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Cognitive Soccer Silence: Removing The Human Sense of Hearing

December 20, 2016December 20, 2016 coachdibernardo

I can remember sitting in a Psychology of Sports class at CCSU, as the professor walked in and asked us if we wanted to see a video.  He proceeded to

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Forget Everything You Learned About Soccer Coaching: Step Outside & Observe with an Open Mind

December 18, 2016 coachdibernardo

  Forget the warm-up that has to relate to the day’s topic.  Forget the technical training for the first 15 minutes of practice.  Forget building from simple to complex.  Forget

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Cognitive Possession: Teaching Attacking Overloads Using Conditions

December 13, 2016December 13, 2016 coachdibernardo

  This is a great exercise to teach attacking overloads using colors and conditions.  The black & yellow players are a team and red and blue make another team. In

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Increasing Cognitive Executive Functioning By Creating Low Stress Learning Environments

December 5, 2016 coachdibernardo

Lately there has been a lot of talk about how important it is to win, if you lose are you a loser and should we even be awarding things like

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Using Cueing to Develop the Soccer Brain

December 3, 2016 coachdibernardo

This is a functional example of external cueing and gridding used in pattern play.  The center midfield player plays a pass wide to the winger, located inside the designated channel. 

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Increasing Dopamine & Serotonin Levels in Players = Increased Learning & Retention

November 18, 2016 coachdibernardo

A simple way to increase dopamine production in your team is to increase the serotonin levels of the players, dopamine and serotonin are closely related.  Serotonin starts to flow when

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Chasing Dopamine & Other Game Changing Chemicals: The Neuroscience of Effective Athletic Coaching

November 14, 2016November 18, 2016 coachdibernardo

My new book “Chasing Dopamine & Other Game Changing Chemicals” The Neuroscience of Effective Athletic Coaching will be out next week.  Below is an excerpt from the book.  It is a

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Great SSG’s That Teach Pressing & Ball Circulation

November 3, 2016 coachdibernardo

This is a session I recently did with my team using 18 players split into three teams of 6 players.  Players work for 4 minutes straight and rest as outside

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FC Barcelona Dynamic Triangle Passing Patterns

October 22, 2016July 2, 2020 coachdibernardo

Great exercises and progressions for training combination passing along with dynamic movements and fitness.

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Attacking Organization: Game Model Training

October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 coachdibernardo

This video shows how to train the attacking organizational phase for your game model.  The exercise is simple and easy to use but extremely effective.  If you are not familiar

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