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Progress is plain to see! Keep up the good work
Yes, 60 acres in 2000. Abby won 3-2 but our two goals came very late as your younger team tired themselves out after making us look stupid for 50 minutes. The next year we played them up in Bellingham and we won 5-0 (sorry about that…) with a much improved and strengthened team. I’d met up with Crock and Colin in a pub in Aldergrove the night before.
Good luck with your new club. If we ever want to bring a team down I will let you guys know.
Hoping to build my own home soon, working with low income and immigrant kids. 5 years of prep work in my spare time, and finally getting closer to making it a reality……
Small World! Say “Hi” to him for me. Met Barry when he brought a team down to Bellingham and they literally passed circles around my Norpoint team. We couldn’t get a kick. We vastly improved and got some revenge on him the next year at the same tournament, and then I coached the Seattle Sounders BU14 team against Barry and Colin Miller in the Super Y League the year after that. Great guy willing to share knowledge with a (then) young and inexperienced coach.
A few months ago I heard a rumor he was doing exactly what you say in Mexico. Where are you at? On a town with a beach I hope….. I am also trying to set up a club where I can coach some Mexican kids, but in Federal Way Washington.
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Scott Nelson.
Amalia, are you married to Barry by any chance?
http://www.coaching.3four3.com/forums/topic/8v8-goal-kicks-set-up/
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Dang Robert… Over a year ago. Not sure where it was but I’d look at the blogs from the beginning, not the end. For what it’s worth, I ended up doing exactly what I proposed above. Worked okay, , though we also did get the league to move the goal kicks up to the penalty spot.
Tolya,
If you are losing league games in order to win State Cup games, I would say that counts as winning to me… you are doing it “when it counts” against the best of your peers. 100% agree about development coming first, but it’s a lot easier to keep players, parents, and stakeholders behind you when there are are some “W’s” too, especially at the ages where size + speed are still seen as the “winning formula” by most coaches. Do your kids get roughed up in any of those U10 games?
Winning + Possession soccer. Nice when you can have both early!
That’s one for the scrapbook! well done
New link to the video https://vimeo.com/113180423 higher quality than the old one
Not a bad concept. I’d seen this video but couldn’t get this far because the poor technique not being addressed (every time a player takes the ball on the front foot or does the ‘behind the leg pass’ the ball seems to turn over, and rightfully so) drove me crazy.
I have always liked moving rondos and box to box games (anyone ever see the Dutch Soccer School videos?) but one thing I have really tried to get away from is the arbitrary “make x number of passes before you move to a new area”. While it does help players focus and concentrate, I think this approach does little to help players read the game and recognize the cues to play. Unless you are up 6-0 do you really want your kids to pass up a 2v1 to goal because they haven’t made enough passes yet?
So in the game from the video I would rather have my group be allowed to switch boxes whenever ALL of the players are in the same box. Now a more realistic condition (team mates are in position and ready to play) as opposed to an arbitrary condition of x passes. This way players need to look and/or communicate to verify the conditions have been met instead of just counting to themselves.
i Haven’t considered the particular pattern that you are suggesting, but I have added options and variations off of the basic CB>OB>Wing attacking patterns in training to address what happens if the first option is not available (ie: if the RB can’t play directly to the RW, can he play the RW via a CM or even the CF?) I am trying to systematically (but slowly) add options for each position in the buildup and teaching the players to recognize and play what’s “on” instead of just trying to force the pattern. I have added in varying amounts of passive and active defenders in my pattern work as well, with pretty decent results
Like you say, it depends on what positions and spaces you want to get your attackers in. Make patterns that get players and the ball into those spaces. Just make sure that the patterns you design are logical, game-like, and have a realistic flow.
Tommy,
What I have been doing for the past several years is introducing team shape to the little ones by starting when the ball is out of play. I will set up a field and scrimmage in a normal game format. On each side of the field I will set up cones in the basic shape I want them to play… triangles for 3v3, diamonds for 4v4, etc.
The kids play and whenever the ball goes out of bounds they leave that ball and rush back to the cones to “make their shape”. The coach plays the ball to whichever team is the first to get organized correctly.
It usually doesn’t take more than a session or two before 95% of the kids get it (and you will find that leaders emerge and will start “coaching” the lost ones on where to go …if you let them) and at this point you can make it harder by taking the cones away and having them organize without that reference point.
Then I introduce the idea that they can “make their shape” wherever they are, not just in their own half. Then I show them how to make their shape on restarts… corners, goal kicks, throw ins, and progress to having them take normal restarts in the scrimmages.
Here is what we have found… the better and faster they can organize themselves when the ball is out of play, the better and longer they tend to stay spread out during open play. Having them “make a shape” when the ball is out of play forces them to consider their team mates and their relationship to them, instead of just focusing on the ball as is natural.
I set basic goals for the coaches I was working with that their kids should be able to organize themselves in the correct shape with prompting by a coach midway through U6, and without any prompting by a coach midway through the U7 season. The teams that met these goals had kids that were much better at spreading out than those that did not follow the plan.
Here is a video of a split U7/U8 age group game. In the clip you can see that both teams (coached by coaches who followed the methodology) can organize themselves on a throw-in very quickly with little prompting. On the second throw in you can see the player in blue recognizes the bottom of the diamond needs to be filled and slides in to fill the space.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Are you hosting the 3four3 clinic this weekend. Just got back from Bolivia our I would be interested in going. I have a buddy in AG who is interested. He’s Bernardo’s asst coach and I’d like to expose him to this methodology. Heard you played them recently and weren’t impressedwith their style 🙂
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