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Author: Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/question-from-a-coach
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 18Agree Kevin - i really like this exercise and use it a lot. You get a goal for scoring in the mini goals, but 3 goals for running the ball through the poles in the centre (you could use another goal).Emphasis is on protecting the centre from a defensive point of view but there is still reward for a switch of play.Might do this one for drill of the week this week!2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 18Agree Kevin - i really like this exercise and use it a lot. You get a goal for scoring in the mini goals, but 3 goals for running the ball through the poles in the centre (you could use another goal).Emphasis is on protecting the centre from a defensive point of view but there is still reward for a switch of play.Might do this one for drill of the week this week!2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 18Agree Kevin - i really like this exercise and use it a lot. You get a goal for scoring in the mini goals, but 3 goals for running the ball through the poles in the centre (you could use another goal).Emphasis is on protecting the centre from a defensive point of view but there is still reward for a switch of play.Might do this one for drill of the week this week!2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 18Link to it below:https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/classroom/386a4d10?md=ee87ae5be4294f8abeb53d03cf50fa481Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 18@Jamie Birch Love it 👏1Reply
Justin Shiltz
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Justin Shiltz • Aug 18 (edited)Great question & valid concerns by the coach asking. I also like your constraints Kevin, that add to the end goal in mind. IMO, that’s the beauty & value of SSGs when trying to teach a specific action/learned team behavior/concept/etc. The one thing for me that is a constant when teaching defense in a offensive-leaning SSG: pressing triggers, closing down the ball, spacing off the ball. Those are constants one can address, even though the emphasis in the SSG is offense.2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 18@Justin Shiltz I thought it was a great question because without asking it or addressing it, your players will take what they are learning into a game. I’ve fallen into that trap before.And I like SSG with multiple teams and if you concede, then you are off and the next team takes your place. Watch the level of defending go through the roof with that one condition alone.2Reply
Justin Shiltz
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Justin Shiltz • Aug 18Absolutely…1Reply
Sarah Stanczyk
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Sarah Stanczyk • Aug 18Thank you for the feedback! I’m new to the group so just figuring out how all this flows! My 7 yr olds are very advanced technically, so we’ve had to play up quite a bit. Which in turn has exposed our understanding of the game/lack of principles of play specifically in transition moments. We have 3-4 trainings a week, anyone else training that much? how much of the game model/principles would you cover in that time?My thought for this week was Transition D to A - play away from pressure and stre… See more2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 18@Sarah Stanczyk hi Sarah, we’ve had a lot of new people join so this post was just bringing everyone up to speed. It’s great to get different feedback from different coaches.Wow. I wish I got my players that many times per week when I coached at the youth level. What a great opportunity you have to accelerate their football education.I’d be tempted to do two weeks/sessions of the game model with them and then for the other two sessions, just let them play small sided games. That way you are maxi… See more1Reply