I have sent this vid to a lot of people and watched it over and over

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/backofthenet/1008/U-11-side-s-amazing-possession-game/

It makes me sad because this is what i call football it is what i want to teach and i am so far away from it.:( :( :( :( :(

Sorry Krones3 but would you beleive I watch this type of football every weekend at our club!

The team in the video play a higher tempo, while we play a slower tempo with more possesion in the final third. (We don't cross the ball into the box.)

This is a great reference point to show people what my club is trying to do.


Edited by Arthur: 11/7/2012 08:05:03 AM

Importantly you aspire to do it.

Some only want the results.

Apart from NTC men, nobody plays football as good as this in this state! None of the senior men's split state league teams look as good as those guys in the video. A chains passes in excess of 3 are a rare phenomenon, although achieved more often in the reserves league.

I should also say the SAP trainer's state/rep teams play football closer to that crack under 11 American team, but the pressing is more intense than the opposition team in the video. Hence, it is more difficult to play such good football.

In about 2005/2006 even the better state teams weren't playing football as good as this at national under 15 championships. This would have been in David D'Apuzzo's era.

Last year a visiting Korean under 12 team played football of similar quality to the video too. Most locals wrote them off because they didn't beat the state team.](*,)

For the bitters, the FFA NC is trying to produce players capable of playing this type of football in the video.

Very impressive Arthur.=d>

And not surprising since they are under the guidance of Ange Postecoglou aren't they?

Did Tony Currie Monster's rep team play like this in France against high calibre teams.

I agree with your point but its also fair to say that in the video the black team is allowed to play the football they do because of the physicality of the opposition and the tempo of the game.

On the other hand in state leagues the tempo, pressure and physicality is usually extremely high even if the technical quality isn't great. This makes playing a aggressive possession based game (as seen in the video) harder to play and requires a far higher level of player quality in comparison. Its quite difficult to compare under 11's to state mens for this reason.

U11's playing on what seems to be a full size pitch gives them a lot of time and space on the ball (in comparison to senior level) to play this type of football. Nonetheless its is no easy task teaching U11's to play this way and the quality of the players is clearly very good. The understanding of tactics and positioning of both teams in the video is far above what i see in comparative teams i deal with..

Ange is the mentor not only for our Club, Nunawading but also Caufield Cobras.

Actually the high calibre French teams played possesion football but let's not go any further, thanks.



And herein lies the problem, our juniors don't win that often at the U11, U12, U13 and U14 levels. Currently the U15's and 16's are doing really well on the scoreboards, but we have great expectations for our U12's and U111's who will know no other type of football.Many Clubs, their administrators, parents and fellow coaches would not approve or put up with this approach.

Our head coach was reluctant at first to start this new approach because he was sure that at 99% of clubs he would be shown the door after a handful of matches. Luckily for us the club has stuck by him for 4 years and is now reaping the benefits.

Our boys in those four years have only twice been beaten for possesion that I know of. And that is how we asses our performance. Not by the score board.

We keep losing to teams that have yearly trials and poach the best kids from other clubs, usually the biggest and fastest. We lose to these "FightBall" clubs. But we have found that as the kids age and mature physically this advantage disappears and we are left with the advantage of having superior technique. Our kids are not subject to yearly trials, if a boy has not developed core skills after 2 years at our club it is considered a "Coaching" failure not the childs. We trial only for vacancies.

We train together under the Head Coach early session U11, U12, U13 late session U14, U15, U16. This provides plenty of variety for players, makes it easier to play up, we have one system of play that all players know and it creates a CLUB atmosphere as compared to each Team acting as a Club with in a Club.

Our Coach's philosophy is to do the opposite of what every one else is doing.



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Edited by Arthur: 11/7/2012 12:04:40 PM

Four key points about the video that are lost on many
1 great individual skills of all the players on the dark team.
2 win the ball get it to a team mate Job done(does not matter which team mate) job done.
3 when you do not have the ball don't stand off win it back quickly (even in a kick off)
4 Play it across the back line with patients.

When every one simplifies it down to one touch give and go they don't see the rest.