Designing small-sided games for Soccer

Nov

Teacher Diogo Coutinho
Categories Coaching, Drills
Students 417 (Registered)
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(12 Reviews)

ONLINE COURSE: Designing small-sided games for Soccer

Do you want to be able to design effective small-sided games?
Do you want to improve your player’s decision-making capabilities?

This course aims to help coaches in designing small-sided games for physical, technical and tactical development. For that purpose, it will present the effects of different task constraints manipulations (e.g., players number, pitch rules, game rules, spatial references…) on the players’ physical, technical and tactical performance based on scientific and practical evidence.

Also, it will focus on how these manipulations affect the players’ decision-making and movement behavior.

Finally, it will present a general overview of how small-sided games can be designed and manipulated during a soccer training microcycle.

Course Content

Total learning: 30 lessons Time: 12 weeks

1. Intro 0/1
- Lecture1.1
  
  About the course 01 min Preview
2. Decision-Making 0/4
- Lecture2.1
  
  About decision-making 03 min Preview
- Lecture2.2
  
  Decision-Making Constrains 03 min Preview
- Lecture2.3
  
  Experts vs Non Experts 04 min
- Lecture2.4
  
  How can we improve players’ decision-making? 06 min
3. Task constraints - Players’ Number 0/3
- Lecture3.1
  
  Players’ Number (balanced teams) 08 min
- Lecture3.2
  
  Players’ Number (unbalanced teams) 05 min
- Lecture3.3
  
  Players’ Number – Summarizing 02 min
4. Task constraints – Pitch Rules 0/3
- Lecture4.1
  
  Pitch size 09 min
- Lecture4.2
  
  Pitch Configuration 04 min
- Lecture4.3
  
  Pitch surfaces 03 min
5. Task constraints – Game Rules 0/8
- Lecture5.1
  
  Limiting the Touches 03 min
- Lecture5.2
  
  Goal Type 02 min
- Lecture5.3
  
  Number of Targets 02 min
- Lecture5.4
  
  Marking Type 01 min
- Lecture5.5
  
  Playing Formation 02 min
- Lecture5.6
  
  Coach Feedback 02 min
- Lecture5.7
  
  Task Instruction 04 min
- Lecture5.8
  
  Summarizing 02 min
6. Task constraints - Game Duration 0/1
- Lecture6.1
  
  Game duration 08 min
7. Task constraints - Spatial References 0/1
- Lecture7.1
  
  Spatial References 10 min
8. Age/Experience 0/1
- Lecture8.1
  
  Age/Experience 03 min
9. Goalkeepers 0/1
- Lecture9.1
  
  Effects of Constraints on Goalkeepers Performance 02 min
10. Individual constraints 0/1
- Lecture10.1
  
  Individual Constraints on Players’ Movement Behavior 07 min
11. Movement Variability 0/2
- Lecture11.1
  
  How variability can improve player’s performance 02 min
- Lecture11.2
  
  Summarizing 02 min
12. How to plan the SSG 0/2
- Lecture12.1
  
  How to plan the SSG during the training microcycle? 09 min
- Lecture12.2
  
  Practical example
13. Main findings 0/1
- Lecture13.1
  
  Technical, Tactical, Physical, Decision Making 06 min
14. Conclusion 0/1
- Lecture14.1
  
  End 01 min

Instructor

Diogo Coutinho

Diogo Coutinho holds a Ph.D. in Sports Sciences by the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. Since 2011, he has been an Assistant Coach in professional soccer clubs such as Moreirense FC, Académica OAF, GD Chaves and Varzim SC. Also, he is frequently invited as a lecturer in football coaching courses (UEFA B and C) from the Portuguese Football Federation. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and the University of Maia and a collaborating member in the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development.

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Boukraa Mohamed Amine

SSG

Great guide to how to use SSG
Ferreira

Small-sided games

Highly recommend this course. I would like that you could go a little more deep in 9-12 ages case and the diferences between this ages and senior ones. Also the english should be more perceptive, kind confuse.
Garry Monkhouse

Small Sided Games

Great Course!
odossantos6

odossantos6

Brilliant course
Coachsousa98

Great

Great content, good examples. Allowed me to grow my knowledge
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