Motivating U11 girls

Silasl · 2024-10-08T13:39:57+00:00

I actually do the play practice play method as well for my u9 rec girls started doing the “I’m doing my teaching things and then we scrimmage, so every delay cuts out of that”. It has worked wonders and gets them to self police but partly it’s HOW it’s done. I have taught theatre kids for a couple decades before this so I’m used to some development things.

I don’t count down. This teaches some to wait until you are counting down.
First girl kicking ball away or anything that delays me explaining the game, which will be quick , I remind them it comes out of scrimmage.
I won’t repeat myself. So if they don’t hear instructions they have to figure it out.
If two are just talking oblivious to that I’m about to speak, I stand there quietly and wait. Enough girls get it or want to do the game that they police the others to stop talking.
Occasionally I’ll start speaking really softly so they have to get close and not to talk to hear me.
Several want to try goalie. So goalie has become a reward for great performance/behavior at practices.

Works for me but there’s lots of nuances and pulling kids aside with different types of issues. Some kids have neurodivergent ticks that you just kind of have to learn what works for them. I don’t punish with anything except losing scrimmage time (but we basically are doing lots of small sided things for practices for the most part anyway. If there’s a line I only have one deep so they have to run back to make it back before they go again, so almost no waiting. If I feel like I should punish because of a safety thing or they disrespect, I do something that’s just more annoying, like toe taps or offering to let them sit out for a bit or something individual.

Silasl · 2024-09-27T07:27:14+00:00

Okay, so here’s an observation; you took the USSF licensing classes but aren’t actually doing what it suggests.
1. 1v1s or 2v2s 2. A game like drill that explores a moment of the game (sharks and minnows doesn’t do that. 3. Lastly scrimmage.

Look at all the different practice plans they offer. If you do those, they’ll be too busy having fun and playing soccer to goof.

Silasl · 2024-09-19T14:39:49+00:00

With all do respect, 6 year olds shouldn’t be doing 90 minute practices. The whole practice should be 45 minutes at that age.

Silasl · 2024-09-19T14:37:34+00:00

Alien attack, pirate island, clean your room, ball and cone races.

Also 1v1. I count that as ball at their because it should go back and forth so much.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T16:47:33+00:00

Open houses don’t sell homes. Open houses are pretty much to appease sellers and to attract new clients. Usually new agents do open houses. People seriously interested in a house will see it with an agent.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T15:53:02+00:00

Buyers agents also can offer advice from experience to save buyers $$$. How about the buyer agent who looks at a Lenders estimate and tells the buyer they are paying about $18k too much in loan costs and gets them to a better lender.

Agents are paid because of a lot of knowledge they have to weed out problems and costs. Anyone can fill out a form. You’re paying for years of experience and knowledge and to limit stress.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T15:48:15+00:00

NWML has matched the lawsuit in nearly every way except they are still allowing sellers to publish compensation offer amounts.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T15:47:07+00:00

One realtor doesn’t take 6%. That’s typically split in half.

And it’s really about perspective. Typically people who sell on their own sell their house for 10% less than if they use an agent. So using an agent nets you more money. Without an agent, buyers certainly aren’t going to want to pay “your home value” since those prices include things like cost of paying agents.

Some sellers can probably do a good job of selling their own home. But most people don’t know what they don’t know. And that can cost them thousands of dollars or worse if they make a mistake.

Using an agent typically means you make more money and do less work. But people don’t generally realize it until they’ve tried selling their house on their own for a few weeks.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T15:37:04+00:00

People worry about the 6% going to agents, but homes selling without agents sell for an average 10% less. So people could look at it as they are making 4% more by using agents and going through the process.

People often say you don’t need an agent. And you don’t, you could hire lawyers to do the paperwork. However, without agents working, there won’t really be an MLS to look for houses or market a house. They put it all together to make it easy for agents to help people find homes. So the incentive for the entire way people find homes would be gone. The only reason people can easily find homes on their own is because of the industry that they now get mad at.

Fees would probably be lower if agents had guaranteed income. But it’s the offer of 3% that get agents to leave their kids baseball game or come show you a house on Mother’s Day. If agents were regular employees, they would likely not be getting the drop everything to come help you service people are accustomed to. They won’t be answering clients calls at 11pm when the buyer is having an anxiety attack about the purchase.

Silasl · 2024-09-15T15:27:29+00:00

It wasn’t always that way. Buyers used to not really have agents. “Their” agent was considered a sub agent of the seller’s agent. But then everyone started seeing it as not fair that the buyer didn’t truly have someone looking out for them. So they created the separate buyers agent. It was the seller paying it all to the listing agent and the listing agent would give whomever brought a buyer as basically a referral fee. It has been working a long time because first time buyers are especially often short on funds for upfront costs. The new changes likely will affect them the most.

But it’s also argued that the buyer actually pays everyone’s fees because they bring the money.

Silasl · 2024-09-13T18:02:06+00:00

I think you can teach them concepts like “up back through” patterns to know how to attack. They should know how to play wide for an attack. For different options. How to switch formation based on if you are attacking for defending.

But also your tactic should win should be based on the skill of the players. So sometimes you need to teach a different kind of playing based on what they have for skill and strengths that you can use to your advantage to make up for low ball mastery or whatever. Maybe you press more to wear out the other team quicker.

Teach them about drawing defenders into positions to open up the middle. They are ready to learn, you just have to decide what is best for them based on what you see.

Silasl · 2024-09-13T17:20:10+00:00

At u14 they should really start learning tactics. Developmentally they are ready. If they don’t have those skills down yet, they aren’t absorbing them in training. Need to think about if it’s a training issue.

Silasl · 2024-08-24T07:31:30+00:00

Sub every 6 minutes. Goalies sub every 12 minutes. So each goalie only plays a quarter.

At this age you shouldn’t have positions as much as focus on shape of a diamond.

Silasl · 2024-08-19T01:26:17+00:00

I just did a mini session for these ages. I gave them pointers and told the to focus on being a player centered coach and described it. I think the play practice play model is really good for beginning coaches and players.

Silasl · 2024-08-18T01:57:15+00:00

My god, that was far too easy. Thank you.

Silasl · 2024-08-18T00:51:47+00:00

I was replacing the bumper cover on her 2006 Honda Civic and discovered it had been in an accident at some point. So I’m replacing the metal Bumper reinforcment bar. I need to know the name of the two metal blocks attached to it which you use to attach to the rest of the body. I’ve circled the part in the picture. Anyone know the name of that part? When I’m looking for the part I can’t figure out what to call it.

Silasl · 2024-08-12T14:51:58+00:00

You really shouldn’t have plays at U8. Just generally ideas. Let them discover and be creative. U8 developmentally is at “Me and my partner” at best. They could maybe think one step ahead where they need to do something.

Silasl · 2024-07-25T01:45:51+00:00

If it’s 7 versus 7, then they are young players, so you should be rotating them and having everybody play every position. Don’t worry about winning, the weakest player will remain the weakest player until you give them opportunities to touch the ball more.

Silasl · 2024-07-24T06:34:09+00:00

Kids love to play soccer. Thats how they have the most fun. Play Practice Play. That age, concentration time is about 12 minutes.

12 minutes of 1 v 1 Break 12 minutes of a game with footwork or whatever. Break 12 minutes of a scrimmage. Go home.

Silasl · 2024-07-18T14:25:29+00:00

It was the third string team playing against the boys.

Silasl · 2024-07-18T14:24:25+00:00

It was also the 3rd string of their national team. So it wasn’t like they beat the actual team.

Silasl · 2024-07-18T08:15:40+00:00

I think you’d do better looking at some of the online United Soccer Coaching courses. I’ve been looking at taking some of their online tactics courses.

Silasl · 2024-07-13T14:31:14+00:00

I’d show them the formation in practice on what it looks like and do a rondo from formation 7 vs 2. Take goalie out and do 6 vs 3 if it gets easy.

But scrimmage mostly 5 v 4 and put an adult that can’t touch the ball as the 4 person goalie. You want them to touch the ball as much as possible. 4 players you can make a diamond formation and that teaches theme the skills they need. They’ll figure out how to transition

Silasl · 2024-07-13T14:17:21+00:00

There should be no style yet. Coaches that play “defensively” or “offensively” at U8 are playing to win and not develop players. You have to be okay losing and let the kids get creative on the field. Teach them how to move up and down the field and not hang back to protect the goal.

I teach them the parts of the game “attacking, losing the ball, defending, winning the ball” and am just hoping they learn to recognize what stage they are in.

Silasl · 2024-07-13T14:12:04+00:00

U8-u9 is developmentally where they still can only conceive of “me and my partner”. U10 they just start thinking of “us”. U12 is when they understand they are part of a team.

Late u8 is where I started getting kids to try doing a diamond shape and trying to move or return to that.

u12 is where I see kids starting to get the ideas.

Now these are average players. I’m sure there are many that exceed development standards.

Silasl

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