John Allpress is ex-assistant head of academy player and coach development at Tottenham Hotspur and a Former national coach at the English FA. He has decades of coaching experience, and a keen interest in how players learn and take on information. Here, he shares his knowledge on how youngsters learn, and how we, as coaches, can use that information to help them get better.  Find this in written form: https://www.soccercoachweekly.net/coaching-advice/how-youngsters-learn---and-how-you-can-help-them Register for John's webinar on October 25: https://www.soccercoachweekly.net/coaching-eve ..read more

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa. Here, he speaks to Soccer Coach Weekly about the skills of covering and recovering – how the approach to them differs depending on position, how we sell the skills as positive actions and the role leadership and communication plays ..read more

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa. Here, he speaks to Soccer Coach Weekly about the skills of challenging - how it has changed over the years, the role of strength in the challenge and the information that goes into decision-making around challenging ..read more

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa. Soccer Coach Weekly caught up with Moritz to discuss the crucial skill of intercepting.  He covers whether it’s a natural action for players, how important communication is alongside it, and how players can build up their knowledge around it as they progress ..read more

Moritz Kossmann defines the act of marking as "the act of tracking the movements of an opponent player and looking to close them down in a 1v1 situation or to intercept the ball as they are receiving or are about to receive the ball". Moritz - DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City - speaks to SCW about what marking looks like for different positions, the decision-making process, the physicality required and how players learn about marking over the course of their development ..read more

Passing is more than just transferring the ball from one player to the other. At the elite levels, in particular, it is like a secret language, full of non-verbal signals and triggers, underpinned by players' ability to see the bigger picture in their heads. Moritz - who has now moved on from his role at Ubuntu Football Academy to become DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City - sat down with Steph Fairbairn to discuss how passing can be used as a form of communication, the decision-making that goes into it and why the actions after a pass are so crucial ..read more

Goals win games. But attempting to finish, never mind actually scoring, isn’t easy to do. Moritz Kossmann is a coach at Ubuntu Football Academy in Cape Town, where he coaches the U21s - who play in the third tier of South African football - and oversees the senior section, made up of U18s and U16s. In our May 5 and May 26 issues, he spoke to us about receiving the ball and moving with it. This time, it’s all about finishing. Moritz covers what it is, the techniques and the building blocks for players learning the skill ..read more

When to do it, what parts of the foot to use and how underloads aid attackers' dribbling development. Moritz Kossmann shares his expertise on moving with the ball ..read more

Receiving is such a vital skill in soccer. A good first touch can beat a player in an instant, get a team out of trouble or create a chance on goal. But how can we support players to improve their receiving? Moritz Kossmann is a coach at Ubuntu Football Academy in Cape Town. There, he coaches the U21s, who play in the third tier of South African football, and oversees the senior section, made up of U18s and U16s. Moritz lent SCW his expertise on receiving – what it is, what good receiving looks like and how we can coach it ..read more

As a player, Joanna Boyles Fennema performed at the highest level. She spent her four college years with the North Carolina Tar Heels, represented the U17 US national team and played for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL. Alongside success, Fennema’s playing days came with a lot of challenges – she was drafted by the Boston Breakers just before the team folded, suffered two ACL injuries while at college, discovered she has severely degenerative discs in her back. This back injury, and subsequent hip labrum tears, led Fennema to retire at 24. A chance encounter led her back into the game, and s ..read more