Ive owned a youth soccer academy for the last 5 years, trained over 2500 players in the last 10 years, been the head referee of my soccer association for the last 12 years (refereed 4000+ games) and Im here to answer your questions about coaching, refereeing or anything soccer related. AMA! Hey everyone,This is about my 4th AMA on reddit and Ive always thoroughly enjoyed answering questions about coaching, refereeing and anything that can help anyone in the world of soccer (within my means of course).Ive owned a youth soccer academy for the past 5 years, training just over 700 kids between the ages of 5 and 14 (competitive and non-competitive players). Before my academy I built my clientele through personal trainings and Ive acted as the technical director of my soccer association here in Canada (through which I was able to run general and team specific trainings for over 1500 kids and over 100 coaches). I have also been the head referee of my association for the past 10 years (managed over 250 referees and refereed+supervised+evaluated 4000+ youth games in my career).I hold a Bachelor in Physical and Health Education from McGill University and I teach physical and health education in a high school full-time during the day. At night I help train youth competitive teams and run my soccer academy on the weekends (during the summer I run the entire refereeing for my league and train competitive teams as well during the week).My area of expertise is really youth development in soccer - in other words: how to optimize the learning of each age group category. From strategies to use on the field, to maximizing what you can do during practice to have the best possible results on the field (depending on the age group of course), to the psychological approach to have with kids. I am obviously not limited to this, it is just what I work the most with but I can certainly attend to more complicated aspects of training for older (and senior) players as well.I started a blog a few weeks ago that deals with youth soccer. Being exposed to youth soccer in the last 11 years of my life, many aspects of it have come to my attention and I decided to write about them (from a coaching and referee perspective). If you have a minute I would be very grateful if you took a look (and feel free to let me know what you think!). The blog is: bit.ly/1soMYK3 currently train U8 (development team) and U10 boys (competitive team) as well as U14 competitive girls team. My U10 boys won the summer league last year as well as the winter one this year (went undefeated in 15 games). My style of coaching is very possession based and I focus tremendously on decision making and game simulation drills during my practices (just to give you an idea).Enough talking on my part, time for you to ask away!Thanks!Mike
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:11:07 +0000
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