This section contains a series of downloadable coaching notes and plans drawing on our coach education programme. Just click on each sessions name below to download a pdf of coaching plans and notes.

The Junior and Youth sessions have been prepared and kindly supplied by Jose Figueira from Pro-Performance Coaching as part of their on-going support for WSAFC coach education. Jose is also the Head Coach of our highly successful Premier Womens team and he's happy to answer questions from WSAFC coaches: you can find out how to contact him by clicking here.

Juniors

These games are especially suitables for 6th and 7th grades teams, but are also useful as warm up games for older players.

Fun games for Junior Players

Youth

These sessions are more suitable for older aged players

New Coaching Game Intelligence
Push Pass
Running with the Ball
Dribbling and Turning
Shooting and Finishing
First Touch
Defending and Attacking

Horst Wein Materials

Soccer 2 recently had the priviledge of facilitating some courses run by one of the world’s leading youth development coaches, Horst Wein, in Auckland. The courses were focussed on ‘Developing Game Intelligence in Football.’

Horst is a coach who has helped Barcelona, Inter Milan and Arsenal develop their youth programmes. The following material provides some background on Horst and his approach.

Mini Football
About his coaching philosophy
About the importance of how you play

Many thanks to Sean Douglas and Horst for allowing this material to be published.