Game Changing Youth Soccer Exercise!!!!!!

4 goal games and why they are so important for youth development!
00:00 Start
00:24 What is a 4 goal game?
01:05 Why use 4 goal games?
06:27 Examples of 4 goal games
#youthsoccer #soccerexercises #coachrorysoccer #4goalgames #youthsoccertraining

[@user-fc8ri2df5v]

The Rec team I coached this season went undefeated and it’s in no small part due to the wisdom shared in your videos. You can tell you put a lot of time and care into these videos and I wanted to let you know it’s very much appreciated.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

That’s awesome!! Congratulations and thank you for the kind words!!

[@josew.6423]

I've used these drills and they are very helpful, also to avoid bunching. Thanks for the vids!

[@lobachevskyyy]

Hey, Rory. Your content is awesome. I've been studying it for the last several months to prepare myself for coaching a u10 team for the first time. I've been doing the four goal game for a few weeks now and my players keep clumping up. Last practice I made a change that really helped me and i want to share it with your subscribers. I decided to split the four goal field into two with all red cones down the middle. We first practiced 1v2 and 2v2 scenarios on one side for a while (using concepts from your boot and defend videos). After we did that, we played the 4 goal game, but I told my players that the red cone line was actually lava and only the centers on each team had lava boots that let them go across it. The difference was night and day! Saw some awesome 1v2 and 2v2 scenarios and the girls even started picking up on switching the field. I placed the red cones about 2 ft apart and used those short small ones, so it was very obvious where the line was. My plan is to steadily use less red cones once they are conditioned to not cross the line. Let me know what you think! I have parents who played semi professionally and college players who are coming up and complimenting me on how well I coach, but I just follow your content b.c. I'm not a soccer player 😅. Thanks!

[@CoachRorySoccer]

That’s great! Yes breaking down like that is a great idea. I have a video planned soon about breaking it down like that for building out. Great stuff!!

[@lobachevskyyy]

Awesome looking forward to the video! (Boot i meant bootb = build out of the back)

[@karumehuie1407]

Great information

[@icavaliere]

Great ideas, thank you! I coach Under 10s and will be using 4 goal games as an arrival activity when we start our next block of learning.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Great! Let me know how it goes!

[@mattward4118]

thank you for your video content. it is much appreciated.

[@shmanessa8]

Just found your videos! Absolutely love them and your approach. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your knowledge. 👍🏻

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Awesome! Let me know if I can help your team in anyway!!

[@davidscheltz]

Thanks for this coach! I have been using 4-goal games in practice but this video provides a lot of great coaching prompts to go with them.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Awesome!!

[@CoachStefanoSoccer]

4 goal games are such a necessity. So many more decisions players have to make!

[@CoachRorySoccer]

💯

[@MrBrauk]

I understand that it is preferred to teach in the flow. If the players are very new and continue to clump, would you suggest using three different colored cones in place of the attacking team? The coach would call out a color cone simulating which attacker has the ball. The coach could then observe how the defenders transition between supporting and pressuring.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Yeah that’s a good idea!

[@LuisMartinez-li3kb]

This exercise kills two birds with one stone. Will definitely be adding this exercise to my practices. My rec team just ended the season in third place. I'm already making plans to teach build out play for next season. Do you have any advice on teaching 1st year or weaker players on reaching a level that they can attempt build out?

[@CoachRorySoccer]

As long as they are playing in the right level league they should be able to do my pattern choreography. Build out is the first part of that. I am going to make a video purely on pattern choreography as well.

[@dustinsellers94]

A lot of these drills only utilize 6 players at a time taking up half the field. I only have a half field to coach with. What do you do with the other players during these drills?

[@CoachRorySoccer]

So you could set up two games on 1/4 pitch as well. Or sometimes I have the remaining players in rondo next to the game. It shouldn’t take up a whole half of a field unless your doing 5v5 or 6v6.

[@FreddoFluffy23]

Hey mate, thank you so much for this content. I recently started coaching U9s, we are currently in pre-season with lots of kids at training - I has 16 the other day. Currently I don't have any help, would you suggest straight into 4 x 4 then switching in a new team each time a team scores?

[@FreddoFluffy23]

Excuse the user name, just realised my son changed it 😂. Cheers, Michelle

[@CoachRorySoccer]

You could setup four 2v2s. Even if you don’t have enough goals could just use cones to setup goals.

[@FreddoFluffy23]

@Coach Rory Soccer thank you, appreciate you getting back to me.

[@Jason01205]

Hi Rory I think with your help my son is doing really good in training defence (cover space) attack the ball etc now I want to tech him howw can he use and work with team mate what exercises you sugest? Thank you so much he is 8

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Four goal games are great for defending as a unit. Plus quick transition to attack once ball is won.

[@Jason01205]

@@CoachRorySoccer thank you so much

[@ai79]

What's the youngest age where you'd introduce 4 goal games - do you think it's too complicated for beginner U7s?

[@CoachRorySoccer]

3v3 four goal game can be done by that age you just to be patient it will take them a while to get it. But stick to it and you’ll see great results.

[@ai79]

thank you!

[@arpangurung4061]

Hey i am a coach currently pursuing c diploma AFC, what should be the condition if i ask players to play pressing game to disturb build up pay of opponent in 7v7 game.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

When should you press? In a sense your always pressing just at what level of the pitch. In 7v7 my experience unfortunately is most team prefer to boot it far down the field. In that case I would just press with your striker and sit back with the rest. If the team is building out then I’d try high pressing them and see how successful you are with it. Pull it back a bit if they are breaking it consistently

[@Landondorantes1]

Do you have a video or suggestion on equipment? What have you found to be helpful?

[@CoachRorySoccer]

What type of equipment? Goals - I use Puggs. Balls really don’t matter brand. Same with cones.

[@jp-2468]

@@CoachRorySoccer What size goal do you use? (9U)

[@CoachRorySoccer]

@@jp-2468 for the 4 goals games? I use pugg goals.

[@jp-2468]

@@CoachRorySoccer Yes. Pugg has 6 foot, 4 foot, and 3 foot options.

[@CoachRorySoccer]

@@jp-2468 6 foot

[@MikeBaas]

We are definitely better at switching as a result of 4 goals games!

[@CoachRorySoccer]

Awesome! Hoping to have new vids out soon holidays took a toll!