Today we look at notes from German coach Bene Schneiderbauer so the content will be soccer-based but again it can easily be transferred to Aussie Rules Football.
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TIME AND SPACE
The ball carrier needs to find the free player and then know when to pass them the ball...The receiver needs to know where the open space is and then know when to move into it to receive...You have to be in the right space at the right time, not too early and not too late...Sometimes you need to wait to see what space is being vacated by teammates/opposition so don’t move for no reason or you’ll just be out of position even more...Without the ball you have to run but with it you can walk/run much less...Let the ball run, not you...When the opposition starts to press that’s your trigger to look to move again, and into the spaces they vacate while pressing
BUILDING TEAMS
When things go sideways, stick with your formation and find solutions within your system, don’t change it...Instead of changing training structure every session, compress everything the game demands into 1 structure and repeat it every training session...Pick core games that cover every situation and repeat them until mastered...Everything you want to teach is inside the game but can you poke the game in a way to improve your players...Better teams focus on fewer things while focusing on bigger things
POSITIONISM v RELATIONISM
Positionism refers to the intention of players without the ball coming 1st (position)...Relationism refers to the intention of the player with ball coming 1st (and affords us better positions)...Does the position define the action or does the action define the position? It’s both...The individual action is not the starting point, the context is...Each individual's intention starts with the team intention = team-intentioned football...How we want to play as a team defines the individual action of the player with the ball (relationism) and without the ball (positionism)
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
Is simply adapting to new football overload...When they are overloaded you can help them push through the challenge and they might never get there, or you can reduce the overload and make it a bit easier for them...Have small but consistent wins and someday they’ll explode with exponential growth
KNOWLEDGE
Drives player development, not repetition...Every repetition needs a feedback loop that generates football specific knowledge (implicit/explicit) and coaches should provide frameworks so players can reflect and organise knowledge on a solid foundation, not on subjective experience
TRAINING INTENSITY
Small spaces creates a high density of actions/minute so it looks intense which is fine but it often won’t lead to better players as it doesn’t allow the player to improve their actions as they have no time to think and just do the 1st thing that comes to mind, which is their usually their sub-par default action...They get conditioned to play fast but not better football which is actually a game of time and space...True intensity comes through quality...Improving the action improves the intensity of the game...When you improve communication you need less information to understand each other = less information to process = faster decisions = need less time/space to play = more intensity...Improved player positioning = can beat opposition with fewer touches = need less time/space to play...Make their game a little bit faster every time leading to better/faster football forcing them to get faster again in a positive loop to get better and better
UNPRESSABLE POSSESSION FOOTBALL
You’ve got 2 common options for development being individualise via breaking the game into tiny pieces and then reconstructing it back together v letting them play so they can naturally get creative and both are valid…A 3rd way is UPF where you attack in a manner where the opposition can’t get close enough to really press you defensively, or in our case, delay you for more than 1 – 2secs or intercept our marking attempts…By playing better team football, players have to adapt and that forces them to get better…It allows your team to not rely on being faster/stronger yet allows you to compete against bigger/stronger opposition…Using narrow training areas means you can’t rely on physicality/speed…Hide your intentions with feints to get the opposition 1 way when you fully intend on going the other…Think ahead to know what to do before you receive…Control the ball well in tight spaces…Players will learn all of these game moments as a byproduct of your practice and without having to teach each component in isolation…Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away
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