Coaching at MU
MU has been experiencing a lot of growth these last few years. Along with our great winter training program, our talented coaches can take much of the credit for making the MU experience the great thing that it is.
If you are interested in coaching with MU please find contact information, and more below.
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Coaching Directors
Our coaching directors main tasks are to serve as a role model and to mentor all MU traveling coaches, identify a potential coaches for fall and spring traveling seasons, place coaches with Traveling Teams, and take the lead in team formation.
See this page for more info on MU's coaching directors.
Coaching with MU
Interested in coaching with the fastest growing club in Minnesota? See this page for gudeline in what we are looking for.
FIFA FAIR PLAY / PLAYER CODE OF CONDUCT
The FIFA Fair Play Code for football encapsulates all of the sporting, moral and ethical principles for which FIFA has always stood and for which it will continue to fight in the future, regardless of the influences and pressures that may be brought to bear.
Player development guidelines
The following guidelines and age group competencies have been established by Minneapolis United to help our coaches and trainers focus on the teaching that we think will best provide individual development of our young soccer players.
The importance of playing 'out of position'
By Alex Kos : Youth Soccer Insider A friend reminded me the other day of an old soccer saying. It goes something like, “Good forwards make the best defenders and good defenders make the best forwards.” There is a lot of truth to this saying. Any good forward is always trying to figure out how to get the upper-hand on the defense.
