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| I coach a U10 girls team and I cannot prevent them from clumping around the ball. They have all good skills but keep playing for the ball against each others. How can I get them to understand they need to spread out and pass the ball? Thanks,
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It's a tough one, as they all want the ball and think that by running to it that they will have a chance at getting it.
I told mu U12 girls this past season that 'if you find space the ball will find you', I then explained that when winning the ball the instruction is to knock it into space for your teammate to run on to.
One girl in particular who played outside midfield came off after a half of trying it out and exclaimed that she got the ball more often and even got to run with it.
Good Luck.
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| Here is a drill I've used to help players understand spacing: Create multiple small grids within one half of the field using markers. Each player is assigned one grid and must stay within the grid to dribble or pass to a teammate. Once they grasp the concept, I add a defender in each grid and the attackers must keep the ball away from the defenders with no shots on goal. After running the drill I remove the markers and players are free to move around the field, but now I can coach them to keep the spacing like we had with the grids.
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| nice one DYM, I suggest something similar. focus on passing for possession. use his drill, it's a good one. however, being U10, their ability to release the ball quickly under pressure with accuracy is limited. So you may want to start with only a couple of defneders and slowly build to even numbers over the course of a couple of different training sessions..
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| My 1st post! Ok, I was having this problem with my new U14 boys squad. Since the team was comprised of only a few returning players, (many aged up to U16), I found them collapsing on the ball quite a bit. What worked for me, as a mental approach, was sitting them all down and having a chat about "trust". I explained that at ANY point in a game, there is possession of the ball as well as a pressure to that particular possession...and at ANY point we are on either side of that. In other words, a 1 v 1 situation ALWAYS exists. The key is to "trust" that your teammate (who is on either side of the contantly changing 1 v 1's) will "win" it. The key with "trust" is to maintain your "Support Distance" and let your teammate "do their job"...trust them. If they happen to lose the "1 v 1", you're right there in perfect shape to pick up the slack. If they win the "1 v 1", you maintain great support angles and distance to them. I found, after this chat, they began to open up the field a lot more. A few times, I would simply yell "TRUST!" during practice and matches, and they KNEW what to do. Hope this helps. Bud
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| For younger players, one main reason they clump together is that some members of the team haven't learned how to make reasonably long passes where the ball travels at a quick pace. A slow roller will get intercepted or won't even make it to the intended target. Therefore, team members will clump around perceived weaker players thinking that there's no way the 'weaker' team member with the ball will ever be able to get it to them. You've probably noticed that players clump less around the kids with a 'bigger foot'. Practice passing/receiving drills that emphasize giving hard accurate passes over longer distances with proper technique and with either foot and also properly receiving those passes. Once they can pass/receive over distances, play keep away drills (5 v 1, 5 v 2 as they get better) in a circle keeping them spread out. Emphasize spreading out, receiving under pressure, moving to get open, passing to open space, keeping the ball if not under pressure, shielding the ball with their body. Also, you'll need to emphasize 1) pass receiver must be aware of where other players are before receiving the pass so the receiver can be thinking ahead of time what they are going to do with the ball. 2) talking on defense so they let other defenders know who is going to attack the player with the ball 3) when dribbling with the ball, must dribble with their head up so they can see their teammates before they get pressured by a defender. Also, when you scrimmage, stop the scrimmage when more than one defender goes for the ball or another offensive player runs toward their own teammate who has the ball or the player with the ball ignores open teammates and tries to go coast to coast by themselves.
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| try explaining that the most important player on the pitch is the one who hasn't got the ball. using a small sided game cone off to area's down the sides have a player in each area, these players can be used by either side. during the game the players have to pass to the wings every third pass this will promote wing play and encourage wingers to work back and forth
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| A game that worked well for our team was the "4 goal game" where there are two goals at each end of the pitch near to the corners, rather than one. I found after playing this in training a lot, that players started naturally looking for space.
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i use this to encourage passing and moving with my under 8s, mark the pitch that you play your small side game during training into 3rds, down the length of the pitch, place the players into their positions, and if they go over the line from their side award a penalty to the other team, this works really well as no one wants to give away easy goals, as their team mates will kick up if 1 person is doing it to often. it also gives penalty practice for your goalkeeper
Simon
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