Success Story: Meet Nate

When Nate reached out to Dayes Soccer Training, he had one goal in mind: To make his high school freshman team at a competitive private school.

After speaking to him and his parents, I curated a list of steps to help him accomplish his goals.

Steps to accomplish the goal:

1) Improve 1v1 defending (Tackling, positioning,)

2) Improve 1st touch/ juggling

3) Improve passing (long and short)

4) Improve functional fitness (anaerobic with and without the ball)

Over our practice sessions, I was able to work with Nate on his positioning (sideways on), approach (angle and speed of approach), where to channel the player and most importantly when to tackle). He improved at winning the ball back when he was able to time his tackle correctly.

Recommendation: Continued work on the mechanics of tackling, body positioning and timing of tackle.