{"id":147094,"date":"2025-11-17T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=147094"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:11:31","slug":"we-stopped-training-like-us-soccer-told-us-to-and-this-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=147094","title":{"rendered":"We Stopped Training Like US Soccer Told Us To\u2026 And This Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iOUSg9KnYrU?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>We stopped training like US Soccer told us to\u2026 and everything changed. After years of following the official U.S. Soccer model \u2014 Play-Practice-Play, 4 game moments, and all \u2014 I realized something was missing. The players weren\u2019t thinking the game. So we ditched the cookie-cutter sessions and trained like Europe\u2019s best academies \u2014 Bar\u00e7a, Ajax, and more.<br \/>\nIn this video, I break down what happened when we focused on real ball mastery, scanning, decision-making, and awareness.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 Download my free 30-day training plan PDF!<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc49 Click on this link to download: https:\/\/subscribepage.io\/JIrE7X<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps<br \/>\n00:00 \u2013 The US soccer coaching framework<br \/>\n00:21 \u2013 The problem with US youth soccer<br \/>\n00:50 \u2013 What U.S. soccer teaches<br \/>\n02:22 \u2013 What we changed<br \/>\n07:42 \u2013 The results of not doing it the US soccer way<\/p>\n<p>MY TRAINING ESSENTIALS<br \/>\nCones \u2013 https:\/\/amzn.to\/4qvQCEM<br \/>\nPop-up Goals \u2013 https:\/\/amzn.to\/4oDRpld<br \/>\nAgility Poles &#8211; https:\/\/amzn.to\/3WZTCeW<br \/>\nTraining Pennies &#8211; https:\/\/amzn.to\/431Xm3b<br \/>\nAny other gear! (QuickPlay)- https:\/\/www.quickplaysport.com\/JAGGEDSHRIMP<\/p>\n<p>MY COACHING GEAR<br \/>\nPortable Coaching Whiteboard \u2013https:\/\/amzn.to\/4odnoc7<br \/>\nBall Pump &#8211; https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Ldms9h<\/p>\n<p>MY FILMING EQUIPMENT<br \/>\nDJI Osmo Pocket Camera \u2013 https:\/\/amzn.to\/4hxN1lv<br \/>\nWireless Microphone \u2013 https:\/\/amzn.to\/4nsvvjQ<\/p>\n<p>#soccer #calcio #soccerdrills #youthsoccer #soccercoach #futbol<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iOUSg9KnYrU\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped training like US Soccer told us to\u2026 and everything changed. After years of following the official U.S. Soccer model \u2014 Play-Practice-Play, 4 game moments, and all \u2014 I&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9139,"featured_media":147095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147094","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\/147094","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\/9139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}