Three former football stars who have made it big in business
When an ex-England and Man Utd defender closed the doors to the Manchester hotel in which he’d allowed homeless people to live free of charge for over three months, it was a timely reminder that, for all his charitable activity, Gary Neville is a businessman at heart....
Random Games With a Twist
Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: Players spend 3 minutes at each pitch. As you can see each pitch is different. On any pitch whoever kicks the ball off the pitch must go and collect the ball....
Forwards Showing In / Out
IN Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: -The whites pass the ball laterally. -As the ball is moving the two defenders also move preventing the whites playing forward into goals. -The blues try to...
In defence of Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool’s Virtuoso Can Turn Things Around
Normal service was gradually beginning to resume at Liverpool for the first few weeks of Jurgen Klopp’s tenure. A sense of excitement had begun to bubble as he arrived into town, and there was a heady air of optimism that this extraordinary, ordinary man could usher...
Every Training Session of 2015
To view or download 'Every Coaching Session of 2015' in a single document - Click Here, or click the image below. 2015 has been another year when we've been able to provide high quality training sessions for grassroots coaches. All free of charge. Louis Lancaster is...
Crackers
Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: You can have free play or condition the games. All players are numbered 1-8. During play a number leaves the pitch on the coaches command. The number...
Christmas Session
Preparing the Advent calendar Leave all the doors unopened. Slide the chocolate tray out. Remove one chocolate and replace it with a token. Slide the chocolate tray back into the calendar. Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the...
Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City should dream of glory despite “tough” festive calendar
Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Isriya Paireepairit It’s not every day that Leicester City find themselves top of the Premier League table, although it has happened quite a few times already this season. Manager Claudio Ranieri has masterminded a phenomenal ascent to...
6 Talented Starlets to Watch Out For in 2016
Who is going to be the next big thing in world football? That’s the big question so many people continue to ask year in, year out. With scouts continuing to scour the market for teenage prodigies to shape and mould into professional superstars, there is no short...
Danger – Extremely High Tempo
Set up the three stations as shown in the diagrams suiting the needs of your players. Split all players into two teams. Number all of the players on each team 1-9 etc. Station 1 Numbers 3-9 play in the game . This can be a conditioned game depending on your...
Pre-season Belters
Session 1 Equipment: Set up the area as above suiting the needs of your players. You will need slalom poles. Rules: Divide players into 3 teams. Yellows and whites fight in the middle for 5 minutes. By all means condition the game to maximise the work load. During the...
Express Football Kits – New Delivery Service
Thinking about your club's new kit but worried you won’t receive it in time for the start of the season, or a specific tournament/ event? Here at Discount Football Kits we want your club to receive the lowest possible processing and delivery interval, so you...
1v1 Circuits
Session 1 Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. You will need football mannequins and football cones. Rules: The player starts the circuit by having 30 touches of the ball in between the red cones trying to...
Jamie Vardy: Striker once deemed too small earning the chance to dwarf his peers
The last time and Englishman nabbed the golden boot, the millennium had just hit, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was the big smash-hit film of the summer, the internet was still really slow and, well, rubbish and this writer had lots of boring homework to get through –...
4 Goals
Session 1 Structure: Adapt size to suit the needs of your players. You can use our football bibs to mark the teams. Rules: Yellows and reds play left to right. Blues and whites play up and down. On the coaches command/whistle the match score in the other goals....
3 Goals
Session 1 Structure: Adapt size to suit the needs of your players . Rules: Whites and blues fight in the middle. Normal football rules apply (offside, corners etc.). To win the game a team must score in the central goal in the usual position. To gain control of the...
2 Goals
Finishing Structure: Set up the area as above, suiting the needs of your players. You can view our range of goalkeeper kits for your keepers. Rules: The blues go through a pass and follow sequence as shown in the diagram. When the last player receives the ball they...
1 Goal
Towards Goal Structure: -Set up the area as above, I usually use the 18 yard box. Rules: -Blues and whites fight in the middle. -Whoever has possession of the ball must lend the ball to the yellows and receive it back. This must be completed every time they regain...
5 Rising Stars to Watch Across Europe this Season
Anwar El Ghazi (AFC Ajax) The Eredivisie has lost a great deal of its appeal since the 1970s and 80s when it was, arguably, at the peak of its powers but that’s not to say it doesn’t provide its fair share of excitement to this very day. Indeed, one of its biggest and...
New Football Mannequins Available
We're pleased to announce that we're now selling football mannequins. To buy these mannequins just click: https://www.discountfootballkits.com/Mannequin Manufactured by Diamond they're robust, durable and easy to transport. They come in junior and senior sizes. Junior...
Misfiring Kane has ability to emulate awe-inspiring 31-goal season
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand, you’ll have noticed that Harry Kane hasn’t exactly enjoyed the best start to the season. In fact, it has been pretty poor by his short-term standards, but it would be naive for anyone to suggest that he doesn’t have the...
No Goals
Session 1 Structure: -Set up the area suiting the needs of the group. Pattern -Blues and whites fight in the middle for possession. -To score a goal the team in possession must get one of their players to drive in to the end zone and attack the defender. They must...
Louis Van Gaal: ‘The Man behind the ‘Philosophy’
Aloysius Paulus Maria Van Gaal. The former Ajax B team player, who enjoyed successful spells in Holland with Sparta Rotterdam and AZ Alkmaar, is now manager of one of the world’s biggest clubs, Manchester United. Van Gaal is a man who has divided opinions with a...
Training Tournament
Teams Split however many players you into two teams. Each team then splits their team again into two. Round 1 Pitch 1 Blues v Whites (4v4) Pitch 2 Blues v Whites (4v4) Play for however many minutes you wish. Each game is worth a point. Round 2 ...
Session Starters
Session 1 Structure: -Set up your area depending on numbers, ability etc. Rules -Players go up the left hand side competing towards goal 1v1. -After your attack you then defend. -Once you defend you move round to the right hand side. -On the right hand side it...
Do Mourinho’s stagnant Chelsea need to gamble on youth?
The aftermath of Chelsea’s 100th home league game under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho was supposed to feel a lot different. It wasn’t supposed to have ended the way it did. Press rooms around the world had trundled out a plethora of manicured statistics and flashy...
AFC Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich – Will they survive Relegation?
Final Standings – The Championship 2014/15 Season 1 – AFCBournemouth(90 Points) 2 –Watford(89 Points) 3 –NorwichCity(86 Points) AFC Bournemouth Four points separated the three promoted sides from last seasons’ championship. Deservedly the winners were AFC...
#10 Position Specific Challenges
Screening Structure Set up the area as above using our football cones. Rules The reds must try and move the ball end to end. They can go direct or use the whites. The yellows have to prevent this happening. Breaking Lines Structure Set up the area as above...
Can Barcelona’s attacking might outweigh their defensive frailty?
If their narrow win over Sevilla in the European Super Cup was a wake-up call that needed answering, then Barcelona’s recent 5-1 aggregate mauling at the hands of Athletic Bilbao is the rush of panic one feels on realising, well…you've overslept. Only a few short...
Precocious Lukaku has what it takes to win the Premier League’s Golden Boot
For the past couple of seasons, Everton’s towering front-man has been one of the most sought after strikers in England, with the 22-year-old having been linked to some of Europe’s most illustrious giants time and again. Dumped so unceremoniously by Chelsea’s Jose...