Last night at practice I put together a drill that worked on 10 different topics:
1. Side foot driven pass
2. Sprint
3. Body shape
4. First time lay off
5. Movement after the lay off to follow up
6. First touch
7. Driven shot
8. Rebounds and first time finishing
9. Communication
10. Runs into the box.
We worked the players really hard with this [...]

I just received the following reference from the coach of a potential recruit for my college team. I don’t know about you, but the way he describes this player gives me goosebumps!
“He is very much like Brendan, a stalwart in defense, probably better skill on the ball than Brendan, not quite as big, but very [...]

OK, so I am now beginning to come out of hibernation in regards to my college soccer team. I am the only part time, temporary coach in my conference, so once the season is over I slip into semi hibernation. In the Spring I appear from my cave and work furiously on helping all of [...]

After weeks and months of hard work, countless emails and phone calls we have finally received commitment from our first recruit for 2010.
Three years ago we would not have attracted a recruit of this calibre. We are very excited to be adding him to our roster. Not only will he make an immediate impact himself, [...]

OK, so I sat down with some of my players today and we decided on our recruitment needs for next season. We are looking to add 12 more players to the roster and we have identified the positions.
When Blackburn Rovers won the English Premier League in 1995 (Yes the did!) the coach, Ray Harford made [...]

What a game, what a night, what an occasion!
In front of a record crowd, our team ended their season in a heartbreaking way…it was suddenly all over.
We played the semi final of the conference tournament seeded #2 against the #3 seed. Previous encounters this season went to OT with us winning one and the other [...]

So, how do you prepare your players for the biggest game of their lives so far?
We play in a few hours, we play the semi final of our conference tournament at home in front of the biggest crowd of our careers…..
Last night we gave them the night off from practice so that they would be [...]

We finished the regular conference games this weekend extending our unbeaten run to 11 games. We have only conceded 6 goals in the last 10 games, so our defense deserves a lot of credit.
When I say our defense, I should really say our defensive play. We have to defend from all positions all over [...]

Sometimes you just have to win ugly. Do whatever it takes and just get the job done. In what was our worst performance of the regular season we ran out 2-0 winners away from home to qualify for Play Offs with 2 games remaining.
This was a tough game for us. We were playing on the [...]

Wow, this team continues to break its own records, we have now won 6 and tied 2 of our last 8 games!
We put in a very solid and professional performance this weekend running out 3-1 winners. The opposition had beaten us in the previous 24 games before this season. We tied them away from home [...]