{"id":12728,"date":"2024-02-06T02:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2024-02-06T02:53:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:53:06","slug":"soccer-coaches-guide-5-to-7-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=12728","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Coaches Guide- 5 to 7 Year Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JZmY02xaOo?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>More info at  http:\/\/www.soccervideos.com\/products\/nscaa-soccer-coaches-guide-5-7-year-olds<\/p>\n<p>NSCAA staff coaches provide demonstrations of many different activities coaches can use to teach young players the skills they need to learn to play the game of soccer and have fun at the same time.<br \/>\nAt this age the ball itself is the biggest opponent. The activities are heavily oriented towards dribbling, giving the players as many touches on the ball as possible in their early years. Sessions include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Dribbling moves<br \/>\n\u2022 Passing and spacing<br \/>\n\u2022 Shooting<br \/>\n\u2022 Small sided games<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JZmY02xaOo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More info at http:\/\/www.soccervideos.com\/products\/nscaa-soccer-coaches-guide-5-7-year-olds NSCAA staff coaches provide demonstrations of many different activities coaches can use to teach young players the skills they need to learn to play the game&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":12729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}