becoming more active in presenting to training. During that weekly micro-‐cycle the team coaches the progression for training players in not would train between 75 to 85% peak capacity on only practices but weekly, seasonal, out of season Monday, 85 to 100% on Wednesday and 65 to 85% and yearly timetables. on Friday.
National Coaching License Program Updates
Gary Stephenson EPA Youth Soccer Assistant Director of Coaching
Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer is now in their second year of a three year education partnership with Maryland Youth Soccer (MSYSA) and Delaware Youth soccer (DYSA). This Partnership allows our three states to work together and guarantee a National C license and National Youth license will take place every year within the three states for the next two years. Proposed schedule is as follows: 2013 National C License (DYSA) & National Youth License (EPYS) 2014 MSYSA National C … DYSA National Youth License We encourage PA coaches who have held a National “D” for a year to apply for this course. We will inform you when the registration is open.