Love your videos, thank you. I have a fantastic organizational system that I use my iPad and Apple ecosystem for. Using Freeform and Goodnotes, you can really bring your coaching systems into the digital era and share documents with parents and players very easily with an added level of creativity and artistry through the tools offered by each software package.
Hello Coach, I hope you're doing well. I wanted to give you an update. Thanks to your guidance and tips, I've been able to develop my team significantly. We may have lost every game, but we're causing a lot of problems for our opponents. I've been focusing on passing and defensive structure for weeks. Now that I've brought my players to a certain level, I want to adopt a more tactical offensive approach, leaning towards Pep Guardiola's "Juego de Posición." I'd like to introduce some playing principles from Guardiola and Johan Cruyff. I've started by drawing 5 horizontal and 4 vertical zones on the tactical board and then implementing them on the field. I'm experimenting with inverted fullbacks, and it worked well in the last game. However, in a 4-3-1 formation, I lack a true winger, leading to an opponent's numerical advantage on the flanks (2v1). Do you have any ideas for a system that could address this issue? Or how can I adapt this system to the problem ?
Hey Coach Rory, I always appreciate your content. At what age are you starting to place individuals into specific positions, and how much do you mix that up during any season?
I like to keep players in no more than 2 positions for several seasons then start moving players around. Starting at the earliest ages. This is contrary to many views of moving players all over the place. In my personal experience kids never really figure out any one position in that scenario.
@@CoachRorySoccerI'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. I try to get my boys to focus on two to three positions. At the early ages you just have some kids that have differing levels of aggressiveness and skills that they lean better to certain positions. Then once the game slows down for them mentally they can explore other positions. My crowning achievement with fall season, the first as a club with three 7v7 teams was develop a culture were kids wanted to play defense. Our team goes nuts if we get a clean sheet. Problem is we never score much. That's our future focus.
@@CoachRorySoccer love your videos mate! Just started coaching U7, brand new to coaching and you have helped me a lot especially with structure to my sessions 👍 please keep them coming..anything for U7 is helpful for me personally ⚽️
@@CoachRorySoccer yes, both practice at different seasons. However, I would say both are beginners levels gor their age. The u8 just started to lnow how to make passes
Well, you've already added one customer for them. I've used a digital device (SuperNote) last season, but with weather and size I worry about it getting destroyed. In the digital age we live in, paper and pen is still tried and true and distraction free.
@@CoachRorySoccerKeep doing the work you're doing and you'll get there. I know I and my team have extracted quite a bit of value now that we're getting ready for next season when we start 7x7. Oh, and the phonetics are something like "doo-k-teague" as in "league"
