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Junior Soccer Coach
Junior Soccer Coach is an interactive website and we encourage you to have a
good look around the site to see what's available to you.
If you have a question about coaching Junior Soccer then 'shoot' on over to
the Soccer
Discussion Forum where you can post your question and you'll usually
have answer back in a short space of time.
You can, of course use the Discussion
Forum to post your own views, thoughts or stories about coaching youth
soccer.......we're always interested to hear from others!
Unlike many sites we've come across, Junior Soccer Coach uses different
formats to present information to help you coach your team and, just as
importantly, develop your own coaching skills.
We recognise that people learn using differnt types of modalities (reading,
watching, listening & doing) and as such we use a number of software
programs to present audio, video and the written word to you.
THE GOOD NEWS is that the software we use is already
pre-loaded on 99% of personal computers and Macintosh's sold in the last few
years.
HOWEVER, if for any reason you can't watch a video traning session (for
example), you can download the relevant software for FREE.
Here's a partial list of where and how you can interact with Junior Soccer
Coach
Articles
Junior Soccer Coach is packed full of articles that will help you in your
role as a coach. Some articles have images or photgraphs to illustrate a point
they make. To see these images you do not need any special software. All images
are compressed to enable them to load quickly and cleanly for you to see.
At the bottom of each article page you'll also see a
Printer Icon. By clicking on this
printer icon you will be able to print out the article on any printer if you
wish.
Drills & Exercises
In the Training
Ground area of the site you'll find drills and exercises
for the various positions within your team.
In the past, drills in books and on other websites have been illustrated
using 0's (noughts) and X's (crosses) to represent players.
Junior Soccer Coach has teamed up with the Internet's leading sports media
company to bring you animated drills for you to follow on screen. Not only can
you watch the drill all the way through from begining to end....you can also
stop the drill at any point, replay it, study it.....AND.......read the written
narrative underneath!
It easy to follow.
The technology used is Macromedia Shockwave and comes installed on 99% of
computers sold around the world today. HOWEVER, if you can't view the drills you
can download a FREE copy of Shockwave from the macromedia site:
Free Shockwave
Download
Online
Video
As the internet gets faster and PC's can cope with larger volumes of data
transfer using broadband technology then it allows us to add some great video
content onto our site.
We use FLASH players and Windows Media Players to show all of our video's,
you can see an example of this below:
If you can only hear the audio to this soccer video then you need to get your
FREE
upgrade of the latest Flash Player 8. You'll be amazed at what you can see!
Flash technology, like Shockwave (see above), is pre installed on
most computers and if you can't see any of the videos you can download a free
copy from Macromedias site:
Windows Media Player is already pre-installed on all PC's.
Most of the video's are published for viewing over Broadband connection and
PC's with a minimum of Pentium III processers operating with Windows XP.
Please note that if you are using a an older PC with dial up modem connection,
some video clips will not be viewable or will take longer to load.
Downloads (PDF)
In the Download
Area of Junior Soccer Coach you'll find useful documents to help you run
your team.
Where possible we've converted the documents into Adobe PDF format as this is
the webs most popular format for documents on the web (And for
downloading).
To read a PDF document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader......AGAIN this will
already be pre installed on your computer, you won't need to do a thing.
If however, you can't open the PDF you can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for
free here:
Click to
Download the PDF Reader
Audio Interviews (MP3)
Every fortnight we will add an audio interview to Junior Soccer Coach and
you'll also be able to listen to our 'Chat
Back' program.
'Chat Back' is where the co-founders of Junior Soccer Coach (Neil Travers
& Neil Stafford) talk about their coaching experience and what's happend to
them and their teams over the last couple of weeks.
Where many CD's, tapes, video's and DVD's you may buy comprise of
professional footballers or experts no longer involved with Junior Soccer, both
Neil's are actively involved in the game today........and you'll be getting real
life, what's happing today, feedback.
The audio interviews will be in MP3 format....and you guessed it most PC's
have a MP3 already installed.
If not, we recommend that you download Real Player for free from here...
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