Circuit Model

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Circuit Model

• A model for the organization of a practice
  session players play in groups
• Provides more variation
• Players have more ball contacts
• Each segment only lasts 10-20 minutes
• Young players are better in small groups
• Repetition of same drills provides for learning

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Circuit Model -- 2

• The soccer drills must be exciting
• Start with drills/games that are easy for the
  players to understand and perform
• Adjust and replace drills/games as you go
• A game of tag (dribble tag, passing tag)
• Some form of a possession game
• Some form of going to goal / goal shooting
• Small sided game with goals

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Advantages of the Circuit Model

• The session is geared to the world of the young
  players
• Players have lots of ball contacts
• The duration of each activity is short
• Young players work better together in small
  groups rather than one large group
• The coach can focus better on the group
• Repetition provides for better learning

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The Vision of the Coach

• Develop a Coaching Philosophy
• a personal approach to your way of coaching
  --- what is important to you ?
• Beliefs -- Motivation -- Methods - Results
• Determining a Style of Play
• how your team will play play for results
  only ?
• play attractive soccer (skillful with team
  play) ?
• Short term or long term approach

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Coaching

• The main task of a coach is to influence players
  to want to play soccer, and learn to play it
  better, for years to come.
• Coaches must focus on and develop in their
  players technique, insight, and an understanding
  of how it all comes together

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Coaching -- 2

• -- Questions a coach should ask of himself
• First --- is the drill running smoothly
• Second --- are the objectives being met
• Third ----- are the players learning / having
  fun
• Are the drills age-appropriate
• What changes would improve the drill
• Is the organizational setup working
• Are the players taking ownership of the drill

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Credibility of the Coach

• Be as positive and patient as possible
• Praise the good play
• Dont just focus on mistakes, look for answers
• Be clear and consistent
• Be sincere in the way you treat the players
• The more you care about the players,
• the better they will respond to you
• Help them in their learning process of becoming a
  soccer player --- it takes a long time to achieve
• Make them want to come back for more

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The Right Moment

• Coaching demands that you teach your players to
  be able to read the game, to solve the soccer
  problems as they arise and to have the technical
  ability to successfully execute under the
  pressures of the game.
• You can learn a brilliant book of coaching
  drills by heart, but the ability to act at the
  right moment, to make an accurate analysis and to
  show how things should be done, is much more
  important. That is the heart of the matter.

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The Best Team to Coach  is a Team of Orphans
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A Team of Orphans

• A team of orphans has
• no parents to second-guess your decisions,
  or to tell you why their child should play more
  than everyone else,
  or to scream from the sidelines at
  officials and players.
• But most importantly, there would not be any
  parents around to criticize the children for
  losing.