Thoughts on Charlie Francis and soccer

[no23]

@Pioneer

I don’t work with soccer but I have an interest in proper training methods for many sports.

I’d be interested to see general recommendations by some of the experienced coaches around here as to how they would train a top level guy with the two months available in the off-season. Of course that means, as has been mentioned by a number of you, that maybe only a month of training-give or take a week or two- could be realistically done as they need more down time after 10 consecutive months of playing.

The other scenario is where the collegiate player is involved so naturally much more time to train would be available.

Nothing too detailed as I know that would take quite a bit of time but possibly a brief template or overview and for someone training the lower level player, how the training would transition during the training year as the player neared their season.

Thanks.

In most cases it ends up very much rehab focused as most guys who want to do something usually are coming to rehab or prehab an injury.

They will also sometimes want to do a lot of running like 800’s or 200’s because they know that’s what they’ll do on day 1 when they go back to training and they need to be ready for it.
I’d never do any running of significance with them, unless I was rehabbing a knee injury and was looking at running mechanics and/or for movement pattern breakdown.

But generally you’d work on strength training, body control and regeneration.

Probably in reverse order actually. these guys have had such a long season, recovery and regeneration is the most important thing.