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We completed our club tryouts last weekend. It’s a crazy time for player, parents and coaches but an important one to make sure that our players are challenged at an appropriate level.
I’ve talked about our process in previous episodes including Episode 105 just a couple of weeks ago.
We’re not working to prepare our teams for the preseason meetings that we hold each year. I’ll talk more about that process on next week’s podcast.
This week’s question is from Cory.
He’s asking about discipline during practice.
Cory says,
“I have a question for you relating to “discipline”. Next year, I will coach a U11 boys house team which has a few boys who have a tough time staying focused. I am pretty good at keeping their attention compared to others who try but I would like to know what my 1-2-3 steps should be if an individual boy is being disruptive or is misbehaving while still keeping things positive. I’m hoping to avoid yelling loader, making them run laps or do pushups as I don’t know if those are positive in nature. I have tried “go and sit on the sideline” and then come to talk to them to see if they are “ready to focus”. If a child is having a really tough time, I will sometime discuss the issue with their parents. This being said, I “get” that they are kids and focussing isn’t always the natural strength for some kids.”
I answer Cory’s question on the show.
In This Episode
This week I’m looking at the most underappreciated key to technical development. Performing technical training exercises at speed is missing link between training day and match day.
I discuss why training at speed is so important and how you can incorporate this focus into every aspect of training from the warm-up through the final scrimmage.
I’ll also tell you when you should consider slowing it down so that you can speed it up again.
Next Week
I’ll discuss the importance of a preseason team meeting and what it should cover so that your players and parents go into the season knowing what to expected.
You spoke about the ‘cogi’ warmup methods you used, I have not heard of these but I am in need of a better warm up. Please could you give me some more information
Here is a link to a YouTube video that describes the basic setup and some of the patterns.
https://youtu.be/1RpQSP6dd50
My warm up which i have developed over the last 26 years is i think unique where by its all done with balls up to 12 s i use ball each player and they dribble a ball in suitible grid size,during this time i get them to put foot on ball so they are keeping ball close then after a few times they get someone elses ball a few times then without ball heels up then knees up then back to dribbling teaching skills such as drag backs hooks cuts , then 2 or 3 balls controlling and passsing teaching use of back foot control pass with same foot, there are so many other things you can incorperate only governed by imagination .next make two diamonds who play each other, use a skill to score at the end line or small goals, (cones) if more than eight players use wall players player plays to wall who dribbles onto field and change places learning to play all positions def fwd mid left right. With 12 to 17s similar start but intrmittently introduce more streching ie kicking across body then straight ahead,back to control dribbling passing, dribbling past player who passed you the ball , then touch ground with both hands then left right, ball again , then sliding feet 45 degrees fwd then back wards then grape vine, and any other dynamic stretches you want, end with 4v 4 diamond with wall players , if you want to practice longer passing chipped balls then enlarge grid to suit, lastly i put my players on half the pitch, if available or any area i can,then play attack and attacking mid against def mid and def for 10 min to get into what i call game mode practicing crossing shooting etc with no tackling,keeper rolling ball ,using feet,throwing etc.
Thanks for sharing the quality football knowledge
In researching Cogi training they mention using cones or gates to “look through” when passing. Although they don’t outline exercises in detail it seems the gates are incorporated in passing patterns and maybe even small sided games.
Do you have any info on this concept in any library already or can you include in a future episode?
Thank you and keep up the good work!
You can add a ‘gate’ or a cone to the passing patterns. I prefer to use a cone because it can represent a defender. Then you can talk about opening up away from the defender to receive the ball. You could use two cones to create a ‘gate’ to pass through for younger players.
I haven’t done any videos that show this so I’ll try to add one in the future.