Thanks Patrick!

Thank you mate!

@ do you have a DM so I can pick your brains?

They understood what to do, improved their understanding and execute it exactly as instructed whilst having fun and playing football. That’s all we ever try to do.

Each to their own. Kids listen to teachers, videos and parents for a lot longer than a minute at a time. In a one hour session these kids had plenty of ball rolling time, but the detail, the engagement and demonstrations form a vital part of the learning process. They can “just play” in a playground, in a match and in the garden, kids come to football classes to learn and get educated, not just play for extra time. All kids develop through play, but a coaches job should be to accelerate their development through guided discovery and digestable information.

@ i disagree. Ive been coaching for 12 years now. Ive coached from U6 all the way to mens football, and im certified just to share my background to you. Kids dont learn by talking a lot, ive done it and it doesn’t work. It would fly from their heads. Kids learn especially the younger ones when you let them play, and talk play by play for 1-2 minutes max. Mistakes are part of the game, you pick them up one by one not throw so many information at them. They can’t listen for that long. Also kids at 6-7-8-9-10 years of age need to play a lot with the ball, the more they play, the better they will get. Lots of dribbling, lots of different footwork with the ball will give confidence in all the other technical aspect you teach them in the future.

We will carry on educating players the way we see best to do so. We have a coaching team of 20 coaches and have worked with kids from 3 years old to 17s, from absolute beginner, to academy and elite performance. We hold strong in the value that kids are capable of more than most people think, we make our coaching sessions easy to follow, educational, technical, tactical and psychological. This 15 minutes video is from a 60 minute coaching session where every single player got dozens and dozens of repetitions. They all showed huge progress from the start of the session to the end, so clearly it didn’t all fall out of their heads. This group in particular are extremely focused and if you watch the video, you can see they have a strong attention span, hence the longer interactions. But to say coaches are talking too much, without any understanding of the group dynamic or the relationship between the players and coach is a little short sighted. To say that you’ve done it and it doesn’t work, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for all coaches, or for all kids. If coaches are merely there to watch kids play, say well done and give the odd tip to a child in a one hour session, then we believe they are stealing from that child’s development and potential. If every kid was capable of reaching their potential merely through play, without being given context, reasoning, examples and decision guidance, then the playground would produce professional athletes. Every coach would be out of a job.

@ i understand there was an hour of this practice and there was cuts. But the same exact drill in the beginning is explained, and then you got the players to sit down, and teach them the same session plan with the board. You can even tell the kids aren’t fully there. You can literally just do that in the moment of the drill. Pause by showing how to make the right touch yourself as a coach and proceed by making coaching points while it’s being progressed. This is something we call session progression. I understand parent coaches and volunteers struggle with this. But coaches who are actual competitive footballers can easily demonstrate this themselves. Kids like it when you show them yourself and display it. It makes them want to be as good as you. I never said coaches should watch kids play, you obviously didnt read anything I wrote above. I said kids dont listen when you talk for so long. You should show them the move, and speak/teach for a minute. Because kids concentration span is not long enough to understand what you are even saying, they get easily distracted. If a bird flies around, they get distracted by it. Its a childs nature. Which is why even academy like PSV does is to get them to play lots, focus on dribbling, and show them what needs to be done. I do agree with some stuff you said, but just not entirely. You cant treat the sessions for each age the same. Every age should be dealt differently.

The chat with the tactics board is because we are dealing with different learning styles within the group. Some children learn better by doing and watching, some by listening and some need a more classroom style showing to get it to soak in. We try to cover all those styles to make sure things aren’t going over kids heads. You’re right some kids can’t listen for that long, but I’ve worked with this group for 18 months and I assure you, they can. The whole group is developing well and the parents appreciate that they are getting educated about the how’s, whys and when’s of the game rather than just running drills. Everyone has their own style, this is the one that works for us.

You’re so welcome! Good luck!

Search amazon for balance cushions! Thanks so much for the support!

Thanks for the feedback and comment! Unfortunately they don’t touch on stuff like this, I created this channel because it felt like the coaching courses don’t give much information on this stuff! Yes coaching the different options of passes, the context of when to use each one and the technique to play each pass is what makes kids really master passing!

@@CatalanSoccer Thanks, i appreciate that you took time to answer, i have some fun exercises in mind already. Once again thanks! :)

Glad someone noticed that 😂

I had to pause the video and laugh at that one. Then remembered I’m a United fan and cried a little before continuing to watch 😂

I'm sure your daughter works on her weak foot at home. Having players work on their weak foot at practice at this age, with limited practice time, will not help. Its much easier on the coach and the player if you teach strong foot at practice. What they learn at practice regarding strong foot, they can work on at home with weak foot. But having to teach striking on a weak and strong foot means you spend half the time teaching to a strength. Yes kids should work on weak foot, but do that outside of practice time or work it during a scrimmage, not shooting drills. Now if its 3+ practices a week, then yeah you could spend time on weak foot, but most clubs dont have that many practices.

@deront2083 these kids practice weak foot all the time. We practice technique, build fundamentals, understand variables and then we can apply those principles on the weak side. But practicing weak foot without any of this information, we find makes it a much much longer process to develop their weak foot.

Piss off Carl