Objectives and Methodology
- Social-psychological. Promoting the availability mutual friendship and team spirit. Sensitization concepts of sacrifice, work, concentration and thinking, enjoyment and needs. The development and the stimulation of creativity during the play (the player chooses and decides). All necessary means to achieve the sports outcome.
- Technical. Validation, enhancement and improvement of technical skills. Technical training with a focus on speed and agility.
- Tactical. Retrieving, tactical and situational ability both individual and group. Setting of the systems of play. Individual tactics: practices in relation to the player’s tasks, the position. Unit tactics: coordination of actions of various units of the team. Team tactics: combination between individual tactic and of the units will supply a collective action, system of play.
- Physical and athletic. Increased and improvement of coordination and athletic condition by improving conditioning, specific for soccer player: mobility, flexibility, strength, endurance and speed.
OUR METHODOLOGY TO CREATE A SOCCER PLAYER
In particular, the development and technical improvement remains the only aspect of any preliminary tactical teaching, but
at the same time the technical training has to be in continuous connection and integration with the tactical training to stimulate the cognitive sphere of the youth soccer player. Our three conditions are:
- MAXIMUM GROWTH OF INDIVIDUAL TECHNIQUE
- IMPROVING THE TECHNIQUE TO TEACH AND TO MAKE BETTER USE OF THE TACTICAL SIDE
- IMPROVING THE INDIVIDUAL FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE GROUP
The careful planning of a training program for a young soccer player requires a crucial understanding of the dynamics in order to proceed in the development of their technical, tactical and physical capacities and the way they influence one other. After the age of 14, (although always considering the physical stature of the player as opposed to merely the biological age), we will train on conditioning, without the error of wanting to clearly distinguish all the activities, but rather on integrating them. The teaching will continue gradually with the proposal of simple situations, of situations changed and of complex situations. The soccer player has to gain as much experience possible in order to increase his/her technical-motor repertoire (his/her “soccer library”) that allows the player to solve, interpret and predict effectively, thanks to the memory and to the experience (the feedback), the issues and the varying situations of the game. We must accustom our players, more and more, to avoid looking at the ball, instead: to collect useful information from the surrounding environment to allow them to better evaluate and coordinate successive actions: receiving, controlling, passing, shooting and to quickly foresee and organize their own choices and strategies, connected to the position of teammates and opponents and to the free space. We hope, we believe and we will work toward this: that the final result be represented from a “player” capable of expressing his/her own adequate technical-tactical qualities to resolve a situation of play influenced by space; time; presence of teammates and of opponents.
DIRECTIONS OF OUR TRAINING PROGRAM
The picture to the side shows our scheme of work, specifying all aspects of teaching that need to address gradually, step by step, the teaching and therefore the improvement of the quality of the young soccer player.
Directions of our Training Programs.pdf