#SundayShare sometimes in coaches we forget that the most valuable concepts to reinforce are ones that we might take for granted. Our fundamentals might be what others are just learning. To that end here are a few of the best pieces of advice I think I can give grassroots coaches for their sessions.
- Have a game/match ready to when the players arrive. You will have a fast start and avoid the "will we have a match" question.
- Try to give players time with a ball each. Failing that a ball between two.
- Include 1v1s/2v1s/1v2s. Players enjoy them (generally) and they play a huge part in player development.
- Try to base your overall topic on principles of play rather than specific tactics. Principles will set players up for life.
- Don't be afraid to set up two sessions side by side. Stand in between the sessions so you can observe. You don't need to see absolutely everything all of the time.
- Use small practices or games with a constraint or outcome that fits with the overall topic. Use an overload (4v2 for example) if you need the players to experience success. Even the numbers (3v3 for example) to make things a little tougher and more realistic. Players will be afforded more opportunities to practice the outcome under a degree of pressure.
- Allow defending/out of possession players to score or attack a target when they win the ball. This will ensure transition within practices. You might then be able to create a 2 way practice, with in possession explicity practicing and out of possession implicitly practicing (or the opposite).
- Try to make a versatile set up. Make a single pitch. Put a half way line in. Set up mini goals (pop ups, cones, poles) at the sides. You now have two mini pitches too so you can flow between set ups more easily.
- Ask players questions. Their answer might be different to the one in your head. Let them try it. It might work. This is a sport with more than one answer.
- Generally the more they play the happier they will be. The happier they will be the longer they will play the sport. Play with a purpose could help them even more.
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Every single word of this from @Tim_Vickery is spot on. You literally couldn’t say it better.
England had Argentina exactly where we wanted them and gave them the game.
@Teamgrassroots_ As a coach, allow chaos. I thought a good session was one that went how I envisioned it when creating the masterpiece! It took me a while to accept that chaos is good and how children learn. They sort out the chaos.
Learn the difference between skill and technique.
4 Basics of my training methodology:
1 - Football-Centric. The game is at the center of the training. We want to get better at solving football problems. Not at kicking the ball problem. Pre-Condition Training is the exception to the rule.
2 - Simplify. First, we master football on a super simple ("pathetic") level. Then increase the level over time. We reverse-engenieer training from the game to increase repetition and focus for the players AND keeping the context.
3 - Better Football by coaching intentions. We play. Based on a shared idea (possession-based identity). While playing, we replace bad intentions with better intentions. And repeat good intentions until players can actually execute them.
4 - Digestible. It must be simple. One thing at a time. For players and the coach. Small, achievable goals. This turns players into winners. And winners want to win more.
The badge on the England shirt is older than nearly every nation playing in this World Cup.
Three gold lions on a field of red, the royal arms of England. Richard the Lionheart, who cut down Saladin's men in the Holy Land, set them on his great seal in 1198. Long before they were a football badge, they were a banner of war.
The same lions flew over English armies for centuries. The standard men marched behind them, fought under them, and died beneath them. At Crécy and Agincourt, the arms of England were carried into the worst of it.
Every king bore them. Edward III quartered them with the lilies of France when he claimed her crown, and still the three lions held the shield. Through the Plantagenet, Tudor and Stuart dynasties, England's lions did not move.
Then, on 30 November 1872, England met Scotland in the first official international football match the world had ever seen. The men who walked out wore three lions on their chest. The banner men once followed into battle, men now carried them onto the field. The same lions and the same England.
That is what these three lions have always done, gathering a people behind one shield. They held men together when the stakes were life and death.
Eight hundred years on, they hold a nation still.
Three lions, one country.
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Youth Grassroots Football/Soccer Coaches, quick reminder that changed how I coach:
At the youth level, your job isn’t to create the best 11 year old player.
Your job is to create kids who still want to play at 16.
That means:
• Celebrating effort over outcome
• Letting them fail and figure it out
• Protecting their love for the game
The players who stay in the sport the longest almost never came from the most “serious” environments at U10.
What’s one thing you’re doing this season to protect their love for football?
FP coaching- described perfectly by John Cleese
John Cleese- You’re either free to play or you’re not
Foundation phase ‘express yourself, find a solution, problem solve’ is not authentic within boundaries- 100% or 0%
Our environments either encourage or hinder creativity ❤️⚽️
❌ There are too many academy coaches hindering children’s development (many helping also)
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Still not enough focus on individual development ✅