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Im going to get blasted for this, but poor behavior on the pitch is more about the coach than the players. Every time I have a drill that allows the kids down time they revert to poor behavior. If you have an active lively practice that involved every player almost all the time ive never had a behavior issue- not one. I have 4 years of notes and every time I have had an issue I can attribute it to a poorly planned drill. Same in my classroom. I make a note of this and adjust what I do all the time to ensure the kids are active and moving the entire practice period.
Notice how the resting players in the clinics have rolls. They are serving balls, mirroring etc. This is not on the fly stuff. Its deliberate. It keeps the kids engaged.
Lets Define dead touch and live touch-
Dead touch- Your stopping the movement of the ball. Games like pepper etc. are designed to teach dead touch skills
Live touch- Your touch is in a direction to buy time and or to set up your next pass, so the ball is moving where you want it to go on the fist touch
Sound about right Phil?
Question Gary-
Do you work 1 v 1’s, 2 v 1’s, 2 v 2 etc. into your training sessions?
My boys were excellent dead touch players, but the problem with that is more often than not dead touch also means not taking the ball across your body. Huge technical issue that I created with my current group ( I had several since they were U6 recc. players). Touching the ball across the body really is the key to doing everything else well. Ive always incorporated 1st touch into every practice but not with the explicit purpose as described in this arena. That is a major problem. Kids know not to “crack the egg”. That the touch needs to be at their feet not a hard touch that turns into a 50/50 ball, but at the U9/U10 age the training of opening the field really is the key to success and moving toward possession soccer.
Its so important to teach things correctly at an early age because the more ingrained incorrect techniques get the more difficult they are to break.
Making it competitive
Im going to make the rondo’s a game- how many two touch passes can each group get in 1 minute. For every wrong footed touch they will lose a touch. My kids need to have some motivation to play at a high speed. I love the “you score you jog, you miss you sprint” piece too (from the passing patterns)
Cheers!
Its so important to teach things correctly at an early age because the more ingrained incorrect techniques get the more difficult they are to break.
Having coached the 8 v 8 group for a while and advised many 7 v 7 extra teams Id suggest the following-
1) 8 v 8- play the 3-3-1 or 3-2-2 and in both have the center back play a traditional flat back 3/ if employing the 3-2-2 have your outside backs be active in overlaps and pressing high. Also, The 2 up top will need extra work at losing their man as they will be checking to the touch line from the middle of the field when the ball is on their side- Barca USA- plays the 3-3-1 and defends with three most of the time creating 2 diamonds, which results in more of a 3-1-3 look with a high forward. At the U9 level I cannot remember seeing the outsides back hold the ball/ or overlap, even when they had space. They relied upon creating 2 v 1 matchups and attacking with no more than 4. That changed as the age progressed
2) 7 v 7- This presents a problem as your going to give up either width or depth- Since you want to build from the back Id suggest a 3-1-2 and again allow the outside back to enter the attack and dribble when there is space.
Im interested in others comments on this
Hi Gents-
My names Eric Dykes and I coach the U10 Flight I Pateadores HB boys team in California . I enjoy studying and learning about the game and after my teams struggles against Barcelona USA and Marc Gomez Chivas group I decided there must be something to this system. We could beat almost anybody that had a group of individuals or even a small group of kids working together- (were a very athletic group), but we were destroyed by these possession based groups.
Ive coach the sport on and off for 15 years. I coached high school soccer in the mid 1990’s with much success and most recently working with my sons club team.
I have zero ego and am open minded to adapting or destroying what I do so my kids can play better and with more teamwork on the pitch.
Cheers!
