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My adrenaline was going watching the video. Not sure why other than it seems I’ve been a part of that team for a while. Very cool to see the training activities surface in the game. The contrasted difference in play from the two teams on their respective goal kicks. Your team, the kickoff was made with everyone’s backs to the ball. On the opponents, your team gave up space near the opponent’s goal to encourage the short distributive pass and immediately pressed in an organized matter to create “trouble” for the opponent.
One question was in regards to the opponent, were they instructed by their coach to stop chasing the ball during your team’s build up or was it simply them getting tired? At the beginning of the game it seemed like the opponent was organized in their pressure but as the game moved foward, you quickly saw that each individual was simply reacting the actions of your team versus “forcing” play.
The instruction provided from the side, glad to hear its not anything more complicated than what I say. Obvious what I need to do more of is again running the activities at nauseum and insisting on speed of play that is at a level that basically creates a lose/lose situation for the opponent. That its so fast, that regardless of the pressure from the opponent, they can never pin the ball down or the opponent chooses to back off and put the ball in front of them and not press so highly. I know now the quality to look for, or at least the level that is sufficient to create this lose/lose for the opponent which becomes a win/win for my team.
I love seeing the training activities present in the game! Further makes you believe that this stuff is real and it works well. You name it, you saw it! Receiving the ball across your body, checking to players, playing out of the back, losing your man, attacking patterns, choreographed pressure, and all with some spice on top! Another fantastic tool!
I also like how we got to hear the changes tactically that happened throughout the game. Ex. It wasn’t all pressure, all the time defensively, sometimes he asked the team to bait the opponent into an area, and then pressure and destroy. It was domination! I must also comment on the team and how they seem to eat it up! They know what their style is and seem to take pride in it. They seem so wired and focused when talking to Brian. I love the teaching going on. It’s collaborative, not Brain just spoon feeding the ideas, there’s discussion. Brain asks questions, the team answers.
A couple of observations/questions
I had a question on substitutions at the academy. Are they limited to 3 per game as in in FIFA or can you do more substitution. I noticed at least one player (maybe 2) subbed in Brian and I think I saw at least 3 subbed in by San Jose, but it was hard to tell as the camera didn’t really follow the substitutions; especially for San Jose. I find substitutions to be one of the hardest juggling acts for a coach, especially when the club mandates some minimum playing time (needless to mention parent expectations).
The San Jose team had some quality players who tried to move the ball one touch/two touch, the main difference between the teams was the discipline of the Chivas players and the willingness to recirculate. What I appreciated was Brian’s frustration when the boys weren’t checking the field before receiving and then being unable to take advantage of their movement along the back. Repeatedly he asked XuXuh to open the game up and noted when he hadn’t checked his options. When they did check around them the speed of play was twice as fast. Good lesson there.
Link up in the final third wasn’t as clean as in Brian’s old Barca teams. Part of that might be speed of play of the opposition, but I think that more its a learning curve/comfort level of the team. They weren’t exploiting the other teams breakdowns fast enough allowing San Jose time to recover and making it hard to find the gaps in the final third. Going forward I would look for Chivas to play the ball into the 8 and 10 more often to draw the outside defenders in and then play the ball back out to 7/11 or find the 9 on an angled run.
I also thought the 9’s runs were a little to straight, angled runs would open the defense up more especially when they were attacked on XuXuh’s side. You could see the defense react every time XuXuh came forward, drawing multiple defenders to that side. On the other flank, the 11 had a good change of pace especially when turning the corner and he had a couple of good crosses that the 7 could have exploited if he attacked the space on the far post.
Finally, at half Brian’s assistant noted they had approximately 70% possession. Any idea on what the final possession was? The second half had far more breakdowns and turnovers so I assume San Jose’s possession increased, but they rarely threatened to find the tying goal and their effective possession was minimal.
Both teams have good players. I can bet that the difference is in practices: one team plays all day long possession games while the other team runs specific practices on what to do in different specific situations with focus on possession soccer ( training sessions here). So one team is organized and each player knows (or I should say expected to know) what to do on the field and therefore act two-three steps in advance, while the other boys basically play one step soccer – react on what just happened on the field. They try to play out of the back but simply could not do it with their speed of decision making on and off the ball against that well organized pressure.
Interestingly, in second half Chivas started to rush transition from the back to forward always using wings (wanted second goal too much) and lost the ball way more often and then the game became equal – not much difference. Teams had equal number of scoring opportunities.
On my opinion for Chivas the biggest issue is transition from the back – using wings all the time is getting too predictable and center mids did not show very good movement off the ball. No rotation among them (so when one center mid is covered he would recycle with the other), very rarely they received the ball from center back and face forward almost always played one touch pass back to another center back. On the other hand, holding center mid was extremely efficient in his job – on my opinion very tactically smart player.
Question: to me Chivas team were better trained on high pressure defense than on playing out of the back (don’t get me wrong they played well out of the back in 1st half, but they played great high pressure through whole game (were moments of sleep but in general was impressive). Is this because it is new team or because Brian first focused on high pressure defense (also may be because the team is new). In other word, when you have new U14 team full of talented boys but half of them never played with each other what are your priorities in training. I just guessed: it is equal between defense and playing out of the back but the last one is much harder to perfect.
Another question: since second half did not go they way Brian wanted what would he change in his halftime talk? Just curious as I always think about it in such situations (as any coach I have good and bad examples).
Thanks a lot for sharing this and Brian’s comments were fantastic – great lesson for me. Kids MUST love this kind of coach – critical but not too negative and on the same page with boys. Very often comments were not on the player directly involved with the ball but 2-3 steps ahead.
Thanks,
Tolya
Can someone please tell me where to find this video. I would love to see it for myself.
Lee, an e-mail was sent out with a link. Try this as I don’t have the exact address at work… http://www.coaching.3four3.com/?s=u14+chivas
My favorite part about watching the video was how crystal clear it was in the first half as to what Chivas’ identity was……possess the ball, and if you lose it, go get it back immediately! Simple game….when you possess the ball, you control the game. In the first half they compleyely dominated possession and the game. The 2nd half they weren’t as sharp and it became much more of a 50/50 game.
The pressing by the front 5 was awesome! I love how they let you play short on Goal Kicks and then they come after you with great organized pressure. The opposing team tried to play their way out, but they just weren’t organized enough to play out against that pressure.
I also loved having Brian mic’d and hearing his comments…..it was nice hearing him get frustrated at his team’s play just like we do 🙂 .
Loved the video and would love more of them!
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Thanks!! That worked
The picture is starting to come together and gives me some insight into what gaps I need to fill. Not much else to say yet…except this is PURE GOLD! So much to be learned here!!! Exciting stuff!
Having Brian talk throughout made it interesting to watch.
Personally I felt something was missing from the players, yes it was still a good performance, but I felt it lacked that cutting edge especially in and around the box. The individualism from the players needs to be improved. Possession is all about shifting the oppo to find penetration and around the last 25 yards it was non existent at times, something to work on.
My boys are playing a professional academy next saturday (U12) on a pitch 4 times smaller in a 8v8 match, I am UK based.
Thank you Brian and Gary for making this available!
Here is the 4-3-3 lineup. Helped me watching 2nd time thru.
LW 22-Chris………….CF 29-Josue (Ho-sway)………..RW 21-Danny
…………LM 23-Leo…………………………………RM 8-Oscar (Penate)
…………………………………DM 6-Charlie……………………………………..
LB 33-Nate(Nathan) ………………………………………..RB 2-Xuxuh
……………………LCB 14-Nigel………RCB 15-Blake………………………
……………………………………GK 1-Uli…………………………………………..
First sub: Josue off. 24-Huerta on, to LW. Chris to CF.
Second sub: Blake off. 30-Paulo on, to LM. Leo to RW. Danny to RCB.
Can someone help with the español? What are the ingles equivalents for: “Dale!” “Vivo!” “Encaralos!”
There is so much to gain from this video. Beyond the obvious and what has already been said, I will take from this video the demeanor that Brian had with his players. His frustration with them while on the sideline during play, but only positive comments at half time and the same with additional praise at the end of the game discussion. And it’s not just what he says, but how he says it. Brian doesn’t have to raise his voice. He is a smooth talking coach. He gets their attention and holds it. Right from the start he makes sure that all the kids are engaged and eyes on him. These kids enjoy playing for Brian and it shows. He addresses each group specifically. Back 5. Midfielders. Forwards. He not only talks to the group as a whole, but pulls each kid aside before the 1st half, after the half, after the game. Each kid gets his individual comment affirming their importance and value to this team. I wish I knew Spanish so I could catch everything he was saying. The other coach knew that his team was over matched. 2 different styles of coaching. I didn’t hear much from the other coach during the game. I don’t know if that’s because Brian was mic’d and the other coach wasn’t. But you hear the other coach trying to motivate his team before taking the field in the second half. Very loud. Chivas doesn’t need that. They know their identity and their capability. They are already motivated for this second half. Great job Brian. Now let’s go do damage!
Yes! This is the video I’ve been wanting! Loved hearing Brian keep the kids thinking 1 or 2 steps ahead to help them recognize the patterns about to unfold based on the current situation. This came out as perfect timing, watched it the night before our first game of the season and utilized some of the things I heard. Even though our opposition was completely awful, we stayed mostly true to our identity and style with much success. Waiting to get the video back from one of my team parents for review and I’ll post it for critique in a couple days.
My take on the video-
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hearing the important coaching points
coordinated pressure was an obvious take away
Notice that the San Juan team as trying to play one and two touch soccer but OFTEN played with the incorrect foot- led to many take aways
Just a guess but the team looked to be focusing on passing pattern 1.Thank you Dana! I was going to ask for the roster/positions.
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