FAQ - WHERE DID COERVER® COACHING COME FROM?

In the late 1970s, Dutch European championship winning coach Weil Coerver led a revolution in soccer coaching. He was dissatisfied with the lack of individual skill in the game, and the emphasis on defence that was stifling the offence-oriented style of play necessary to score goals. Up to that point, football instruction had been predominantly team and tactics oriented.

Little attention was given to individual skill development because no one knew quite how to teach these skills,