MOTI Youth Soccer Summit 2020 – Skip Gilbert CEO US Youth Soccer

MOTI Youth Soccer Summit 2020 – Skip Gilbert CEO US Youth Soccer

MOTI YOUTH SOCCER SUMMIT – Coaching and Educating in a Remote Environment: Maintaining the connection with parents, players, students & coaches.

View Ian Barkers presentation from the Youth Soccer Summit here.

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Minute with Merrick – Episode 08 – Team Terminology

Visit the Team Terminology terms page for key Soccer words and definitions.

Watch Minute with Merrick Episode 8 here

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It’s Time To Make A Change

February and March allow most organizations to pause and reflect a bit.  Board meetings will bring up new topics, as new board members come on board and try to rejuvenate the organization’s leadership. High School awards banquets or Club banquets celebrate the players and coaching achievements, and often the parental involvement for being supporters of their players.  Many organizations are beginning to work hard to improve skills with their competitive players, and in some cases, that is in-doors. READ MORE

Team Terminology

Soccer Team Terminology

Soccer is played at a frantic pace. Things happen quickly.

These single and uncomplicated instructions take the place of a long conversation with or from a coach or a teammate. Each word depicts an action that needs a calculated response.

KEEPER – The goalkeeper shouts this to inform defenders that they are coming off the line to take the ball – defenders cover to the side and behind.

Overlap – Initiated by a player passing the ball out to a wide-player (near the side of the pitch), and then links with that wide-player after running around the defender to the outside of the wide-player, to receive a pass from the wide-player creating a 2 v 1 movement. READ MORE