When receiving the ball and trying to play forwards, the old adage was receive with the inside of the foot facing forwards. Body shape is side on.

Now FFA, pushes the message anything that is effective is fine.

I usually teach receiving turning/techniques in sequence:

1. The aforementioned receive/turn.
2. The pivot turn (I can't do it very well).
3. The shoulder feint turn.
4. Jairzinho turn (BSS).
5. Tostao turn (BSS).

All these need to be learnt so a player can do it on both sides. 90% of them seen at professional level are 1.

# 1 used to be called the Brooking turn after the England player, Trevor Brooking.

Hey Decentric...any chance of posting video examples of these 5 turns? I'm keen to add them to my collection for coaching. I find teaching kids basics like this a lot of fun. It really helps lift their confidence when they can get skills like this under their belt.

+1

Stackerjam and Neverwozza, 4. and 5. are in the Brazilian Soccer Schools DVD. The nomenclature could have changed though.

Of the first three, 3. the shoulder feint turn or body swerve turn is just like the body swerve or shoulder feint I've put on this forum , except one does it with their back to their opponent..


Next time you watch a game, 1. and 2. will be the most common turn/receive you see.

When a team is modulating ( I use this word because transition , as most people use it, is different from the attacking and defensive transitions used in FFA Advanced Coaching course nomenclature) from defence to attack, the turn most players use will be the receive/turn I've described in 1.

2. This is a flashy version of 1.

KNVB and FFA Advanced Coaching try to train coaches to plan all training sessions from what they observe in specific games or the game. Using this as a base, I worry a lot more about technique 1. relative to the others, because it is so much more common.

Edited by Decentric: 4/12/2012 10:57:42 PM

Edited by Decentric: 4/12/2012 10:58:21 PM

[quote=Decentric]2.KNVB and FFA Advanced Coaching try to train coaches to plan all training sessions from what they observe in specific games or the game. Using this as a base, I worry a lot more about technique 1. relative to the others, because it is so much more common.

Edited by Decentric: 4/12/2012 10:57:42 PM

Alot of coaches struggle to coach/observe the game and find it easier to do isolated practice. heck even trials for one APL junior clubs were based on 1 hour of isolated drills to select 3/4 of squad, guess they couldnr observe the game as well.
At the end of the day you are there to produce players that can play in the game not be the half time enternainment ala billy wingrove.



Edited by dirkvanadidas: 5/12/2012 02:14:08 PM

Of course they struggle if they haven't been trained to do it.

I'd suggest to anyone reading this to do a Regional FFA C Licence. You will get plenty of training in game analysis. I'm finding the KNVB was good precursory practice. When I did KNVB I was out of my depth for the first 5 days. There are coaches I'm training with now who are struggling, but they will get there eventually.

FFA have also conceded they are concerned about the quality of their Community football coaching courses. If one does the Advanced Coaching C Licence, it costs $1200 to $1600. It will take about 11 days. It is a third of the price of the Centralised C Licence.

I've been doing it for 4 years now. By doing it one improves. I still do some isolated practice, but I'm constantly thinking of ways to incorporate isolated practice into a game centred exercise.

Anyway Dirk, to select players performing isolated practice is bizarre.:roll:

Are you Donna Duke on Football Anarchy?

Edited by Decentric: 6/12/2012 11:02:03 PM