Mike Trusson – FA Coach Educator
UEFA B
Soccer Coaching – 8 v 8 small sided games
May 9th
Football coaching a team in a small sided game, with the coaching topic of defend as a team.
We try to get the football coaches to understand the basic principle of defending. Once possession is lost, the team look to get behind the ball, get a defensive shape, which is narrow and compact and allows players to adopt positions in relation to where the ball is.
Defending in team play starts from the front. So when the ball was in possession of the opposition defence, we worked with our two strikers, to get them to understand how to react quickly when the ball was lost, to recover behind the ball and to work and defend as a pair. They needed to recognise if the player on the ball had good possession, then there was no point in trying to pressure the ball as they would easily be passed by. Their roles were to try and stop the ball behind passed forward into key attacking areas and to try and force play across the pitch and to keep the ball in front of them. They had to work as a pair communicate and react together as the ball was passed across them.
Once the strikers More >
Creative Play and Creative Football Coaching with Fabio Capello
May 16th
Who is the best creative player? A number of England players, such as Ashley Cole and Michael Carrick talk about how football is changing and players are becoming quicker and more creative. A leading England football coach explains that as the game has changed, players need to be able to be able to retain possession, be able to pass quickly and effectively over a range of distances, but particularly over short distances. As a result, football coaches need to understand how to encourage young players to think creatively. The FA Youth Award coaching course trains coaches to do this.
Fabio talks about how players aged between 8 – 13 need to develop their technical skills. The video is an effective advert for the new FA Youth Coaching Awards programme.
Whilst I think that this new Youth Coaching Award programme, has its place in coaching. Before coaches look to take this award, they would be far better to take the FA Level 2 coaching award first, as this will give them a solid platform of how the develop and coach techniques, how these techniques are challenged and how to coach in small sided games.
Armed with this platform of knowledge, the FA Youth Coaching More >
FA Youth Module Awards
Mar 25th
The Football Association have rolled out three new qualifications. I am often asked what they are about and why should coaches take them, so we have put together some information on them and provided links for you to find out more.
To watch a short promotional film on the new FA Youth Modules, click on this link
http://www.thefa.com/GetIntoFootball/FALearning/FALearningPages/youthcoaching.aspx#
The Football Association have put together a very useful online resource explaining what coaching courses they offer, to access the resource, please click on this link: http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1S4d380c3d13b14123.cde
How well do you know your young players?
Do you really understand what motivates them, what they find difficult and how you can help to develop them?
The FA Youth Award is a groundbreaking new coaching course designed to help coaches to understand as much about their players as they understand about the game.
As coaches, we often spend a lot of time focusing on training drills, fixtures and match days . Wouldn’t it be great if we stepped back from all that and looked at each of our young players individually.
- What motivates them to play football?
- How can we build their self esteem?
- How can we manage differences in age, experience, ability and attitude?
- Can we create the right environment for young More >
FA launches new UEFA B Licence
Mar 22nd
For Football coaches, the qualification pathway is FA Level 1, FA Level 2, FA Level 3 (UEFA B) and FA level 4 (UEFA A). The Football Association have now launched a new UEFA B License, so for those football coaches who are interested in what it is about, we have put together key information on this new qualification
Want to continue your coaching career? Learn more about the UEFA B Licence.
Just like the demands on modern players have developed on the pitch, the skills and requirements of coaches on the training ground in recent years have also had to adapt.
For today’s players the emphasis is on technical ability, instant decision making and tactical awareness. Elite players must be able to adapt to almost any game scenario, where formations and positional roles are interchangeable, and it is the coach’s role to ensure these players possess the flexibility and dynamism to do so.
In order to meet the challenges that coaches in the modern game face, The FA Coaching pathway has now launched the redesigned UEFA B Licence, aimed at coaches who intend to work with international players.
The new FA UEFA B Licence The course is now a standalone UEFA B qualification that links the newly revised More >
FA Level 3 Coaching Small Sided Games DEFEND AS A TEAM
Nov 16th
This is an example of coaching a UEFA B, Level 3 Small Sided Game, Coach Defend as a Team.
ORGANISATION
- Play 8 v 8
- Pitch area 70 x 50 yards
- Pitch marked into thirds
- Play off side – only in marked thirds area.
- Suggested formation 3 – 2 – 2
- Both teams to play realistically
- Coach only one team
- Coach through the units of the team
- Use structured start points, but also let play develop and coach from what happens
COACHING POSITION
- The coach should always be in a position where they can see all of the play and all of the players.
- The Coach should be prepared to move their position to be able to observe the play better.
- The Coach can go on the pitch to coach, but must not get in way or interfere with play.
- When stopping play to make a coaching point, get on the pitch quickly, make the coaching point and let play continue
PLAYERS RESPONSIBILITIES
- Defensive and attacking responsibilities:
- When a team are attacking, the coach should ensure they are aware of not only providing attacking options, but also have a defensive awareness of when the ball has been lost.
- Similarly, when a team is defending, they should have an awareness of trying to counter attack when they gain possession.
- When playing, the More >
FA Level 3 Coaching Small Sided Games SUPPORT PLAY
Nov 11th
This is an example of coaching a UEFA B, Level 3 Small Sided Game, Coach Support Play.
ORGANISATION
- Play 8 v 8
- Pitch area 70 x 50 yards
- Pitch marked into thirds
- Play off side – only in marked thirds area.
- Suggested formation 3 – 2 – 2
- Both teams to play realistically
- Coach only one team
- Coach through the units of the team
- Use structured start points, but also let play develop and coach from what happens
COACHING POSITION
- The coach should always be in a position where they can see all of the play and all of the players.
- The Coach should be prepared to move their position to be able to observe the play better.
- The Coach can go on the pitch to coach, but must not get in way or interfere with play.
- When stopping play to make a coaching point, get on the pitch quickly, make the coaching point and let play continue
PLAYERS RESPONSIBILITIES
- Defensive and attacking responsibilities:
- When a team are attacking, the coach should ensure they are aware of not only providing attacking options, but also have a defensive awareness of when the ball has been lost.
- Similarly, when a team is defending, they should have an awareness of trying to counter attack when they gain possession.
- When playing, the players have More >
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