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 informati...

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...

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 cha...

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 ac...

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".Mor...

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 ...

Passing is more than just transferring the ball from one player to the other. At the elite levels, in particular, it is like a secret language, full of non-verbal signals and triggers, underpinned by players' ability to see the bigger picture i...

Moritz Kossmann defines turning as: “A change of direction on the ball while you are in possession of the ball".Moritz is a coach at Ubuntu Football Academy in Cape Town, where he coaches the U21s, who play in the third tier of So...

Goals win games. But attempting to finish, never mind actually scoring, isn’t easy to do.Moritz Kossmann is a coach at Ubuntu Football Academy in Cape Town, where he coaches the U21s - who play in the third tier of South African football...

When to do it, what parts of the foot to use and how underloads aid attackers' dribbling development. Moritz Kossmann shares his expertise on moving with the ball...

Receiving is such a vital skill in soccer.A good first touch can beat a player in an instant, get a team out of trouble or create a chance on goal.But how can we support players to improve their receiving?Moritz Kos...

As a player, Joanna Boyles Fennema performed at the highest level.She spent her four college years with the North Carolina Tar Heels, represented the U17 US national team and played for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL.Alongside su...

Mark Jenkins is the U15s lead coach at Weston-super-Mare AFC, a semi-professional club based on the southwest coast of England.Having been ready to keep working with his current crop of players for a few years, Mark was told that he ...

Sarah Brady had aspirations of making it as a player.She went through Everton’s academy before playing for her beloved Liverpool for a brief time, and then moving to Leeds United for a short spell.When, she says, her "body didn’...

Matt Spear has had numerous different lives in soccer – as a player at NCAA Division I program Davidson College, a sports marketer, returning to his alma mater as a full-time coach for 18 years, and president and general manager for the third-t...

Katie Smith, based in Memphis, Tennessee, started coaching straight out of high school, alongside playing at community college.Now, in a situation that might sound familiar to a lot of coaches trying to make their way, Katie juggles nume...

Kyle Martyn is senior girls’ academy director for the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club in Pennsylvania, the place where he grew up. Martyn played high school and college soccer in the state before going professional for a few years. 

James Wagenschutz is an applied sports scientist and sports performance coach who has been in soccer for almost 25 years. He holds a USSF A license and has used it to coach in the college game, including notable stints as assistant...

Dr Haroot Hakopian got into coaching by accident when he suffered a significant knee injury - tearing his ACL, MCL and PCL - and requiring four different operations.A move into coaching followed, alongside entering education. Thirty year...

A love for the work of his college coaches was what led Jeremy Tosaya to go into the profession himself.Jeremy coached the college game for 18 years, including a notable seven-year stint with Dakota Wesleyan University, before moving on...

In her senior year at Shawnee Mission West High School Kansas, Sarah Gonzalez wrote in her yearbook that, in five years’ time, she would be back at the school, teaching math and coaching soccer.Well, after playing soccer at the Universi...

Tom Shields is the technical director, boys’ ECNL director and USL2 head coach at STA Soccer in Randolph, New Jersey.Tom was formerly coach of Hull City Ladies and the University of Hull, in his native England. He was also an assistant a...

The first team Kai Edwards ever coached was a group of under-12s that included two players who would go on to be US World Cup stars: Kristen Press and Whitney Engen.He is currently head coach at the Southern Utah Thunderbirds, leading th...

Steph Fairbairn joined her first soccer team as an eight-year-old, back in 2001.Then, the women's game in England trailed behind in participation and attendances - so much so that, in 2006, Steph was part of a double-figure crowd for a ...

Wesley Gullin started coaching in the early  2000s, in his hometown of Watford, just north of London. In 2013, a job with Yeovil Town Ladies took him to the south-west of England. Wesley has since immersed himself in girls and...