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John Allpress is ex-assistant head of academy player and coach development at Tottenham Hotspur and a Former national coach at the English FA. He has decades of coaching experience, and a keen interest in how players learn and take on information.Here, he shares his knowledge on how youngsters learn, and how we, as coaches, can use that information to help them get better. Find this in written form: https://www.soccercoachweekly.net/coaching-advice/how-youngsters-learn---and-how-you-can-...

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa.Here, he speaks to Soccer Coach Weekly about the skills of covering and recovering – how the approach to them differs depending on position, how we sell the skills as positive actions and the role leadership and communication plays...

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa.Here, he speaks to Soccer Coach Weekly about the skills of challenging - how it has changed over the years, the role of strength in the challenge and the information that goes into decision-making around challenging…

Moritz Kossmann is DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City in South Africa.Soccer Coach Weekly caught up with Moritz to discuss the crucial skill of intercepting. He covers whether it’s a natural action for players, how important communication is alongside it, and how players can build up their knowledge around it as they progress...

Moritz Kossmann defines the act of marking as "the act of tracking the movements of an opponent player and looking to close them down in a 1v1 situation or to intercept the ball as they are receiving or are about to receive the ball".Moritz - DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City - speaks to SCW about what marking looks like for different positions, the decision-making process, the physicality required and how players learn about marking over the course of their devel...

For Moritz Kossmann, pressing is the primary defensive action in soccer.It is, in his words, “an attempt at putting pressure on an opponent who has the ball so that they can't progress the ball up the field easily".Moritz - who has now moved on from his role at Ubuntu Football Academy to become DStv Diski Challenge coach and head of youth at Cape Town City - sat down with Steph Fairbairn to discuss collective pressing strategies, individual pressing principles and how to coach it all...