When I learned coaching football in California, with Coach Herb Meyer, at El Camino High School, Oceanside, I learned that if you are not organized you will not be successful. Herb Meyer was inducted in the National High School Hall Of Fame in 1994, he won 10 C.I.F. championship, I really thanks him for the great experience I had and continue to have with him and other good coaches.

I coach the SERVALS of Clermont-Fd, we play in the 2nd division, in a great league (south 3) with the Falcons of Bron, Giants of St Etienne and Centaures of Grenoble.

I am single to coach but grateful to have great players to help me in individual periods, Thomas Chakarian DL, Renaud Guerrin DB, Olivier Desvilles WR, Amine Menadi RB, these guys do an outstanding job.

Practice organization is a must, in most French teams we have only 2 practices a week with not a lot of time, so if you don’t organize that time, you will not have good practices.

Here is a sample of our practice sheet, backward we list the present/absent players.

Hour Time Activities Specification

19h30 15 min Pre-practice
Conditioning

19h45 2 min BREAK Equipment

19h47 10 min Tackling
Blocking Tackling Circuit, off vs def
1 vs 1, 2 vs 2

19h57 15 min Individual DL/OL Stance, Technique
Drills :
RB, SB/LB, Stance, Technique
Drills :
WR/DB, Stance, Technique
Drills :

20h12 5 min Team Defense : Pursuit
Offense : 10 perfect plays

20h17 2 min BREAK

20h19 20 min Special Teams Punt / Punt return
PAT / PAT defense
Kickoff / Kickoff return
Jumbo / Tomawack
Comments

20h39 10 min
Offense Defense Each
team alone
New play / Revision

20h49 20 min Scrimmage
Our Offense Vs Defense
Comments

21h09 2 min BREAK

21h11 20 min Scrimmage
Our Defense Vs Offense
Comments

21h31 Practice end

As you can see, we never practice without : TACKLING, BLOCKING, working on FUNDAMENTALS. These are the 3 essentials things in football.

To finish I want to say that this site is an extremely great idea, EAFCA is the best thing we could do to improve football in Europe. Thanks to Giorgio Volpi.

Coach Michael Groisne
Email: groisnemichael@aol.com