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To realize their soccer potential, players need to combine a variety of training scenarios. While group training is at the core of being part of a team, it isn’t everything. A player must have an arsenal of individual skills and abilities available to contribute to the team. So, individual training is vital to player development. However, as a coach (or parent), it isn’t enough just to tell your players to improve by saying, “Make sure to train on your own.

Check out any soccer “how to” article and you’ll see a list of the best ways to evaluate and choose a club team. Many, if not most of the tips, are helpful and include sound advice, depending on your goals. While it is certainly important to pick the best soccer team, that should also mean it is right for you in other than the most obvious reasons. To that end, assessing your goals and what you want to get out of your experience is the first step. You may check all the obvious boxes (e.g. top competition; successful coach; playing time), but there’s more to that check list than you may have considered.

As a player, it can be difficult to know how and what to do in the various areas of training, and equally important, how to keep track of them. Players need the foresight to plan their program, and the organization to track everything they’re doing over time. At Techne, we believe the key to success is to integrate these elements into training.

Watching soccer can be instructive, inspiring and educational. And there’s more than one way to watch: you can do it for the fun and excitement of the game--to get the satisfaction of being a fan of a team and player(s). You can also watch in order to learn, by engaging in deliberate study of techniques and tactics.

All soccer parents want to “get it right.” That’s why it’s good to know some of the tried and true practices, backed up by research, you can use to best support your player.

In these difficult times of isolation due to COVID-19, there are innovative ways to engage with your players that not only sustain training but teach new soccer habits and important life skills.

If you do the same thing as everyone else, you’ll be just like everyone else. While soccer is a team sport, there is great value, and pleasure, in simply playing on one's own.

Techne Futbol Training Plan, a new feature to help players plan and track the time they put into Techne training.

Averbuch often talks about the empowering soccer journey and stresses that cultivating and supporting that empowerment--for both players and coaches--is at the core of the Techne Futbol app. Her presentation connected various features of the training app and Group Manager Portal to show how they foster the same inspiration she feels fortunate to have had throughout her career.

Yael Averbuch will speak at the United Soccer Coaches Convention on “Inspiring Players To Train On Their Own,” a talk directed at coaches in order to promote individual training and a lasting love of the game among their players. Her presentation will take place at the Convention’s inaugural Innovation Hub, inside the exhibit hall, on Friday, January 17 at 11:15 am.

October marked three years of Techne Futbol. What began as a series of YouTube “backyard skill challenges” created by professional and U.S. Women’s National Team player Yael Averbuch is now a subscription-based mobile app which has grown to benefit individual players and teams, from youth to professionals, all over the world.