Youth football coaching - any advice?
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I'm after a bit of advice or at least help toward the direction of some decent reading material.
I've recently taken on the role of team manager for my sons U7's team, we're two games into the season so far and the kids are enjoying it but i'm struggling for training ideas that keep the lads attention and keep them all involved.
I'm finding it hard to get across to them that they need to tackle the other players, in training and amongst themselves the boys are brilliant, in the matches though they stand off the other players and almost daren't challenge them. Also, they don't understand the positions they are in and how to keep their shape.
Can anyone give me some advice that could help with these things?
I realise they're only 6, of course it has to be fun but the two teams we've played so far have played us off the park, mainly down to their discipline and passing.
I've recently taken on the role of team manager for my sons U7's team, we're two games into the season so far and the kids are enjoying it but i'm struggling for training ideas that keep the lads attention and keep them all involved.
I'm finding it hard to get across to them that they need to tackle the other players, in training and amongst themselves the boys are brilliant, in the matches though they stand off the other players and almost daren't challenge them. Also, they don't understand the positions they are in and how to keep their shape.
Can anyone give me some advice that could help with these things?
I realise they're only 6, of course it has to be fun but the two teams we've played so far have played us off the park, mainly down to their discipline and passing.
Gargamel said:
Ok, Keep it simple
Tell your defenders to stay inside their half. Tell them they must stand between your goal and any opposition players (ie never let an opponent in behind them)
Tell them to play the way they are facing - so if they are running back, don't stop and turn, just kick the ball out or pass it to the other defender.
In terms of coaching tackling. Get your team in a circle, a biggish one. one ball, tell them to pass across the circle.
Put one player in the middle, who must chase the ball and tackle, win the ball. Full speed shout at them, they mustn't stand off. This also helps your standing players time passes and control / pass.
Hope this helps, Just remember it is fun.
Thanks Gargamel, i'll keep at it.Tell your defenders to stay inside their half. Tell them they must stand between your goal and any opposition players (ie never let an opponent in behind them)
Tell them to play the way they are facing - so if they are running back, don't stop and turn, just kick the ball out or pass it to the other defender.
In terms of coaching tackling. Get your team in a circle, a biggish one. one ball, tell them to pass across the circle.
Put one player in the middle, who must chase the ball and tackle, win the ball. Full speed shout at them, they mustn't stand off. This also helps your standing players time passes and control / pass.
Hope this helps, Just remember it is fun.
Well, I changed the formation to 2-3-1 this weekend from 3-2-1 and we had a much better game, we still lost, but we got our first goal and should have scored alot more. The lads were great at running forward with some great passing and bits of skill, running back to defend was were we fell apart as they didn't have the legs toward the end of the game. More subs would have helped I think.
Thanks chaps, doing the course has been mentioned to me but i'd rather wait and see if coaching is something I really want to commit to first. I'm enjoying it so far but trying to contain my own competitive nature is a challenge, some lads want to score and win and nothing else matters, others just turn up because their dads want them to and have no interest whatsoever, tricky managing parents expectations aswell as their childrens sometimes.
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