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About Coerver Coaching

Coerver® Coaching, “The Worlds Number 1 Soccer Skills Teaching Method” and their International sponsors adidas® stand at the forefront of youth soccer coaching with its Player Camps, Schools, Coaches' Clinics and Educational Material available in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Coerver® Coaching has become the largest and most respected soccer education programme in the world with an unmatched list of endorsements from national federations, professional clubs, star players and leading coaches.

The central theme of all Coerver® Coaching concentrates on the improvement of both individual skills and small team group play, especially in the 6 - 14 age group. Coerver® Coaching believes that the game is made up of a series of movements and plays involving a small number of players (1v1, 2v2, 3v3 etc.) in different parts of the field. It is when they are linked together, or broken up defensively, that these small group plays make up a game of football.

Coerver® Coaching concludes that ultimately any system of team play is only as good as the players involved. It therefore focuses on individual development both alone and in the context of small group team play. This curriculum is delivered through the Pyramid of Player Development which consists of 6 building blocks.

Each block combines dozens of games and training exercises for all ages and many have been featured in the Coerver® Coaching books & DVDs.

All the exercises can be used by both coaches who are planning team training sessions and by players practicing on their own.

Ball Mastery is the foundation of every player's development and becomes essential for progress through the pyramid. But don't think of this as a ladder, where one level must be mastered before continuing to the next level. Instead each step is integral to the others and the player improvement is achieved, as the techniques at each level become stronger.

• Ball Mastery - Exercises where each player must work alone with a ball, High repetitions using both feet.

• Receiving and Passing - Exercises to improve a player's first touch, to encourage and teach accurate creative passing.

• Moves (1v1) - Exercises and games that teach game winning individual moves to create space amongst a packed defence.

• Speed - Exercises and games that improve acceleration, running with and without the ball and changes of pace.

• Finishing - Exercises and games that teach technique and encourage instinctive play.

• Group Attack - Exercises and games that improve small-group combination play with emphasis on fast break attacks.

Coerver® Coaching's mission is to provide the world's best youth soccer educational services and products at its Player Camps, Schools and Coaches' Clinics. Through the Donside Coerver Coaching Affiliated Training Centre we are able to offer young players the opportunity to benefit from Coervers 25 years of coaching development experience.

If you would like more information about the Donside Coerver Coaching Affiliated Training Centre,

please telephone Graeme McDonald on 019755 62389 or email coaching@donsidejuvenilefc.co.uk

To visit Coerver Coachings Official website - go to www.coerver.eu

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