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Mark, others, curious how things are going in your futsal seasons? How are you syncing 3four3 concepts/approaches?
Sounds good to me. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays tend to be better for me in the evening. Also, wouldn’t object to meeting up for kids open play (I have 2 youngsters), which I think is on Saturdays in January.
Edit – I misread Alredo’s post; Deanza force is a wonderful model!
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Rene Gonzalez.
John, a couple of comments, but first 2 caveats:
-I have watched almost no HS girls soccer in the last 20 years; occasional take in a UP or Thorns game. No ability to really benchmark.
-The vast majority of the teams I have coached or played on over the years played 4-4-2 or 3/5/2; where I saw some weaknesses in your team (transition to middle 1/3 to final 1/3) is an area I am not particularly strong in, particularly in 4/2/3/1 or 3/4/3 system.
1. Excellent out of the back; initially I thought your outside backs may have been a little high, but watching it a 3rd-time think they are generally where I would want them. Loved your coaching to the keeper (bring it into your box) . . . little thing but I need to communicate that to my little ones.
2. Arguably. Too many attempts at the winning through-ball, too early. Several attempts to get through to the right wing. Flip side of this – early in the game it is nice to get all 11 involved, and attempts to work them in with a through ball isn’t the worse thing in the world.
3. One of the challenges I see with your team is also one of your strengths; blond center mid is excellent off the dribble and turning. You might count her % in the final half though; some stretches where her pass was the give-away (she is also passing off the dribble and while I have not seen a statistical analysis I always assume those %s particularly in the final half are going to be lower). Potential solutions:
a) More time on attacking patterns in the final 1/2.
b) As others have observed, more work on tempo, when their back 4 is sitting like that. Hard to do early in game sometimes though.
c) Might play with where have your blond cm. Concerted effort to get her more isolated, facing the goal going forward (maybe think about some of the things they do to get Messi isolated). There were times I would have actually liked her to dribble more/look at combo with striker as opposed to the long-through ball or play to wing. How often does she dribble into the box?
d) Absence of speed on the wings. I do not have a coaching solution to this one; one of the great tensions in a possession-model of play is it still is great to have some speed on the wing. Without it, wing and player passing have to be that much faster on the mental side.
Going through this exact analysis now – had an E License back in my teenage years (instructor was my club coach, who I liked a great deal and thought it was good). Since then and until now never needed a further lincense (lawyer by trade and have to deal with a ton of licensure requirements on that end), but kicking myself I didn’t at least get to C (between college playing experience, plenty of coaching/managing in the men’s ranks, and prior E license could have gotten there fairly easily).
Don’t plan to make a living off of coaching, but having the C would be a nice to have now. Technically I am suppose to start over (no more playing credit for the E and received the prior E in a different state that can’t track it down) and finding it hard to justify the investment of time right now.
The other part of the licensing piece that appears to be a miss – teaching younger children is so much different then coaching/managing older boys/men. Even with a common philosophy, actual instruction can be so different. I don’t need an introd to progression practices or practice plans, nor do I need to be thinking through every intracy of the 4-2-3-1 when I am coaching u8 to u10 (except how what I am doing scaffolds to that); but some depth in thinking about coaching the young ones would be of real value. However, don’t see licenses really tailored to that (realize their is a youth badge which I may look into).
What have folks thought about the NSCAA badges? They don’t appear to have prerequisites for the middle badges, and am thinking of taking one of those.
Kevin good seeing you last night. I don’t seem to have your email address and the couple I was with would love to pick your brain about some options for their older girl (their youngest plays with my u8s). What is the best email address to contact you on?
Small world! I don’t know what el pato is (other than the duck), but I often tell my wife “hey baby que paso, I thought I was your only vato” . . .
Old man grew-up on Iowa Street. There is a grade school there named after my uncle (Raul Gonzalez).
If I ever get the girls down there will have to organize a Weslaco game!
LOL – that is funny and that is a heck a team!
Mi padre is from Weslaco.
Happy New Year!
Thank you for that. I am going to ask a parent to film some of our futsal this session for my own education and will post some of that here. Is your team the white or black?
Also, you girls are you u8 – but the screen at the front says 06 Selecao. May girls are also 08, born March 2006, but thought they would be deemed 05s since the ages go August 05-July 06.
Reason for all the questions is it will be good to benchmark with teams in other parts of the country (by the way was born in Dallas and still have lots of family down in the valley).
Very helpful background and good luck at regionals/nationals!
Regionals for us is no small trip – San Diego this year – but gives me something to think about for next year.
Do your local futsal leagues play fifa rules (no passing back to keeper on own half after keeper passes to teammate) + same rules for fouls? Where we have been playing plays slightly modified rules (curious Kevin what you are doing at Rose City).
If you ever have decent video, would love to see; our team is also u8s so would be interested to see what others are doing at that level.
Will, interested to hear your impressions. I’ve been playing in futsal men’s league since 2006sh; introduced my u8 girls to it very young. I have separate post here on some initial thoughts on how we can scaffold what you do in futsal to align with the approach here, but those are very preliminary thoughts and very much welcome critical commentary.
Along those lines, I’m actually viewing everything on this site through a lens of how to tie back down to 4v4 (which we do outdoor at u8) and to futsal.
Finally, there is a decent tactical series on utube put out by someone in Brazil, with English translation that has certainly given me ideas over the years. I have some of the posted here (note that url will be dead soon, likely moved here & that much of the content there is stale).
If there is enough interest think we could have a few threads just on aligning approach to futsal with principals and approach here.
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Thank you for passing on the regional/national tournament info – have been tracking what is being done at nationals for a little while now, but did not realize u8s were actually doing regionals.
What do you think – is that a little young for regionals, or just right for the right group of girls/families?
Kevin’s club (NEU) is a major user at Concordia and may have an in there. I’ve played in their summer tournament over the years but don’t know their coach all that well (but great accomplishment on nationals – they have been close before).
huge fan – lots of touches, confined space. They have regionals/nationals at u8? Can you send a link?
Kevin, so nice to see you on here! Definitely happy to do coffee again (and please keep Mr. Frazier in line). A Portland get together sounds like a good idea in 2014.
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