U12's I feel should know the ins and outs of offside - but I wouldn't encourage them to play it. You will come up against fast strikers who will simply wait a second or two and easily beat the trap. Better to have to whole line push up, but keep a yard or two behind the strikers.
Corners are important - you will gain many of these and if you have just one set routine that works, you could be looking at 3/4 goals a month from them.
Keeping working on the so-called 'proper' football aspects - ie passing, movement, control, vision. Tactics aren't too important here as any single player can make a careless error messing everything up. At u12s also it is good to have two strong headers of the ball in the middle - but strength is not a neccesity until maybe a year later.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by ian.curry : 04-05-2007 at 04:10 PM.
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