• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • News
  • Matches
  • Teams
    • Class 4 Boys
    • Class 3 Boys
    • Class 2 Boys
    • Class 1 Boys
  • Players
  • Resources
    • Soccer Links
    • Archives
  • Contact
  • Advertisers

SGF Soccer

Southwest Missouri's Soccer Resource

  • College
    • Great Lakes Valley Conference
    • MIAA Conference
    • Missouri Valley Conference
  • Club Soccer
  • Pro’s
  • Represent
  • USA
  • Youth Soccer
    • Camps/Clinics
  • Polls
  • Recruiting

Youth Technical Training Program from US WNT

Olympics: Soccer-Women's Quarterfinal - USA vs NZLU.S. Soccer’s Youth National Team Directors, April Heinrichs (Technical Director) and Jill Ellis (Development Director) have identified the need to establish nation-wide technical testing and benchmarking. They have created a series of training exercises and a tracking spreadsheet for use by Youth Coaches to implement their suggestions. Links can be found below.

The technical tests were designed with U-12 to U-20 players in mind. They are geared towards motivating players to spend time on their own to improve their ball control, short range passing, speed and agility with the ball, and the use of their instep for driving balls and shooting. A player that can control the ball is a player that helps control the tempo of the game and contributes to the team’s tactical abilities.

The primary vision of the U.S. Women’s Youth National Teams program is, “to deliver more technically skilled and tactically sophisticated players to the full Women’s National Team in an effort to sustain performance success over the next 20 years.”

There are training videos related to each of the exercises and a spreadsheet for tracking the results. A Powerpoint presentation steps Coaches through the program so it can be implemented effectively.

Thanks to SLU Head Coach Katie Shields, who recently assisted with the U18 Women’s team training camp, for pointing to the release of these materials.

Share this:

  • Tweet

Primary Sidebar

SEARCH

Footer

Follow me!

My Tweets

Like Us!

Like Us!

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

Recent Posts: Soccer STL

SheBelieves Cup Opens Thursday

SheBelieves Cup Opens Thursday

St. Louis Players at Girls Academy ID Event

St. Louis Players at Girls Academy ID Event

St. Louis City SC MLS Next Pro Academy Players

St. Louis City SC MLS Next Pro Academy Players

 

Loading Comments...
 

You must be logged in to post a comment.