Fair point, Localstar.

I had to think of how these aspects are developed in training sessions I've taken. Denis Ford has written an excellent book on junior coaching. Some of the drills/exercises are very simple, but beautiful in their simplicity. They are easy to explain to junior players.

In I took session there was emphasis on some of the dribbling Brazilian skills at the expense of functional passing exercises.


http://www.soccer-training-info.com/control_and_pass.asp

This aforementioned drill is one where one can really hit hard passes at close range to receive really hard balls. It helps to have a wall behind both players in the grids.







As far as the bouncing balls is concerned the following is a simple drill from a junior coaching book by Denis Ford.


------Xo


--1---G---1


------X

X denotes field player.
G denotes keeper.
1 denotes goalposts.
o denotes ball.

Two outfield players shoot at the goals blocked by keeper. If keeper makes save they turn and throw it to player on other side of goal, who controls by receiving one or two touch and shooting back.

When keeper throws ball, it should be a bouncing ball or at a difficult trajectory to receive.

If keeper misses ball it goes through to other outfield player on other side of goal.

If keeper is not a specialist, keeper interchanges with outfield players.











Edited by Decentric: 15/4/2011 09:52:42 AM

I'm usually too busy seeing that all players are juggling individually or in pairs to count them. I nearly always have them juggling at the same time, not watching each other. They tell me what they've done, but I don't really believe them as they are competing with each other.

Juggling is a recommended homework activity, along with passing and receiving against a wall, and dribbling around cones/sticks. That was Harry Kewell's practice regime at home.

Edited by Decentric: 10/4/2011 11:44:50 PM

Such as?

We have a number of former elite players down here.

The state coach concerned was in a former VPL premiership team with Mehmet Durakavic as a teammate.

Recommended?

By who?

KNVB?

Not just HK but every kid in David Lee's NSWIS academy at the time. Kids were tested on their juggling ability (each foot, alternates and head) - if kids couldn't hit set targets they were out e.g. 200 head.

But you should be aware that this was considered "homework". No coach worth his clipboard would waste valuable session time watching kids juggle.

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Since this is a comment about content, I'll respond.

Juggling is a useful activity to engage players who arrive at different times to training. No team usually has all players arrive at the same time. In the few minutes between early birds and latecomers, individual juggling engages players.

National Training Centre (Institute) coaches Dean May, Bruce Stowell, Vicki Linton and Mike Edwards adopt some juggling as part of their training programmes.

A junior book based on Czech methodology advocates juggling for junior players. If most of the participants are very skilled it may assume less significance.

In senior Socceroo sessions, which are different from development sessions, I've seen some two person juggling assuming a portion of the training sessions under Verbeek.

David Lee has a reputable academy, but it is not KNVB, Clarefontaine or Coverciano. David doesn't travel around the world instructing national federations on exemplary football practice. The vast majority of players he produces are not considered good enough to get into the epicentres of world football in Ajax Amsterdam, Barcelona, Man U., Real Madrid, Arsenal, the Milans and Bayern Munich.

If David Lee's players were members of the NSW under 15 and under 14 teams a few years ago they were technically mediocre. I've seen some footage of games they played. Harry Kewell is a very good technician. Which others have come out of David's academy?


One thing you need to focus on Chips is number of touches at training sessions. You had no idea about this concept a few years ago. You also had no idea about contemporaneous strategies to negate the accelerated attacking qualities of modern football teams.

That is why you need to do some reputable up to date courses instead of sitting behind a computer sniping, sneering and snivelling. You are an unmitigated recalcitrant. The KNVB English language course in Zeist would bring you into the 21st century.

For those who've PMed me and suggested not feeding the troll, to Chips' credit he raised some football content in this post.



Edited by Decentric: 11/4/2011 08:39:17 AM

Krones, thanks mate.


I've finally worked that one out. It is a simpler version of some more complicated ones in Dutch Soccer Drills. I'll use that with a junior club in the imminent future.

As an adjunct to juggling at practice. Unlike David Lee's academy, which players have to pay for, the Football For Everyone school is not exclusive.

600 touches is considered to be a minimum number of touches per training session in top European methodologies. The source of this is in an article Craig Foster wrote a few years ago, substantiated by others on the internet and within the local football milieu.

In individual juggling, two person juggling and the 100/200 inside/outside of the foot passes, players get a very high number of touches within the first few minutes of being at a training session.

These three exercises incorporate first touch, two footedness, using all parts of the body to control the ball and passing technique.

If one adds some of the aforementioned specific deception techniques in this thread, plus a few turning techniques, within half an hour the 600 touches minimum target wil be reached. Particularly if one adds the 1-5 stationary techniques I suggested as standard practice in Football For Everyone schools in the first post of this thread.

Then when one adds games/drills to reinforce specific coaching points, plus the subsequent, SSSG 4v4 (in particular), SSG 7v7 and 11 v11 games, the players wil have touched the ball a plethora of times at training. Even well over 1000. I usually ask a parent to count the number of times their child touches the ball in each training session.

The homework the players do is a bonus.

The games they play in the schoolyard is a bonus too.

Classic decentric - why waste a word when you can waste thousands. :lol:

David Lee was a god awful coach. But even god awful mentors get the occasional player in their dev squads to shine i.e. numbers game.

I see you've now switched into your time-honoured "I got supportive PMs" phase. Too funny. Happened at every forum you've ever invaded, until the inevitable bottom lip quiver, followed by packing your cyber bags and moving onto the next target.

Bless ya, mate.

When you play intense ssg, you then have 'active rest' in which players will juggle in the remaining drinks rest time, used by the clogs.

http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=903004.html?autoplay=true


This UEFA inside and outside of the foot passing exercise has been listed before in this thread.

If one simply focuses on the inside of the foot pass between two stationary players, one can add pass and move to the drill.



--------P
--------1


-------Po

P denotes mobile player
1 denotes pole or cone
Po denotes stationary player with ball

Instead of players passing the ball with the inside of the foot to each other in a stationary position from 3 metres apart, like in the UEFA video, the top player in the diagram moves from side to side of the pole.

S/he receives and passes the ball alternating with the left and right foot.

After 50 passes or so the players reverse the roles.

There is another incremental KNVB progression to this exercise.

Edited by Decentric: 12/4/2011 04:32:46 PM

lol

Two players passing a sockah ball.

Yep, you've convinced me. The game is being taken to a whole new level.

Love your work, decentric.

Edited by judy free: 11/4/2011 09:31:06 PM

Judy... Did you not understand the drill? It's actually great. It teaches players to pass with their outside of their foot as well as their inside. Well that's the way I saw it.

Keep up the good work Decentric.

For those bashing Decentric - I'm sorry - who are you all? What qualifications do you have? I must have missed it in amongst all the bs thrown at him...

The concepts he's applying seem pretty logical to me. Our kids these days don't have the street influence, so they don't have the hours under their belt to discover all the tricks by themselves - some will, but we should be aiming to lift the level of the majority not the odd gifted kid. By giving the skills to kids at an age when they are most likely to soak it all up they start with a foundation which allows them to grow upon at a later point.

Keep up the good work Decentric, you add to this forum, and I enjoy reading your posts.

I still feel the selectors decide what players we produce.

On the world game last night the barca selectors clearly stated that they choose only the most technically skillful players and develop them from there.

Whilst regional Australia select tall athletic players that is exactly what we will produce.

Definitely understand the drill, mate. I was coached this back in 1945.

In fact, coaching soccer moms across the globe have been using it since the turn of the century.

Missing the point, much?

Perhaps Australia should take a leaf out of bartha's books. That is, select the physically under-developed and heading off to the laboratory for a solution. You think this approach could work, krones?

Against the advice of others I'll devote two more posts to Judy Free et al.

Sorry Chips, but you have brought this upon yourself.


Judy Free is known as Chips Rafferty on a number of football forums over the last 10 years. The others who have made some trolls in this thread are his acolytes from other forums.

Chips was a moderator on The World Game Forum. Before that, he had posted for some years as a participant. I thought he used to have an ascerbic, but funny sense of humour. Sadly, the humour seems to have disappeared. He was involved in a lot of polemics with some rabid Croatian fans on TWGF.

Some years ago he used to hate the former Soccer Australia. He said everything would be good about the new FFA.

He invested money in Sydney FC and lost it. He then hated Sydney FC and has become a strident critic of the A League in Australia.

He was sacked from his job as moderator on The World Game Forum for supposedly racist comments. I didn't see them. He also publicly exposed my identity. He has been obsessed with stalking me since I completed a KNVB course a few years ago.

Some of Chips' old forum comrades think he is evolving into a different persona. Some look up to him because he has been a previous high profile youth coach in Sydney (I'll cover that in the next post).

Chips tried to induce former TWGF members to his own forum - No Holds Barred Forum. This is a cesspit for trollers and bored old cynics, as well as a few sycophants. It has about 30 members.

There is another forum called Anarchy Forum, which has many of the members of the old SBS TWGF. There is a dichotomy between the Anarchy Forum and Chips' No Holds Barred Forum. Both are competing for members. I think Anarchy has about 900 members, which could be as little as 30 with all the multiple identities on it.

Now Chips has manifested on here as Judy Free.

A few years ago his 442 forum identity was Chips.

He may have been Rips Chafferty a few months ago on 442.




Edited by Decentric: 12/4/2011 12:01:57 PM

Judy Free has thrown most of the bs.

Now I'll list coaching qualifications.

In Australia FFA coaching has a structure like this:

Community Coaching

Grass Roots Licence
Junior Licence
Youth Licence
Senior Licence

Then there is a different category of licences for semi-professional and professional coaching.

Advanced Coaching

C LIcence
B Licence
A Licence
Pofessional Licence


One supposedly has to get one licence before qualifying for the next licence.

On this forum Krones, Arthur and I have current FFA Youth Licences.

Chips has an obsolete version of it from about 20 years ago called a Level 1 Licence.

Andy J has a current C Licence.

There are probably other members of 442 who have some of these qualifications too.

I have a KNVB Youth course certificate. FFA told me before I did it, that it was supposed to equate to a C Licence in course content.

From speaking to Andy and other coaches in Tasmania, it seems like the match analysis I did in KNVB, seems to be covered only when one gets to B Licence in FFA courses. Andy did specific technique work we didn't do in the KNVB course when he did his FFA C Licence.

One of the other coaches in the Football For Everyone school has a C Licence, the other has a Senior Licence.

Getting back to Chips Rafferty (Judy Free).

He was a coach of Metro Reps in Sydney.

He coached youth teams at Blacktown City in Sydney.

In amongst his prodigies are Adam Kwasnik, Shane Cansdell-Sheriff and Hayden Foxe.

Only because he has been so arrogant, supercilious, smug and patronising, have I posed many theoretical questions to him since I did the KNVB course about match analyses, methodology, terminology and contemporaneous practices in Europe.

He can't answer any of them. Chips has been exposed as ignorant. He has suffered this ignominy in front of people who have looked up to him as a former elite coach with a reputation.
Over the years on the internet Chips has constantly sneered at well-intentioned junior coaches wanting to learn new ideas abut coaching. Most of us are only too happy to share coaching practices which will help others. We also learn from others too.

Why Chips has adopted this approach I don't know. Maybe he can explain why he tries so hard to hijack threads discussing coaching/performance here.

Chips also refuses to do any more coaching courses to learn anything new, because he contends he knows it all.

He thinks most coaches in Australia are incompetent in the A League, W League, Matildas and Socceroos. Chips thinks he could do a better job than almost all of them, but is unwilling to set out his training ground methodology to remedy other coaches' flaws.

Chips also thinks he can learn nothing from FFA training coaches, Kelly Cross, Norm Boardman, Alistair Edwards, Haary Bingham and Tony Franken.

Chips thinks he can learn nothing from FFA or FIFA courses from visiting head coaches from KNVB, Brazil, Clarefontaine and Germany.

There must be an amazing amount of knowledge in a secret Sydney football milieu, which is a well kept secret in world football. Only Chips seems to know about it.

This, I hope will be the last time I respond to a post about Chips Rafferty on the internet, unless there is a complete transformation in character.






Edited by Decentric: 13/4/2011 11:21:27 AM

http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=903004.html?autoplay=true



Instead of extending this exercise to extend the inside of the foot pass and move, this following one can extend two footedness in inside/outside of the foot in a diamond.


-------Po

P-------------P

------Po


P denotes player
o denotes ball


Try this exercise with one ball, passing the ball across the diamond, as well as the outside of it, using inside and outside of the foot short passing techniques with both feet.

When this is comfortable, add a second ball.

The second ball forces an increase in decision making speed.

It also increases the all important frequency of touches.

At every opportunity it is useful to work in this 1-2-1 diamond shape.

Edited by Decentric: 12/4/2011 12:09:36 PM

Asif. :lol:

You know you can't help yourself, decentric.

You crave an audience, and my lil' visit here is assisting that cause. I present you with that once-in-while golden chance for you to crank up your bloviations. I mean, no point eating a thesaurus if you can't spread the fertiliser that follows your next bowel movement.

I believe my work here is done. You've been exposed for what you are (as I've successfully done before). Not a shred of genuine coaching experience on your CV. A wannabe. A fraud. An aging old kindergarten school teacher with substantial psychological issues. Whilst I would not agree with the majority's opinion of you (aspergers), I do beleive you need some professional advice and counselling re your low self esteem. Likely to lead to chronic depression, if you are not already at this point.

So, I say farewell, for now. Make the most of your new-found friendships before they inevitably turn sour, as they always do. Try to ease up a tad on that superiority complex, it could make life a fracton easier. And good luck with your, erm, school. But if it fails (like your previous sockah ventures) take a good long stare in the bathroom mirror before squaring the blame on others.

Ciao.

Umm, dude - you are the one pretending to be a 60-something year old grandmother, who just admitted to stalking Decentric through different football forums purely to ridicule his ideas. If anyone has issues, pretty sure it's you.

Now that this freak is gone, Decentric you can continue to share your experiences and learnings amongst people who are actually interested in what you are saying - not just idiots who troll.

You think Australia or any one else is doing a better job of developing talent than Barcelona?
You are truly delusional.

must see

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/435141/Barca-legends-play-key-role

http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/index.html


In the video on Sandro's midfield masterclass, later in his same video is a 3 v 1 game which I found very useful for young players to develop a sense of space. Andy is keen to do this with his players.

However, like most, I used it primarily as an offensive tool. I thought the exercise was designed for players to create space and passing lanes.

In Sandro's video he uses it as a a defensive exercise in stealing the ball, and making intercepts. He focuses on the one in the middle of the triangle in the 3v1.

For those KNVB sceptics, note on the same page as this Sandro exercise, with coaching videos on the right, how prominent KNVB is in a UEFA website. You wouldn't believe how confident some people are on a few Australian football forums that KNVB is a joke!






Edited by Decentric: 13/4/2011 08:08:53 AM

Lmao, I think you're missing the point of this thread mate.

Good link, Krones.

Technique is paramount for Barca Academy.

It was interesting to see the players playing netball. This is a good way to teach moving into space.

GA has asked me to blog developments in Football For Everyone project.

ATM it is very frustrating. I'm available for coaching sessions, but we are being held up.

My partner, coach C, who is the brains behind this concept, and very experienced in the Tasmanian senior football club milieu, is currently in Europe with one of the Australian national underage futsal teams. He will be visiting Everton and Manchester City youth academies with the team.

The other coach, A, is tied down by shift work.

The regional junior asociation last night deferred my presentation to them about the FFE school. They were overwhelmed with the logistics for starting their season roster with all their junior clubs, which takes precedence over FFE. Their TD is very enthusuastic about the FFE school after observing a training session I took with one of his rep teams. We will have to wait another month for the next meeting. I know the previous president of the association well. I was going to be the TD for the region, but couldn't reconcile my other job and being their TD. The new president may be more of a control freak.

Club T, a Premier League club, is having trouble with committee members email inboxes being overloaded. My emails delineating the FFE programme and protocols for clubs, keep bouncing back. Of course they are a voluntary organisation. This club may be a second choice behind another Premier League club. President and committee of T don't know any of the FFE coaches from a bar of soap. We also want to keep one of their club coaches away from FFE as he has a 'certain reputation' with one gender.

Club W, another Premier League club is looking promising. It is centralised. Their president was coached by the FFE coach, C, who is in Europe with futsal. We already have credibility. They have just had their 50 year club commemoration. Club W have been overwhelmed with this project, so want to hold off for a few weeks with FFE. They would be ideal for the refugee players as they are located nearby. We, FFE, had a meeting with their board last week deferred indefinitely.

The migrant kids are ready to go ASAP. The only youth coordinator for the MIgrant Resource Centre works part-time. Communication has been difficult. We don't have an available ground. If we do, we don't have any available equipment!!! They want to start FFE immediately.

We had a session scheduled with the migrant kids at a club two nights ago, but the coordinator was not available to organise the migrant centre bus to get the migrants to the session at Premier League club K's ground. Other FFE coach C, very experienced with the club K, wanted to be on hand to safeguard against inappropriate poaching/interference by some of that club's coaches/officials.

One junior club, H, wants us to visit their club ASAP on a weekly basis. The coaches saw the session I took a few weeks ago. We were rostered to go ahead tomorrow evening. I have double booked a long standing appointment. My mistake. We will go ahead next week on Thursday, which turns out to be Easter Thursday eve. This is our best option ATM.
The only problem is I may be encroaching on the 20 year old TD's job description by visiting junior club H. I haven't seen his facial expression, just phone contact, about him being happy with FFE going directly to one of his constituent clubs.

Coach from H, wants to bring futsal players of 13-14 years old to FFE sessions. I have watched futsal, but I'm not sure what FFE does is suitable for futsal? Apparently they use heel of the foot for receiving. Coach C says what FFE does, without him there, will be fine. He will be in Europe when the sessions occur.

Pretty frustrating!!!!!


Edited by Decentric: 13/4/2011 01:15:05 PM

Edited by Decentric: 5/5/2011 11:55:33 PM

http://www.uefa.com/trainingground/training/skills/video/videoid=520726.html?autoplay=true


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVKgen5ZRBI&feature=related



The first of these turns is the supposedly harder Cruyff Cut /Turn.

The second is the supposedly easier Cut, or sharp Cut as I call it.

Ironically, I find the Cruyff Cut easier. The guy in the video only uses his left foot. I have developed an exercise using both feet to learn it.

The American coach claims in the video that the Cut is the most common dribbling techniques. I didn't believe him, but after watching matches with a critical eye, he could be right. Lucas Neill, Culina, Kewell, David Carney and Matt McKay all use it with aplomb for the Socceroos.

I was shown how to body swerve at 11 years old. I was exposed to the Cut at 51.

Now I think I can do the Cut, but haven't really had a critical eye cast over my technique. I could look stupid! I try and avoid it in coaching sessions, but it is probably one of the first evasion techniques junior/youth need to know.

Edited by Decentric: 13/4/2011 08:04:20 PM