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Author: Ross Whitehead🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/players-going-for-the-same-ball
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Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 20dI deal with this to varying degrees all the time. Like you I try to get them to focus on communication, but with mixed results. The other thing I do is get them to think about who is closest to the ball. Between the two approaches they all seem to get it sooner or later.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 20dI deal with this to varying degrees all the time. Like you I try to get them to focus on communication, but with mixed results. The other thing I do is get them to think about who is closest to the ball. Between the two approaches they all seem to get it sooner or later.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 20dI deal with this to varying degrees all the time. Like you I try to get them to focus on communication, but with mixed results. The other thing I do is get them to think about who is closest to the ball. Between the two approaches they all seem to get it sooner or later.2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 20d@Brian Willis What stood out last night was two kids sprinting for the ball from different angles. Neither looked up, eyes were fixed on the ball, but they just tackled each other. Both on the floor and out of the game while the ball broke down our end. So frustrating!How do we train that other than in free-play matches? And even then it doesn’t seem to happen that often in those games, it’s more in our 9-aside matches.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 20d@Ross Whitehead Scanning is something I’m convinced some players will just never get, no matter how much you try. But maybe it’s just a limitation of my coaching at the moment.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 20dScanning and awareness, communication is only possible if you’re aware of your surroundings and you have something to convey from what you’ve seen.It also comes more with experience. You could look for specific scanning exercises, but i would just play lots more small sided games (3v3, 4v4 max) and land the scanning coaching points within it.1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 20d@Brian Willis Scanning is definitely something that our group needs to be taught. We’ve just not had the opportunity yet.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 20d@Ross Whitehead Like i say you don’t need to do specific exercises, but build it into every exercise. Ultimatley, you need to teach them what they should be looking for.1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 20d@Jamie Birch I’ll have to have a quick chat with them next week. I was planning to use crossing the road as an example of the principle of why we scan or check our shoulders, when I get the chance.1Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • 20dI’m not sure this has completely gone away for us at U16 - but that’s more of a product of us not being the biggest, most physical team (and too polite) so it often takes more than one to win a tackle. But when it was more pronounced and less tactical, maybe at U9, 10 in particular we used to shout freeze and both players (or more) would have to stand still for 5 seconds until we shouted unfreeze. It did help, and we even did it on a matchday a few times which must have looked bonkers.With the b… See more2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 20d@Stephen Kavanagh Sounds good Stephen, you don’t happen to have your set of terms?1Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • 19d@Ross Whitehead No, I didn’t have them back then, it is something I would have to create if back at that stage. Sorry!2Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • 19d@Ross Whitehead I would try having players get used to calling the players name they are passing it to. That way theres no debate who my through pass was going to, or to whom my cross was going to. It also helps alert the player who got called to be ready for what’s coming. If your name wasn’t called, the player should relocate to a position that could help their teammate. That might be another thing to train.2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 19d@Sean Ancheta Cheers Sean. We do get them to call names if we’re doing a passing drill, but they stop if we don’t keep on top of it. Something to work on!2Reply
Sean Ancheta
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Sean Ancheta • 19d@Ross Whitehead My players have the same issue at times. We went from not taking at all to at least saying each others names.One thing I’ve noticed is there are players who take away a pass from another player because they have less confidence in that player or fear that player will just lose the ball. Thats a whole separate issue.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 18dRoss, if they have that aggression and will to win the ball, I think those are really positive things…. as a lot of players don’t.If it is becoming a problem then I would play 4 goal small-sided games with consequences (concede and you rotate off type of consequences). And as soon as the situation happens in the SSG and the team concede, I would stop the session for one minute to explain what you saw and ask the players how they can avoid it in future.They may not even realise that it is happe… See more2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 18d@Kevin Middleton Thanks Kevin, we’ll keep an eye on this and use that SSG if the situation doesn’t improve.2Reply