AYSO EXPO Coaching Workshop Quality Session Planning and Implementation.

AYSO EXPOCoaching Workshop

Quality Session Planning and Implementation


• AYSO Vision Statemento To provide world class youth soccer programs that enrich

children’s lives.

• AYSO Mission statement o To develop and deliver quality youth soccer programs, which

promote a fun, family environment based on the AYSO

Philosophies of: • Open Registration• Everyone Plays• Balanced Teams• Positive Coaching • Good Sportsmanship• Player Development

Claudio Reyna, when he was the youth technical director for U.S. Soccer


• AYSO and United States Soccer Federation (USSF) Focus –o Development Over Winningo Quality Trainingo Age Appropriateo Have Fun/Inspire Players


• How we get this accomplished:–Planning a Training Session–Preparing a Training Session–Performing (at training and at game)–Evaluating (training and game)–Amending training–Re-evaluating!


What is the purpose of a training session (practice)?

• To improve each player’s technical and tactical ability.

• To improve the teams tactical ability and overcome any shortfalls.

• To prepare for the next game.


For a training session to be successful, a coach must:

• Prepare • Plan • Perform• Evaluate• Amend


For a training session to be successful a coach must:

Prepare! • How do you prepare? • How do you know what to work on?

• What do your players & the team need?


How do you know what to work on ? At the first training session of the season

use the “Free Play” method to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of each player and the team.

What is free play and Why use it?

After the first training session your game analysis will determine what you train.


“Free Play”:

• Is used to observe the player’s and the team’s soccer capabilities.

• Free play describes the condition where individuals play with minimal restrictions on time or space.

• Players are given general directions on what they should attempt to accomplish and then left to play while coaches just observe and evaluate.

• The players should play hard, get water, and rest as is warranted.

• A coach’s observational powers will increase as they are forced to isolate individual action in small groups.


• U-12 team - use free play to decide what to work on.• Roster size should be 12• Make four teams (balanced if possible)• You take two teams, your assistant coach takes the

other two.• Teams Play 10 minutes of keep away, the team with

the highest number of consecutive touches wins!• Wining teams play 10 more minutes against each

other, as do the non-winners.• You and your assistant Observe & Evaluate


Now you know what to work on!

How do you work on the team and individual weaknesses?

Create an Evaluation Chart for each player and the team.

What should the content of the evaluation chart be?

Age appropriate!


From your U-12 Coaching

Manual


Players age U-12 will experience: Attacking Objectives

Advance the ballScoreMaintain Possession

Defending Objectives Delay the opponentsPrevent Scoring Regain Possession


• What objective should our players emphasize?• It depends on who has the ball! What else?

– Where is the player on the field?– Where is the goal?– Where are teammates?– Where are opponents?– Where the ball is?– How much time is left?– What’s the score?

• Now that we know what objective to pursue, how to we achieve it???


Principles of Play for the U-12 Player: Attacking Principles Defending Principles

Penetration Delay

Support Cover

Width Compactness

Mobility Balance

Creativity Composure


During the U-12 season all players should have been introduced to all technical skills required to play the game. Our role is to be sure they can do those skills correctly. Players can’t to tactically what they can’t do technically!

What’s the problem for the coach?New Players!

But that is a good thing!


Player Evaluations (Charting): Coaches should also evaluate each player’s:

Attitude Work Rate Coach-ability

After the first practice and the first game you should know a lot more about the players than you did and you will be able to plan for future practices more efficiently…


Planning The Training Session How long should a training session last?

The activity portion of any training session should be the same as the length of the game.

The key word in this statement is “Activity”!!

No training session should be longer than 90 minutes. Players of ANY age group cannot physically and mentally perform longer than that effectively.


Training Plan Before each training session you should write a training plan.

What should this plan contain?

This plan should contain all the activities that you want to doalong with the time to be spent on each activity.

All training sessions must be broken down into the following parts.

They are:

Technical Warm up for tactical objective in Activities 1 & 11Activity 1 Activity IISmall sided matchCool down…


p. 31 U-12


Warm-up

A correct and proper warm up is essential for the well being of the players.

It should also be used to prepare the athletes for the activity to be worked on.

If you are planning on working on passing, then step three of the warm up should lead into the passing activity.


Warm-Up

The warm up can be broken down into three parts.

What are they? – Light activity to warm the muscles– Dynamic stretching (Appendix D in AYSO U-

12 Coaching Manual, FIFA 11+)– Free play game based on the theme of the

training session


Post warm-up?• Technique/Tactical work• Technical and tactical build-up for the tactical

objective of the training session• Progression of Technical Build-Up

– Technique demonstrated with no pressure.– Technique demonstrated while under pressure

(passive to full, integrating decision making).– Technique demonstrated in match-like situation.


Post Technical / tactical warm-up?

Small sided games

Why?



Technical Warm-Up

Activity 1


Activity II


Small-Sided Match


Post Small sided match?

Cool Down

Why?


Post Cool Down?

Evaluate the Training Session

Why is there a need to evaluate the training session?...


Evaluating the Training SessionThe coach needs to know:

What worked What didn’t What did the players likeWhat they didn’t likeWhat kept their interest What didn’t What was too long What wasn’t long enough...


Most important thing about evaluating the

training session?

Was the training used in the next game?

Next thing to do?...


Amend the Training Now is the time to decide what should be

changed for the next training session.

By using the evaluation form any necessary

adjustments can be made.

This leads us back to what?...


Planning

Preparing

Performing (at training and at game)

Evaluating (at training and at game)

Amending

Re-evaluating!...


Coaches: Our Role in the AYSO Experience

Who are the Coaches’ “Customers?”

Everyone Plays!

“Customer service is not a department, it’s an attitude”

- Unknown

AYSO Ambassadors

Great Coaching = Great Customer Service

• Player Development Matters!• Why We Play the Game the Way We Do• Nurturing New Coaches

Great Soccer Starts with Great Communication

• You’re the Source! • Setting the Tone• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!• Use Your Tools

– Shutterfly Team Site– Team Parent– Division Coordinator, Coach Administrator, Board– Region Website

We’re AYSO Ambassadors!


Any questions?

Thank You…

AYSO EXPO Coaching Workshop Quality Session Planning and Implementation.

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