Training to Prevent Injuries and Improve Player Performance, presented by Calvin Deutsch.

1. Training to Reduce Injuries and Improve Player
Performance
Jim Launder - Calvin Deutsch

2. Starting Point
The Game of Soccer
• 90 min long (or less at various youth levels)
• Repeated mixture of sprinting, running, jogging, walking
• Many short duration “actions”
• Sprinting, receiving ball, passing, shooting, tackles,
direction changes
• Constantly evolving and on the move, no time-outs/set plays
(except free kicks)

3. Injury Info

4. Injuries
• Thigh- Strains (pulls)
• Knee- ACL (female)
• Ankle- Sprains (male)

5. Basic Principles
• Dynamic Warm-Up (Physiologic, Technical, Tactical,
Psychologic)
• Strength, balance, movement education, footwork exercises
***Put in soccer language***
• Cool down, static stretching
• How much of this can we include the ball and how can make
injury prevention and performance improvement soccer
centric?

6. FIFA

7. FIFA 11+
http://f-marc.com/11plus/exercises/
9 Running
Exercises
Each
practice/
match
6 Strength
Exercises
2-3x/wk

8. FIFA 11+

9. 11+ with ball

10. FIFA 11+

11. 11+ with ball

12. 11+ with ball

13. Movement Quality

14. Movement Quality

15. Field Session
• 11+ without and with ball
• ACL Injury Prevention- integrated into soccer
• Ankle Sprain Prevention- integrated into soccer
• Hamstring Injury Prevention- semi-integrated
• Athletic Skill Development- fully integrated

16. Field Review
• ACL- improving knee position, athletic stance, 3-5 step stop / good
footwork
• Ankle Sprain- balance exercises, good footwork
• Hamstring Strain- Eccentric exercises (Nordic Curl and deadlifts)
• Athletic Skills- emphasis on footwork, practice reacting/reading other
players or the ball. “It’s OK to think once in a while” -Bob Gansler’s Grandfather
**** How can we simultaneously develop injury prevention and
athletic skills while playing and learning soccer? ****

17. Knee Position

18. Examples

19. Examples

20. Examples

21. Examples

22. Examples

23. Examples

24. Movement Summary
• Quick footwork- shorter steps allow for faster change of
direction, transfer of force, and improve the biomechanics of
your body=Injury Prevention and Athletic Skill Development
• Defending- utilize quick short steps and angle body. Players
need to learn how to time this correctly by practicing on real
players with the ball.
• Integrate single leg opportunities into technical exercise
• Nordic Hamstring and/or single leg deadlift

25. Dribbling Agility

26. Dribbling Agility

27. Dribbling Agility

28. Prep Footwork

29. Prep Footwork

30. Reactive Agility

31. Isolated Agility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isQVrSti1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GfSfRCaxI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbQZ4FGv9ug