Free Courses
Effective Play In The Final Third
This microlearning course will help you understand what makes the final third of the pitch different to other areas, what problems players will face, and how you can support them with simple principles, realistic practices, and positive coaching behaviours.
A Guide To Pressing
This microlearning course is designed to give grassroots coaches a clear and practical understanding of pressing.
It will help you recognise pressing moments, understand why teams press, and begin coaching pressing behaviours with young players in a way that supports their learning and enjoyment of the game.
It will help you recognise pressing moments, understand why teams press, and begin coaching pressing behaviours with young players in a way that supports their learning and enjoyment of the game.
Mental Toughness: An Introduction
This free mini-course explores the fundamental principles of mental toughness, its importance on performance and the core pillars that underpin it.
Stop Watching, Start Observing
In this free micro learning course we'll discuss the difference between observing games and watching them, and how enhancing your skills can help you to be a better player developer.
Understanding The Principles of Play
In this mini-course, we take a closer look at the fundamentals of football tactics - the Principles of Play, and consider the important coaching points for developing players.
Resilience In Football
In this course, we look at the topic of 'resilience' and some important areas that individuals, clubs and organisations can consider to support those they work with, and those that work for them, to help them enhance their resilience.
Setting And Achieving Goals
In this course, you’ll understand more about the process of setting achievable goals for yourself as a coach, and for your team.
We'll also look at how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose, and we'll look at tools you can use to track your team's progress.
We'll also look at how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose, and we'll look at tools you can use to track your team's progress.
How To Mentor Soccer Coaches
Take a look at our free introduction to mentoring soccer coaches mini-course to give you some important tips and advice to better support the development of coaches you work with.
A Guide To Practice Types
Our Coach Development Mentor Jamie Godbold takes you through four lessons giving you more detail about some of the fundamentals of coaching and practice design.
This will help to support coaches to understand various practice types and offers a variety of practice templates for you to utilise in your own coaching environment.
This will help to support coaches to understand various practice types and offers a variety of practice templates for you to utilise in your own coaching environment.
Developing The Self-Awareness Of Your Players
In this free module, part of our Emotional Intelligence series, we delve into the area of self-awareness and how you as a coach can help your players to develop key skills on their own Emotional Intelligence journey.
Maximising Intensity
This lesson will give you a free taster into the content within the course 'Conditioning for Football'. The taster includes two topics from the course 'Structure & Philosophy' which are 'Maximising Intensity' and 'Female Players' for you to work through.
Finishing The Counter-Attack
In this mini-course, we look at counter-attacking and how forwards can remain composed to make the best decision when finishing.