George Kuntz 4-Pack

Practice Planning and Team Warm-Up for Soccer

with George Kuntz,
UC Irvine Head Men's Soccer Coach

An essential element of finding success as a team is being prepared for competition through well-planned practices.

In this instructional soccer DVD, George Kuntz explains what every good practice needs and gives you some ideas on how to plan your practices based on the unique qualities of your team: age, tactical ability, experience, etc.

PRACTICE PLANNING
Coach Kuntz stresses how important it is to take out what isn't working, fix it through practice, and put it back in and analyze the results. He explains how practices should be balanced between immediate needs versus both seasonal and future development needs. You will learn Kuntz's four pillars of successful soccer and a simple, systematic tool for analyzing and improving the pillars.

Kuntz shares a process for how to take your goals and break them down to activities that take place during practice. Learn tips for:

• Measuring improvement
• Keeping your team in a competitive mode during practice
• How to organize an actual training session
• How to vary exercises based on your players' abilities and other variables

Keep your training sessions focused this season and learn how to effectively practice to meet your goals and your team's biggest needs.

WARM-UP
Warm-ups are a key part of practice. They get players ready for practice, but also need to reflect elements and scenarios of the game while maintaining a player's interest in the practice. Kuntz presents a number of activities to accomplish these goals:

• Dynamic Warm-ups - Moving stretches to loosen up players and prevent injuries.
• Warm-up Touches - Use window drills with light dribbling, juggling, and short passing to prepare for more demanding drills. This trains players to see the game as it develops, find windows to see the field, read the situation and adapt. Also improves timing, balance and agility.
• Passing Exercises - Incorporate triangle passing, open-field passing and variations of each to get your players to move off the ball and constantly looking for support (similar to a game). These exercises will help improve first touch, mobility and passing over increasing distances.
• Third Man Run & Shoot - This warm-up exercise will strengthens your players' technical skills and will get your players passing to space, running toward the goal and getting shots on goal.

In practice you can go through the motions or you can grow as a player. Playing the game is the best teacher. Set up practices with games that teach success and put your team in a competitive mode so they are encouraged and motivated to always do better.

Get your players excited about the day's practice by providing fun and creative avenues to work toward achieving your team's goals.

88 minutes. 2010.

Rapid Fire Shooting and Finishing Drills for Soccer

with George Kuntz,
UC Irvine Head Men's Soccer Coach

George Kuntz delivers a number of attacking options for your games and a variety of training sessions for your practices.

Kuntz coaches his players through his best small field drills and game variations. Using a small field creates as many goal-scoring opportunities as possible, more decisions in tight spaces, more touches on the ball, and ensures that every opportunity is dangerous to the defending team.

Drills include:

• 1v1 Transition Shooting Exercise - teaches attackers how to use time and space to create early shooting opportunities. This is a fast paced drill that maximizes the number of shots per player. This exercise also allows for immediate reaction in transition for the shooting player and forces immediate decisions.
• 2v1 Finishing Exercise - forces the attackers to read the defender and create problems for the defender by bending runs or making overlapping runs while remaining in an onside position. The attackers in this exercise must focus on receiving a pass and making a one or two touch finish on goal.
• 3v2 Continuous Exercise - focuses on movement off of the ball, finding the extra player, deciding to go to goal or to pass, and taking the earliest available shot.
• 3v2 to 2v1 Carry-over Exercise - Principles from the previous training still apply, but in this exercise the focus is on the transition from a defending state of mind to an attacking state of mind and vice versa.

In the small scrimmage games section of this video, the offense is provided a numbers advantage so that they can create extra options by utilizing neutral players and players in the wing positions.

For the final variation, Kuntz evens the number of players on each team and challenges the players to create numbers up situations on their own. Kuntz looks for players to be creative, maintain an attacking and defending shape, make runs off the ball and shoot high percentage shots on goal with the proper shooting principles established over the course of the video.

Throughout the video, Kuntz encourages the athletes to take as many shots on target as possible. He breaks down proper shooting technique and explains how technique directly relates to shots on target. Kuntz also distinguishes between placement of a shot vs. the power of a shot and identifies when to use one over the other.

This DVD will provide your the team the chance to get as many shots on goal as possible in a short amount of time.

44 minutes. 2010.

Small Group Exercises to Train Defenders

with George Kuntz,
UC Irvine Head Men's Soccer Coach

Teams that defend well ensure that their team is always competitive in a game and can initiate the attack for their team.

George Kuntz shows you how to improve your team's individual skills and group defending tactics using small group training. He begins by walking his athletes through proper body positioning for defending an attacker on the ball. He shows you how to apply pressure without the risk of getting beat and how to dictate your opponent's movement.

This DVD includes four basic small group exercises:

• Defensive Mechanics & Techniques - This progression will help program your players to keep their knees bent, eyes up, and read the attacker from the waist down. The exercise progresses to tackling and using your body properly to keep the opponent off of the ball.
• 1v1 Defending Progression - Emphasizes the proper defensive stance and tackling technique. As attackers progress to shooting on a target, the defender's positioning becomes even more crucial.
• 2v2 Defending Progression - Works on directing the attacker to the supporting defender for help with containment. During this exercise, Kuntz identifies the importance of communication between defenders as it relates to defensive coverage movements.
• 4v4 Support Exercise - Focuses on defensive vision, shifting, organizing and switching with supporting defenders that mimics the demands of a full size game.

As each exercise increases in difficulty, Kuntz adds objectives to each exercise for the offense and defense in order to increase confidence, effort and enjoyment for the players.

Build better support for your defense with these proven defensive principles and techniques.

47 minutes. 2010.

21 Exercises for Improving Possession & Passing

with George Kuntz,
UC Irvine Head Men's Soccer Coach

Improving your possession and passing is critical to winning more games. Combining these critical aspects of offense, George Kuntz presents 21 exercises and games to improve your team's possession and passing abilities.

POSSESSION
Coach Kuntz demonstrates 12 exercises including warm-up passing, numbers-up scenarios, target possession and possession games. He also includes variations of each drill with clear scoring objectives in order to get the most out of the exercises and his players.

These exercises will help your team maintain good supporting angles to the ball, maintain good shape and build numbers when attacking. Train your players to constantly move and adjust--possessing in deep and wide positions-while increasing vision and awareness and developing good communication. Teach your players when and how to play in tight spaces and when to play out of tight spaces.

PASSING
Nine passing exercises plus variations are demonstrated including motion passing, wall passing, and player vs. player games. These exercises stress proper execution of the pass such as body shape, angle of approach, weight of the pass, and more.ÿ Kuntz coaches his athletes to follow their pass, make simple decisions, and many more elements of great passing.ÿ

These exercises start small and simple before progressing to larger, more complex exercises that build on the exercises before them.ÿ Each exercise directly relates to the larger game by incorporating passing techniques and patterns for optimizing possession.

This season, increase your scoring opportunities while decreasing your opponent's time on the ball.

131 minutes. 2010.

See all the items in this series!

• Practice Planning and Team Warm-Up for Soccer
• Rapid Fire Shooting and Finishing Drills for Soccer
• Small Group Exercises to Train Defenders
• 21 Exercises for Improving Possession & Passing

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