Good session. Coaching depends on your philosophy. Do you teach technical skills in context or in an isolated environment? Most players can be taught in isolation but few can complete these skills in context. Getting young players to have vision, understand the visual cues, then act correctly is what all coaches like to see. Isolated training has a place perhaps in warm-ups, own time or academies but adding real opposition as soon as possible saves time and creates a real game environment. Your 8v8 game could be played 3-1-3 + keeper to start teaching positional play of the 4:3:3 system. The Dutch only reduce the complexity of game to no opposition if they cannot solve the problems they see. Coaches are problem solvers


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I thought I'd use this blog to talk you through a typical session I would run for my 12 year olds and let you download the session plan.
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