A Fun, Fresh, and Totally Different Way to Learn Soccer Coaching

After years of driving past fields across North America—and watching kids stand in long lines waiting for their “turn” in boring drills—I realized something important:
Most new coaches and parent-volunteers were never shown how to create fun, engaging small-sided games… or how to build amazing learning environments.

So I created a solution.

Introducing:

**⭐ Surviving Your First Soccer Season:

The North American Guide for Parent-Volunteers & New Coaches**

This course is fun, quirky, easy to follow, and requires NO soccer or coaching experience.
Perfect for grassroots and REC-level coaches navigating their very first season.

🎥 What’s Inside the Course

• Four self-paced online modules (20–25 minutes each).
• No assessments. No pressure.
• Just practical knowledge delivered in short, enjoyable 5-minute sections.

Plus:

As part of this course, you’ll receive five fully detailed, fully illustrated training curriculums, each tailored to a specific age and stage of player development.
Perfect to download, print, and take straight to the field.

15-Session Program (Ages 3–5)
12-Session Training Program (Ages 5–8)
24-Session Curriculum (Ages 8–10)
24-Session Curriculum (Ages 10–13)
24-Session Curriculum (Ages 13–18)

✔️ Certificate of completion

📘 Course Modules

MODULE 1 – How Soccer is Different

• What Is This Game? (History, culture, global reach)
• Let’s Build a Field (Lines & areas made simple)
• Positions, Formations & Numbers
• Term Time Space Invaders (Coach language decoded)
• Somebody Please Explain Offsides! (Yes… clearly explained!)

MODULE 2 – Call Me Coach

• Give Us Back Our Game! (Modern coaching philosophies)
• Designing Practices I: S = E + A (The practice environment)
• Designing Practices II: Qu’est-Ce Que Tu Fais? (Activity design)
• The Golden Rule of Specificity (How players actually learn)

MODULE 3 – Fun & Effective Practices

• The Manchester United 4v4 Scheme (Why small-sided works)
• Soccer Burger (Adding variations and conditions)
• Combining the 4 Corners (Designing for transfer)
• Games Galore (Six go-to training games)

MODULE 4 – Game Day

• The Game Environment (Positive, negative & hyper states)
• The Night Before (Nutrition, planning, rest)
• Game Day (Managing expectations & warm-ups)
• Effective Communication (Clarity, positivity, impact)

✨ If you want your new coaches or parent-volunteers to keep kids happy, engaged, and actually learning, this course is for you.