How to Coach POSITIONS to kids (Football Coaches Guide)

In this video we help young players (6 & 7 year olds) how to stretch, squeeze and the basics of positioning for soccer matches. In this 90 Minute sessions we have filmed the main coaching points and team talks where the coach makes important intervention and progressions to the session.

*Apologies for the audio, there were other coaching sessions happening on the next pitches*

[mattkowaleczko]

You’re a great coach. It is always a challenge to get attention of kids of this age and you’re doing it brilliantyl

[nbarcic]

This is going straight into our next practice. Thank you.

[joshuaballesteros]

Very helpful, we lost 3-1 today and we are having trouble in positioning ourselves when we do and don't have the ball. Whole mess of confusion today on the field. So thank you again

[michaelambrose]

Awesome job! Really great breaking things down to their level of understanding, need some coaching like that at our club here in Hawai’i, this is a tough age to coach and are smashing it bro! Love your vids keep it up! 🤙🏾

[JoshuaDStewart]

Great video again, really helpful to see examples from a real training session and the way you teach it to kids and ask them questions.

[CoachJeffP]

Another beautiful session Coach!! Great way to teach this - simple concepts, painting the picture with the board, repetition, key words, and making it fun!

[daniellewilkin]

Really good learning technique, good work coach

[snazzyd]

Great lesson. Also loved the other fellows having a ball on the next pitch at ~2:15s ;)

[matiasaguirre]

La bombonera ❤🇦🇷 beautiful session coach!

[jamestaylor]

Thanks for this. Great video. I need to teach my under 8s this! Perfect.

[betovasquez]

This is excellent! How do you teach them where to move in support ? And teach them how far is to far to move ?

[mattnoonan]

This is so good. You’re giving me the words I need for 7-8 year old kiddos. I have learned a lot from your videos, as I don’t know much about soccer. I got thrusted into being coach, and I love it. It’s a lot of fun.

[sabungputih]

Tq.. its a very good lesson to the young footballers

[sharpy]

Anything on moving up to 9v9 football?

[christophereccleshall]

Thanks for the video—it's perfect for my age group. Your clear explanation makes it easy to understand.

Quick questions:

Considering defensive challenges and strong attackers, should I focus on the squeeze, defensive shape, and ball recovery in our half for the first week, and then cover "stretch" in the second?

In open play without involving the goalkeeper, "reset" or encourage width?

Can the "reset" apply when the deepest outfield player has possession, given our ongoing work on passing skills?

[dwangg]

Its amazing how well you can explain what you want them to do. But how do you do this with a squad of 13 u7s

[bagsyme]

Do you give the kids roles before this drill (defender, midfielder, attacker) or should just go to the nearest pancake when reseting? Thanks for a very good channel! just started to coach my daughters team U7. A lot of fun but sometimes it tests your patience :)

[OsmanKann]

There is no way my U8 boys would sit and listen if i talked this much, my boys just want to have fun and play, how do you get ur boys to listen like this?

[ThommyShelbyy]

Somebody seems to be angry at about 2 minutes. 😂