If Carlsburg did.................

A game when every player had a 9/10 performance from start to finish. The pass and move was outstanding , the finishing was incredible (worked on it Saturday at training ), playing out from the back was cool, calm , composed with a diamond or triangle of options that we consistently talk about. I particularly gave 4 players challenges in the game .
1. Mitch
I asked Mitch to up his pass completion stats ( at a guess a 70 % increase )
2. Will Packer , the power he generates from shots , to shoot on sight ( 2 goals from distance )
3. The Fig , to track a certain player and work with Faith to nullify his attacking threat ( still in Rickys pocket this morning !!!)
4. Tobi to pass to Nathan when a pass is on (2 assists , both Nathans goals)
Everything we had worked on in training over the last month came out in the game . To add to all that I think there GK was man of the match. A pleasure to watch the game , would of paid money to watch it .We all have views on how the game should be played and for me Sundays performance was it . I've changed the system to a back 2 with a holding player, just to jog the memory as we have played a wing back system for most of the season .Reason being I think  you need to adapt your system to how other teams set up and my view you need to be  flexible. Do players at u/10, completely understand the difference within the 2 systems , probably not , but its all about forming habits , with us our defenders are attackers if space allows .  I've also  watched a player at Leyton Orient this season  who plays as a target man /CF, who comes back for corners to defend as a centre back due to his areal ability, and tracks back to defend, shuts down , presses. Me and Kev realised what that gives the team especially from corners, so our players who are comfortable headers of the ball now defend and attack corners at either end , whilst the ones who are not defend or situate them selves higher up the pitch depending who,s corner it is . Obviously the ones less comfortable we can work on in training , although I haven't seen too many youth coaches do much work on this at grassroots or academy level, think it will just happen naturally , over a period of time .No game or training this week , a nice week off for some, Futsal on Saturday vs CM futsal for those who have told me they are going.
13 th December will be our last game before xmas , I am trying to get us a friendly on Saturday the 12 th December, maybe vs Cheshunt Fc but not confirmed yet. We will  resume training on Saturday the 9 th January . Well done again yesterday a great display , could of picked anyone for man of the match yesterday , but will give it to Tobi by virtue , he hasn't had it this season !
Good luck picking player of the year this season !!!!

Constant /Variable /Random

“I’m not a football coach but I do train at a world championship level of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and unopposed training is essential to development for my sport. Drilling techniques unopposed at a gradual increase in speed helps develop ‘perfect’ technique and helps with problem solving. Doing live training with a partner with full resistance is introduced and helps bring it all together. At my age technique is so important as I’m a bit slower and a bit weaker. My coach who is a 10 times world champion has a saying. ‘Technique Conquers All’ Doing things always opposed will make the athlete miss the subtle steps in successful technique. Confidence in skill starts unopposed then the is built upon in live sessions with opposition..”

– Ross Finlayson (Edmonton, Canada)

A football player must leave foundation phase with these assets

It has to be a priority for players to leave the foundation phase with these three main assets.

1. The ability to play and receive of both feet,
2. Dominate 1v1 situations and
3. Be complete masters of the ball

http://mypersonalfootballcoach.com/does-unopposed-football-training-really-work/

As small piece on the youth modules written by John Allpress

Written By John Allpress, FA National Player Development Coach and reproduced from TheFA.Com

Many comments or questions that I am asked by youth coaches are usually centred on problems they don’t understand or can’t solve.
The FA Youth Award Level 3 is designed to equip coaches of children and young players with those necessary understandings, and so it is important that more coaches are encouraged to take up the challenge of the award.
In order to do that, I have outlined the big messages from the FA Youth Award Level 3 in the hope it will highlight how it will help you to become the confident, organised, effective and successful youth coach you would like to be.

Module 1

Creating the right learning environment – patience is key.
What messages do you give out as a coach? Think about:

• Behaviour
• Body language
• Verbal Language – using ‘I’ language such as “I understand if…I want you to try this…”
• Praising effort – e.g. ‘trying your best’ is under the players’ control BUT ‘doing your best’ is not
• Relaxed – ‘trial and error’ approach – not be fearful to experiment and have a go at new stuff

Module 2

Design the right game or practice to support players’ learning needs and get the returns you want.
Remember the three “R’s”– Relevance, Repetition, Realism

• For learning how to play football – directional practices with offside or elements of offside are best
• Players learning in an integrated way – blending the skills required into the decisions that have to be made in the game they are learning to play

Remember – ‘Live it to learn it!’

Module 3

• Set the right challenge(s) or task(s) e.g. Try to let the ball run across your body and play forward
• Ask the right question(s) to support the challenge e.g. how will the pass you receive help you? How many touches do you need? How will you see when to make the pass?
• Give the players the opportunity to evaluate their performance either as part of the review process or in the MOVIE – encourage and promote curiosity with questions such as these:

1. When does it work?
2. Why does it work?
3. What’s stopping you and how can you (we) solve it?
4. How can it be better?
5. What can I try next?
6. What are the hard bits?

Summary

What distinguishes the best youth coaches from the rest? The best understand their players and their needs – technically, tactically, psychologically, socially and physically.
What young players want:

• To take responsibility for their learning
• To be treated with respect
• To play the real game so they get real things to explore
• To have choice in what, where, when and how they are learn
• The challenge of getting their teeth into difficult but not demoralising things and to experience the satisfaction of making progress
• To get together and collaborate
• To discuss, copy, struggle and learn in others’ company

Changes within you as a coach and person take time and effort. On the whole they happen gradually and often come about unnoticed by you nor by, somewhat more significantly, others, especially your players.
Try not to get dismayed by setbacks and always remember when things go well. Remember you are in control of your behaviour and you have a choice as to how you deal with the players in your care.
So why not start today? Become the coach you want to be.
This article appears on The FA Licensed Coaches’ Club website. For information about accessing the site and becoming a Licensed Coach please visit: The FA Licensed Coaches’ Club Website

Unbeaten run continues

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A very tight affair and we found them very hard to break down, they were very organised at the back but then so were we as we rotated again , this time Mitch , Joe R at the back with Faith sitting JUST in front . Even though we play a lot of Futsal I think we play better on a bigger pitch and  we  didn't really  get  a rhythm going today .Chances were at a minimum and they definitely had more of them , but " the German "was in fine form from start to finish , tipping 3 round the post and one over the bar. The figs late shot hit the cross bar, I gotta be honest,  Tobi getting shoved over in the box was a stonewall penalty for me ,  but then Ricky unintentionally handling  in our box earlier on ( yeh I see it FIG)!!! and I really think a draw was a fair result in the end , so no complaints from me. Nice to be able to not be firing on all cylinders and still get a result. We brought in the match attacks as an incentive to keep a clean sheet 3 weeks ago and that was  the 2nd clean sheet in that time .It maybe just a coincidence but the kids like it and me & Kev  love a clean sheet so everyone's HAPPY ! Another tough game next week , then a Sunday off on the 6th December COYBLACK


CAPT   Faith M


MOM   Coby M    

BLACK HIT 5 TH GEAR !

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Probably our most complete performance of the season , the opposition have beaten us in the last 2 encounters and are always good to play against , fair and  good challenge for us . We reverted back to a 2 man defence and Faith sitting in a holding midfield role screening, a system we had used for a year until we started to play wing backs at the tale end of last season. Will Packer played his first league game in defence and I asked him to find them passes into the midfield , he did it superbly for the first goal with a fantastic switch of play from right to left and found the FIG ! who slotted home. The football we played in the first 15 minutes was probably the best of the season, I had given  the players individual challenges (youth module 3 ) and a pro player as an example of who to   play like , forgetting how old I am I gave the fig Roy Keane as  an example .He told me Sunday that he didn't know who he was , but full marks to daddy fig,!! who had showed him youtube clips on Saturday night ,.I always new we had a squad of good players but it only dawned on me when I looked on the touch line at 3-0 up and Nathan /Tobi and Joe were in bibs !/. Every player met there individual challenge, Faith getting her first goal of the season , Hayden another header , Ricky with a brace and Tobi completing the 5 .


Youth module 3




Normally on courses you attend with coaches on the same standard (certificate wise ) as yourself. Youth module 3 was different, me and man like Dave D -)  were in very experienced company. Almost all the London Fa hierarchy were in attendance, uefa B coaches A licence coaches , FA tutors for level 1 & 2 , and academy coaches from West Ham , Chelsea , Arsenal , Crystal Palace . Sitting next to me was the head coach  at the  London FA , a great chance for me to pick brains , and see if what I am doing is the right way . One of the discussions on the course was about pitching your self in too higher league , in which you are unable to rotate your players in different positions. One story that arose was of a coach who against his will had been put into a league where he was forced to play his kids in fixed positions to enable them to stay in the league .He was saying that the parents of 3 or 4 kids were driving the club to play at the highest level in order that there kids be scouted by pro clubs !!!   We all know the stats on becoming a pro footballer , the club looks likely to be relegated according to him even thou the best positions were selected, every one seemed to be in agreement what a waste of a years football . That's what you are up against at some clubs , luckily we don't have that problem .




Leyton Orient game




Had a nice email from the foundation manager saying , that their  kids were challenged in the game against us. Obviously not everyone gets invited in to play academy teams, we were invited to play them as we were seen to be a challenge for there u/9s , if we had won by 9 or 10 goals or the other way round it would of been seen as not a challenge to there players. They also look at,  I am told the t behaviour of the coach, players , and parents when selecting teams to come in . Obviously that gives Buckhurst Hill , and the u/10, blacks a good name in the eyes of Leyton Orient and we will be invited back again .We had a player play in the game who hopefuly  will want to play for us next season , which gives us a 12 man squad, if we stay as a group which I hope we do we will be looking for one addition 2 maximum , and me & Kev will want to sort that out just after xmas in principle.




Season so far




We have been challenged in every game and have stepped up well in this division , most games there has only been 0ne goal in the result, which I think is a good thing, apart from the EMH blip, we have been a match for every team in this division . No doubt we will be beaten again b4 the end of the season , its not all about results but W6 L3 D1 is a great return so far,  and of course every player is learning a different position every week . Had some good feedback from other coaches commenting on our style of play and players being comfortable on the ball, the best moment for me this season was not the visit to Orient or the 6 wins but was an opposition parent clapping as we comfortably played the ball around at the back from Cobi to Tobi , to Nathan W to Joe , a small gesture of about 5 seconds, that can only happen when  kids play without fear of losing the ball and conceding a goal, and parents & coaches  allowing this to continue without the shouts of " get rid of it & not in there " this is explained in Youth module one "creating the environment for children to learn  " just my opinion but a must course for coaches of players from 5 - 11






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Futsal misconceptions !

There are many 11 a side coaches who do not like toe-pokes, flicks or controlling the ball with the bottom of the foot. Brazilian and Argentinian players have shown time and again that there is a place for all skills. An Argentinian Futsal coach ‘Facundo Ruscica’ described the complete player as one who has a tool box full of tools that he/she knows when and where to use them. Denying oneself the opportunity to develop these skills is to acknowledge that one will never be a complete player. The main reason for outdoor coaches resisting these techniques is that they themselves can’t do therefore do not understand them. -


The decision making and vision of a Futsal player will generally be better than an outdoor player due to the game being faster and players having less time and space to be effective. An outdoor environment allows Futsal players a lot of time and space to do things.


http://www.futsalfocus.net/news.html?newsId=302&type=Grassroots




In my opinion its very simple,  play  Futsal and the grass game you get the best of both worlds !!

A Need to Develop Players for the Future (here i go again )!!

The players and teams of the future will need to be capable of having technical excellence, that is from the goalkeeper throughout the whole team. Goalkeepers especially need to be excellent passers, they need to have world class control as well as being good with their hands. Are coaches doing enough to develop them as footballers?






The importance of the modern game is that players are capable in attack and defence and thus have the necessary technical and tactical skills to be effective. Are we developing our players to be capable of playing in the modern game? 






Are our coaches willing to allow our players and teams to experiment and be creative, or, is it safer to keep fixed formations and achieve "results", instead of developing smart, intelligent players capable of playing in numerous positions and systems.


Now as youth coaches we need to understand that in order to get to this level players need to make mistakes, need to try to things and develop. Too many coaches however are unwilling to allow mistakes and thus kill the creativity of their players. They take away their imagination and create robots which results not in fluid footballers but in the English fixed style which has been the cause of our lack of success.






http://whitehouseaddress.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/a-need-to-develop-players-for-future.html?m=1

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Another challenging game in this Avon league u/10 game .Again we carried on with our wing back formation which I had prompted the kids I might change as I didn't know a lot about the opposition. We had worked on for two hours on Saturday pressing, defending , screening forward passes, (the kids wouldn't know about the later but gave them a rough guide as to why we would want to anticipate passes in the final third) Our pressing and getting the nearest player behind the ball, was the main reason for the training on Saturday. You have to use a certain way to  explain to u/10,s and most importantly I believe you have to tell them why we do certain things in training and in a game . By closing an opponent down quickly you make it more difficult for them to pass or dribble, sometimes the mere fact you are in front of them is enough for you to   force  an error, Nathan B did it numerous times in the 2 nd half,, just my opinion but I believe some of the best defenders don't need to tackle, their  reading of the game is so great that that they snuff out the pass before a tackle is needed, I listened to a Ruud Gullet interview once  about this player https://youtu.be/sKp9W_gJ2r8 , he said he hardly ever see him make a tackle. Back to the game, I think it was a fair result not a great deal for either keeper to do , Cobi got us out of trouble with a tip over from close range, and their  keeper, kept out double j with a worldly with 10 to go , was a superb save . The main thing is we learnt from last week. Had an internal discussion on Sunday and I have decided to keep my two in  defence when possible until they understand their  role as a wing back. Will be great for there game, we all know they can score goals, I am totally against the £5 per goal parent or grandparent (or once had a mum in another team , said  to their  son he wasn't getting Sunday dinner  if he didn't score jeeeeeez, no wonder the kid never passed the ball !) !!! as most of you know, but their could be a negotiation for keeping a clean sheet :) .
Nearly at the half way stage and performances have been very good, we all want to win games I never go out to lose always to develop , to be still rotating at this level when all the other teams are in fixed positions should give us all a great sense of achievement and pride .Saying that I think its a must we stay in this league, with every week bringing in a fresh challenge,  and I think the physicality (fair physicality !) can only be a plus  .Away to trip to Belmont on Saturday for all Saturday trainers, Bretons on Sunday and Leyton Orient on Tuesday #COYBLACK


ASSISTS
NATHAN B


CAPT
NATHAN W


POM
FAITH M