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[Video] Setting The Standard for U13 Possession Soccer in America

By Gary Kleiban 51 Comments

We’ve shown you what the current standard for U11s looks like. And we’ve demonstrated how this translated to the global stage with competitions against the best academies in the world. We’ve also shown you what it looks like at U12. Now we present what it can look like at U13. Enjoy and study the crap […]

Filed Under: Club Soccer, Soccer Education, Video Tagged With: Development, Education, Video

The 1 Soccer Policy that Cripples the National Team all the way to 9 Year Olds

By Gary Kleiban 280 Comments

US Soccer not creating a true soccer pyramid with promotion & relegation. That’s it! You want youth development on par with the rest of the world? You want our top flight pro teams at the level with the best in the world? You want the National Team to consistently be a legit World Cup contender? […]

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Who Else Wants to Win?

By Gary Kleiban 125 Comments

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Winning fucking matters! And don’t you ever forget it. The only question (AND IT’S A CRITICAL ONE) really revolves around context. Under what circumstances has winning occurred? What were the pros/cons considering short, medium, and long term objectives? But, whatever your answers … on the whole, winning matters. Chronic losers […]

Filed Under: Philosophy, Practical, Problems, Soccer Education Tagged With: Development, Education, excuses, Philosophy, Practical, Problems

Soccer Development or Player Development? Start Getting it Straight

By Gary Kleiban 68 Comments

Time to recalibrate! We’re not interested in player development here, we’re interested in soccer development. While related, they are not the same. 1) Player Development This is not the end all, be all, of this country’s issues. As conventionally discussed, and comparatively speaking, it’s irrelevant. It’s just a tiny speck of what’s going on. If […]

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The “Possession Movement” Has Finally Hit American Shores: How Prepared Are You?

By Gary Kleiban 46 Comments

There is a movement towards possession-based soccer in our country – and it’s about time. The possession-based game, in one manifestation or another, has dominated global football for decades. But unfortunately it has taken an extreme interpretation and execution of possession, in Barcelona/Spain, to awaken us in the United States. As a result, the word […]

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They Laughed When I Said It Could Be Done; But When I Started to Coach!

By Gary Kleiban 6 Comments

That’s pretty much it, right? All too often it seems that if you want to do something that breaks the mold, people react strangely. It’s like you’re an extraterrestrial or something. Two kids want to build a search engine better than multi-billion dollar incumbents? Larry and Sergey create Google. Twitter? Who the fuck is going […]

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How to Execute: Who on Earth are You Learning From?

By Gary Kleiban 67 Comments

Coaching Soccer Venn Diagram

The figure breaks coaching down into 3 fundamental elements – all of which contain huge challenges. For instance, we’ve got over 4 years of philosophy-based content here, and we’ve barely scratched the surface. But now I think there’s enough of a base to start efforts in the other two elements – Activities & Execution. The […]

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How Can You Take World Class Soccer Methods, and Apply Them In Your Environment?

By Gary Kleiban 122 Comments

soccer methodology

I think we can all agree that taking what they do elsewhere in the soccer world and applying it here, is not easy. But the reasons behind that aren’t necessarily what you think. Perhaps the biggest and least understood reason for the difficulty is interpretation. You see, reading or witnessing something, and properly interpreting what […]

Filed Under: Problems, Soccer Education, Solutions Tagged With: Development, Education, Philosophy, Problems, Solutions

1 Truth, 1 Fallacy, and 1 Solution for Coaching Possession Soccer

By Gary Kleiban 138 Comments

A Truth It can be successfully done across all levels of play. The main reason it’s rarely seen, is that most coaches have not acquired the expertise to do it. First and foremost, a coach must develop a possession-based philosophy (a vision … a taste … a feel for that type of football). Then he […]

Filed Under: Club Soccer, Practical, Soccer Education Tagged With: Development, Education, excuses, Philosophy, Solutions

The Golden Rule to Team (and Player) Development

By Gary Kleiban 64 Comments

This continues with the theme of our previous article … It is after your team demonstrates a level of mastery with your core material, that you can start layering in other principles. For instance, our founding core (the set of activities all our teams start with) does not include stuff like: Combination play up the middle. Offsides trap. How […]

Filed Under: Philosophy, Practical, Soccer Education, Solutions Tagged With: Development, Education, Philosophy, Solutions

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