Soccer Journal is the official publication of United Soccer Coaches and is one of the few magazines in the world produced exclusively for soccer coaches. Each issue contains technical and tactical articles, news and updates on important events, thoughts from opinion leaders in the sport and features on the interesting people and issues of the game. Soccer Journal is a benefit of United Soccer Coaches membership, published, monthly, online and quarterly in print.

Editions

United Soccer Coaches offers members multiple ways to read the Soccer Journal. All members will receive a printed magazine unless they opt out—in our effort to be environmentally responsible, we offer members the opportunity to only receive the digital edition of the magazine. To opt-out and only receive the digital edition, please contact, membership@unitedsoccercoaches.org.

Members can view the digital editions from a computer, phone, or tablet with their, membership login credentials at www.soccerjournal.org.

Latest Issue of Our Soccer Coaching Journal Now Available: Fall 2025!

The Fall 2025 edition highlights key developments in soccer coaching, leadership, and youth development.

• History of the Red Aprons: The Red Apron story began at the 1986 Annual Convention in St. Louis, Mo.  The men and women who comprise this group represet the heart and soul of United Soccer Coaches.
• One Pin at a Time: Sport Pins International, Inc. filled a niche by bringing the tradition of pin exchanging to youth sports events across the United States.
• Building Resilience: Take a look at how challenges that alter a playing career can lay the groundwork for development as a player and coach.
• Choosing the Right Soccer Club: Parents can take proactive steps to make youth and club soccer more affordable while still ensuring their children receive high-quality training and competitive opportunities.
• Transformative Leadership: Leaders will garner more influence for the betterment of the individual, team and organization through four behaviors.
• Disgruntled: Do You See It? Do You Feel It?: Have you dealt with and worked with a player or players who were disgruntled?  How did you handle it?  This is one of the toughest challenges a coach will face.
• Winning the Warm-Up: Be concerned with your preparation, execution, effort and desire.  Don’t worry about them, let them worry about you.
• Movement off the Ball:  Does your teammate need help and how can you help him?  Players can support their teammates with intelligent runs off the ball in a variety of ways.
• If You Don’t Produce, You’re Done: Being a striker is, without a doubt, the most stressful position on the soccer field.  Is it a psychologically negative position to play?
• Retrospective Analysis: A review of the study that evaluated the external training load for 18 Division II field players over the course of the 2023 season.

Submissions

The magazine serves as a forum for anything soccer and accepts articles in the following soccer-related categories: player development, youth soccer, soccer research, coaching, fitness, goalkeeping, soccer history, international soccer, match analysis, interviews, sport psychology, soccer tactics and soccer techniques. And, yes, we accept articles about referees! 

The editors review all articles for appropriateness of topic and acceptable writing style conformance. Articles may also be reviewed by the editorial subcommittee. When an article is accepted, it will be printed in the earliest appropriate and available issue (at the editors’ discretion), though some articles may be retained for a topic-oriented issue. Inquiries may be sent to Soccer Journal editors: 

Managing Editor – Lisa Morel, lmorel@unitedsoccercoaches.org

Executive Editor – Dr. Jay Martin, jamartin@owu.edu