Access to top-tier coaching development has never been easier with United Soccer Coaches eLearning courses! Learn from some of the best coaches in the game from the comfort of your own home with our online courses. 

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United Soccer Coaches and U.S. Futsal have partnered to create their first-ever coaching course for the most popular soccer variation in the world.

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This course identifies the unique challenges of position-specific training and provides teaching methods to apply to your practice sessions.

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This nine-part clinical will introduce advanced technical training, principles of defending, and areas of coaching focused on teaching defending. 

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The Goalkeeping Level 1 Online Diploma provides coaches a basic and working knowledge of instructing goalkeeping to youth and entry level players.

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This series explores the five principles of attack, namely penetration, width, support, mobility and improvisation. 

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Explore attacking and defending shape and different approaches for a variety of systems including the 1-4-4-2 and the 1-3-5-2. 

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This series explores the five principles of defense, namely pressure, cover/support, balance, delay and compactness. 

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This course identifies individual and team-specific approaches to teaching important transitional moments after winning the ball.

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This course offers coaches the latest methods to optimize every practice by examining the differences between naive, deliberate and purposeful practice. 

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Successfully tactical implementation is contingent on the technical capabilities of players. Advanced coaching techniques and attention to detail are the features of these sessions. 

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This online course highlights sports psychology and teaching individual mental skills by focusing on improving mental abilities to progressively improve player development.  

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This series is dedicated to preparing players, teams and clubs to address the tactical, technical and logistical opportunities presented in this new era in youth soccer. 

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This course is a useful introduction to coaching youth soccer for the first time or a helpful refresher as it provides insight into targeted training activities and age-appropriate instruction for beginning to advanced players.  

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Topic areas in this course include transitioning into a counterattack, ‘killing’ the game off when in the lead and game-winning restarts, to name just a few.

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The 7C’s are the key mental skills that players need to maximize their abilities and perform at their best week in week out. 

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The course sets out the key developmental needs of players and how coaches can meet these needs in their sessions. 

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Get aHEAD Safely in Soccer is the first interactive online course developed to educate coaches on how to teach safer heading techniques for players ages 11-13. This course is loaded into The Training Ground dashboard for every United Soccer Coaches Member.

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