It is a little difficult because my services weren't exactly requested by the coaches, although a few of the players have expressed interest to me in having me help out (little faith in their coach).
From my observations, the players are not particularly well coached or understanding of the game. Which to be fair, it's a smaller town with no club soccer and no middle school soccer, although a few players are half decent from a skill level, but still not very aware of spacing, movement and concepts.

I don't know how much impact I will be able to have as I am wary of stepping on the existing coach's toes. I'm hoping to ease in slowly starting at yesterday's practice and gauging how welcome or unwelcome my comments and suggestions are.

I've played lots of soccer in lots of different places around the world over the past 40 years. Mostly informal pickup type games. I did fairly high level soccer in high school and then played for a local small town German club when I was stationed in Germany and played against Japanese military, Dutch military, and Middle East military guys and always acquitted myself pretty well.

I feel like I have a good understanding of the game but not lots of coaching experience. I've coached at the rec level several times up to The u14 age group. I see myself not so much of a coach as just somebody who understands some concepts that I could pass on to the players to help them play smarter soccer.

We only have a couple weeks that we will be practicing before the season. There is lots to work on. And it's still a little unclear to me. How much influence the current coach is willing to let me exert. My gut instinct is that videoing some scrimmages to review as a team or watching scrimmages and stopping play when people are doing something really dumb and making on the spot helpful corrections, would be as helpful as anything at this point. I have used that approach liberally as a coach of my younger rec teams. I suspect is probably still a good approach at the high school level but do not have experience at coaching at that level. Those are two things that my high school soccer coach who played international soccer for Jamaica did for us 40 years ago. I don't know if they still are considered best practices or what other schools of thought have developed over the years

Any thoughts or suggestions?