Saper Vedere
Knowing How to See
This is a theme for my spring club team. So often young players here in the United States play with a primary focus of winning the soccer ball. So little consideration is given to ideas about what to do with the ball once it has been "won". This leads to turnovers or the creation of another 50 / 50 ball to be won. Curious this, why players work so hard to win the ball and then treat it as if it were the plague, eh?
So it is that we will spend the next few months reprograming the on-field thought process of our players. My hope is to transform ball watchers into game observers. That we might progress from the closed singular thinking of one decision soccer based on winning the ball to an open minded creative and free flowing style of soccer based on anticipating the run of play through seeing multiple decisions ahead is the goal.
Know what you will do with the ball before your first touch on the ball.
Failing to prepare properly is preparing to fail.
Solve pressure as opposed to self-inflicting pressure because you don't have a action plan for when you gain possession of the ball.
Be a game watcher not a ball watcher.
These are some of the coaching phrases and points of empahsis we will be attempting to establish with our players in providing them with a broadened spectrum of knowledge based in learning to see the game differently. We want to develop within them a deeper appreciation of the game by helping them learn to see more of the game being played about them.
Looking forward to the journey!
So it is that we will spend the next few months reprograming the on-field thought process of our players. My hope is to transform ball watchers into game observers. That we might progress from the closed singular thinking of one decision soccer based on winning the ball to an open minded creative and free flowing style of soccer based on anticipating the run of play through seeing multiple decisions ahead is the goal.
Know what you will do with the ball before your first touch on the ball.
Failing to prepare properly is preparing to fail.
Solve pressure as opposed to self-inflicting pressure because you don't have a action plan for when you gain possession of the ball.
Be a game watcher not a ball watcher.
These are some of the coaching phrases and points of empahsis we will be attempting to establish with our players in providing them with a broadened spectrum of knowledge based in learning to see the game differently. We want to develop within them a deeper appreciation of the game by helping them learn to see more of the game being played about them.
Looking forward to the journey!
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