Importance of teaching soccer players to Shift with the ball so they have "shape", "support" and "depth".

If you have only one fast forward, consider occasionally shifting him from Right Forward to Left Forward to confuse your opponents.

If you have a Select team or an advanced Rec team, you get some ideas about how to evaluate players from the "Tryouts Evaluation Article and Evaluation Form".

Best Soccer Practice Games, Drills, Formations and Tactics.

If your team doesn't have the speed, stamina or skill to defend the entire field, then you MUST defend the most important parts and not defend the least important parts.

I don't recommend spending much time teaching Kick-offs since you won't have many of them. SoccerHelp describes a simple kick-off that is easy to teach.