By Decentric - 17 Mar 2012 10:29 AM
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/2209861830/Coaching-the-coaches
Above is a link posted to me from a significant entity within the FFA coaching hierarchy to explain the Skills Acquisition Programme. I'll be watching the SAP next week in this state.
The one thing that is useful in this video is that a lot of dribbling technique involves teaching the body swerve as a fundamental technique as a platform to teach more difficult techniques. The body swerve is the simplest way to wrong foot oppoenents. It is a basic technique where less can can malfunction under match pressure. If a player can do it on both sides of the body, there is an argument they don't need much else.
I'm not sure which city this is in, I'm assuming Melbourne or Sydney. Someone will recognise the background.
What surprises me is the calibre of players. In a girls rep team I coached a few years ago , who won a state title, but I've been told since at least half the team weren't good enough to even play at rep level, the few who were the better players could body swerve much better than the players in this FFA video with Han Berger and Alfred Galustian in it.
In the Skills Acquisition programme in the south of this state there were 67 applicants for the 12 years of age group. Only 20 were selected. I would have thought that the kids in the group in this video, would have been selected from maybe 400 players?
I'd be interested in Aussiesrus's assessment of these kids compared to what he has seen at ASA.
Or Gregory Parker's evaluation having coached elite teams.
Or Midfield Maestro's appraisal, who has a relative playing at underage elite level.
Or Arthur's assessment compared to the kids at his club.
Or Krones who has seen Queensland elite teams.
To me these kids aren't performing this technique as well as average players at FFES. The ball seems to be too far from the body, there is no change of pace from the fake to the outside of the foot dribble and the shoulder and hips don't move enough in the fake.
What do others think if you've seen elite kids at 12 -13 years old?
Also the adult coach demonstrating a double step over or body swerve and scoring a goal had the ball too close to his feet.
This is in no way designed to denigrate the FFA SAP programme. It is more to evaluate the calibre of players in this SAP.
Edited by Decentric: 17/3/2012 10:30:49 AM
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By juniorcoach - 2 Mar 2016 9:10 AM
Can someone from NSW fill us in on how the Small sided Football for under 12s is running this year? Is it box to box or across ground? Are parents reffing the games or is a ref allocated. Any other feedback would be great. Cheers
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