This page contains Coach resource information. Click on the link below for the desired topic. Or, if you don't see it here and want it included in our website, please email our general email box along with the document, we would be happy to post it for you.
- Sample Training Sessions
- Age specific characteristics and skill development
- Game Characteristics by division
- In-Town Training Guides (including Coach Training Packet)
- Reference Materials for Coaches
- Coach Training
- Links
| Sample Training Sessions | ||
| U10/U11 | U12 | U14 |
| Week 1 | ||
| Week 2 | Week 2 | |
| Week 3 | Week 3 | WeeK 3 |
| Week 4 | Week 4 | |
| Age specific characteristics and skill development | ||
| U10/U11 | U12 | U14 |
| Player Characteristics | Player Characteristics | Maintaining Shape & Support |
| Passing | ||
| Shooting | ||
| Tackling | Possession with a Purpose | |
| Dribbling | Dribbling | |
| Heading | Give and Go | Turning & Receiving |
| Receiving Lofted Balls | Movement off Ball | |
| 4v4 to Targets | ||
| First Defender | ||
Game Characteristics by division
CCYS has put together a comprehensive table of game characteristics by ages. It contains answers to basic questions about what field sizes, goal types and balls that are used at each age level. Click here to see the full table including side, field and goals sizes, use of referees, and playing rules.
In-Town Training Guides
Over the years, our In-Town program has developed specific guides to assist coaches in training the younger players in our program. Feel free to review what we have put together and let us know your thoughts on what works and what does not. You can email us with your feedback.
- In-Town Pre-K Coach Packet, 4-2009
- In-Town Coaches Packet, Fall 2010
- In-Town Summary of Coaching Cirriculum K-6
- In-Town Summary of Rules and Coaching Guidelines Grade 3-7
- In-Town Coaching Guidelines Kindergarten-Grade 2
Links
- US Youth Soccer U12 8v8 playing rules
- 6 things for Conducting Great Practices
- US Youth Soccer's rules for Small Sided Games
- Practice Activities - Ideas by Age Directors
- Examples of Kindergarten Weekly Activities
Refrence Materials for Coaches
Books and Tapes at Concord Library
The Club has purchased for the Concord Public Library soccer books and tapes to be available to all coaches:
(Many thanks to Dan Frost for choosing and purchasing these resources for the Club as our gift to the Library and the Concord Carlisle soccer community.)
Tapes
- Training Girls and Women to Win, April Heinrichs
- The Skills of Goal Keeping, Dr. Joe Machnik
- Goalkeeping Fitness and Tactics, Dr. Joe Machnik
- Goalkeeping, the Next Dimension, Dr. Joe Machnik
- Microsoccer, Coaching 7, 7, and 8 Year Olds
- Coerver Fundamentals Part 1: Ball Control
- Coever Fundamentals Part 2: Beating an Opponent
- Coever Fundamentals Part 3: Scoring Chances
Books
- Positive Coaching, Jim Thompson
- Baffled Parents' Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer, Bobby Clark (this is a TREMENDOUS book)
- Soccer Fundamentals for Players and Coaches, Wil Coerver
- Coaching Soccer, Tim Schum ed.
- Grokking, the Dutch method of coaching... Better Soccer More Fun
Coach Training
CCYS supports its coaching by offering Coach Licensing courses sponsored by our parent organization MA Youth Soccer. For more information about coach licensing, go to the Coach Guidelines section of our website.
