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Totally agree. They are at the age where friends are more important than family and fitting in with their peers is very important. The level they play at makes adifference now as well. Most are playing for fun and nothing more. I was speaking to a coach the other day whose squad have been playing fantastic football and winning matches every week, basically fell apart at U13, due to some leaving to play with friends, even though they now play in 2 divisions lower. It happens and not a great deal you can do about it.
One of the greatest coaches I have known, has said that goal keepers should become confident as an outfield player before they specialise for 3 reasons. One is many kids want to go out on to pitch and give up being a keeper at a later date, then find out they struggle on pitch, due to not enough game time. Secondly there is no guarantee they will grow tall enough. Lastly keepers need to be good with their feet and so training like all the other children is critical. This is not to say that goal keeping training is not beneficial, just do not stick them in goal every game.
Received Harry Redknapps autobiography for xmas.
Have Jed C book, very good read.
Hi Tom, watch the link I posted above on 5/2 very interesting results not only on losing weight, but cells repairing themselves.
Not sure what you mean by over doing juicing, unless you are referring to fruit juice. Veg juice is completely safe to do daily.
I coach from beginner to elite and see the worse behaviour at the lower levels. Personally I really do not have too many major issues with kids, learnt how to deal with them and have made sessions more enjoyable and have learnt how to change things when they are going tits up.
It is interesting to find out cultural differences between children. I very much doubted that what I had been told was the truth, as I guessed the camps have kids who do not know each other, so children act differently.
Alan, are you aware of people like Jason Vale (juicemaster.com) Lost weight very quickly sticking to this. He is also releasing a film some time next year, where he took people with some ailments, cleansed their bodies through veg juicing to see if his belief that most diseases are caused through poor nutrition and if you feed the body with the correct nutrients the body will heal itself. Not sure what was wrong with any of them but it is interesting.
5/2 diet is worth doing for many as it is possibly one of the easiest diets to stick to. 5 days eat normal. 2 days no more than 600 cals with a minimum of 8 hrs between meals. Lots of science behind it. Basically it works as after a certain amount of time the body has to burn fat and the great thing is after a day of fasting you can eat anything you like the next day. Watch this http://vimeo.com/54089463 explains it in detail.
Hello lads,
I am from Hertfordshire in England, grown up playing football in the parks with friends and later competitive football into my 30s. I am now 45 yrs old and a full time coach, running my own business working in schools, coaching teams, 1-2-1 and even boxing. I have worked at two pro academies, Stevenage Boro and Barnet FC, but to be honest felt very disappointed with they way they wanted me to coach so left and never want to work at a academy again, unless it is my own or someone with very similar thoughts to myself.
I have been coaching since 1998 and have worked with 5 yr olds to adults. 4 years ago I got involved with a company called Premier Skills, started by 2 brilliant English coaches, John Cartwright and Roger Wilkinson, my two biggest influences by far. John has been preaching possession football since the late 1970s and fell out with the English FA over their style of play.
I love the USA Barcelona teams I have seen, very good football and like many coaches have been intrigued by how Gary and Brian have achieved the level of football we have witnessed. What I would say is I am not here to be a carbon copy of their style of play. I don’t think it is good for us as coaches to not think for ourselves! I believe we need to prepare young players for the future game as much as we can in our own environment and my environment is not the same as theirs. I do see possession football as a team game, but made up of individuals that learn to play together.
I see the future of football changing with all round players more in demand, I would not be surprised to see a team of midfielders plus goalkeeper some day.
SSG with kids of similar ability levels will improve technique, even without any coaching. I played a good level of football and never had a coach teach me any technique what so ever. I learnt through hours and hours of playing. How ever I did pick up some bad habits because of no coach telling me to receive on back foot, etc.
I believe the kids in the vids played a lot of street football or at least did and they have a big passion for the game. Also some have been scouted so will be good players.
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David Williams.
I am guessing most of the guys in here, get what joins and pays, which could be a 15lb over weight kid with little football ability. Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not think the Kleibans are working with 5-7 yr olds and I personally would never bother with team work like in the videos with the youngest of players, that is where lots of contact time with a ball is essential. The 4v0 work would be fine and I have used that with 5 yr olds, but I have found allowing them to play in 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v2 etc and encouraging them to keep the ball at their feet, turn and shield the ball and dribbling works every time over a year or two.
I think coaches need to be braver and take teams out of leagues. If you have a team of U8s that are going to get beaten every week, why not instead use that match day for training for another year, think of what you could achieve with another 50+ hours a year.
What happens to those kids who leave a possession team for what ever reason and join a team that plays like everyone else, where individual skill will be tested far more due to how they play?
Some commands I use.
“Shoulders” – Used instead of pass, said when ready with shoulders across pitch, ready to receive.
“Running in” – Tells your team mates to move out of the space you are about to run into, so they adjust into passing options.
“Holding space” – When not in possession of the ball, player should look to pull away from the player in possession
creating space for them to run with the ball.
“Bounce” – When in a tight area player x——->x1 X would pass to X1 who is tightly marked and would play the ball out to a player who has noted that he could receive a one touch pass out of trouble. Very useful way to keep ball.
Kids like using the language, we always encourage players to talk throughout the game.
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