Under 11's - transition from defence to attack
A good session tonight, The format of the sessions have become more centred on the 4 corners of player development, with considerably more emphasis on enabling decisions via the design of drills, even within the warm up every opportunity is utilised to exercise a players decision making options.
Our warm ups have more emphasis on preparing the player to train, rather than the traditional mantra of ensuring a linear progression throughout the session
Very noticable tonight some of the players had delayed responses when possession changed - Post session the group have been asked to work on this singular component when training with their club teams
I felt tonight at certain stages of the session I was looking for what went wrong rather than encouraging what went well. This seems to have been fuelled by a level of frustration caused by the delayed transition responses. Good lessons learnt tonight - I'll work on this in the next session
On the plus side the questioning methods are now fully accepted by the players, they now take that as the norm, we rarely get the throw away cliched answers such as "PASSING" etc
Went to se Barcelona beat Inter last week - what a team - great to watch always entertaining
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Thanks for these posts, it's good to know that there are alternatives to the current methods of coaching young players. I was watching a session of U14s lastnight where the coach was constantly stopping and restarting the game, you could see the confusion and frustration on the players faces.
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