BoldlyRide

Another soccer season has started -- Girls under age 10. I coach with a friend -- he's the tall good looking guy and I'm the other one. Both of our daughters are on the team and have played several seasons now. Our first practice was last night. We only had 7 of 10 girls there. All of them have talent. One of the girls who has never played before keeps trying to stop the ball with her hands -- that always ends up costing points in the game - so unless she wants to play goalie (almost no one ever wants to play goalie)she will have to get over that. For the first practice we did dribbling, passing, shooting, and some one-on-one before we ended with an informal scrimmage (they always want to scrimmage). I'm always looking for useful tips on how to coach kids soccer. The only time I ever played soccer was in France against groups of boys. Two of us would play against several boys. If we could get a long enough field we could win because we could kick the ball over their heads and outrun them to it.