Technical:

•  Focus on one player, one ball
•  Players need many touches of ball during training sessions

Tactical:

•  1 v 1 - 4 v 4, games. Let them play.

General Mental Characteristics:

•  Players are self conscious and have a limited attention span
•  Easily bruised psychologically, give praise often
•  Players are told to play (by parents/coach)

General Physical Characteristics/Training:

•  Players require constant movement
•  Easy fatigue and rapid recovery
•  Physical coordination is limited, eye-hand, eye/foot coordination not developed

Technical:

•  Focus on passing, receiving, dribbling and shooting consistent instruction on technical aspects
•  Introduce heading
•  Individual defending (footwork, tackling) introduce touch restrictions (3 touch play, 2 touch play)

Tactical:

•  1 v 1 - 4 v 4 games to develop technical skills.
•  Individual defending (pressure)
•  Combination play (wall pass, takeover)
•  Movement off the ball (support)

General Mental Characteristics:

•  Players have a good sense of team loyalty and peer pressure becomes a factor
•  Players become more competitive and want to play

General Physical Characteristics/Training:

•  Players balance and coordination are enhanced
•  Begin to develop ability to perform complex skill
•  Sequences
•  Introduce coordination training, with and without ball

One session in three devoted to I v l 's, 2 v 2's, 3 v 3's
All training should be challenging, motivating and involve TRANSITION

PRIORITY
Importance of ball possession...DO NOT GIVE BALL AWAY!!!

Technical:

•  Technique must be reinforced due to physical change
•  Technical training by position (Functional training)

Tactical:

•  1 v 1 - 8 v 8 games to develop group (back/midfield/forward) tactics.
•  Individual and small group defending (pressure, cover, balance)
•  Continue combination play (wall pass, takeover, overlap, third man run)
•  Possession games, with focus on 1 and 2 touch play

General Mental Characteristics:

•  Players are entering puberty
•  Phase is characterized by mental unrest and tendency to form social groups.

General Physical Characteristics/Training:

•  Period of physical change due to puberty
•  Continue coordination training with emphasis on agility and proper running technique

One in three sessions devoted to 3 v 3's, 4 v 4's, 5 v 5's. Training sessions should be challenging, motivating and involve. TRANSITION.

PRIORITY
Development of team play...DO NOT GIVE BALL AWAY!!!

Technical:

•  Technique must be perfected and performed under pressure of an opponent and with restrictions of time and space

Tactical:

•  1 v 1 - 11 v 11 games to develop team functions (attacking and defending) per zone and positional play.
•  Numbers up and numbers down (ex. 6 v 4, 11 v 7)
•  Game - coaching

General Mental Characteristics:

•  Players are in psychic phase of puberty, become more set in their ways
•  Players starting to discover their own personalities.

General Physical Characteristics/Training:

•  Growth rate slows Muscle development (weight training) becomes important
•  Continue coordination training with emphasis on strength and power

One session in three devoted to defending.
Training sessions should be challenging, motivating and TRANSITION.

The role of the coach is to develop and increase the soccer performance of the players.

Know the 3 main moments of the game:

•  We have the ball
•  They have the ball
•  Changing possession (losing the ball, winning the ball)

Knowledge of the basic techniques:

•  Receiving
•  Passing
•  Dribbling
•  Finishing
•  Heading

Give correct instruction:

•  Give the right examples
•  Take into consideration age and level of play

Weekly evolution of training and match(es):

•  Read the game
•  Analyze the problem(s)/breakdowns
•  Formulate the objective(s), aim of the training
•  Perform the training
•  Evaluate after next match

Receiving the ball:
•  Inside of the foot
•  Sole of foot
•  Instep
•  Thigh
•  Chest
•  Outside of the foot
•  Head

Dribbling (running with the ball)
•  Outside of the foot
•  Instep inside of the foot
•  Sole of the foot

Striking the ball (passing, finishing)
•  Inside of the foot
•  Instep outside of the foot head
•  Throw-in

Fakes (dribbling moves)
•  Change of pace
•  Change of direction
•  Fake strike

Tackling
•  Poke
•  Block
•  Slide
•  Hook

Movement
•  Walking
•  Jogging
•  Sprinting
•  Starting
•  Stopping
•  Turning
•  Jumping

1. WE HAVE THE BALL

Building up:

•  Make as much space as possible (wide and forward)
•  Think forward and play forward as soon as possible
•  Otherwise use the wide player and then forward
•  Keep organization (shape) intact
•  Wait for the right moment to play the long pass or to ask for the long pass

Create chances

•  Spread out
•  Take initiative, anticipate the situation, think ahead
•  Adjust your position when you’ve played the ball
•  Adjust position as the ball moves.

Scoring goals

•  Ask for the ball at the right moment
•  Take on defenders
•  Try to score as quick as possible

2. THEY HAVE THE BALL

Preventing scoring chances and scoring

•  Mark closely to the ball
•  Give cover to your teammates
•  Keep your opponent in front of you and block any shots at goal
•  Do not foul

Winning the ball

•  Make space as small as possible depending on the opponents strength
•  (pressing, dropping back)
•  Give cover further away from the ball (balance)
•  Attack the ball at the right moment (patience)
•  Constantly choose the right position (adjust)

Stopping the opponents from building up

•  Holding the opponents build up
•  Prevent the long pass, pressure the ball
•  Force them to pass wide or dribble wide
•  Pressure, close in

3. TRANSITION (CHANGING POSSESSION)

•  Losing the ball
•  Prevent the long pass
•  Pressure the ball
•  Winning the ball
•  Play forward as soon as possible
•  Support
•  Keep possession

Warm-up:

•  Must include ball, always technical intermittent stretching
•  fundamental stage
•  little or no pressure of opponent
•  match related
•  small grid exercises, more movement and
•  pressure of opponent
•  match condition
•  restrictions (space, time, touch, manner of scoring)
•  free play
•  evaluate

Have soccer related objectives:

•  To score goals
•  to build up
•  To defend

Many repetitions:

•  Good planning
•  Enough balls
•  Enough equipment

Correct coaching:

•  Influence players
•  Intervene, give specific instructions/demonstrate, ask questions, resume play