Monday 10th September
Brazilian Soccer Schools
Year 5/ Year 6
Session 2
The object of this session was to concentrate on another “move to beat players” move using core moves to build up to the full move. I planned this move to be enjoyable to learn as research from Bengoechea et al (2004) found that the acquisition of skill is made easier for young people when they find it fun and enjoyable to learn. The move was the “roll over Emerson chop” a move that Christiano Ronaldo uses very frequently. The ball is rolled across the front of the body using the sole of the weak foot and then chopped across the body behind the standing leg with the inside of the stronger foot. The “Emerson chop” is used frequently in our sessions and the majority of players can perform it. However the combination I want them to work towards is slightly more complex but much more effective in beating your man.
I began the session with an introduction talking to the players about how I felt the previous session went and areas a feel we could improve upon from the last session. Reflection on prior coaching sessions at the beginning of a session is essential in order to progress. It allows the coach to highlight issues they were happy and also unhappy with, plus gain a good level of communication from the start (Hargreaves 1990). I felt the best way I can do this is through adopting a humanistic style of coaching throughout my sessions (Lyle 2002), Hemery (1988) also suggests this person centered method of coaching is a good way of building coach-athlete relationships. I also gave the players an insight to areas we would be covering and used the game play, which is generally their favourite, as a reward for hard work. The harder they work the longer they receive in game play. I feel by using this method during the session I can gain a slight increase in intensity just by saying “I feel we can work harder here, remember the harder we work the more time we get in game play.” Stratton (2004) states that by having an incentive to work hard it increases work rate and maintains good behaviour. In addition to this Mageau and Vallerand (2003) suggest that a coach’s behaviour can nurture athletes and develop players both intrinsic motivation and self determined extrinsic motivation. An aim of mine coaching this group is to develop intrinsic motivation amongst the players as it is an important mental factor in working hard away from our sessions which is fundamental to our work at BSS.
I wanted to create a 1 v 1 drill that focussed on the run of the forward player in which they would ark their run; Bloomfield et al (2007) observed that strikers endure a lot of swerving runs throughout a match which supports Komelink’s (2000) findings. He stated that it is the best practice for a forward player to arch his run when closing down defenders; I designed a drill that I felt was adequate, however when it came down to organising and performing the drill it became difficult. I think I under estimated the difficulty of the drill and instead of coaching the run of the forward I ended up coaching the pass at each section of the drill. This drill was enjoyed by the players however I didn’t reach the objectives I wanted to through it. I feel by doing some similar passing drills we will be able to re-visit the 1v1 drill and gain great benefits from it. I wanted to create a situation that allowed us to pass the ball to a new player each time and move out of space into a new space, as Daniel (2004) stated this is the most effective way of penetration of a defence; in addition to this Holt et al (2006) found that tactical development was directly transferred from small sided drills into full game play, this being another reason for the 1v1 drills.
Bibliography
Bengoechea, E.G, Strean, W.B, Williams, D.J (2004). Understanding and promoting fun in youth sport: coaches' perspectives. Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 197 – 214 [online] [Accessed 11th Dec 2007, 16:50hrs]
Bloomfield, J, Polman, R, O’Donoghue, P (2007). Physical demands of different positions in FA Premier League soccer. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 6, 63 - 70 [online] [Accessed
http://jssm.org/vol6/n1/8/v6n1-8pdf.pdf
Daniel, J (2004). The complete Guide to Coaching Soccer Systems and Tactics, Reedswain Inc
Hemery, D (1988) The Pursuit of Sporting Excellence: A Study of Sport's Highest Achievers. Human Kinetics
Kormelink H (2000). Dutch Soccer Drills: 180 Practice Drills for Developing Creative, Attacking Soccer. Reedswain Inc
Lyle, J (2002). Sports Coaching Concepts: A Framework Coaches’ Behaviour. Routledge
1 comment:
Excellent level of personal and academic reflection . Your analysis of what you are delivering indicates a good breadth and depth to your reading. Well done. The type of comment you make has a tendency to be very positivist. To move to the very top grades you might like to consider using phrases such as " ... on the other hand Smith and Jones (1999) suggest that ..." or " several authors such as ... dispute this however and suggest ..." or "it could, however, be argued in-line with research conducted by ... that..."
However, having made thses comments this is still an admirable piece of work and should achieve a mark of above 70% if completed to the same level. Well done.
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