U7-U8 Football Grassroots Player Guide

Young players of 7 and 8 starting out in grassroots football, and the parents who want them to build the right foundations while loving the game.

50 detailed content cards across 18 chapters, a numbered contents page, a Your Top Tips summary, and a closing message. Covers welcome and mindset, your attitude and coachability, learning and getting better, training habits and the warm-up, ball mastery, first touch, passing and receiving, dribbling and 1v1, shooting and finishing, playing as a team, understanding the game, moving without the ball, defending, confidence and mindset, matchday, nutrition, sleep and recovery, physical development, and through the season and pathway. Includes 8 practice drills to build skills at home.

A young player who is comfortable on the ball with both feet, brave in the 1v1, developing a good first touch, learning to look up and make their own decisions, growing in confidence, and above all enjoying their football and wanting to keep playing.

Part of the Sports Progression Hub U7-U8 football range, the entry tier below the Elite and Pre-Academy Player Guides, which take a player further as they develop. Written to develop young players while protecting their love of the game, with the focus firmly on effort and enjoyment rather than results. Produced in the Sports Progression Hub house style and ready to use straight away.