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I have been coaching U4 and U8’s since 2009. Kids are sponges and they will absorb everything you. I can get my U6 team to receive across their body. It’s repetition and you must stay with the plan! My business partner gets frustrated and goes to something else (not going to get results). You have to wait it out and build repetition. With that being said don’t treat the kids like babies (no sponge bob) be firm but fair. My sons U5 team had a few kids that were not ready for soccer so I moved my son to a more focus team that were like minded. You can’t spend 30 minutes teaching one kid while others pick up the technique in 7-10 minutes.
It can be done but you must create the right environment and expectations. Here is my u6 team passing.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201459275778294
This one show 15 passes in a row.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201502314014223
My U8’s move the ball well and keep their shape! We just played in a u10 Futsal tournament and it exposed our weakness, but it was good to see. It showed me how lazy we have become in our own age group.
Case and point, my u6 team played my old U6 team that I move away from and the old team was still struggling on which direction to go in the second half.
Stand up and make a change I’ve seen this far to often on the business side of things. Ask yourself if you would pay for this as a parent? It’s not your fault, you just have to make the change to build US soccer! Your not going to get the results that you expect without the right kids buying into your system. If you watch the Barca training it’s 5 a side and a rotation of 5 more and half of those kids are sitting and watching. Less is more, trust me take a small group of players and develop them, you can’t take them all.
First off this is not fair to you as a coach, to the players that are trying to learn and the parents who pay for the development to have three teams training together 3x’s a week. You need a better solution to train these kids rather than divide them up. Fix this first and you will see results.
Watch this video, I use this all the time and it helps with kids mental side as the coach adds in variables. I like the pushup to make the intense harder. Follow your pass to make the runs off the ball in small spaces like Barca. This has greater level problem solving.
