Stewart Alexander

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Posted

20 Sep 04:30

I have a new 17 year old playing her first season in open-age, women's football. She has never had any proper coaching, so her first touch, passing, shooting, dribbling - almost all core skills are currently behind the level we need her to be.

However, she has the fitness level and energy of a Grand National racehorse. 90 minutes at full pace is nothing to her. Doesn't even break a sweat. Never seen anything like it, but she is all over the park. Has no positional sense.

In the short term, how would you recomemmend getting the best out of a player like that? 

My thoughts are to give her one thing to focus on, and build from there.

For example, "Mary, today, when we don't have the ball, I want you to stick to their #8 and make sure she does not get the ball. Be really aggressive, fair but aggresive, and when you win the ball, pass to the closest player on our team."

What are your thoughts?

We're going to need months to get her to a decent level, but in the interrim, I'm thinking we can gain these small wins and take things from there.

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20 Sep 04:18

Thanks Dario mate. I'm mostly on desktop PC, where do I find it there?

Posted

17 Sep 14:53

When I add drills to my favorites, where do I find them?

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30 Aug 14:39

Loving these collections. The ultimate would be videos of players on the field carrying out the same movements so I could see the minute details. Otherwise, loving it, thanks!

21 Aug 13:14

I need a few drills to teach our open-aged, women's team to transition from the middle third to the attacking third, and also some combinations around the edge of opponent's penalty area, so that we can get in behind in dangerous positions. Can you recommend any, please. Thank you.

I can access it now, thanks

I have a lifetime membership yet no access to this program. Please advise, thanks.

Thanks, Dario,

I'll use and build on that idea.

What I could do progress it, is add three players as targets instead of goals. And like in your example, each player has a number that I call.

And to progress further instead of the players being static, they can do check towards and away movements from the passing player, who then has to execute the right weighted pass to the number I call.

A further progression is adding a goal for the receiving players to attack and score into, and have the passing player providing support from behind for reverse passes, which she then has to make a correctly weighted return pass to any of the three attackers.

I could then add a player to place the passing player under a bit of pressure (allowing success to start with) when receiving the starting pass.

Hmm, I'll think it through, but these are my initial thoughts based on your feedback, so a big thank you to you mate.

PS: These are open-age, female players.

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Posted

14 Apr 20:59

We have a very promising centre mid.
She's strong, she reads the game well, but her passes are often over hit.
She's seeing the passes and the idea behind them is good, but she often over cooks them.
It's Ike she's trying too hard.
How can I help her to place the right weight on her passes?

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