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In possession Formation: 1-2-3-3 Primary player/unit; 1,5, 7 Secondary unit; team 4,10,9 Specific area of pitch: Right channels 1&2 LEARNING OUTCOMES What do I want my players to achieve? - Improve first touch - Improve quick tempo and accuracy of forward passes - Improve confidence to play out from the back making correct decisions - Improve courage to want the ball from the goal keeper Principle of play Attacking - Create Space, Movement, Penetration Technical Components - Passing, Receiving, Turning KEY PICTURES What are the game related pictures I want to recreate? - GK wins ball on turnover - 5&6 split to edge of 18 yard box as rest of the team push up. 7&11 half way line on touchline, 9 on last defender with 10 in close proximity. 4&8 push high towards centre circle. (Creating space for 5&6 to receive from GK) - As ball is travelling to 5, 4drops in of an angle to offer and option. 7 drops in short with clever movement to lose defender. - 5 plays to 7 who is face up the pitch as 9 runs from central area into Channel 2 to receive pass from 7 - 7 supports 9 with overlapping run, 10&8 attack with penetrating runs (crossing over) to attack the opposition penalty box, 11 attacks the far post cutting in from channel 5 in the attacking third, 4 moves up the pitch centrally to support behind the ball as defenders 5&6push up to halfway line with Goalkeeper supporting from edge of penalty area. COACHING DETAIL What detail will help the player improve their understanding and performance? - Quick decison making from GK to command movement from 5&6 to get into a position to receive the ball - Good starting position with firm accurate passing into 5 feet - 5 good body position and first touch (receive on back foot) to play accurate forward pass quickly - Movement of 7 to push opposition defender high to then drop short to receive pass (on back foot) from 5 to play forward into space for 9 to exploit - GK and defenders to push up as ball travels forward into attacking third PRACTICE DESIGN
Area layout and size: 9v9 pitch Other considerations: Scoring system: If team can play through the thirds as above and score it will count as 3 Players per team: 9 Conditions and constraints: First Half: If the ball goes out for defending team in defensive half for a throw in, restart with a goal kick. This will provide more opportunities of repetition for the above. Second Half: Normal game Timings: 2 x 25 minute halves INTERVENTION STRATEGIES - Command. Freeze Stop stand still maximum of three times in first 25 minutes. - Drive by's to support individual learning during play. - Q&A to check and challenge player understanding
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Consider: In possession Formation: 1-4-3-3 Primary player: 10 Primary unit: 10,9,8 Secondary unit: 7,11 Specific area of pitch: Attacking half, centrally (width of penalty box) LEARNING OUTCOMES What do I want my players to achieve?
Does it relate to match day? Yes, we are trying to work on building a new partnership between #9 and #10 to be more creative, innovative and aggressive in their attacking play and end product. Principle of play Penetration ,Create space, Movement, Support, Creativity- individualism / surprise / unpredictable Technical Components Passing, Receiving, Turning / manoeuvring, Dribbling, Finishing  KEY PICTURES What are the game related pictures I want to recreate? In all instances #10 to find space between opposition Defensive line and Central midfielders to receive possession of the ball to:
COACHING DETAIL What detail will help the player improve their understanding and performance? PICTURE 1
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Tempo and timings and interventions Session is for 45 minutes, high intensity. Will manage opposition appropriately at start of session to ensure structure. Will try to restrict group interventions to 3 or less. Drive by, Q&A challenges provided during play to learning and understanding the 'why' Trial and error opportunities to be provided TECHNICAL / TACTICAL CORNER #10
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This episode welcomes Aaron Travers to the show.
Aaron and I talk about football in my home country of Jersey in the Channel Islands and the principles and growth of his coaching company, Game Sense. I wanted to get Aaron on as I have had many conversations with him in the past about holistic development, practice design, and coaching philosophy, all of which we touch on in this recording. #welcometothetribe #footballcoaching #coachdevelopment Contact Aaron: Twitter: https://twitter.com/acoachesview1 Website: https://www.acoachesview.com/ Contact us: Email: thedevelopertribe@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/developertribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/developer_tribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/developertribe LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deve... Listen and subscribe: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3azHRzQ... Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Google podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJk... Music by Bee Bee Feenix: https://soundcloud.com/fee-benbow-lee... Consider: in possession Formation: 1-2-3-2 Primary player/unit 10 Secondary unit 9&1; Specific area of pitch: Trigger in and around penalty area to set up counter attack 'beyond' LEARNING OUTCOMES What do I want my players to achieve?
Does it relate to match day? Yes - exploiting counter attacking opportunities are paramount to creating goal scoring opportunities Principle of play Attacking - Penetration, Create Space, Movement, Support, Creativity Technical Components - Passing, Receiving, Turning, Dribbling, Finishing KEY PICTURES What are the game related pictures I want to recreate? Opposition defender starts practice by playing ball through ball to opposition goalkeeper (transition) PICTURE 1
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COACHING DETAIL What detail will help the player improve their understanding and performance?
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Area layout and size:60x40 (divided into three areas of 20, 20, 40 x 40 wide) Other considerations:
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Players per team:
Consider: in possession Formation: 1-4-2-1 Primary player/unit: 3,6,5,2 Secondary unit; team: 1,4,8 Specific area of pitch: defensive half LEARNING OUTCOMES What do I want my players to achieve?
Does it relate to match day? - Yes most teams we play against usually press high and try to win the ball in the attacking or midfield third. Principle of play - attacking: penetration, create space, movement, support Technical component - passing, receiving KEY PICTURES What are the game related pictures I want to recreate? Picture 1 Opposition are compact centrally when the ball is at our goalkeeper or centre backs, when the ball is passed to our full back positions (2 or 3), the opposition winger presses the ball and their midfield locks on to ours. Full back drops all back to centre back who switches play to opposite full back passing the ball into space in front of them to run onto exploiting the weak side Picture 2 Defensive playmaker number 4 creates space to receive a pass from full-back however cannot play forward and therefore drops ball back to centre back on strong side to switch play in one or two touches to opposite fullback. COACHING DETAIL What detail will help the player improve their understanding and performance?
PRACTICE DESIGN
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Opposition Management
Players per team: 8v6 overload Tempo and timings: 3x15 minute game blocks to swap out midfielders and attacker with opposition. A fantastic tutorial delivered on Block 3 of our UEFA B course in Portsmouth with the Royal Navy, RAF and Army FA.
Subtract the players, subtract the space, keep the integrity of the game and justify your means. The process supports planning for less players but also helps you think about what you would do if more turned up. This has been hugely beneficial helping me with my session planning and devising a new session planning template I use that I am happy to share. This is well worth 8 minutes of your time. In possession Creating and Scoring - delivery from wide areas in attacking third (overload) Formation: 1-3-2-3 Primary player: #7 and 11 Primary unit: #7, 9, 10, 8, 11 Secondary unit: #2 and 3 Specific area of pitch: Attacking third LEARNING OUTCOMES What do I want my players to achieve? Does it relate to match day? Principle of play? - Recognise the delivery areas of:
- Recognise the type of pass for:
KEY PICTURES What are the game related pictures I want to recreate? Are these pictures relevant to learning outcomes? Picture 1) Full back plays to winger who attacks the goal line in a wide position and delivers a cross to supporting attackers Picture 2) Fullback plays ball to winger and makes an underlapping or overlapping run depending on wingers touch and position, recieves return pass from wingers and full back attacks the goal line in a wide position and delivers a cross to supporting attackers Picture 3) Full back plays inside to Central Midfielder who plays forward (1 or 2 touches) into space for winger to attack the goal line who delivers a cross to supporting attackers. COACHING DETAIL What detail will help the player improve their understanding and performance? Picture 1)
Picture 2) Add - Full back to recognise where first touch of winger will take them (inside for full back overlap or down the line for full back underlap) Picture 3) Recognise the change in personal attacking the areas. If #10 drops in to receive ball from full bac for example, would you have rotation where #4 would make the forward run in place of #10? And #10 would hold in #4 position during this phase of attack? PRACTICE DESIGN Area layout and size: Approx 50x70yards Other considerations: Overload 1-3-2-3 vs 1-2-3-1 Scoring system: Team with 7 goals count as 2. Team of 9 goals scored from a cross count as 2, normal goals 1 Players per team: 9v7 LEAD IN ACTIVITY - Focus on movement to receive ball into feet or into space to link to winger movement later in session.  TECHNICAL practice working simultaneously attacking each end. Player who crosses will rotate to other side. So effectively full backs and wingers will work with different partners. Technical practice to pose questions to wingers on when, where, how and why they may select a certain type of cross over another. i.e near post, second 6 yard box, far post, edge of area - more information in Small Sided Game session plan below. Small Sided Game - Overload 9v7 Tonight's session introducing Pressing to our U12s. Looking to get the basic principles embedded in before linking it to Small Sided Game. Thoughts?  Session Numero Uno on Switching Play for the Jersey FA Capita Centre of Excellence U12's & U13's tomorrow evening. Can't wait to get started.  Tonight final Session on Distances, Marking and Interceptions for our JFA Centre of Excellence U12 & U13 Squads. These session created with Coach Darren O'Connell is working with the Midfield Trio defensively. The team in possession can also utilise the use of support players (F) out wide linking the session to our system of play in the 1-2-5-1 formation. Lots of room to develop and evolve.  Happy New Year One and all, and best wishes for 2016. Tonight is the third session of Distances, Marking & Interceptions for an U12 squad, however due to the Christmas break we shall recap the two previous sessions and plan for our development fixture this coming Friday evening.   Notes from last weeks session I forgot to add. 😀  A fantastic first session on Distances, Marking and Interceptions from our JFA Capita Centre of Excellence U12's Squad last week. We are looking to recap last weeks session and and another layer to it with the above practice.
Following this we shall move into a Small Sided Game working on defending with width and depth of the pitch appropriately. Last one practice session before Christmas, So I wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2016. Some fantastic Ball Mastery Skills for your players to practice. Ideal to break sessions up with something a little different.
We used a few of these in our Jersey FA Capita Centre of Excellence U12session last week after our initial warm up. It only takes 5 minutes to slot one or two in and the players seemed to take to them really well. The added benefit that it was not only a good learning opportunity, but also a great chance to introduce some "buddy coaching" with the players supporting and coaching each other.  The final session of playing out from the back, linking the midfielders to the forward. Last weeks Session Plan didn't quite go as planned, so we have stripped it back and simplified it for this coming week. Hopefully this will assist improving the delivery of the session by causing less confusion, and providing clear and concise messages to enable better player understanding and learning.    Following on from last weeks session where we worked on the movement of our Centre Backs and Full backs, plus touched on the midfield movement, this weeks session involves a recap of last week, followed by a focus on the movement of the midfield 3 to create space to support the build up of our attacks through the thirds. After the practice above where we shall look at movement of players, we shall link this into our midfield player roles in our 9 a-side formation. The below short clip from Coach Dan Wright highlights the Anti Clock Wise and Clock Wise movement will shall introduce tomorrow evening. Looking forward to rolling out a new session with an eager group of young players. Another coached shared this article, pretty much hits the nail on the head... consider away...
http://www.grassrootscoaching.com/?p=3998
2nd November 2015 see the kick off of the U12, U13, U14 season at the Jersey FA Capita Centre of Excellence. A practice session being delivered to our minis Year 2&3 group at GS United Football Club tomorrow. Coaching alongside Damon O'Driscoll, Damon shall be delivering Diamonds are Forever from the FA Level 1 Coaching Badge, and I shall follow this up with "Risky Business" from the FA Youth Module 1 - Developing the Environment. Session are below.   A different view on the relative age effect that is a very popular conversation amongst coaches at present...
http://youthfootballdevelopment.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-im-pleased-my-son-is-born-in-may.html?spref=tw Interesting article for all adults to consider when watch youth sports...
http://changingthegameproject.com/help-my-child-is-a-late-bloomer-5-tips-for-overcoming-the-relative-age-effect-in-youth-sports/ An excellent video by Coach Dan Wright, well worth following his blog and his twitter feed
 How coaches from Ajax and Barcelona are now looking beyond the ball to breed success…
British football seems to be just catching up with the idea that youngsters need to do more work with the ball if they are to improve their skills. But as Adam Bate found out at the Sports Analytics Innovation Summit in London, the game's pioneers are taking a more wide-ranging approach... There was an idea that an English pre-season involves plenty of cross-country running and not much else. “We didn’t see a ball for the first fortnight,” they’d complain. But this familiar criticism of the English game is now in danger of being turned on its head thanks to an unlikely source. The obsession with the football has long been cited as the chief reason for the perceived technical superiority of continental footballers. Just look at Ajax and Barcelona. Not for them the belief that players should be starved of the ball during the week to make them want it more on a Saturday. So it was something of a surprise at the Sports Analytics Innovation Summit in London last month to hear people who’ve worked at those old bastions of Total Football argue the case for a far more rounded education of young players than some might expect. Rene Wormhoudt is employed as a strength and conditioning coach at KNVB – the Dutch football association – and spent a decade working at Ajax. Not only does Wormhoudt believe young players benefit from work without the ball, he feels they should play different sports entirely. For Wormhoudt, the upside of a balanced approach is vast – not least in terms of maintaining interest levels among young people. “You lose a lot of children if you have no variation in your academy. The ball is important, but to miss all these areas of development is also a mistake.” BUILD AN ATHLETE The Dutchman knows that the job of building a professional footballer begins in childhood. The first team is too late. And if you are to looking to build a professional footballer, you must first look to build an athlete. As a result, children in the Ajax academy not only focus on football but other sports too. Judo, gymnastics and track & field all form a key part of the training regime. In fact, non-football related training accounts for 45 per cent of their work up to the age of 12. Even between the ages of 15 and 18, as much as 35 per cent of time is still spent improving coordination and balance by playing other games. Wormhoudt retains a video of young Ajax trio Christian Eriksen, Jan Vertonghen and Daley Blind engaged in a fiercely competitive game of basketball. In the growing phase, a young person’s balance can be compromised as their centre of gravity changes. Gym work, judo and, yes, even basketball can aid this transition. “It could be that you become better at a sport by not only practising that sport,” says Wormhoudt. Perhaps even more persuasively for the long-term success of the player, there is evidence to suggest there are health benefits too. “Children who only do one sport have a tendency to get injured four times more often than those who do more than one sport,” he adds. The first goal is to become a better all-round mover. The all-round mover can then become an athlete. Only then does the athlete specialise. The end result is that you have a specialist in their sport who – first and foremost – is a genuine athlete. WIDE RANGING Wormhoudt’s focus is predominantly on the physical. But this wide-ranging approach can also be adapted to mental and tactical facets of the game. An appreciation of other roles – perceptual transfer – can lead to becoming a better player. In practice, this means strikers playing as goalkeepers in order to understand their areas of vulnerability or defenders moving into midfield to get a feel for where they should be playing their passes. Now we are entering the realms of true Total Football once more. Raul Pelaez is Barcelona’s head of knowledge management and was another speaker in London to highlight the importance of this holistic approach. He even had a high-profile example. “Andres Iniesta knows how to play,” said Pelaez. “And not just his own position.” An expansive approach – looking outward rather than at the minutiae – is the theme now. Barcelona have even shown a willingness to talk to coaches outside of football to seek tactical answers to the conundrum of how to break down opponents. “Pep Guardiola talked a lot with coaches of handball,” added Pelaez. “We need people from outside the sport.” As the decision-makers at St George’s Park seek to replicate the success of those abroad, the main discussion points appear to be focused on small-sided games and a more technical approach. In essence, they’ve introduced the ball. But just as British football looks to narrow the gap, the ideas of the continent’s leading minds offer a reminder that the game continues to evolve. |
