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Author: Kabir Hussein Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/players-using-their-voices

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Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24Hey Kabir, this is an extremely common problem - especially at younger age groups. So don’t panic.I’ve done things like call fouls in training for no communication when passing/receiving. Harsh one but i’ve also blown the whistle and given small team punishments if a game or drill goes quiet for a set amount of time (short run or press ups).It’s about instilling it as a behaviour. Question - do you do a lot of shouting yourself from the sideline in a game?3Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24Hey Kabir, this is an extremely common problem - especially at younger age groups. So don’t panic.I’ve done things like call fouls in training for no communication when passing/receiving. Harsh one but i’ve also blown the whistle and given small team punishments if a game or drill goes quiet for a set amount of time (short run or press ups).It’s about instilling it as a behaviour. Question - do you do a lot of shouting yourself from the sideline in a game?3Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24Hey Kabir, this is an extremely common problem - especially at younger age groups. So don’t panic.I’ve done things like call fouls in training for no communication when passing/receiving. Harsh one but i’ve also blown the whistle and given small team punishments if a game or drill goes quiet for a set amount of time (short run or press ups).It’s about instilling it as a behaviour. Question - do you do a lot of shouting yourself from the sideline in a game?3Reply

Brian Willis

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Brian Willis • Oct 24I have somewhat of the opposite problem. I have a few good communicators on my team, the problem is that most of the boys need to learn to listen for each other.2Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Brian Willis as in they won’t take in communication from others?1Reply

Brian Willis

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Brian Willis • Oct 24@Jamie Birch For some yes, my guess is the others just aren’t actively listening. Its just not part of their game yet.3Reply

Ross Whitehead🔥

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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 24It’s the same with our U11 boys. We have one kid that talks non-stop, but all the others pretty much play in silence. When they’re off the pitch the never shut up, so it is quite confusing 😵‍💫3Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Ross Whitehead you’ll very rarely get all 11 at it, but if you can have a good core of 5-6 players (preferabley down the spine) that are good communicators that’s ideal.3Reply

Stephen Kavanagh

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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 24Our team is slowly evolving to better communicators on the pitch - they are doing more of it as they get older naturally and as they recognise that they get an advantage in the game from doing it. It still isn’t great/enough of them but a big improvement on a year ago. We haven’t done anything to encourage it and as coaches we are pretty quiet during play.2Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Stephen Kavanagh it’s a good approach to be quiet from the sidelines (not an easy one), but players are more likely to be quiet if they are used to the coach giving all of the instruction. Like you say it will evolve as they get older for sure.1Reply

Stephen Kavanagh

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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 24We used to have an issue with them calling for the ball when they were behind a sea of legs or in an impossible position or distance, they seem to have grown out of that.3Reply

Ross Whitehead🔥

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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 24@Stephen Kavanagh this is about the only time our kids are vocal - when they want the ball, but it can’t possibly reach them1Reply

Stephen Kavanagh

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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 24@Ross Whitehead 🤣🤣1Reply

Jess Knox

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Jess Knox • Oct 24IMO this issue for 9-13 year olds, requires a solve that really considers the gender of players. Girls and boys have much different social emotional steps here and need different techniques. I’ve done it poorly and unsuccessfully in the past! For boys, at this age, I might use a rondo or positional play game and ask them to come up with the 3-4 things that each team can say. Divide the into groups before hand and have them come up with the things to say - in the larger group use questions to foc… See more3Reply

Kevin Middleton⭐🔥

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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 24@Jess Knox Brilliant post, Jess!1Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Jess Knox Great advice!1Reply

Stephen Kavanagh

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Stephen Kavanagh • Oct 24@Jess Knox I find girls are much more receptive to ideas if they know why, whereas boys run around like idiots ignoring you 😂1Reply

Jess Knox

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Jess Knox • Oct 24@Stephen Kavanagh for sure. And the social dynamics are just diff. With girls, we do a lot of “turn and discuss w your teammate” interventions and cold call to help every player feel comfortable with taking the risk. In some matches we’ve used “passing with information” as a metric” and had a less crazy parent help us count as a team (not as individuals).3Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Jess Knox really like this!1Reply

Mark Wiltens

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Mark Wiltens • Oct 24I actually think you should not worry that much about it at that age. They are still learning themselves a lot about the game and talking and therefore helping others is a pretty hard job to do. Furthermore they probably have so much more stuff to learn to help them develop beside coaching each other.I also do not train or coach players on talking on the pitch besides asking for the ball and motivating each other upto the U13 age.In my U15 team we are making a start with calling directions now. … See more3Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 24@Mark Wiltens great advice Mark 👍1Reply

Kevin Middleton⭐🔥

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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 24I always said put an XBox headset on them at training and they’ll never shut up….!I’ve loved reading through this thread. Love the little bits of feedback everyone has provided.Got to remember that everyone is different at the various ages. The quiet ones may become vocal and the vocal ones quiet.How do we teach players what to say? The keywords that we need on game days4Reply

Sean Ancheta

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Sean Ancheta • Oct 26@Kabir Hussein Are there certain things you want the players to communicate? I’m in agreeance with many here that at that age its hard regardless but not impossible.If there are certain things you want them to communicate, I would try and apply a word or two in practice, in context of how you want those words to be used.I coach middle school, so I have players around that age. I have only taught them 4 words to communicate in the field. “Drop, square, through, man on.” We apply those words in context in practice so everyone is on the same page.2Reply

Kabir Hussein

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Kabir Hussein • Oct 26@Sean Ancheta for me it’s mainly things like man on, I’m free when their teammate is in trouble, just little bit of information to help each other.1Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 26@Kabir Hussein if you can start with “time” and “man on” everything will build from there 👍🏻2Reply

Sean Ancheta

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Sean Ancheta • Oct 27 (edited)@Jamie Birch A square pass is a horizontal pass. So the players would to run to either sideline.2Reply

Jamie Birch🔥

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Jamie Birch🔥 • Oct 27@Sean Ancheta Ah got it, sorry didn’t know if it was a reference to a compactness or not. Makes sense!3Reply