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I work as a volunteer journalist, producing some nice content for a variety of places. At the moment I am working as football co editor of kettlemag and freelance multimedia member at youth football scotland. I am always looking for new opportunities to expand on what I do. Please see

Waving to football

Another routine that worked out quite nicely for me, highly flexible also. Split your group into 2 teams one with bibs, start with having one team attack vs defence. In order to keep the intensity of the routine up ensure the pool of footballs is accessed immediately once the active

Conditioning

I picked this up from the world of Futsal. Ball goes out of play the team in possession has to bring the ball back into play within 4 second or they have to hand over possession. Encourages quick thinking and impact oppositions ability to regroup and organise.

Timing

You have 90 minutes training available to you To start with complete your standard warm up, then emphasizing the point of interval training start the session with a small game, 15 minutes after stop the game for a breather, water intake and reshuffle the teams. Maintains freshness and improves fitness.

Delivery

This was an idea I came up with to improve my delivery, this was during nights when I was bored with college work, cables and computers and wanted to invest some time in something else. When delivering a routine consider three statements. Three steps for each drills. First being what

Academy staff ideas…

Minimum 3 coaches per age group, this allow training sessions to flow and for it to be a more enjoyable experience for each one of the players. You can never grow short of coaches. The better quality the training sessions the more chance you have of player retention. I don&

Academy thought's

The following is some information I picked up through experience, was a little passage that i wrote to a club where he was at a loss as to what to do with so many players. A recent development that I witnessed was a restructuring of an academy. Presents several challenges,

An idea channel

The following is just a collection of ideas, I hope these golden nuggets of wonderful information prove productive. “Picked up from the world of Futsal. Ball goes out of play the team in possession has to bring the ball back into play within 4 second or they have to hand

Notes

There can be occasions, and don’t get me wrong they are rare, where the opposition are highly disrespectful, where teams argue everything, generally do everything in their power to breach the unwritten rules of sportsmanship. This may anger you or frustrate you, keep it in mind that this is

A rondo for a minute

This is a routine that I love, I spend time using it every week and it has provided me with an end product, please spend time adapting it to your own requirement or just simply use it as it. Each drill that will be explained is set out on the