A coach tells young soccer players that recording every training session can transform their game. Film practice to get feedback from mentors, push yourself harder than peers, and treat drills like real matches. He'll review your videos if you send them.
If you're 12 or 13 years old and you don't do this one extra thing in order to play MLS NEXT Pro ECNL, there's a good chance you're not gonna make it. We had this one student, was 12 years old, and they were practicing a lot on their own, but one of the things they were not doing was filming their training sessions. Now you may say, what do you need to film training sessions for? You're not gonna send that out to anybody. That's correct. You're not really gonna send that out to anybody. You need to find someone in your world, in your village, to show the training video to. One, so you can find out if your coach is any good, but probably your coach is pretty good. But mainly, you need to be training at a different level than the kids next to you. So let's say your coach says, stay on the cone and pass this like this. If you're doing it at the same tempo as the players around you, you're probably not going to get to the higher levels. However, if instead you are taking a look over your shoulder and you are treating training like a game, then you're much better off. And if you record your training sessions, then somebody like myself can look at your training and actually tell you how to get better. If you want more help playing MLS Next or USL NL, give me a call. Link's in the bio.
