Dave Kreger-Director of Coaching

Ken-Ton Soccer Association provides a Director of Coaching to help coaches improve the skills that are needed to properly train soccer players. On this page, you will find many articles, lesson plans, coaching manuals, publications, and coaching tips from our DOC.

To learn more about our Director of Coaching click here.

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Role of Fitness in Youth Soccer...
Here are my recommendations on the role fitness training should play for our teams in the Kenton Soccer Association.  To read more about this topic click here.

Coaches, are you over coaching?
The following article talks about over coaching in youth soccer. Growing up, many of us were exposed to traditional American sports like football, basketball, and baseball. These sports are categorized as coach driven sports. Soccer is different, especially youth soccer, it is considered player driven. Basically what this means is coaches play a reduced role in decision making on the field, and act more as a facilitator. Players are given the responsibility to make their own decisions on the field. In our more traditional sports the coach is given that responsibility. Please take a moment to read this article to see if you are over coaching.

Model Training Session
The following training session can be applied to any age group U10 and older. It is meant to help you with the organization of your practice sessions.  Click here to check out the session.

Top 10 Reasons Why Your Players Participate in Soccer
Here is a list of reasons why your players participate in soccer.

Teaching Technique
To learn more about the coaching points of teaching technique click on the following link.