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Hello … I’ll introduce myself soon – Writers Block!
RYAN RICH – This is from your area … any idea who coach is. I ask because it’s my “2nd” favorite youth video –
Thanks,
Mark
On this topic I’ll offer a perspective that might help but I am not an expert. When any group of players can (as a group) do something slightly better than the other group then they have an advantage and appear to be more successful. Like the 5 yr old that can break from the herd and run and chase the ball while the others watch – looks like a superstar.
In the above video one team can pass ok but they play as a team better than the other team and this slight advantage does wonders. But I really didn’t see one player on the other team really know how to do many of the little things to counter. So passing against a team that has no defensive skills will go a long way. Respectfully, I’m not picking on either of these teams.
If you go back and watch “the U11” video that started all this this is what still blows me away. At about 1:10 you will see maybe eight touches between 5 players that end in a goal. Sure they had good spacing but if you watch the beauty of each touch and the skill needed to pull off exactly what just happened you start to realize the technical brilliance of those players.
Hell, please show me eight touches like that with high school players or even college players. That is, show me a sequence of similar touches by several players that are put together with the magical beauty they created.
So my point is that they are probably technically at a very high level in the same way that Barca players seem to just pass well with good spacing. The fact is they (Barca Players) could probably blow past any defender when challenged and as a result defenders give them space because they have no other choice. It seems high technical skill is not so obvious when one makes things look so easy – in any endeavor.
So I believe all the points from above are spot on but one must develop the technical,tactical,physical and psychological but I also wonder how you do it all w/o glossing over the technical while moving forward.
