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The passion for
coaching as well as
my hunger to know
more about how
to
play
soccer at full potential drove me to look
around
the Internet for some "coaching kits". And man, I did stumble upon a
big one...
I must say, I never heard of Coerver Coaching before,
nor of one of the company's founders,
Chalrie Cooke
(later on I found out he was a great soccer player in his day, having
played
for 10 years in the English Premiership & another 10 in the U.S).
The second founder, Alf Galustian did spark a light bulb from way back
however.
These two guys and their company created a series of DVD's on learning
how to
play soccer that I was curious enough to try out.
I didn't know what to expect
from these DVD's at first, but my hopes went up reading the Coerver
Coaching
website and seeing that everything looked very well structured and
accurate.
Nothing seemed introduced there only to create content and despite this
lack of "filling garbage", the bundle I bought contained 5 DVDs! Five
DVDs on learning
how to play soccer might seem a lot, but trust me, when you've gone
through
them you'll be wishing there was more to the series.
The DVD bundle is called Make
Your Move and, as I said before, it's very well structured.
You can
watch the
DVD's from both a coach's and a player's perspective, so I'm guessing
this
bundle would be great for soccer parents that want to help out their
kid with
soccer, individual players that want to improve themselves or soccer
coaches
that want to improve their team's skills faster and better.
There isn't
really
an age level to the DVDs, since they're all quite straightforward, so
even a
8-9 year old that's just learning the basic soccer skills can benefit
from it.
Here's the deal with the whole
Make Your Move bundle pack: it's based around what the guys at Coerver
call the "Pyramid
of Player Development". This is a pyramid built
around six individual
soccer skills, namely ball mastery, receiving and passing, one on one
moves,
speed, finishing and team play.
Each of these basic soccer skills are
covered
in order, so it would be best if you go through the DVDs in their right
order
as well.
All I can say is
that, when
you're done with them, you will have learnt countless individual drills
and
exercises, one on one dribbling moves, feints that can get you out of
rough
spot, tactical concepts and many more. I doubt the Make Your Move
package
missed out on any of the basic soccer skills used in today's game.
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Pyramid:

- BALL
MASTERY - Exercises where each player
works alone with a ball at repetitions using both feet.
- MOVES
(1 V 1) - Exercises and games that teach
game - winning individual moves that can create space against the most
packed of defences.
- SPEED
- Exercises and games that improve
acceleration, running with and without the ball and change of pace.
- FINISHING
- Exercises and games that teach
technique and encourage instinctive play.
- GROUP
ATTACK - Exercises and games that improve
small - group combination play with emphasis on fast break attack.
The Pyramid Approach combined with the Coerver Coaching philosophy of
graduated pressure allows players to quickly gain confidence and
progress through the interconnected levels of the game.
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Admittedly,
just seeing them won't teach you how to play soccer, you'll also need
to
practice what you're learning from the DVDs. It's a good thing that
each move
or drill is presented clearly and pleasantly, so you'll be able to copy
them in
no time with a little ambition.
To this extent, probably the most interesting
chapter is when you learn soccer tricks with the help of Alf Galustian
and
Charlie Cooke. You'll get to try out scissors, double scissors,
"Zidane" spins
and many more that are so fun to learn, you'll be craving for more.
And here's the best part: the
Make Your Move bundle doesn't just offer you the five DVDs teaching you
how to
play soccer, you will also get a couple of extras that just make the
entire
deal sweeter.
You will gain a 12
month pass to
the Coerver Coaching video
library, which contains countless soccer
training videos
showing you
how to
perform step by step soccer moves.
I noticed that a lot of the videos
in the
library were also used in the DVD bundle (or vice versa), but I guess
there's
nothing wrong with that. The good thing is that the library gets
updated, so in
a year's time while you have the pass, you'll be getting a lot of new
videos to
look at.
Last
but not least, you will
receive two soccer E-books, called "The New Era" and "Play Like a
Soccer
Legend". I didn't get the chance to go all the way through them to be
completely honest, but for what I noticed, they're covering pretty much
the
same aspects that are discussed on the DVD bundle.
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