Essential Soccer Practices for Player Development

For reference, I coach U9 (in fall) boys competitive. Firstly, I'd recommend checking out Coach KW's channel. Lots of great 7v7 and 9v9 content that really helped me move from rec to competitive last year. Coach KW - 7v7 & 9v9 Soccer - YouTube He has a video dedicated entirely to books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBYCiUG5Cv4&t=907s Here is a breakdown of books I've read (or am in the process of reading) that I've provided to my club so coaches have my insights. Stop Breaking My Future Players: A College Coach's Plea to Coaches, Parents and Referees Written by a local coach. Good reminder to keep things into perspective. Scoreboard Soccer: Creating the Environment to Develop Young Players An interesting system for having the kids “just play” while calling them out for doing good things, and they score by working on some of the skills you want to focus on at the sideline when you call them out. I set this up when doing my 75% field scrimmage once a week. Soccer IQ: Things That Smart Players Do More for players than coaches, but a super easy read, and many of the talking points are applicable to coaches as well. The Coach’s Guide to Teaching A super deep dive of the brain and how people learn. I’m working on getting many of the concepts for long term session planning integrated. TWO VERSUS ONE: Strong Decision-Makers On The Pitch This is really for older players, but does have a section at the end that covers the concept for younger players, mostly through things like funino. Essential Soccer Practices for Player Development Just getting into this one, but seems like it has a decent number of activities we could use at the U9 age group.