The Game Is The Best Teacher in Children’s Football Coaching
If there’s one thing we’ve learnt it’s the game is the best teacher. We as coaches can of course make a huge difference. But coaches can also harm a…
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The Foot-Tech blog
What we've learnt from a decade of coaching thousands of Leeds kids. No jargon, no nonsense, just things that actually help.
Foot-Tech First Touch Member Joins Leeds United Academy!
Well done, Jude We had some great news last week when we were told our former member, Jude Freeman, has signed a pre-contract with Leeds United Academy…
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How To Teach The Fundamentals In Youth Football (properly)
Are you a parent who watches their child’s football training sessions and sees nothing but kids dribbling around cones or passing in two’s? Are you a…
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Grassroots coach struggling for training ideas?
Grassroots coaches, coming up with ideas is hard. You’ve got loads of other commitments on top of running a junior football team and sometimes there just…
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Winter Football Training
Embrace the chill We know, we know…it’s been cold, it’s wet and it’s been miserable outside. But this time of year is the easiest way to build some…
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Foot-Tech Overview 2023
Want to say thank you to all our members & followers for all your support in 2023. The year has flown and we’ve been thinking about everything we’ve done:…
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A chat with ex-pro and current Leeds Academy coach, Luke Lyons
A MUST listen for all football parents… A chat with ex-pro and current Leeds Academy coach, Luke Lyons. Imagine playing professional football then having…
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Truth is, 121 football training IS NOT the best thing for most kids
Some see it as the magic wand that will make a child amazing at football. The best thing for most kids? The right group session in the right environment…
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Unrealistic Expectations in Grassroots Football
What do they expect me to do with just an hour a week? Had chats with 2 different grassroots managers talking about dealing with expectations. These are…
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Unlock the learning potential of your child
Unlock the learning potential of your child with a simple shift from telling them how to do something and instead asking them why. This works for parents…
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Foot-Tech Win The Mumbler Awards Double in 2023!
For the second year in row we’ve won the @northleedsmumbler awards for Favourite Class for Over 5’s & Favourite School Holiday Camp 2022 2023 Thank you so…
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How to Coach Scanning in Children’s Football
For all the coaches out there… Scanning is the ‘in’ thing in football coaching at the moment so we’ve got an activity you can use with your players along…
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He stops trying when he can’t play as striker…
Had a good chat with a parent-coach the other week. He asked our advice – what would we do if a player stops trying when he’s not the striker? This coach…
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Help! My child won’t tackle…
A common thing we hear from parents. Tackling is a difficult skill to learn and sometimes it comes down to mentality. Those kids with the mentality often…
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Foot-Tech Testing New Size Footballs For Kids Training
New balls please… We’ll be testing some new footballs over the next few weeks. It’s long been believed that playing with smaller balls (age specific) was…
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Leeds Well School Partnership and Foot-Tech
Thanks to Leeds Well School Partnership for having us other yesterday to talk to teachers about our PE offering. LWSP do so much good work with schools in…
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Quality over quantity when it comes to touches of the ball
What do we mean by effective touches? The child who tries to dribble past a defender 20 times learns more than the child who dribbles around cones 100…
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Investing in the Foot-Tech Team
Investing in our team Coaches Dara, Josh & Luke were over in Manchester yesterday learning from a coach who has easily had the most impact on us and our…
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