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Alright guys….we gotta get this forum going!
I got a question for everyone. We all are here because we believe in possession soccer and believe it’s the right way to play. BUT, does your philosophy/strategy change depending upon the situation your team is in? For example….lets say your team normally plays short on goalkicks and tries to play out of the back whenever possible but is playing in a very important tournament(St. Cup) against an extremely aggressive team and the field is super short so it’s VERY difficult to play out of the back because there is so little time/space. Do you tell your team to play more direct?
Normally if we are playing against a kickball team I always want my CBs to settle the ball down and play out of the back when the other team bashes it down the field. If the other team just bashes one to my GK I have my GK roll the ball out to either CB so we can play out of the back. But because of the situation of it being very difficult to play out of the back, would you just have the GK punt it and just hope we win the 50/50 at midfield, or do you just suck it up and do the best you can playing out of the back?
Btw….this is GU13.
Thoughts?Ultimately we want our players to make decisions on their own. Coach needs to adapt to situations. Play out of back is just one tool in the tool box, one option on the field. One video by Barsa USA is quite direct when playing against Barsa.
In general, the overall philosophy remains the same: keep the ball, move off the ball, penetrate via pass or dribble when it opens up. How we do that varies greatly depending on how the other team plays. I find that we break high-pressure (note: both teams that play high pressure against us play 3-5-2) most successfully with attacking backs who look to combine multiple times in a row in the same buildup/attack. Young players seem to have difficulty tracking runners after they’ve just made a pass as they turn from their defensive responsibility toward wherever they just passed the ball – which allows for plenty of 1-2 combination play.
There is one team who took high pressure to the extreme. They were sitting 6-7 players within 25 yards of our goal because they know we always try to play out of the back. All it took was telling my CF to check deep any time the keeper had the ball in his hands and the keeper would just throw it to him and we’d have a 5v3 or 5v4 counter every single time. It’s the job of the coach to watch for what space your team can most-easily exploit and explain to your players how they can do that using terminology and techniques you have already covered in practice. If you’ve never worked on how or why to play more direct, your team will fail miserably if you suddenly instruct them to do so.
IMO, I don’t think it is a change in philosophy, correct me if you feel otherwise, possession based soccer is playing with a purpose, of keeping the ball. Our base is playing out of the back. Meaning we are not just launching the ball to no one down the field. We play with a purpose. We will play out of the back first. When and this came up in a game this weekend. As it was my U9 boys team, and we play 6v6. A team was pressing us constantly, and we continued to play our way. Towards the end of the first half, our keeper makes a great save, and the other team did what they do which is press. They had their backs 10 yards inside our half. I used a key word to my keeper and forward who has what it takes for the future….. I said play early. Our keeper looked up, saw it on, and played a pass through to our keeper, it was a flat punt, it took two bounces and we were at the other teams 18 yard box, their keeper came out and the forward chipped him for the only goal of the game. Other than that time, most of the game from both teams was played on the floor. It was a great game, two very high level teams, our philosophy is to play out of the back and keep the ball, we have attacking patterns, our keeper either puts it on the ground and plays out of the back or rolls the ball to a back. This is what we do, but when it presents itself, we always have a purpose, does it always work, no, but does it work way more than it doesn’t, for sure! The philosophy does not change, ever!!!!! I hope this makes sense, Kg
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