Identify Components of the Game
First break the game down into
4 Main Components
Technical :
General Technique centers around touch and ball mastery
Game functional technique : This can include anything that might happen in a game and that can be worked on in isolation (when practicing alone).
Tactical
Do you know your team's system of play?
Can you talk through it quickly in the order it might occur in a game?
Can you draw key pictures at key moments?
You should be able to.
Physical
The game is increasingly played at very high speed, and under intense pressure. Time and space is minimal.
Are you doing the work to ensure you can move and play at speed?
Mental
The game is a confidence game : What are you doing to make sure you are confident going into games?
What are doing to maximize learning from the game?
How clear is your thinking about the game before you start?
The components need to be broken down into areas that can be worked on.
Technical
Touch in General
One Touch
Two Touch
Three touch
Footwork
Dealing with an elevated ball
Weak foot
Ball Striking
Passing techniques
1v1 Rules
Finishing rules
VAAD [ Head up / Decision making]
Physical
Agility : Foot speed
Power
Explosiveness
Repeated actions
Strength
Tactical [SOP]*
Playing out from Goalkeeper
General Possession
Getting in behind
Crossing
Finishing
Transition : Lose the ball
Opposition Goal kick : Blocks
Setting traps
Squeeze and crunch
Trap fails
Defending in the box.
Transition win the ball
Mental
Confidence
Clarity
Objectives
Alternative strategies
*Not all practice has to be physical. Be a student of the game. Study tactics. How well do you know your team's system of play [SOP]?. Study players. Study your game. You need to steal ideas from wherever you can and copy other players. If you hope to learn all you can about the game - it is impossible to do this without being a student of the game.
Pick things from the lists above that need work
Put each component of the game into a 'learning' phase.
- Attributes in the 'Development phase' need lots of attention.
- Attributes in the 'Maintenance phase' need 1 day in the cycle.
- Attributes that need a 'polish / tuning / restoration' need work when required.
- Try to get as technical as possible as quickly as possible, but once technique has reached a limit (improvement will be minimal despite more practice) switch to 'maintenance, tuning, polishing' for these components and shift your attention to other areas that are not at the same level.
Prioritize based on Development Stage :
- When young, touch and technique needs to take priority. Add in speed of technique, getting the head up and decision making to connect all developing techniques to the game.
- Agility, hopping ability and fast feet also are good to develop when young.
- As players develop, the most fundamental techniques need to become maintenance components, and technique development should move to more 'advanced / nuance' techniques. Advanced ball striking. Advanced elevated ball techniques. Advanced passing techniques.
- Power : explosiveness : Acceleration : Breaking . Running technique (soccer specific) needs to become increasingly important as players move into their mid/late teens.
- Players need to develop a deep understanding of the system of play their team adopts.
- Players need to do more intellectual development. Study players at the highest level. Steal and copy. Players need to prepare before games and have very clear objectives before games in terms of individual development goals and also how they can better serve the team.
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