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If your going to do any I would do USSF as NSCAA ones are not really heard of or recognized outside of the USA and as the poster said above USSF no longer recognizes them anymore either!
Eric,
Keep with it!
My U11 Girls just had their first tournament where we played up at U12 and won the tournament which was a bonus. We played mid-level teams though as I wanted the players to get comfortable in the system and what we were doing.
They did very well the key thing for me is that players now really see the importance of things like collecting across the body, giving each other advice, keeping the ball and they are now bought in on how we are training.
The highlight of the weekend was being 3-0 down and coming back to win 5-3, the players didn’t panic kept playing as we kept creating good space and chances.
I have only worked on Playing out of the back so far so we were very vulnerable when we lost the ball but with the amount of extra chances we created and the way we played I didn’t really care!
it was a great start but I am sure I will face the challenges you have further down the road!
A Brazilian coach told me once “the road to good soccer is long…but the road is beautiful!”
I will check in again when we are playing the top team at our age later this and next month to see how we handle the increased speed of play and pressure
Gary,
I am in for the long haul for sure!! I am definitely going to stay the course.
When I said move on after a month I meant I am just doing playing out from the back for a month before moving on to midfield/attacking patterns/offensive pressure as it all begins with good play at the back.
I was planning to cycle through playing out thru to attacking patterns over the 4 month season.
Thanks againI will for sure get some videos up
Poor, at the ODP region I work in we would get hammered for that.
we have been instructed that every session must be functional to play possession style soccer with no generic exercises like this
Gary,
My sessions are going well
I have been doing
4v0, 4v1 Ghost, 4v1 full pressure emphasizing the correct touch, body position and movement for 30 mins
Playing out of the back for 30 minutes varying it with ball in play, throw in start or GK start
I then added pressure by playing 6(GK-3-1-1) vs 5(3-2) playing Goals to counter goals. It worked very well and I saw good improvements, not perfect but it was great to see the players enjoy the session and progress. I am going to keep with this for at least a month to see where we are at. In the past I would have moved onto something else after a week!
We finished with a regular scrimmage also
Good Stuff Gary!
Eric,
Sounds great, I have been drawing up my proposed training cycle for Feb which is our first month back/pre-season month
I think I am going to do similar
1) Rondos 4vo 15 mins
Ghost 4v1 Rondo
s-warm up(just to mix it up every 3rd/4th session)
Every sessions to to warm-up
2)then either 4v1 full pressure/3v1 rondo/double rondo depending on progression of the players 15 mins
3) Playing out from the back, no pressure moving onto adding numbers each week-30 mins
losing your man & offensive pressure I will do here once our playing out is good enough.
4) scrimmage 25-30 mins
I am excited to start back up as I have always coached the above stuff but I have always just (now I am realizing) skimming the surface as I try to do too much and at times used to feel that I wasn’t doing a good job unless my session was new, never seen before etc!! makes me laugh now as I have been missing the obvious.
I am also having my players do beast mode soccer to keep up their juggling, dribbling and ball striking away from team practices.
my main question to you Eric is how did you deal with lower numbers at practice to still do the drills? I was thinking I could change the 4v0 to 3v0 in a triangle or join in myself any thought would be appreciated
Thanks
Hey my name is Sean Kiernan I coach at Concorde Fire in Atlanta.
I have been a keen follower of the blog and very often myself and a couple of colleagues will see a post and be like “see thats what we have been saying” needless to say we agree with most of not everything we read on this blog.
In short I already try to teach this brand of soccer but I could still be better at teaching it and enforcing it! Content looks great and looking forward to networking with everyone too!
Thanks
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