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I fear it may be too late for you but FWIW:
In my youth, the 70's, I played for an excellent school team and we
had the following training games (10 minutes each way) in addition
to the usual strength and fitness training routines.
Aged 12 - 14, emphasis on 4/5 a side, v.small pitchs, not usually
on grass, to improve basic ball control, speed and reactions.
Aged 15 - 17, emphasis on 7 a side, full size pitches, to improve
passing, possession and awareness.
Like most schools we also played 2 11 a side matches a week.
It may not be everybodys cup of tea but this method produced an U19
team that was unbeaten for 2.5 years with 6 of the 11 playing
county-standard.
Cheers,
Andy
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Here is what we do ritual every Tuesday, and I never bother
going Thursday, so wouldn't know. However, the key is to
get a bit tired before you touch a ball. It is then harder,
but when you're not as knackered, voila, difficult things
become easy (well, for the others, they were always easy for
me. Ahem)
Anyway heres what we do.
First warm up, natch.
Next form a large coned square, 50 yards X 50 yards.
Do about 5 laps of touch left, touch right, head forward kind
of stuff just to get moving.
Next do a lap of walk on side, jog one side, 3/4 pace one side,
sprint one side, then 1 pressup, 1 squat thrust, one star jump.
Then do this again, only 2 of everything at the end, then 3,
then 4, then 5. (After being injured for two weeks and doing
this I was f****d I can tell you.)
Next a small breather. (large this week i.e. nausea, the whole
9 yards; well out of fitness)
Next have a base cone and three further out and do some shuttles.
1 back, 2 back, 3 back. Two laps of these. Obviously its nice
to split into some teams for this one for some good slagging
people off type fun and a lovely forfeit for the losers.
Next 2 games X 2 laps each of weaving in and out the cones at
pace with the ball. One game should be complete control with
your wrong foot. If its particularly badly done, have another go.
Next do the same but with a ball i.e. take a ball out
to each cone, stop it dead and return. The next fella brings them
back, nice turns on a dead ball here. The next fella then takes
them out. Again two laps of this. Now do this exercise again,
again 2 laps.
Notice how Tony the sadistic manager is slowly bringing the ball
into the action just as you're feeling buggered and have developed
even more piss-poor control than you had before.
Next, group up into threes, in a line maybe 10 yards apart, ball
at each end. Each guy pitches the ball at the fella in the middle
to be volleyed back under control, for a set period of time. We do
2 minutes of each, and this is extremely tiring. Everybody does
volleys, then half volleys, then chests and give backs, then headers
getting off the deck. You are now knackered, but will be able to
feel your touch getting better over the weeks. If feeling flash,
call for the ball on your wrong foot for these exercises. Sometimes
this is enforced.
Now go straight into a two touch match for 10 minutes followed by
some all in, or if you're feeling fruity how about twenty minutes
of peppering your keepers with balls, attempting to put as many
over the railway and into the tennis courts possible.
Its important to have someone who has coached or at least has an
idea of some decent games/exercises. We used to have this fella
who would make games up on the fly, which everybofy would cock up
and get really cheesed off with. Fortunately the axe fell and
now we have a proper fella doing it.
This is for Bagshot playing in the Surrey League, so a pub team
would probably not want to get involved as much as this, but I
find the 'getting a bit knackered' before going near a ball does
definately help my touch.
Ian.
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Good exercises! Remember them all too well ;-).
Also something that's fun and makes sense:
Before training starts, i.e. the time it takes until everybody's
changed an on the pitch, make one or more squares with cones,
about 10m apart and play 4 against 1, first with two touches,
then with one touch
If the one player manages to touch the ball,
the player who passed the ball has to go in.
If a player passes the ball out of the
boundary he has to go in. The same if the
player makes more touches than allowed.
Variations: 4 v 2, 3 v 1, 5 v 2, 5 v 3, etc. according to no. of
players available
one or two touches (shouldn't be more).
Make sure that the guys don't stay glued to a corner but move
a bit back and forth 'asking' for the ball.
Of course there are loads of other NICE :-) exercises, but I think the
ones mentioned in the last reply are sufficient for a pub team.
If you do want a greater variety of exercises, get a trained coach or
buy one of the many books available.
Have fun
Eduard
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I can't deny that Jerry, I've been telling the missus for years
that I'm retiring at 35 to a little place on the Gower peninsula.
I've another 5 years of hard slog to go, and in the mean time, I may
be 5 years your senior, but I'm also 5 yards faster that you when it
comes down to the chase for goal.........it must be all the other
exercise you're getting! How is Una by the way?
JBG
Ps. to get back to the subject (ie. training), "set piece" attack and
defence practice is essential. The guys taking the corners have to
consistently put the ball in the right place and the guys in the box
have to know where the right place is going to be. The same goes for
free kicks whether from close range or on the half way line. You can
involve everyone when practicing, giving the forwards the chance to
develop a set of standard attacking plays, and getting the defenders
used to defending such plays.
In a lot of training games there is little emphasis placed on set
piece tactics, and hence time ought to be set aside for this purpose.
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