By mahony - 5 Apr 2011 1:59 PM
Excellent article - and the 1st to raise it as a question and encourage debate. This debate is too often couched in terms of is the 433 mandate the right thing from the kids clinics up to the Socceroos, but this was never the intention of the Football Development Plan. The key word here is "development" and the adoption of a national 433 framework was alway intended in a development context.
My understanding of this is that in a development context 433 requires a level of technical; and tactical dicipline and creaticity that other systems don't. When Australia is a developing nation in football terms it makes a lot of sense to mandate such a framework - in effect focusing limited resources on a national approach to ensure consistency and facilitate performance measurement and [hopefuly] immprovement.
Australia is not Asia and it is not Europe or the UK - it is Australia and it is developing in its own cultural and historical context. I, for one. think the FFA have the policy right - but with so much they have done, got the communication all wrong.
What do you think about the FourFourTwo blog Is There An Australian Style of Football??
In 1606, Dutch sailors made their first landfall on Australian shores. They had relied on information from the Portuguese and Spanish, who were the only Europeans to venture into the Pacific during th...
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By cardiff10 - 7 Apr 2011 7:43 PM
I have no problem with the really young kids playing SSF, but I'm just one of those people who believes they should be playing the real thing once they get to 11's. The NC can still apply to full 11v11 games on full fields, it just requires clubs to hand out copies of coaching guidlines to each of their teams' coaches. That way players are learning to play with the full space of the pitch with a full team earlier, but are still learning to use one-touch passing to safe, easy options and then run into space to receive (which is basically what SSF is designed to teach). It's just a difference of opinion as to the age at which kids begin playing the real thing. In my club we've already seen the benifit of it too, we had to have a few U12's kids fill in for us in the last game of the season last year(we were in 17's) and they slotted straight into our system and had no problem playing our style of football. That's proof enough that this NC program gets results. Btw, if you're wondering why a 17's team had to get 12's to fill in, it's because the older teams (14's and 15's) were palying away from home that game...and i'll add this, there's a certain african-australian kid by the name of Aaron who has a shitload of potential, he shredded our opposition with his dribbling skills and his passing was spot on. He now plays rep! Don't be surprised if he's playing in the HAL in about 5 years.
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