Movement: How to Strike Terror Into Your Opposition
How creative and fluid is your team? Do you play your opponents off the pitch with your silky smooth movement, or is it more like watching a bunch of out of breath old men playing walking football?...
View Article5-A-Side Monthly Round-Up: February 2015
Is it me? Didn’t February feel just like a really long Tuesday? January, like the start of a week, marks a new beginning. Loaded with fitness resolutions and with detox in full overdrive, it was a...
View Article5-A-Side Monthly Round-Up: March 2015
First things first – I owe you an apology. Things have been deathly quiet on the Five-A-Side Football Coach blog during March. Between long-distance travel and research into a very special article that...
View ArticleHow to Arrange Your 5-A-Side Game – The Ultimate Guide
This is a tribute to you. Without your passion, commitment and sheer force of will there wouldn’t be any five-a-side football. If you didn’t spend days writing emails, poring over spreadsheets and...
View Article3 Devastatingly Effective Football Drills to Dominate Your Opposition
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. What would it mean to your team if you could go into every game and strangle the opposition into submission (not literally)? Most...
View ArticleWhat Football Gear Would You Buy If You Were Given £500 To Spend?
What football gear would you buy if you were given £500? Time for a little hypothetical question – imagine you were walking by a sports shop and running out the doors came the owner of the shop. He...
View Article4 Sneaky Tricks to Turn Your Marker and Leave Them for Dust
This week’s post is inspired by the Coaching Soccer Weekly podcast with Tom Mura and his training sessions to teach turning in players. Check out Tom’s football coaching site over at World Class...
View Article8 Football Skills YouTube Channels You Need to Subscribe To
Do you watch footballing demi-gods like Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo and think “I wish I could do that”? Do you daydream about pulling off some of these outrageous skills you only see on TV? Well, that’s...
View ArticleFootball Skills: How to Train By Yourself
Ask yourself this: Are you ok NOT being the best? Think about your last game and just how well you played. Were you better than everyone else? Or were you just about average, having a bit of fun while...
View ArticleThe 5 Skills You DON’T Need To Be A Killer 5-A-Side Player
Think you’re a good footballer? Maybe you’re a battering ram of a defender, a wicked little winger or a Hollywood striker. But just because you rate yourself as a good 11-a-side player does not mean...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Football Injuries – Infographic
Did you know that only 42% of all football injuries are as a result of contact with another player? That means that the majority of injuries are down to the player – their technique or fitness. If...
View ArticleThe Elite Goalkeeper Training Performance Plan
“The goalkeeper is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender. Less the keeper of the goal than the keeper of the dream” – Vladimir Nabokov Do your team mates appreciate just how important...
View ArticleFutsal: Your Ticket to Fame and Glory this Summer
Do you remember being asked as a child what you would like to be when you grow up? Was your dream to become a famous footballer? At the age of 34, I’m starting to think I might never play in a FA Cup...
View ArticleThe 7 Deadly Sins of 5-A-Side and More – June 2015 Round-Up
So just how hard have you found it playing football in this heat? After months of complaining about the lack of a Summer, it feels like it has finally hit us here in the UK (interspersed with the odd...
View ArticleThe Secret to ‘Hacking’ Your Football Practice
“10,000 hours is the magic number of greatness” – Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success Just how much time do you dedicate to practice? Did you know that even if you practice for an hour or...
View ArticleA Diet for the Youngest Football Teams
This week’s post is a very special post, written by my friend Kate Flannery, Editor in Chief of High Style Life, a site dedicated to life and all the pleasure it brings. What you may not know is that...
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