Recently i've been in a group doing a Skills Acquisition Program pilot group. I haven't been for a while as I was overseas.

In the KNVB youth training there was a four stage model based on game analysis.

1 Specific technique work based on an analysis of the previous week's game and identifying the main problem in that match.

2. 4v4 SSG to address the diagnosed problem.

3. 7v7 to focus on the the specific problem.

4.11 v11 with the focus on the problem.


Comparatively, the training we have done with the SAP coach was similar to a teaching concept I use in story writing for narratives.

There was a theme:

1. Introduction.

2. Middle.

3. End, or culminating performance.

Coaches were set homework. We had to devise either an Introduction, Middle or End, to a prescribed training ground 'theme/topic' set by the SAP coach/state FFA Development Officer.

The state FFA SAP coach wanted to ascertain whether he was instructing/teaching effectively.