From Drills to Decisions
An ecological approach to coaching football through representative games and thoughtful constraints.
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The ebook shelf
Read. Plan. Coach.
Focused resources for coaches developing players and building purposeful sessions.
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The Blunt Truth
How college soccer coaches recruit players ages 15–17, and where families can spend more wisely.
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Attack the low block
A practical coaching manual for creating, exploiting and finishing against compact defenses.
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Game Vision to Position Actions
An instructional manual for translating a playing idea into clear position actions, training practices and match review.
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Coaching Beyond the Course
Build a continuous pathway through mentoring, peer learning, observation and useful feedback.
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Changing Football Habits
A field guide to coaching purposeful scanning, active receiving and intelligent passing choices.
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Paid eBooks are available through SamCart. Coaching Beyond the Course remains free to download.
For programme leaders
Build the Programme.
Planning tools for academy directors and heads of coach education.
Connect the yearly calendar, coach mentoring, player pathway, safeguarding roles and participation measures to the decisions you review each quarter.
Explore the programme →Free planning workbook
Six printable worksheets to turn the framework into named actions and dates.
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Programme Toolkit
Expanded editable templates, worked examples and planning tools for programme leaders. In development.
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From the blog
Ideas for the next session.
Questions and coaching themes worth taking onto the field.
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Coach development · Free articleFeedback and Feedforward: Helping Players and Coaches Take the Next Step
Use evidence, a next action and active listening to make development conversations more useful.
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Youth development · Free articleBeyond Total Distance: What Youth GPS Data Should Tell the Coach
Read high-speed, sprint, acceleration and braking data in the context of the player and the football action.
Read the full article →The Iterative Coaching Process
Use what players do in training and matches to refine the next repetition, intervention and session.
Read the full article →Training Load Without GPS
A low-cost system for tracking player effort, participation and meaningful behaviour across the week.
Read the full article →From One Football Problem to Many Solutions
Use Alex Osborn’s ideation principles to generate options, solve a high press and design more purposeful training.
Read the full article →Two-Footed by Design
Purposeful training to help players receive, pass, dribble and finish effectively with either foot.
View the preview →Changing the Football Habits We Allow
How coaches can develop better scanning, active receiving, and thoughtful passing choices from the earliest stages.
Read the full article →Finding, Developing and Supporting Talent as Football Evolves
How clubs, academies and national programmes can see potential clearly and support players through growth and transition.
Read the full article →Did the Workshop Change the Coaching?
How regional visits, mentoring, observation and shared language help workshop ideas take root in everyday sessions.
Read the full article →About the author
Coach Vin Blaine
Coach educator and football leader with decades of experience developing coaches, players, and national programmes. This library shares practical thinking from the classroom and the training ground, for coaches at every stage of their journey.
