What the scoreboard leaves out about a young soccer player
How to tell if a young soccer player is improving when the score says nothing: four habits to watch from the sideline, and two drills that build them.
8 min readParentCoach
Methodology
Deep dives into what StunpreX believes: the ideas behind how we develop players at every age.
The cognitive capacity: how players think in football
Above a baseline of technique, the player who decides faster and better wins. What the cognitive capacity is, why it becomes the ceiling from early adolescence, and how to train it.
15 min readPlayerCoach
Creative dribbling drills: how constraints generate, and train, creativity
Constraints build creative dribblers. Here's the method for designing constrained dribbling drills that develop real technique under pressure.
10 min readCoachPlayer
How to dribble in tight spaces: the 1v1 commit window
Many 1v1s are lost to hesitation rather than to a skill gap. Here is how to train the commit window that beats defenders.
9 min readPlayer
Perceptual capacity: what the game asks you to see
Perception is the first skill in football: reading the game before the ball arrives. What perceptual capacity is, why it decides everything downstream, and how to train it.
12 min readPlayerCoach
When scanning is the dribble: what Xavi's habit shows about ball-carrying
Elite players scan before and during the carry. What the research on Xavi's famous habit shows, and how to train scanning while dribbling in soccer.
9 min readPlayerCoach
Soccer dribbling drills: the complete guide to training the skill under real pressure
From tight-space drills to both-feet work: the complete guide to soccer dribbling drills, built for the player developing seriously over time.
17 min readPlayerGeneral
Develop the player, not the position
Why early position-locking costs a young player more than it appears to, and what a long-horizon approach looks like instead.
4 min readCoachParent