Soccer Awareness
Soccer Awareness is the idea of making the girls smarter players. It is the process of helping them be aware of the game going on around them instead of the typical just focusing on the ball. This will help them make the best decisions possible when they are in a game. Since soccer is an athlete centered sport this is extremely important!
The biggest thing to improve to be successful and aide in “soccer awareness” is to develop a good first touch. Developing a good first touch is what will give players more time to make decisions and in a game that is getting faster everyday this is extremely important. There is an equation that can help paint this picture: “space = time = quality” meaning that a good first touch(into space) is going to give you more time to think, thus improving the quality of your decisions and the quality of your play.
The idea is to accomplish this by first training their feet. A lot of the conditioning that we will be doing in the first few practices will be solely based on footwork (sometimes w/out the ball). As one of the biggest …show more content…
When mistakes are made the girls will be able to self reflect on what just happened. Examples of this self-reflection could be...
Player receiving: “Was my body facing the right way?” or “Did I connect correctly with the ball?” Player passing: “Did I use the right part of the foot?” “Did I pass it too heavy or too quickly(pace/timing)?”
Players off the ball: “Did I give the person on the ball an option by moving into space and communicating?”
THIS SELF-REFLECTION WILL MAKE THEM BETTER PLAYERS AND MAKE THEM BETTER THINKERS. WHICH BRINGS US TO THE 3 TYPES OF PLAYERS….
THE THREE TYPES OF PLAYERS…
Player 1: Those who don’t know what’s going on in a game. The ones that kick the ball just to kick it.
**This happens a lot of times when the girls are under pressure and they didn’t look up to see if they had options so they just boot
The biggest thing to improve to be successful and aide in “soccer awareness” is to develop a good first touch. Developing a good first touch is what will give players more time to make decisions and in a game that is getting faster everyday this is extremely important. There is an equation that can help paint this picture: “space = time = quality” meaning that a good first touch(into space) is going to give you more time to think, thus improving the quality of your decisions and the quality of your play.
The idea is to accomplish this by first training their feet. A lot of the conditioning that we will be doing in the first few practices will be solely based on footwork (sometimes w/out the ball). As one of the biggest …show more content…
When mistakes are made the girls will be able to self reflect on what just happened. Examples of this self-reflection could be...
Player receiving: “Was my body facing the right way?” or “Did I connect correctly with the ball?” Player passing: “Did I use the right part of the foot?” “Did I pass it too heavy or too quickly(pace/timing)?”
Players off the ball: “Did I give the person on the ball an option by moving into space and communicating?”
THIS SELF-REFLECTION WILL MAKE THEM BETTER PLAYERS AND MAKE THEM BETTER THINKERS. WHICH BRINGS US TO THE 3 TYPES OF PLAYERS….
THE THREE TYPES OF PLAYERS…
Player 1: Those who don’t know what’s going on in a game. The ones that kick the ball just to kick it.
**This happens a lot of times when the girls are under pressure and they didn’t look up to see if they had options so they just boot