By Decentric - 30 Mar 2011 6:03 PM
This afternoon I took what I thought was an under 12 boys club team, for a session for the 20 year old TD to evaluate me as being useful for his region. The committee will make a decision to support a mate's and my soccer school.
I did an abnormally heavy technical session, qualitatively and quantitively, which took close to 50 minutes. I wanted to show the TD a range of exercises taken with the players in his team. Normally I would head into SSGs and game related drills after 30 minutes of specific technique work.
We did:
* Individual juggling.
* Juggling in pairs.
* Inside of the foot passing 100 times to another player from 3 metres away, both feet, non-kicking foot 90 degrees to the ball, with head over it.
Stationary techniques:
1. Inside of the foot left to right.
2. Brazilian inside sole of foot left to right.
3. Sole of foot pushed right out in front and back, right and left, left and right.
4. Brazilian step overs, stationary.
5. Reverse step overs stationary.
* Alternate sole of foot dribbling b/w two markers
* Single sole of foot backwards dribbling for 5 metres, then back on other foot.
* Dribbled for 10 metres and back using inside left and right foot.
* Body swerve 10 metres and back.
* The inside, outside with one foot dribbling the ball (Matthews Cut) at 45 degrees for 10 metres to a cone, returning with the other foot.
* Body swerve with passive defender moving towards them, alternating roles.
* Brazilian step overs, this time seeing how many they could do by kicking the ball then seeing how many they could do before they stopped.
* Then they did the Cruyff Cut/Turn with both feet between two markers 10 metres apart.
This was followed with a range of Christiano Ronaldo diagonal sole of the foot dribbling with one touch, then a succession of:
* Reverse step over (Ronaldo)
* Brazilian step over (Ronalddinho)
* Outside of the foot cut (Kleberson)
These three aforementioned Brazilian deception techniques were done dribbling 10 metres forwards and backwards. This was then followed by:
1. Dribbling around cones and
2. Dribbling around a passive defender.
These three techniques are frequently performed by Christiano Ronaldo. One can add the Rivelino elastic, but I'm hopeless at it. Ironically, the other soccer school coach's boys can both do it (keepers). A NTC player can too.
All the above techniques were demonstrated by me VERY SLOWLY, EMPHASISING KNVB FOCUS ON ACQUIRING TECHNIQUE WITH INITIAL SLOW MOVES. Then the kids did them.
I didn't have time for the standard cut, the Garrincha and the Emerson, three other of Christiano R's favourites.
I ran out of time for:
*The outside of the foot pass, KNVB method.
* Three pass and move techniques from UEFA , KNVB and Barcelona Academy drills.
* We then did a KNVB diagonal dribbling relay.
As soon as players had finished racing, they had to do a range of the five aforementioned stationary techniques. Any time players were waiting for a partner to carry out an exercise through cones etc, if stationary, they had to keep touching the ball. This was a lot of fun.
* Then we finished with two 4v4 KNVB games, one with two keepers. Both had different grid sizes to combine technique and fitness. One grid had a tiny goal on each line in a square. The other was a little bigger with two full sized goals in a grid about 20 metres by 25 metres.
I ensured that each quartet assumed a diamond shape (1-2-1) to enhance passing lanes, emphasising the KNVB width and depth. There was an onus on fun, but I set up three passing sequences before they could shoot. I also asked them to open passing lanes when they had possession and to close them down when without possession.
This session fitted into 1 hour 20 minutes. The kids had about three drinks breaks, but they were busy the whole time. I also brought kids out to the front and praised them if they were doing any particular technique well. I didn't ask anyone to count the number of touches, but I estimated there were over a 1000.
Dutch, French and German national federations recommend 2000 touches per week for developing players.
Edited by Decentric: 31/7/2012 11:52:13 PM
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By dirkvanadidas - 24 Mar 2013 10:44 PM
Decentric wrote:For anybody who has not tried to do this, it is often so difficult to get a lot of recently arrived migrants playing club football.
Most Aussies, with English as a first language, would have assistance from parents to play at junior or youth level.
In migrant families, the adults often have very limited English, cannot read maps and have no transport. Clubs often expect players to simply turn up, but just getting to training and games is a massive event.
But managed to find Australia on the world map no problems !!
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