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Coach Luca
@Coach__Luca
Novice coach of a grassroots under 8s football team in the UK. Posting about my foundation phase journey. Obsessed with learning and improving.
Katılım Haziran 2024
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@alexefthimiou How are you approaching that mate? Where do you start?
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@Coach__Luca Having switched back and forth between a pretty good u11 to a struggling u8 over the last couple of weeks has been really interesting
Their needs are so different, it’s been a great learning exercise for me personally as well
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This is what my U5/6 sessions would look like if I was starting over
Simpler the better
🔹Ball exploration / mastery games (“me and my ball”)
🔹 Tag games (working ABC’s)
🔹Small sided games (1v1, 2v1, 2v2 etc up to 3v3) with themes & scoreboards
How about you?
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@DaveKnox02 Do you coach those kids all on your own? 🤯
When we run a Scoreboard our coach calls out something great they’ve seen & send them to complete a simple challenge
Roll a giant dice, do a cartwheel, rock paper scissors, kick a ball at a target
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@Coach__Luca I can have upto 19 in our U5/6 session. Theme is usually like yours except scoreboard as they wouldn't remember to go and do something if they did anything good🤣
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@Coach__Luca Get them small balls and get them running round with them. Then let them take them home to do what you’ve showed them
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@CoachRichLTJAFC 💙 I’m thinking aged 5-6 but for 3-5 I bet they love that. Can’t go wrong with sharks and fishes!! 😂
Got to be fun, lots of silliness & laughter, hundreds of touches and goals galore
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@Coach__Luca I coach 3-5 year olds and the whole session every player has a ball (unless we play sharks & fishes 😂) even matches every player has a ball (score in the opposition goal - collect a ball from your goal) 5-6 definitely needs the 1v1 - 2v1 - 2v2 - 3v3 element mate 👏🏻👏🏻
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Coach Luca retweetledi
Foundation phase ideas 👇🧵
Individual → small units → game
Simple structure.
Lots of repetition.
Deliberate play.
Players learn through the game.
Set problems to solve.
See exploration as progress.
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@zoglug Love that!!
I always underestimate how long it takes to explain what I thought would be the simplest game in the world for the kids to understand
Think it’s simple? Make it 3x simpler
Great to know my thinkings on the same page as the mighty Zoglug 👊🏼
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@Coach__Luca Bingo! After 4 seasons of running out clubs u6's, this is pretty much the structure of my sessions!
Can provide loads of individual challenges and build repeated practices so you spend less time explaining and kids spend more time exploring
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@DanielThom58014 @SundayShare10 I love that line. Should be in large print at the entrance of every tournament up and down the country! Will take that with me into my next tournament too thanks mate
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@Coach__Luca @SundayShare10 That's it , it's about the kids competitiveness not ours. I'm really competitive but I constantly remind myself, I've had my journey it's now theirs.
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My #SundayShare @SundayShare10
Was at a U8 tournament yesterday and this came to mind
Some thoughts on joystick coaching
- a thread 🧵
Coach Luca@Coach__Luca
Coaches, I’ve seen lots lately about how *not* to coach youth players. So what’s the alternative to 🕹️ joystick coaching? A mega 🧵 of others’ posts.
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@DanielThom58014 @SundayShare10 Funny what it does to us all isn’t it. Im finding it can still be a good test of what our team and us coaches are about. But I need to work quite hard to keep my own ego in check.
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@Coach__Luca @SundayShare10 I agree mate. I've also noticed that coaches change their tactics to win too , our last tournament a few weeks ago, there was a lot long balls from the keepers hands landing in our box. This was 7 a side.
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@DanielThom58014 @SundayShare10 You and me both!!
Tournaments are geared towards winning > development… It can feel like our season’s work is being measured from the sideline & a coach’s pride is bound to be tested…
Good to check back in with ourselves, remember what we’re doing it all for… and then STFU
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@Coach__Luca @SundayShare10 I feel that tournaments bring out this more than just a normal weekend match. The further I get into my daughters and mine grassroot journey the more I'm starting to dislike them. Me and my assistant both agreed it brings out the worse in us too.
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I know it’s not @sundayshare day, but wondering what 1-3 things everyone in the world would change (improve) about their youth sports club experience — making the player experience better
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A good session doesn’t always look organised.
It can look chaotic.
But inside that chaos:
Players are thinking
Solving problems
Making decisions
That’s where the magic happens.
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@CoachRobPorter @BreakthruSoccer @ben_andreos @coach_kevin_m @CoachResources8 @CraigRudders @cutinside @FAgeCoaching @gary_piggot @HubFcc I ask U8s:
What have we done well?
What could we do better?
Want to hear what I think? (Max two points)
It’s a great chance to find out what the players are picking up on themselves
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Team talks are an area that don't really get covered on coaching courses.
We've all seen the clips of Pep or Arteta going ballistic, but when working with young players, they need the opposite.
Being positive and giving simple messages that don't overload players is key.
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Coach Luca retweetledi
The triangle is the most important shape in football.
It gives two passing options, angles and movement.
3v3 creates natural triangles.
Thousands of different, moving triangles.
Without needing to force it.
The game naturally finds the triangle.
@insidewrite1957 @Coach_Osku @JB_SoccerCoach @JustcoachMD @jonarnett8 @Leecosgrove10 @CoachRobPorter @coach_kevin_m @power_ray @HubFcc @rf_fc1o @TheS_Resource @BreakthruSoccer @ContactCounts
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Coach Luca retweetledi
息子の監督から「試合中の声を増やすには？」と宿題。オランダ流は「自分で考えさせる」が基本。大人がすぐ答えを教えるのは子供の能力を潰す罠。時間がかかっても自力で答えを見つけ出す経験が、サッカーも社会も生き抜く力になる。簡単そうで大人が一番できていない「口出しを堪える」から始めよう。
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@kieronbutton17 @TheS_Resource @coach_kevin_m @CoachRobPorter @PeterPrickett @TacticsJournal @CoachDavidBaird @SundayShare10 @gary_piggot @StevenVent101 @insidewrite1957 @Coach_Osku @_ToddBeane Have a good one Kieron, love your account 👊🏼⚽️
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Coach Note ✏️
There are so many questions you should ask yourself before you ask for drills.
Why am I coaching?
What will I nurture in my players?
How do children learn?
Which type of football will we play?
#TOVO
#intelligentfootball
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@statsbet Can’t say I know!
I would’ve thought academies cast as wide a net as possible to collect potential talent, not build an academy around 1/2 “nailed-on” talents a year with a support cast?
Plenty “destined” for the big time fall to the wayside and vice versa
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It’s because most of the players in them are there to make up the numbers to form a team.
Coach Luca@Coach__Luca
Kids should shoot for the stars, why not? But… 🤯0.012% English lads make it to the PL 🤯Only 2/18 of this Arsenal U14 team went on to play even a single minute in PL Remember: 🔹PL is not the be all & end all 🔹Lifelong love of the game matters most 🔹Person > Player
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🖥️ Just been on a very thought provoking webinar just now…
“Be yourself with Skill”
Hosted by @levin8nir and delivered expertly with awesomeness by @russellearnshaw
Thank you very much!
ABSOLUTELY CLASS 🔥👍
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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