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Author: Steven Hall Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/training-u9s
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Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Jul 30I usually do shooting arrival 5/10mins they all grab a ball and want to shoot and gives the keeper some training.We generally find mini games work best over drills at this age.Drill area 11v1Ball mastery:opponent mastery (def)Closing space and putting player underProg 2v2 goals in end zones with coaches as overloads in end zones for playing out or passing forward.(I have to pass to the coach to restart play or score a goal)Drill area 23v3 passing and moving drill with forward runsMain game/drill… See more1Reply
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Steven Hall • Jul 30I usually do shooting arrival 5/10mins they all grab a ball and want to shoot and gives the keeper some training.We generally find mini games work best over drills at this age.Drill area 11v1Ball mastery:opponent mastery (def)Closing space and putting player underProg 2v2 goals in end zones with coaches as overloads in end zones for playing out or passing forward.(I have to pass to the coach to restart play or score a goal)Drill area 23v3 passing and moving drill with forward runsMain game/drill… See more1Reply
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Steven Hall • Jul 30I usually do shooting arrival 5/10mins they all grab a ball and want to shoot and gives the keeper some training.We generally find mini games work best over drills at this age.Drill area 11v1Ball mastery:opponent mastery (def)Closing space and putting player underProg 2v2 goals in end zones with coaches as overloads in end zones for playing out or passing forward.(I have to pass to the coach to restart play or score a goal)Drill area 23v3 passing and moving drill with forward runsMain game/drill… See more1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1@Steven Hall any variation of a 4 goal game like Kevin has below. 3v3 I found was a real sweet spot. I would do quick high intensity 2-3 min games and swap out players on the teams so everyone wins at some point.My go-to was starting practices often free shooting or at least shooting on the run. Get every kid some goals that’s why they’re there.On YouTube a guy named coach Rory has a great battle box drill and I liked it so much it became my warmup for kids pre game. So many 1v1 and 2v1 combos a… See more1Reply
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Steven Hall • Jul 30We also use a. So camera so want to incorporate some learning from that but struggle for time to run through it with them0Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1@Steven Hall I would personally only use that camera to watch back myself at this age group. Maybe you can learn some insights about how often a kid always goes right or dives in and make that there personalWork on for the next game.At that age I would always go to kids during warm up and say “my goal for you today is to; “ and it would be unique for each kid. Then pre game we would have one or two team reminders. Halftime/ subs/ or after game reinforce when kids did their work on1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Jul 30Hi Steven, sounds like you’re doing a great job and really thinking about it. Well done.I think if you really wanted to evolve and see a huge benefit in player development that leads into a match day i’d reccomend checking out Kevin’s game model, link below to the classroom course.That shows you, for your age group, what to coach each week and what sessions to deliver, with the coaching points.https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/classroom/62d426ee?md=7931cc4ae08f448bb375339e0faffa7aTake a look… See more2Reply
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30Hi Stephen, I like that image you posted from the English football learning 👏 thanks for sharing.Do you only have 10 players? If so, how old are they?I’ll post an image from an exercise that I absolutely love. You need four mini goals for it, and you can flex it to incorporate more players. If you don’t have many goals, then you can incorporate cone gates. If you only have big goals and goalkeepers, then you can use them instead with the same rules.All the things in the image you posted, you ca… See more2Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Jul 30@Kevin Middleton brilliant mate thanks they are u9’s so they are 8 years old.I seen your post about different drills etc but I didn’t they don’t relate them to a game or improve on a Sunday by changing things to much so my aim is to keep the drills consistent but the learning theme varied so they can take the leadings away from drills that are repetitive, they are basic and they under stand but are also match related so they can cross the small learnings into bigger games.The extra bits you have… See more2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30@Steven Hall The only resources I have are the Player’s Pledge and a Footballer’s DiaryI’m big on rules being explicit so everyone is aware of them and also reflection.If anyone else in the community has anything they’d like to share, then they can do so. And I’ll add them to the section in the classroom.0Reply
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Steven Hall • Jul 30I was planning on doing 2v2 mini games as a team tournament across a few weeks aswell but would need an app to build it into and almost have like a mini league set up to keep it competitive and fun2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30@Steven Hall I’ve done something similar to this in the past where winner stays on, so it’s either one goal or two goals and your team stays on and the opposition rotate in. The overall winner is the team who stay on the most number of games in a row.There are many ways to spin this type of tournament, though.1Reply
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30@Steven Hall You’ve posted some good images today, Stephen.I think Jamie and I need to invest some time into just creating basic, principle documents and images for the purposes of this community.Thank you for that.1Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Jul 30@Kevin Middleton I printed out and laminated a card for training and match days in attacking and defending principles and just kept going over them at breaks and before games will look at tactical one width depth etc as per your message earlier.I find they really helped me as a coach with some consistency across sessions and matches and help the kids think about scenarios more0Reply
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Steven Hall • Jul 30 (edited)I use things like this simple 3v3+gk. 2 teams of 3 rotate and try and best the defenders. Key points pressing and covering. Passing and movement. Then swap around the defenders. Then progress into wide players as neutrals which both teams can use to play out from the back or play wide to attack.Create transitions by restarting with the keeper or playing to the attacking team 👍2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30@Steven Hall I like this exercise.I used to play something similar with a team that I was involved in called the pass-out game. So a team had to pass to neutrals on halfway before attacking a goal. This is a really useful game when you’ve only got one goalkeeper. It practices playing out from the back and then transitioning into an attacking phase.Yours looks a bit more transitional and fast-paced.1Reply
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Stephen Kavanagh • Jul 30@Steven Hall I’ve used this a fair bit to keep track of scores/teams/weeks if we play SSG tournament: https://tournamentscheduler.net/ (looks like their certificate expired)I’ve also used ideas from scoreboard soccer, take a picture of the scoreboard a.d set up again the next week1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Jul 30@Stephen Kavanagh big fan of the scoreboard.I’ll try and find the video where I used two mannequins and the scoreboard was putting a coloured bib on your teams mannequin.The girls loved that1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1I also found that inducing pressure in practice helped them because it’s easy to do things in a relaxed environment but then you show up to a game and some freeze. So I like to build in confidence at this age- through tons of reps- through experience- and just simply pressure.A saying I’ve adopted from the Nike Run Club app to my practices to this age; finish the practice so that the kids want to come back next time. So I always make sure we have five minutes of fun at the end. The go-to this ye… See more1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 1@Chris Unruh Love this Chris - please explain soccer baseball to me please?1Reply
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1It’s quite simple. An absolute elementary school recess staple for me. You play with baseball rules on a baseball diamond or mock up, but instead of a bat you kick it, and instead of throwing the ball from the outfield you have to kick/pass it in. You have a player from your own team be the pitcher and they pass the ball to you and then it’s play on1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • Aug 1Sounds great - i might try that tonight!1Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Aug 1we call it rounders over here we did a proper rounders game at the end of season camping night the lads and parents loved it2Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1There’s videos on YouTube too and some call it kickball, soccer baseball, baseball soccer. There was an awesome video doing the rounds a few weeks ago of adults playing it with slip and slides water paths leading to the bases1Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Aug 1 (edited)@Chris Unruh that sounds class it’s mid summer here and it’s a massive 17degrees mid day today 😂 might be a bit cold for em1Reply
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1I’m not convinced the adults were sober but sounds like your boys are a bit too young for that. It looked like so much fun0Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Aug 1Is battle ships 4 teams on one pitch starting from each side and is it 2 teams vs each other but 4 teams playing at the same time ? If that makes sense ?1Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1@Steven Hall it’s 4 groups of 3 against all of each other. So take the 18 yard box. Set up three cones in each corner of it a couple feet apart with a ball on top. Goal is to knock out other teams by passing or dribbling the ball into knocking out one on the cones. Three strikes your teams out.The fun part is when teams link up and the 1v1v1v1 becomes a 2v2 or 3v1 as teams balls on cones begin to become an issue. This one is so good for teaching them deception and using space cause there are so many threats0Reply
Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1So coach is at top of 18 with a load of balls. All players in their corners outside of the grid with dif color tops or pinnies. They each have a number. Coach calls “1s” and pass it in somewhere in the box (doesn’t have to be fair) players play out their 1v1v1v1. They can each knock out any other but want to protect their own end. Gets the competitive juices flowing and they start to communicate a lot more too. I ask them if they’re on the side to be the eyes for their teammate and help instruct… See more1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • Aug 1@Chris Unruh Like it 👏0Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • Aug 1Similar to this mate ? Teams I each corner then ball loaded in obviously calling numbers of players in etc1Reply
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Chris Unruh
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Chris Unruh • Aug 1@Steven Hall no each team has their own corner . Players not actively involved in play are outside playing area. I use the 18 because I like having lines but truth be told depending on your teams age it could be too big. 1/4 field box is perfect. Our half field box is too big imo1Reply