Ernest Murdukhayev

I have been giving private soccer sessions in Brooklyn & Staten Island for the past 5 years. My coaching is based on the principles I learned from my previous coaches during my collegiate and professional career as a player.

Currently I am DOC at SB4U Academy and have been part of the SB4U over 10 years. I have a vast experience coaching youth, college, men’s and professional athletes.

I enjoy working with players of all ages and levels, but I especially enjoy the challenge of coaching teenagers, because with them I can make the biggest difference in their game. My specialties include fundamental skills, 1v1 dribbling moves, defensive body techniques, passing, proper shooting and joggling and eliminating unnecessary movement, and developing mental toughness. I focus on teaching when and how to use a move based on the defender’s position and balance.

I start my sessions with a dynamic warm up, followed by skill and footwork development, conditioning, shooting, and tons of repetition. When my athlete is ready, I’ll play live 1-on-1 defense to simulate a game context. After each session, I want my athlete to feel an immediate, concrete improvement in his or her game.

Winning Bronze Medal in Santiago Chile with Mens Team USA 35+ Masters during the Pan American Maccabi Games in 2015
Coaching over 250 children every year until now and making difference in their lives as athletes and human beings.

1) Warm Up & Activation
2) Ball Mastery
3) Unopposed exercise
4) Opposed exercise
5) SSG
6) Cool Down & Debrief the session with Q/A’s