As coach, you shape the way your team approaches soccer and working as a team. Here's a couple ideas to get you started:

• Maximize your practice time around playing soccer.  Check out the play-practice-play method for one way of doing this.
• Use mini-games instead of solo drills to teach skills.
• Go into your practices with a plan.
  • And a backup plan in case your players aren't into your original plan.

Check out examples of what not to do from Coach Malcolm Brown: