Mohan Telfer

Maret Boys Varsity Soccer Coach

[Mohan Telfer @TelferMohan]

96 degrees in the skills

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

RETHINK PROGRESSIONS

Many coaches build technical progressions from simple to more complex.

🎯 Consider building cognitive progressions instead. From fewer variables to interpret to more.

(And within that progression, players will build technical prowess as well.) ✅

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

COACH NOTES ✏️

Can we please tell as many youth coaches as possible that…

Rondos ✅
Position Play Exercises ✅
Training Games ✅
Free Play ✅

ARE technical training!

(Please retweet until it is heard from Christchurch to California)

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

What is Position Play? 1/3🧵

Lots of ideas floating around out there, so let’s consider insight from an expert.

“Before implementing position play, we must explain what I mean by this.”

👇(continue reading about Johan Cruyff’s response)

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

@cryder11 Chris,

As a possibility…

Eliminate drills that do not require players to make autonomous decisions in context. (i.e. circuits)

Replace with Posiition Play exercises and Training Games.

Kind regards from Barcelona. 👍

#TOVO Training

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

COACH NOTES ✏️

Consider training one process more than any one isolated action.

Why?

Because for 90 minutes with or without the ball a footballer will need to…

Scan. Choose. Do.

And do so in any game model you may employ.

#TOVO

[Johan Cruyff Foundation @JCFoundation]

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@vdsar1970

#CruyffLegacy #Creatingspace

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

COACH NOTES ✏️

The intelligent management of space is an individual and collective endeavor.

It may just be the greatest determing factor between competence and excellence.

Train Accordingly.

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

CONTEXT MATTERS

Elite performers…

1. Recognize postural cues
2. Recognize patterns and structure
3. Identify situational probabilities
(M. Williams)

This is why we train in context and incorporate free play as part of our #TOVO Academy training program.

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Good Morning from @JohanCruyff Court Sitges. @AitanaBonmati Field.

Football in its purest form. 👍

#TOVO Academy
Winter Term Abroad

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you’re good at.”
W.H. Auden

Teaching matters. Coaching matters. Furthermore, we know these endeavours depend upon you as capable leaders.

#ClearCoaching
#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Coach Note ✏️

We use the same 5 Positional Play elements to teach attacking and defending.

Angles
Distance
Timing
Lines
Situation

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

We have 33 players in residence at TOVO Academy.

I asked them how many still do line drills at club training. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

Every hand raised.🙋‍♂️🤕

When children are not challenged to solve football equations they do not develop football intelligence.

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

COACH NOTE ✏️

How many minutes of training is a player making autonomous decisions in context?

This becomes your intelligence development index.

0/3 exercises? 0%
1/3 exercises? 33%
2/3 exercises? 66%
3/3 exercises? 100%

Just something to consider.

#TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Teaching teenage players that football is about space and relationships is exponentially easier if they started understanding football as such as young players.

Rethinking our approach to teaching youngsters the game will yield remarkable results. #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

U20 WORLD CUP WINNERS

Spain’s victory is more than good fortune; it is the result of a clear vision of football and intelligent training. Well done, champions! 🇪🇸 👏🏻 #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

I’m continually told that you need to first teach execution and then subsequently perception. This is pervasive and perhaps persuasive argument, but it is an assumption worth exploring, no? Fact, fiction, complacency or fantasy? What say you smart, kind people? #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Training speed of foot without training speed of thought is like putting racing tires on a junkyard buggy. #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

💥“Footbal is about space and the movement of positions.” (Johan Cruyff) 💥 Imagine if we taught it to young athletes as such. #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

Skill is the manifestation of an idea. Context is the environment in which that idea is executed and evaluated. #TOVO

[Todd Beane @_ToddBeane]

“Make the ball your friend.” (Johan Cruyff) Just to be clear, this quotation does not in any shape or form justify putting kids in long lines during team trainings in the name of ‘technical training.’ #TOVO