"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
08/16/2019 at 10:38 • Filed to: None
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
08/16/2019 at 10:38 • Filed to: None | 0
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Welp, I’m apparently a kids’ soccer coach now. After a few seasons of filling in and helping out with the 7-9 year olds, a few of my peers pressured me into actually running a 10-year-old rec team, which is part of a fairly large local club . This is a bit more intensive (and expensive) than prior years, but hopefully being a “rec league” and not the competitive wing of the club, things will be a little more laid back. Only 1-2 fistfights per game, not 5+.
I should also inform you all that I have exactly zero personal experience in competitive soccer, but I’m in decent shape and can fake it pretty well. We have a handbook for drills/skills and scrimmages, but I’m always game for any resources you might be able to share. At this point the logistics of emailing parents and coordinating rosters is the main thing. The kids are mostly gonna play however they want :)
I’ve got to run two 60-minute practices during the week, plus a 50-minute game every weekend for the next 2 and a half months. I can fill some of that time with general conditioning work, but I’m more interested in ball control and teamwork exercises that won’t bore all the kids. They all have ADHD. Every single one of them. At least by adult standards...
TOUCHDOWN!
Azrek
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 10:54 |
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Start here...
punkgoose17
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 10:58 |
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Drills to keep them from getting board:
Long ball passing in pairs, pass it back and forth to each other as far as they can without the other person needing to chase the ball, have them use both left foot and right foot, it will help with passing accuracy and first touch ball control
Futsol, set up a very small field and have them play a scrimmage
, it helps with ball control, and the small field should keep them all active in the game.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:00 |
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i played a lot of soccer ba ck in the day but i wouldn’ t know how to teach kids soccer. I tried teaching my daughter and a trumpet and i’m just like you blow into it and it makes noise now go, and it sounded like a heard of ducks d y ing.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:02 |
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This sounds like one of those no good deed goes unpunished kind of things. I have nothing to offer. Watching the Women’s World Cup, I think I finally understand the concept of off sides, which is my greatest accomplishment related to the game.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> Azrek
08/16/2019 at 11:04 |
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“EXPLAIN OFFSIDE TO ME, THAT MADE NO SENSE!”
“How many countries are in this country?”
This is so much
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> Azrek
08/16/2019 at 11:04 |
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How many countries are in this country?
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Ash78, voting early and often
> punkgoose17
08/16/2019 at 11:06 |
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Yep, thanks -- we practice on half-size fields, which is good for speed and intensity...but sometimes bad on gameday when they’re like “The other goal is all the way down there?!”
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Azrek
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:09 |
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Where’s he from?
Wales
Is that a country?
Yes and no...
So many good lines...
DutchieDC2R
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:13 |
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‘rondo’s’ work very well for ball control. Its an exercise where you put one kid in the middle, trying to steal the ball. The rest of the circle needs to pass the ball to eachother without the kid in the middle touching it. You can start off with a 3-touch limit, than a 2-touch limit and finally, when they get the hang of it, do it in a 1-touch fashion, where they can only pass the ball immediately to each other (1-touch = just a pass, no stopping the ball).
Another thing that worked well is simple practicing of passes. You divide the group woth two sides, send one side to one side of the field and the other to the other side of the field. Do this with pairs of two, each pair has a ball and its basically just passing to eachother, however, you switch up the exercise by instructing which passes they do. Long, low passes, long high passes, long, high assist on the chest etc. This exercise has a lot of variations that you can have them practice.
This one might be a bit too much, considering their age, but one that I liked a lot was practicing the ‘set up’. 1 kid is in control of giving a low, slow pass, just in front of the center line. You have 2 other kids working defense within the penalty zone. As soon as the attacking kid crosses center line, the defense kids are allowed to get out of the penalty zone and go for the ball. Its a 2v1 situation, but you can mix in the low ball pass kid to make it a 2v2 attack/defense training. The attacking kid(s) has/have to score, the defense kids have to either get ball possesion or kick the ball out.
I always loved ending the training with a 4vs4 (or however many kids you have) game. Lay down 2 of those smaller goals, not too far away from eachother, depending on your group size, and have them play a match. What I always recommend here, is that you choose the sides. This way, you can control if you want to put the kids on the defense together or want to mix it up a bit.
For Sweden
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:25 |
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Bruh what are you doing to your kids baseball players make so much more money.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> DutchieDC2R
08/16/2019 at 11:41 |
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Excellent, thanks — the rondo has been a staple of our routine for the past couple seasons. I like the 3/2/1-touch approach, though. We’ve only done them where they have to control/release the ball before the kid in the middle can steal, which adds a realistic time pressure.
We’re going to be playing 7v7 in the games, but with a roster of just 10 players. So if just 3 kids don’t show up for a game, they’ll all be playing BOTH halves. In those cases, I just rotate one of the field players into the keeper spot every 5 minutes for a break. It’s harsh.
One of the hardest things at this age is to get 2-3 players moving down the field at the same time, passing to one another. That’s a drill I’ve tried before with decent success. In the actual games, though, it’s usually one kid with the ball, all alone again 4-5 defenders while the rest of the offense stands behind. It’s absolutely maddening :)
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Ash78, voting early and often
> For Sweden
08/16/2019 at 11:42 |
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I don’t have 27 hours a week to teach my son how to scratch his balls, with 1 nonconsecutive hour of athleticism mixed in there.
/s
//grew up playing baseball
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For Sweden
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 11:42 |
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But the $300,000,000+ contracts
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DutchieDC2R
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/16/2019 at 12:06 |
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You can practice the multi-kid attack by doing the attack/defense training I mentioned, but adding a third kid to the attacking team, making it a 3v2 attack and having each kid on the attacking side touch the ball 3 times before you make the attack/goal count. This’ll have them thinking about attack strategies where they need to pass the ball around before their attack counts.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Ash78, voting early and often
08/17/2019 at 06:55 |
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goodluck!