{"id":167579,"date":"2026-04-14T16:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=167579"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:54:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:54:37","slug":"part-one-paul-quinn-defensive-cover-and-balance-fa-learning-coaching-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=167579","title":{"rendered":"Part One &#8211; Paul Quinn: Defensive Cover And Balance | FA Learning Coaching Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFcggAocQ_g?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The FA&#8217;s Paul Quinn delivers a coaching session focusing on defensive cover and balance with a group of grassroots players aged 5-11. In the first part, the players play in a 3v3 game with different sized goals and work on where to show play, as well as how to protect the goal as a team.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to FA Learning: http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/FALearningSub<br \/>\nVisit The Boot Room:  https:\/\/www.thefa.com\/bootroom<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/FALearning<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WFcggAocQ_g\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA&#8217;s Paul Quinn delivers a coaching session focusing on defensive cover and balance with a group of grassroots players aged 5-11. In the first part, the players play in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":167580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167579","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\/167579","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}