“Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I may remember, Involve me and I learn” – I have to disagree here. It’s a famous quote and it’s used a lot but looking at it, it doesn’t consider learning styles, learning preferences or individual needs. We as coaches are educators and for us to educate …
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This weeks Q+A comes from Dylan Barrett, a British coach currently working in Canada at Burnaby FC. This is a club that has grown close to me due to working with them in their previous name of Mountain United FC having developed a game model with their TD, fellow Brit, Lee Tregonning (still waiting for …
Looking through the sessions that I have posted, I realised that there wasn’t much for defending, so I traced back through my trusty black book and came across a session I had delivered to a U23 group… Below, I have put the game based part on display for you to try, amend, ignore – whatever …
Let’s talk about the Marshall Islands… It’s a story I’ve not mentioned so far on this blog site, BUT it is currently a huge part of my life. On the back of completing my Masters, I realised that I missed writing. I missed discussing football and networking with people worldwide – that’s how this blog …
Below is a transition game that covers coaching points from Transition to Attack as well as Transition to Defend. There is a game based approach to both parts of the session including a couple of variations and adaptations. Hopefully you can adapt and progress the sessions accordingly to suit your own groups. Let me know …
This session looks at Switching Play in a SSG format, with elements of ‘organised chaos’. The purpose of this? Improved decision making, recognition, awareness and general creativity whilst still working on an important element of tactical play. As you can see above, Switching Play is included with the risk/reward aspects of attacking the closest, secondary …
Leave a Comment / By owerslloyd / November 11, 2022 This is a session based on combining centrally, planned for 16 players but easily adaptable. @LloydOwers – Twitter
This is a session aimed to focus on the principles of pressing from the front. We kept it simple without an information overload but wanted to emphasise key points. We had 20 players (inc. 2 GK’s) so with the 10v10, took off a red ST and blue CB. Adapt it as necessary for your groups …
This is a session that I delivered with my University team last night. We have switched to a 3-5-2 so wanted to work on some shape work in possession. The first part of the session was SSG based with end zones but a focus on moving the ball quickly in overloaded situations. This then moved …
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Below are 3 Small Sided Games (SSG’s) aimed to focus on finishing. Encourage ‘shooting on sight’, and coach the movement off the ball, timing of the runs, weight of supporting pass/cross and type of finish. Enjoy! Twitter – @LloydOwers