Excellent tips for soccer coaches of U-4, U-6, U-8, U-10 and U-12 soccer.

Our girls and boys alike are really working hard for the patches. The patch system has really helped out with motivating the team. George, U12 Competitive

For Recreational soccer teams, it is often a good idea to choose a soccer formation that lets you to put strong players in the "Center", such as at Center Midfielder and Stopper.

When I started coaching this team they had not won any games in the last 2 years. This season, we began using motivational patches and we have won our first 2 games by considerable margins. Coach Sumer, Texas

I haven't had trouble teaching First Defender/Second Defender, but that the concept of "Third Defender" can be confusing to many players. Different positions require different skills, abilities, and personality traits than others.

My players are very young and always go absolutely bananas over the patches.

Until I started using your iron-on patches as incentives to motivate players we only had only 1 narrow win and 4 losses. After starting the patch program we beat a beat that would have normally beaten us, but we won 3-0. Coach Chris, New Zealand