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Author: Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/technical-coaching
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 3It’s a bit like the Messi vs Ronaldo debate, why pick sides, enjoy both. Personally I think both are absolutely necessary depending on the development stage of the players. You could even add unopposed with interference in there as well, there’s a lot of hate for passive defending as well but I’ve used it in the past.Great post, really interested to see everyone else’s thoughts. 👍🏻1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 3It’s a bit like the Messi vs Ronaldo debate, why pick sides, enjoy both. Personally I think both are absolutely necessary depending on the development stage of the players. You could even add unopposed with interference in there as well, there’s a lot of hate for passive defending as well but I’ve used it in the past.Great post, really interested to see everyone else’s thoughts. 👍🏻1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 3It’s a bit like the Messi vs Ronaldo debate, why pick sides, enjoy both. Personally I think both are absolutely necessary depending on the development stage of the players. You could even add unopposed with interference in there as well, there’s a lot of hate for passive defending as well but I’ve used it in the past.Great post, really interested to see everyone else’s thoughts. 👍🏻1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 3 (edited)@Jamie Birch Yeah, I agree with you. These comparisons and debates are sometimes a silly use of your time.If one person knew how to develop an elite player and knew the methodology to implement to create professional players, that person would be very rich indeed.Instead, there are people saying how to do it, but not actually having any verifiable evidence on it working. As I always say, implement the methodology that suits your environment, your players, and your needs at that time.1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 3@Jamie Birch I think it’s more important that you attempt to train at a proper game like pace. You literally never get a chance to do something half speed in a game, however if you train at the right pace with or without a defender when it gets to the game at least you’ve been doing it at the same speed you need to be effective.I think our bodies all need to learn the right mechanics and it takes some grooving in over time to have the proper feelings. That can happen at a low speed. But once you… See more2Reply
Liam Milburn
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Liam Milburn • Aug 4Obviously there is no right or wrong answer. However I’ve found the ability of the group matters. For my more able groups I do less unopposed, because I know a lot of them are getting technical unopposed training outside of the session, so I tend to focus more on 1v1s/2v2s and small sided games and match related scenarios. Where as I coach lots of children who’s only time they play football is the 1 hour a week they come to the afterschool session, so tend to focus more on unopposed as I don’t t… See more3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 4@Liam Milburn Hi Liam, i think that’s a great approach. I try to get some 1v1 / 2v2 work in all of sessions, i like to do 5 mins of unopposed ball mastery (normally races to make it competitive) and then straight into the 1v1 / 2v2 work so they can trasfer the technical into skill work. That’s just my personal approach to the players i have at the moment though!2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 4@Liam Milburn Hi Liam, I agree with Jamie, I think that’s a great approach, and it’s something that’s often overlooked.We often try to create a methodology or framework for all players, when in reality players are at different ages and stages and have different requirements.It’s a cliché, but you have to coach the person in front of you. I think a lot of coaches, including myself, forget that sometimes.2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Aug 4I think about it in terms of noise, where noise is the complexity of the activity (space, time, number of people, number of balls etc. etc). Then as @Jamie Birch and @Liam Milburn say, think about what the kids/players in front of you need - what level of noise do they need? Depends on the age/stage. As @Chris Unruh points out cones don’t play on a Saturday or Sunday so you have to have more noise to get skill in context at some point. I’ve done sessions with U6’s where activities are unopposed … See more1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 4@Stephen Kavanagh Really goos insight thanks Stephen - can you tell me more about the specific work you did with the winger? what prompted you to do the individual work?0Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Aug 4It was a theoretical example @Jamie Birch although I did do this last year with one of our kids as he has lightening pace but always receives the ball facing the ball, doesn’t move and stops it dead 9 times out of 10. So initially standing on a cone, me passing the ball in and getting him to receive back foot, sideways on. Then to think about the first touch as a pass to himself either inside the cone or outside it (so imagine the cone is a static defender and you are playing away from pressure,… See more3Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 5@Stephen Kavanagh that’s a great saying compass to yourself with the first touch. I often say you need a good first touch to be able to do anything with your second. Sounds like a great drill for that type of player . Did it click in game afterwards?2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Aug 5@Chris Unruh Not until about a month ago, so about 9 months!!3Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 4Love this - i always talk about a “positive first touch” with my players as well, wether this is away from pressure or into the direction you want to travel. Really good feedback thanks Stephen.1Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • Aug 4Receiving one the back foot, snapping the hips and the importance of the first touch are so important and something I’d not really picked up on until about 2.5 years ago. Since then we’ve done a lot of it. Rondos are great for coaching this (and letting the ball run across your body) too.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 4 (edited)Good debate, guys.I always talk to my players about dictating through the pass. So, at the senior/adult level If someone passes it towards my front foot, that tells me that I have pressure behind me and I need to receive, protect, and link play.If they pass to my back foot, that tells me I need to open my hips and my shoulders, take a positive first touch forward and go forward.If I then combine that dictation through the pass with the receiver scanning and being aware, then, for me, you’ve cove… See more2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 4@Kevin Middleton Really like this level of detail1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 4@Jamie Birch I sometimes think that when you get to a certain level and you’re coaching, it’s not about the detail in your exercises or the kind of exercises that you do. It’s about little details that help players on a match day build relationships in their units so that they make fewer mistakes in all phases of the game.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 30I found this thread by accident this morning. There are some really good points in it that are balanced, well thought put, and sensible2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • Oct 30@Kevin Middleton I had completely missed this thread - there is some excellent detail in here. 👌2Reply
Mateusz Pelikanski
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Mateusz Pelikanski • Oct 30At what age do you start implementing observation in your daily training?0Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 30@Mateusz Pelikanski Hi Mateusz, what do you mean by observations? Video analysis?0Reply
Mateusz Pelikanski
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Mateusz Pelikanski • Oct 30In Poland, we talk about observation as scanning, perception. Your players clearly do a lot of this before receiving the ball, so it must have been implemented earlier.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 30@Mateusz Pelikanski I get you now.I started to form the habit early on by asking player to lift their head and to be aware of the space.This then develops into turning the head to scan behind. It could be as simple as a passing exercise like the diagram - the players wear different coloured bibs, and before receiving the pass, you must call the colour of the bib behind you.However, none of this teaches intentional scanning, but this comes after we have formed the habit and awareness.We need to t… See more0Reply
Mateusz Pelikanski
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Mateusz Pelikanski • Oct 30Thank you for the explanation. I was wondering about this because our players seem to be lacking in this area. I’m wondering if we shouldn’t first develop proper technique and then develop the habit of observation.2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Oct 30@Mateusz Pelikanski There is no right or wrong way, and everyone has an opinion on these areas.I would say that technique and awareness go hand in hand at younger age groups.Then we can teach players to pass, combine, tactics, and factors to win football matches without them struggling to implement these via:Being technically deficientorSuffering from a lack of awarenessHowever, other coaches online will say that the above is incorrect and that if an exercise doesn’t involved decision making then it has no value.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 16dBumping this. Anyone else got thoughts on the subject?1Reply