Training
What to expect at training by age group, how much practice at home is useful, what a good training environment looks like, and how to handle disruptions like illness, school conflicts, and coaching changes.
The backyard isn't a drills session. It's an environment you set up.
The backyard is not a drills session. It is an environment you set up so that when you are cooking dinner the kid is outside running their own thing with the ball. Why that scene matters more than any drill, and how to make it actually happen.
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What is the importance of Football periodisation?
Your child's training schedule looks random: running one week, small-sided games the next, light passing drills before finals. The variation is not the coach guessing. It is periodisation, and it works even without academy-level data.
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Behind at training: an honest answer for parents of 6-to-10 year olds
Your seven year old isn't catching up at training and you don't know what to do about it. The reframe that changes the question, the four things parents get wrong, when an academy actually helps, and what to do tonight.
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