As previously mentioned, football technique is a term often used but never clearly defined. And to make matters worse, this poorly defined definition of football technique, is also accompanied by the :

More often than not social media glorifies a 'freestyle and street' mentality, where the nutmeg is king and where flashy and complicated gets views and makes money for the creators.

Neurologically it's all about dopamine, which we won't go into here. 

A good analogy is that young players are being fed party food rather than being fed a healthy diet.

As a result, an increasing number of young players believe that this is what individual game functional technique is, and believe that the complicated and the extravagent has an important place in the game. Players mature thinking that the ability to beat a player with complicated 1v1 techniques is what being a good player is all about. When in fact for most players, this simply makes them worse.

Watch the next 2 videos to get examples of this.

Also social media is dominated by sessions that have an emphasis on intensity and speed of technique, without too much guidance in regards to the development of the underlying technical fundamentals of individual game functional football technique.

This is fine for advanced players, who already have a strong technical base, but unfortunately the technical coaches on YouTube, jump past the foundation phase on their videos - simply because it would not be entertaining enough for their channel.

The problem with this is that young players who don't have the technical foundations in place,  also want to jump past the fundamentals and go straight to the intensity aspects of the session. They want to run before they can walk.

This video below is a great session no doubt, but it is a session for an advanced player. Not fora player who still still coming to terms with the fundamentals.

 

 

So as a result of the polluting effect of YouTube, and social media in general,