The 5-Minute Football Coach #32

Transitions, Weight lifting, Calm

Here are your highlights for this week:

Practice of the week

An original setup to work on transitions. All players alternating quickly between being defender, attacker, in and out of possession.

Football Theory @theory_football

4v4+2 Rondo; - Relationship between 4, 5, and 6 - Rotation and interaction of 8, 10, and 9 - Disguise and quality of entry ball from 4 @TacticalPad #coaching #coachinglife #football #soccer #gamemodel

Topic of the week

From Leicester City, a detailed explanation of how they established weight lifting as a core part of their physical training.

This is not really about weight lifting per se. Three good points I took from this:

• Keep looking for new ideas (including from other sports)

• Be comfortable in going against popular opinions

• Build up players’ individual responsibility

Idea of the week

Should coaches always remain calm on the touchline? Interesting question raised on twitter (click on the tweet to see all the answers). The overwhelming consensus is Yes. “Ever notice that paramedics never run to the scene?”

Jason Broadwater, "On the Touchline" podcast @SoccerCoachJB

Was listening to a podcast and heard something that I thought was interesting. Paraphrasing here. The manager said, “Sport is highly emotional. I need to make sure I have the slowest heartbeat of anyone in the room so I can make decisions with clarity.” Agree/disagree? Why?

Very much agree. Although someone should have told those two:

I hope you enjoyed this. Have a great week!

Fabrice

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