When soccer isn’t in season, you need a way to keep your feet nimble and practiced. That’s hard to do in cold weather, and your parents aren’t about to let you kick a soccer ball around the house. So what’s a good way to maintain your skills while keeping things safely inside the house when the weather is cold?
It’s easy: Footbags. Also knows as hackies (which stems from “Hacky Sack,” the original trademarked name of the product), footbags can be a great way to keep your feet in shape and ready for soccer season. You might even try buying some soccer hackies — footbags that look like soccer balls — to keep your mind on the game.
Here are a few basic footbag maneuvers you’ll need in order to excel in the sport, as well as one move that’s a bit more advanced. Practice these every day, and not only will you be ready for soccer season, you’ll have gained a valuable and impressive new skill.
Kick. This is the simplest footbag maneuver, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: Kicking the bag. There are three basic kicks you’ll want to learn: The inside kick, wherein you kick the bag with the inside of your foot; the outside kick, wherein you kick the bag with the outside of your foot; and the toe kick.
I have been the head coach of my current team for about 1,5 years now, and during that period, we have done a total of 3 sessions (!) where we exclusively focused on conditioning, not related to regular soccer training. Those 3 sessions where done as a Plan B because our training field was covered in snow.
Our philosophy on conditioning for soccer players is that everything can (and should) be performed on the soccer field, during regular soccer training. And most of those sessions can be done with the soccer ball.
For instance, let me give you one example of one of the absolute best drills to improve the players condition as well as their ability to make good decisions during a soccer game:
= Small-Sided Games
The variations are endless, and by making a few small adjustments, you make these drills so intense and demanding that it’s insane.
At the end of a game when the players are tired, the team where the players can make the best decisions is the team that will win the game. Sure, you may be able to run a mile at a pretty decent time, but that’s got nothing to do with soccer.
Sitting on the sidelines in discomfort and watching my team was hard, especially as I had been put there by an innocuous challenge, but it certainly sped up my progression into coaching. My posterior cruciate ligament was torn and I was sidelined for a season undergoing regular intensive physiotherapy sessions and a rehab programme. I was well on the road to recovery when I hit from behind when stationary in a road traffic accident and clattered my knee against the dash board due to the inertia caused by the other driver and extensively damaged it again, undoing the months of hard work I’d recently put in. that was it, my playing days were well and truly gone. As with everything I do, if I’m doing something then I aim to be the absolute best that I can be at it and hence I undertook as many coaching qualifications as I possible could fit in in a ridiculously short space of time. I aimed to provide each goalkeeper that I worked with as much insight into the game as physically and mentally possible as I embarked on my new fledgling career as a goalkeeper coach. Having received no specific coaching personally I wasn’t dogged by the “Do it this way” mentality that follows the majority of coaches and I was free to develop my own personal style, ideas and methodology. I am a huge student of how people work and watch many, many coaches in their mannerisms and style and took the bits that would suit me and adapted those that wouldn’t until I found a style that works. And it is with this style that I lead you into the magical world of Coaching the Goalkeeper by Bob Warby
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