Soccer Footwork Skills and Training Drills: A Guide for Recreational Coaches
This series of pages promises to be a very valuable resource to both new and experienced recreational team coaches. The pages contain 84 different soccer drills that have been used by some of the club's more successful recreational and professional coaches. Through the drills attached to this site we hope that all coaches will have the tools necessary to make their volunteer coaching experience enjoyable for them and valuable for their players.
Training Opportunities for Recreational Team Coaches
West Des Moines Soccer Club offers a wide variety of programs to assist the coaches of our recreational teams in learning how to become more effective soccer coaches, and all of them are free! Detailed information on these opportunities can be provided contacting Nate Sammler, Recreational Coaching Director nsammler@yahoo.com or Frank Gurnick, Director of Coaching (988-6059 /sokreduc8r@wdmsoccerclub.org)
Quick Reference Guides for Coaches
The following Quick Reference Guides contain a wealth of information on player mentality, coaching principles, conducting practices, game day management, rules, and equipment, segmented by age group.
The Hidden Valley Soccer Complex is located
in the southern section of the City of West Des
Moines adjacent to Walnut Woods State Park. The
best access to the complex is from Iowa Highway
5, exit at S. 35th Street. Follow the signs to
Walnut Woods State Park and the complex is immediately
east of the state park.
Caution: The road and highway
system in the area of the soccer complex has
been re-engineered recently and none of the
Internet mapping services will map the route
correctly.
