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In the game rondo story, I coach U9girls and U9Boys, as well as U14 girls, all are D1 teams in our league/tournaments. With that said we do Rondo’s every practice in some variation. With the U14 girls it has translated into a team at low level D1 to move to a team that competes way above that. The biggest impact has been to the U9 teams. My U9 girls play in a micro league in a U9boys division. Last weekend my center back who is very comfortable to turn around and play her keeper, did just that but this time she banged it at our keeper right in the middle of the goal. Some principles of play came up first can we play our keeper with the correct weight of pass and outside the pipes. Well that did not happen instead she hit a ball on the ground with a lot of pace, my keeper who is a field player simply and calmly trapped the ball across her body, and took her second touch to play wide to an outside player who was getting wide, all of this was done without much thought. Just like we do when we brush our hair in the morning or anything else. It came naturally with out thinking. This is the rondo, the keeper can be rather awkward because she is very tall for her age, but wow, this is the result!!!!!! Rondo’s just do it
KgWe do them every practice with my U9 boys and U9 girls team, I had a parent ask me don’t the they get bored. One of my players looked up and said no way, do you see how we move the ball. They love it, after we do some skill work and moves, i just say 4v0 and they get off to it….. They love it, I can’t say that the first week they did but can say 4 weeks in, it is one of their favorite parts of practice….. We progress from 4vo about 6 minutes, to 4v1 to a bigger rondo, with transition, into small sided games….
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Kyle Gero.
Phil,
The mental image or cue words I would give my teams at this age in the first year was. When we lose the ball what do we do, and they would respond “get it back as quick as possible.” Then I would say what do we do next? They would say string together at least 5 passes, as they got better at this that number went up. So I always gave them a number to shoot for. As I have had my boys for more than a year now, we have gone away from this into attacking patterns and overloads and recognition of the correct pass, recycling to the keeper and such…. but to start out I think this would help…..
Blessings,
KgHi guys, I coach a U9 boys team and U9 girls team, they both participate in 1st division soccer. The boys I have had for a little more than a year. The girls I have had for 6 months. We start each practice with everyone with a ball, we start with ball taps or tic tocs happy feet, on command the players dribble in the area, using a move and a turn and on command go back to ball taps or happy feet. We have built our stockpile of moves and turns over the time. I used to then have all the players go around the outside of the square and pass the ball on the floor and follow the ball and replace the person they passed to. We did two touch and one touch, dribble takes and such. The rule was keep the ball on the floor. This was hard at first but over time became very easy we counted how many passes we could get in a row without a mistake ie. ball coming off the floor, or passing out of the square. We continued to improve and the players really got into it. Then we would go into a 8v2 rondo. I now have moved to instead of the big square we do 4v0 rondos, then 4v1, with the one just looking for not two touch and not receiving across the body, if they see it they raise their hand and that player has to go in the middle. Then we go to active 4v1’s, player can only tackle the pass not the feet. The players love this…. basically just following the progression of the video’s. We then get into some type of rondo that ends in the part of game play I want to address. My boys team has been all over possession for a long time, and understand it, but my girls are new to this. Last Sunday morning they had a break through. We went up 6 goals in the first half. So at halftime I asked them to play rondos on the field, simply keep the ball focusing on playing across their body and such. They did it better than I could have imagined. My suggestion is to keep training this way, don’t change, make it your philosophy. I used to be the guy that said it is all about the 1v1. And don’t get me wrong we believe in players having 1v1 skills. But really that theory of telling the young ones not to pass but to just dribble is such lazy coaching. Let’s prepare the whole player! Anyhow I applaud you all for taking on this age group. I used to coach just older State Cup age teams and always wondered why those players came to me with such hole’s in their game. Now I know, it is because at U8 to U11 they did not get what they deserved. Give them what they deserve train them for the future, we always say we play to win but we don’t do what we do for today but for the future…….
Blessings,
Kg
I am having the same problem at my club. I think that at the very least, you should demand that when they run, they can put a ball at their feet and do the same running. If you want real change, then you demand rondos, and that they learn to play out of the back….. and take care of the ball. But again at the very least, put a ball at their feet when they run, just increase their touches…..
Kg
I view the forum as another part of what I already do. I took something that the Kleibans said a ways back on 3four3, and that is they said in passing that they spend a great deal of time going over their training sessions and games. I have a fellow coach that watches my teams play, watches my training sessions, and I do the same for him. Then we sit and talk about them either over a phone call or text or face to face. And we if need be are very critical of each other. Does it sometimes get a bit defensive, well yes. But most of the time, it is the perfect thing we need to help us grow. This is what we do on here. How many of us have someone who does this for them. If you don’t do it, you will get so much better at what you do, and it will have a direct impact on your teams and players…… Again it can be done on this forum, obviously we will eventually put game footage on here, sooner or later, and we can do it for everyone, how about session footage as well…. hmmmmmm…. what do you all think…..
Blessings,
Kg
My rule is you miss a practice you miss a half, this is if you miss for any reason other than a school activity that is pre-planned, homework does not count, if you have homework you come do it on the sideline during practice. If you are sick you show up and I send you home and you miss no time. But if you miss you miss a half. They understand the rules, and they are very clear…..
Kg
IMO, I don’t think it is a change in philosophy, correct me if you feel otherwise, possession based soccer is playing with a purpose, of keeping the ball. Our base is playing out of the back. Meaning we are not just launching the ball to no one down the field. We play with a purpose. We will play out of the back first. When and this came up in a game this weekend. As it was my U9 boys team, and we play 6v6. A team was pressing us constantly, and we continued to play our way. Towards the end of the first half, our keeper makes a great save, and the other team did what they do which is press. They had their backs 10 yards inside our half. I used a key word to my keeper and forward who has what it takes for the future….. I said play early. Our keeper looked up, saw it on, and played a pass through to our keeper, it was a flat punt, it took two bounces and we were at the other teams 18 yard box, their keeper came out and the forward chipped him for the only goal of the game. Other than that time, most of the game from both teams was played on the floor. It was a great game, two very high level teams, our philosophy is to play out of the back and keep the ball, we have attacking patterns, our keeper either puts it on the ground and plays out of the back or rolls the ball to a back. This is what we do, but when it presents itself, we always have a purpose, does it always work, no, but does it work way more than it doesn’t, for sure! The philosophy does not change, ever!!!!! I hope this makes sense, Kg
Jed,
I want to thank you for your work! I love when we dive into something and unlock mysteries that we did not know were there….. that is what your book has done, I know that the credit can go to many, but wanted to thank you for what you do!!!!! Though I can tell you that you caused me many sleepless nights as my brain was racing over the last 3 weeks because of that book, lol…..
Blessings,
Kyle
My name is Kyle, I am an Assistant DOC in South Florida. I have trained in South Florida at 3 different clubs over the last 20 years. Also have coached at local school teams as well. I feel like many of us, I had no idea what I was doing but the whole time felt like I had my stuff together. Well what I know now tells me I was like the majority of trainers in the United States. I was the problem!!!!! My goal is to continue to be part of the solution. I am now at a club where we want to be part of the solution. From the outside we are not viewed as what we are because of our past. But to be honest we don’t care what others think of us!!!!! Bring it on, lets tear it apart and put it back together, the right way!!!!!
Kg
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