DEFENSE CLINIC

This Clinic should be offered in MA! It is offered by the Universal Soccer Academy.
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Defender Classes
Defending To Win
Defending is a unique skill that requires anticipation, courage and discipline. Students that join this program will become masters of shutting down offensive plays and neutralizing opponents. In a disciplined environment students will learn how to stop attacks with intelligence and skill.
The goal of this program is to teach students the unique defensive skills needed to become an effective defender, and place them in an environment where they need to anticipate, react and defend offensive plays.

Defender Class Topics

1 v 1 Learn the basics of defending 1 v 1
Tackles take your oppoent of the ball and learn to tackle opponents with agression and skill
Heading Become a force in the air and win all Aerial battles
Clearences Clear the ball and maintain posession
Man Marking Man Mark your opponent out of the game
Zonal Defending Defend you area with patience and intelligence
Pressure Pressure opponents into losing the ball

[Liverpool Coach]

Maybe you are associated with this academy you mention. Maybe not. But I teach all these skills to my teams and have offered to do them for the whole club this spring / summer. Many good coaches / clubs here in Mass teach this as well

Maybe you are associated with this academy you mention. Maybe not. But I teach all these skills to my teams and have offered to do them for the whole club this spring / summer. Many good coaches / clubs here in Mass teach this as well

My two sons play at different clubs (d1-d2) neither receives this training. Do you run clinics?

find another club

find another club

club jumping is not the answer. Maybe the club is good in one area and not another. That is why there should be clinics and camps. Don't tell me teams train the defense the way they train the offense. It's all about the goals.

find another club

club jumping is not the answer. Maybe the club is good in one area and not another. That is why there should be clinics and camps. Don't tell me teams train the defense the way they train the offense. It's all about the goals.

please give it a break. it is about more goals than the other team. starting with a solid defense and 1 goal can do it. reason offense gets more attention is that it is way easier to destroy an attack than to create one.

Why don't you take a break. The original post was about a defense clinic. Does everything have to become a major issue with all the trolls out there? Next it will turn into the battle of mps,stars and scorpians.

I don't understand what everyone means about defense clinics. Your club should have a training curriculum that the coaches follow and individual and group defense should be in that developmental curriculum. This is going to start a huge bashing but I do not care. I am a parent and I was able to see the coaches handbook given to Stars coaches and in it is the club curriculum from U10-U18 written by the club DOC. Each coach is suppost to follow the curriculum and I think most probably do. Defense is part of this curriculum. This is how it should be, defense needs to be part of every teams training program. I am using this as an example not promoting a club, its just the way it should be at all clubs and I am sure it is at many others.

Unfortunately many clubs do not have this in place. Our club certainly does not. You are right though it needs to be part of each teams training.

The stars do have a defense clinic in the fall up to u-13. So, it is important to the game. The person must be looking for one in the spring or summer or maybe for an older child.
Must clubs do teach some defense but there is nothing wrong with people looking for more. Practice = perfection If the stars run just a defense clinic why the grief? Why not more clubs offer the clinic? If this academy runs clinics there must be a need out there for it. Practice, practice, practice

[Liverpool Coach]

The stars do have a defense clinic in the fall up to u-13. So, it is important to the game. The person must be looking for one in the spring or summer or maybe for an older child.
Must clubs do teach some defense but there is nothing wrong with people looking for more. Practice = perfection If the stars run just a defense clinic why the grief? Why not more clubs offer the clinic? If this academy runs clinics there must be a need out there for it. Practice, practice, practice

Not to be picky but practice does not = perfect.

Perfect practice = perfect play. Practice the wrong things and you develop bad habits. This is part of why it needs to be taught properly in the early years

To the "guest" who inquired about my defense clinic if you email me your name and number....or your email address... I can let you know when I have that schedule available for clinics, or if you want to do private or small group training with this maybe we can work something out. I'd prefer small groups if possible