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And we're off.... [FFT Blog]


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By General Ashnak - 17 Mar 2011 10:21 AM

I will preface this by stating I have never coached, but with regard to getting the kids some positional awareness canyou line mark out the 8v8 areas? I suggest this because you could essentially limit them in the same way as kids are in net ball, 2 players from each team allowed to be in the defensive 3rd, 2 players from each teamin the offensive 3rd, 4 players from each team in the transitional 3rd. Each team has 1 player who is allowed to roam the whole field and the ball must be passed not carried from 1 zone to the next.

There are probably some better suggestions but that may help your players to understand why positioning on the field is so important.


What do you think about the FourFourTwo blog And we're off....?
So our development squad season has begun and we're 3 weeks in to our season although the kids haven't started playing club football yet for another 2-3 weeks.
The first thing that has struck me - ap...

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By dirkvanadidas - 19 Apr 2011 2:53 PM

Andy Jackson wrote:
Choice of 8 v 8 was a purely logistical one...we've got 32 players...2 games of 8 v 8 means all players involved.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice the theory for the reality with such a big group.


have you tried the dutch circuit model ?
you could set up a number of different conditioned games as well as have a technical part, you rotate players around every 15 mins, used to work for the 24 age 8 players i took.
The key is to get them used to the games and after a few weeks they will start to play almost without supervision.