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Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Check out how EA FC 24 is revolutionizing football coaching in the gaming world. 🎮⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Learn more about how EA FC 24 and UEFA are using FC to bring train young players and inspiring kids to play football. ⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

Learn more about how EA FC 24 and UEFA are using FC to bring train young players and inspiring kids to play football. ⚽️ #WeAreEA #EAFC24

WHY SMALL SIDED GAMES? Children join teams to play football, not to stand around in lines or repeat the same movement over and over again. Unlike drills, games aren’t regimented - they are dynamic, imaginative and most of all FUN. Games give players the chance to score goals, to tackle, to emulate their heroes. Players also get more touches of the ball and must utilise a broader range of movements, techniques and skills than in drills. These skills can be translated to full-size full-speed games more easily because the images our players see in training more closely resemble the ‘moments’ when they need to utilise skills within a match. Drills can allow players to replicate the movement of a pass, but only games can replicate the situation as well. Additionally, SSGs can be easily scaffolded to build up the pressure and time-constraints on our players gradually. This means the same conditions can be applied from 1v1 through to 4v4 and up to 11v11 - the only variable is the number of decisions that players have to make. And this scaffolding means that every player can be set individual targets and challenges so, whether they are the strongest player or are struggling to keep up, they stay engaged in the session and motivated to improve. This book contains eight Small Sided Games templates. After modifications, progressions and variations you could easily use nothing else for a year’s worth practices. And if you did I promise your players would be smiling this time next year #ZAHIRIYA #zahiriya #Hadrick #zho728 #zho #ZHO #ZHO728 #Football #Soccer #FIFA #UEFA #ChampionsLeague #PremierLeague #LaLiga #Bundesliga #SerieA #EPL #WorldCup #FootballFans #GoalOfTheDay #FootballIsLife #moulayali #coachmoulayali  

⚠ Coaches: As people will know, I am specifically involved in Football/ Soccer however, this is relevant to any sport. - Try to ensure that we don't overcomplicate what we want the players to do. - Try not to have unrealistic expectations and don't set the players unachievable goals. - Try to make Training and Matchday player centred and age-appropriate with where the players are on their development journey. - Try to communicate with language that the players understand. - With many age groups, Game Models, Principles of Play, Formations and the Roles and Responsibilities of players are not yet relevant. In a nutshell, simplify what it is that you want the players to try and do.

A quick follow up to my previous write up on Periodization in Soccer https://lnkd.in/g6CvgvTh

My personal 3 favourite players in the Euros so far have been Jamal Musiala, Georges Mikautadze and Jeremy Doku. Every single one of these players in addition to being brilliant with the ball technically, has amazing change of direction ability while possessing the ball and creating goal scoring opportunities. This skill is highly relevant to their playing position (winger, striker) as our study from last year also underlined (https://johk.pl/?p=7871). The important question is how to help young players improve these types of skills - I think us football coaches need to be better at determining on individual level the relevant abilities for training and concentrate on game-specific demands instead of complicated isolated drills or tactical aspects.