The Game is the Teacher – Drills For Soccer Harmony
By Geoff Hargreaves
Football coaches can be compared to conductors. Every musician plays their role and instrument in a band. The coach like the conductor, they must ensure that every player is able contribute, and he must also ensure the result is harmonic. A coach must also create a team out of 11 players, who together aim to reach the highest possible level. A coach also has opposition that is wanting to disrupt everything you do. When selecting how we are going to achieve this, the soccer drills we use are essential. During a game, every player constantly has to anticipate the ever changing situations and make split second reaction about what options does he take. These actions are created by their teammates and the opposition.
The truly great players all possess the quality to continuously and quickly oversee all the possible options. they also have the technical abilities and swift movement patterns to come up with the correct solution in most situations. And the coach prefers team efficient solutions, through drills for soccer team building. These solutions will express directly or indirectly the aim of the match: to win or at least not to lose. Complexity and unpredictability of the ever changing situations prevent the perfect form every being played. This is a positive factor. It is a given, of course, that every coach, especially those at the highest level, strive for perfection to get the most out of their team. The qualities of his players decide what the limits are of the achievement of his team.
Aiming for perfection gets tougher all the time, because during the past year on all fronts, coaches, clubs aim to raise the level of perfection regarding the performance of the team. More than anything, in this climate Demanding athletic, defensive team play greatly improved. As a result, high demands are put forward to build up and attack the quality of individuals as well as team tactics. One top player can not improve very much. How much can be gained from improving their functioning within the team. Structural learning process for players aged 6-18 and 18-21 is needed now more than ever, to fully ensure the full development and individual skills and tactical awareness of these players.At the top level, the cohesiveness of the team as a whole has become more and more decisive. There is room for improving teamwork to raise the performance level. It is then understandable that coaches wish to study factors that influence the results of the team. The world needs a set of rules that from a framework for the process of team building.
In the football/soccer world, many coaches believe that working on the mentality of players is synonymous with team building. At least as important is the team building in regards to how the football is played. All coaches work on developing team tactics, and many do not identify or acknowledge it as a structural process. It is more often seen as a form of game tactic, which is important, of course, providing that it is based upon an optimally developed playing style. this requires structural process. it is more often seen as a form of game tactic, which is important, of course, providing that it is based upon an optimally developed playing style. This requires structural training work using clear team tactical guidelines. There are three distinct types:
ORGANISATIONAL TEAM BUILDING
Organizational team building concerns the guidelines, which play a role in the team organization, the team structure, and the organizational form. These guidelines define the role and function of every player with the team organization. You can compare then to traffic lights, whereby the individual behavior on the road is steered via the guidelines in relation to other drivers. to prevent chaos. These actions become automatic. this is true for many things on a soccer pitch. There is no time to think. Action must be taken fast and in a team efficient manner. Because in and through this combination, the players make each other perform better.
STRATEGICAL TEAM BUILDING
Strategical team building concerns a series of guidelines which describe how with a certain team structure, the whole team, a line, or a group of players, defend, build up, and attack. Important therefore is the continuous positioning of the players in relation to each other, taking into account the resistance of the opponent and the developments in a game.
TEAM TACTICAL
Tactical team building concerns such questions as “How do I prepare my team tactically for the upcoming match?” “Should I adjust to my opponent?”
There are variations of familiar team strategies. They are based upon specific resistances from a match. The splitting up of the team process in three distinct types is of course a schematic approach. In practice, the three elements overlap and are intertwined with each other. The are components of each other. This classification must be seen as a frame of reference, as a better foothold for coaches. Depending on the performance level of the team, one coach will use it a lot and the next will use it less often. Here is to hoping that more coaches start to develop the game as “the teacher” as standard for improving their players as a group and in turn will improve there individual ability.
Geoff Hargreaves is a soccer coach for the FFSA, and researcher in developments in regards to football coaching and education.
