The following article was written by Glen Buckley, Director of Coaching for the New York State West Youth Soccer Association. The original can be found at their web site www.nyswysa.org .We are grateful to Glen for allowing us to reprint it here.

Small sided games... The game to develop players

By invitation I traveled recently to conduct a session for a group of boys. They were a travel group, I was told they were challenging for the league title and would be leaving on a three day road this next weekend to play in a four game mini tournament. The kids were great... just like most kids of that age, they were definitely more committed to having fun than learning about soccer.