Increasing a Soccer Players Soccer IQ

The conventional wisdom around teaching soccer players to get better and better is to work with them on their soccer skills. Coaches that teach soccer skills are helping their players develop. If a soccer player can collect any type of pass flawlessly, or if their shot has been struck well with pace and accuracy....possessing skills like that will go a long way in developing a soccer player.

Lately, coaches are seeing the wisdom in helping players get more athletic too through speed and agility training. Speed training helps soccer players in so many ways from possession, to defending to scoring goals. Working with them on all of these aspects will help a player get better.

But another way to help a soccer player get better is for them to understand the game better too. One way in which to do that is for them to watch the game played at a higher level.

Getting youth soccer players to watch high level soccer games teaches them many things and can increase their soccer knowledge or soccer IQ. They might see some moves that they can try and emulate on the field, or they might notice how players are working off the ball to get in position to receive a pass, or even still they can observe how defenders channel the offensive player away from the goal.

Watching and observing and then ultimately mimicking better players can lead to a soccer player getting better and more dangerous out on the soccer field.

Have a great day!

Gary
www.soccerandspeedcoach.com

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