From Volunteer to Confident Coach

Free Webinar for 7v7, 9v9 & 11v11 Soccer Coaches

You volunteered to coach.

Maybe you know the game well. Maybe you’ve coached before. Or maybe you raised your hand because your child’s team needed someone willing to step up.

And now you’re responsible for planning practices, developing players, managing games, communicating with parents — and creating an experience that makes kids want to keep playing.

That’s a lot to figure out.

The good news? You don’t need to be a professional coach to create a great soccer experience.

But you do need a plan.

Soccer Parenting and Better Coaching are coming together for a practical, educational webinar designed specifically to help coaches working with 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 teams feel more confident and prepared for the season ahead.

From Volunteer to Confident Coach: How to Plan a Season Your Players Will Love

Thursday, September 10
12:00 noon
Online — Free Registration

Stop wondering, “What should I do at practice tonight?”

One of the biggest challenges for parent and volunteer coaches isn’t a lack of commitment.

It’s knowing what to teach, when to teach it and how everything should fit together over the course of a season.

It’s easy to find hundreds of drills online.

It’s much harder to know which drill your players need today, how it connects to what you taught last week, and how all of it helps your team develop.

That’s what we’ll tackle in this webinar.

Rather than giving you another collection of random drills, we’ll help you think about the bigger picture of coaching your team.

What You’ll Learn

During this practical session, we’ll explore:

• What really matters at 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 — and how your coaching priorities should evolve as the game changes.
• How to build a season instead of a collection of disconnected practices so players experience meaningful progression from week to week.
• A simple framework for planning better training sessions without spending hours preparing.
• How to connect training to matchday so you’re coaching with clear priorities instead of trying to fix everything you see.
• How to create the right environment for your players so development, enjoyment, confidence and belonging remain at the center of the experience.
• How to work more effectively with the parents on your team and create greater alignment around what you’re trying to accomplish.

Most importantly, we’ll give you practical ideas you can use with your team at your very next training session.

You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone

At Soccer Parenting, we have tremendous respect for the parents and volunteers who step forward to coach.

Youth soccer simply couldn’t function without you.

But volunteering to coach shouldn’t mean being handed a roster, a bag of balls and a practice field and being expected to figure everything else out yourself.

Coaches deserve support too.

That’s why Soccer Parenting has partnered with Better Coaching to create the Soccer Parenting Coach Hub — a coaching platform built specifically to support coaches working with 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 teams.

During the webinar, we’ll briefly show you how Coach Hub can help take what we’re teaching and make it easier to implement throughout your season — with age-appropriate curriculum, 8-week season and training plans, a drill bank, detailed game models, coaching education, and session-planning tools.

But this webinar isn’t a product demo.

It’s a coaching session.

Whether you ultimately use Coach Hub or not, our goal is for you to leave feeling more prepared, more purposeful and more confident about the season ahead.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is for you if:

• You volunteered to coach your child’s team and aren’t always sure what to teach.
• You spend too much time searching online for drills before practice.
• You want more structure and progression across your season.
• You’re moving from 7v7 to 9v9 or from 9v9 to 11v11 and aren’t sure what should change.
• You know soccer but want more support turning that knowledge into effective training sessions.
• You simply want to become a better, more confident coach for your players.

You don’t need an advanced coaching license.

You don’t need years of experience.

You just need to care about creating a great experience for your players.

We’ll help you with the rest.

Your Players Deserve a Coach With a Plan. And You Deserve the Support to Build One.

Join Soccer Parenting and Better Coaching for this free webinar and start your season with greater clarity, confidence and purpose.

Thursday, September 10 at 12:00 noon

More about Dennis Worck

Dennis Worck is CEO & Partner of Better Coaching (BC Sport ApS), a company he has led since its founding in 2019. A former semi-professional soccer player and licensed coach, Dennis holds a Master’s degree in Academy Management from Double PASS. Since founding Better Coaching, he has worked with clubs ranging from local grassroots organizations to elite professional academies, including FC Copenhagen, Brøndby IF, LA Galaxy, Atlanta United, FC Nordsjælland, San Diego FC (both part of the Right to Dream group), and Bundesliga club FC Köln. Dennis is now bringing that expertise to soccer parents everywhere as BC Sport launches its new coaching platform in partnership with Soccer Parenting.

More about Ronnie Ekelund

Ronnie Ekelund is a former Danish professional footballer whose career included playing for FC Barcelona, Southampton, Manchester City, Brøndby IF and the San Jose Earthquakes. After competing at the highest levels of the game in Europe and the United States, Ronnie has turned his experience toward helping develop the next generation of players and coaches. Today, he works with Better Coaching, helping market and translate high-level soccer knowledge into practical, accessible coaching resources that support coaches in planning, teaching and creating better experiences for their players.

Better Coaching & Soccer Parenting Collaboration

At Soccer Parenting, we are excited to bring our collaboration with Better Coaching to our community of soccer parents. Better Coaching is committed to making high-quality coaching education and practical resources more accessible to the coaches who need them most. Their technology brings curriculum, training plans, drills, game models, education and planning tools together in one easy-to-use platform — helping volunteer parent coaches spend less time searching for what to do and more time creating meaningful experiences for their players.

Together, we have created the Soccer Parenting Coach Hub, specifically designed to support parent and volunteer coaches working with 7v7, 9v9 and 11v11 teams. Whether you’re coaching for the first time or simply looking for more structure and support, Coach Hub gives you a clear roadmap for your season while helping you continue to grow as a coach.

We believe volunteer parent coaches deserve support, too — and we’re excited about what this collaboration can mean for the thousands of parents who step forward every year to coach their child’s team.