Attacking Soccer in the Women's Game
About the Attacking Soccer in the Women's Game DVD
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This 2 disc DVD features instruction by NSCAA staff coaches on the topic of developing the attacking mentality of today's female player. The activities on disc 1 are designed to provide attacking players with a technical and tactical foundation and also to create a confident and assertive mentality.
The activities on disc 2 look at a variety of functional and tactical training exercises that create an environment where players can acquire the decision making ability to be collectively and individually dangerous attacking players.
Disc 1:
- 1v1 Individual Attacking Skills with Nancy Feldman, NSCAA National Staff Coach and Head Coach, Boston University
- 1v1 To 2v2 Attacking with Nancy Feldman
- Combination Play In The Final Third with Laura Kerrigan, NSCAA National Staff Coach, Coach, Cary High School Girls
- Finishing Skills with Theresa Echtermeyer, NSCAA National Staff Coach, Director of Coaching, Littleton United Soccer
Disc 2:
- Possession With A Purpose with Nancy Feldman, NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach, Boston University
- Training The Playmaker with Janet Rayfield, NSCAA National Staff Coach, Head Coach, University of Illinois
- Box Organization with Lauren Gregg, NSCAA National Staff Coach, Former U.S. National Team Assistant Coach
- Training The Three Front with Janet Rayfield
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Transcript
Narrator: The National Soccer Coaches Association of America is pleased to present this video, featuring instruction by NSCAA National Staff Coaches on the topic of developing the attacking mentality in today’s female player. Coordinated by NSCAA National Staff Coach and Past President, Janet Rayfield, the purpose of the instruction is to demonstrate activities designed to provide attacking players with a technical and tactical foundation and also to create a confident and assertive mentality.
This DVD includes a series of activities for teaching female players dynamic attacking play. As such, the DVD does not try to show coaches one training session from beginning to end but rather activities that can be incorporated into a variety of training environments.
Along with the NSCAA National Coaching staff this DVD also features, as a demonstrator, the talented and creative U.S. National Team member and Olympic gold medalist, midfielder, Aly Wagner.
In the next session, NSCAA National Staff coach, Janet Rayfield, uses three separate and progressive activities to demonstrate methods of training the playmaker.
Janet Rayfield: Today we’ve got a session focusing on training the playmaker. We’re fortunate enough to have Aly Wagner here, one of the best playmakers in the world. We’ve set her up in a session with some of the NSCAA candidates here for our coaching course, and we’re going to focus on environments that encourage the creative playmaking player in your environment. What we have set up here is a warm-up situation where we have 2 teams divided across the mid-stripe, and the only way for them to move the balls from one side of the mid-stripe to the other is through our playmaker Aly Wagner, or through our goalkeeper. So watch as we see this environment and we look at training the playmaker to want the ball. We want to encourage that playmaking player to want the ball.
Alright, yellow team with 2 balls. I’ll give you one on each half. Blue team has one, one on each half. Blue team here’s your ball. Yellow, ball for you. Each team has two balls. You can knock it amongst yourself on that half, but the only way to get the ball from one half to the other: Aly with the yellow team, Kristin with the blue team. We want Aly to want the ball. How often can we get the ball to Aly, yellow?