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0:00 well hello coaches coach KW back here again we're back from footall season although we're still in the midst of it team's doing really well I hope you
0:08 enjoyed and can use the last three videos I did on playing footall as soccer coaches in the winter to develop your players it's been going great for
0:15 my players but we're going to get back into uh soccer activities as the New Year kicks on so I was asked to guest coach with one of my town 7v7 teams I
0:26 offer that for all my coaches uh if they need help or they just want a different voice and this coach did so we're going to take a look at a few bits of
0:35 information before we get into it so you can see here on the notes by the screen that this is a 7v7 session working on playing out of the back this is a fourth
0:44 grade team uh in our town travel it is grouped by twoyear groups U1 U2 U14 but we on Purpose Group our teams by grade so that they stay together within that
0:56 age group so that they have some continuity with both players and coaches hopefully although in this case this team had a new coach from the first year
1:05 into the second year um so circumstances always don't work out but that's the goal behind it this is the two team uh meaning there was a one team and there's
1:14 actually a three team although there's not a lot that separates them but you'll see on this team there's a little bit more variation in their technical abilities uh because we're now starting
1:24 to drop down the skill level a little bit but all you know decent players again fourth great girls they've only been playing 1 two three four years in
1:33 travel and that's what they're doing here they have some few games under the belt uh they've been very successful and the coach has been following our plans
1:41 that we put out for them playing in the 231 working on playing out of the back but he asked for some help because he's actually one of the high school boys
1:49 coaches I believe one of the JV teams and it's obviously a big kind of code switch from coming from your practice in the afternoon with high school boys down
1:58 to fourth grade girls skill level different just just a whole different animal right and so he was smart enough to ask for some help to say Hey you know
2:07 how and what should I expect from them and how can I work with them so I'm always happy to help any of my coaches I office that for all of them I think I
2:14 did three guest coaching uh sessions year the videos cut down uh to about 20 22 minutes of actual coaching time so um that's important to know I tried to cut
2:28 out dead time and we also cut out a bunch of stuff at the end and they warm up the session was more for the coaches and a little bit less for the players
2:37 and I say that meaning if I was coaching this team I wouldn't necessarily lump in so much information that's in this one session you cannot cram all this sort of
2:48 information in the one session I hope it sticks you kind of pick your battles but I was doing it so that the coaches were going to take this and use it for the
2:57 rest of the season and into the spring season and again knowing that they had a little of experience I knew I wouldn't be overwhelming with them for the kids
3:05 but the coaches really appreciated hearing all those Concepts and having that background so then they could spend time working on each of the components as they went
3:15 forward one of the things I tried to do in this video is put lots of chapters in so if you look on the YouTube under the comment section or under the description
3:22 setting you'll see all the timestamps for lots and lots of chapters and I did this because I wanted this to be able to be used like index for you so that if
3:31 you're looking for a particular concept or other topic that happened in this session or in playing out of the back and some of the technical skills along
3:41 with the Tactical things go along with it there's a chapter marker so you could jump right to it and get it in context I'll show you a list of those in a
3:48 second there's a whole bunch of them and that's my goal I hope is this will become a resource for you in the future so that when you're struggling with a
3:57 particular thing or trying to figure out how you might approach something you can find it quickly and easily the last part of the video on the field is me just
4:06 talking to the coach while the team is playing a positional Rondo around us and it's a really great conversation where I'm kind of giving him more hints and
4:15 tips for what to look for what to work on and you know just giving him some encourage that this team is doing a great job already they really get some
4:24 core skills down and some hints and ideas on what he can can continue to work on and how to work on them throughout the season and into the
4:34 spring so hopefully you stick around for that piece of it it's at the last say three or four minutes of the coaching video on the field itself as I mentioned
4:44 here are all the chapters there are a ton of them and again they're in that section in YouTube so you can jump right down but again there's lots of pieces
4:51 here both just the technical pieces of how to do certain things and also the Tactical components mixed in lots and lots of coaching points and coaching ideas that hopefully you can use to pick
5:04 and choose in the future when you want to focus on something and you need an example okay with all that housekeeping out of the way let's jump into the
5:14 session we're going to join the session after the kids have warmed up and we had a little tactic session with the big board just kind of goinging over the big
5:21 picture of what we were going to do and what the shape looks like we played the triangle game or how many triangles we could identify and now we've got
5:28 ourselves set up so without further Ado let's watch the kids learn trying to get in places that you can help your teammates right if you can keep thinking
5:37 of how can I help every single time you look at something on the field the ball goes to a player over there you should be asking yourself how can I help when
5:45 it goes someplace else how can I help when it goes someplace else how can I help that's what's important about keeping our spaces and keeping our positions so we're going to do a little
5:55 practice playing out of the back we're going to do a couple different things how many do I have 1 2 3 four four five six seven eight n let's give it back to
6:02 the keeper keeper you get some balls there we go nice nice nice job all right keeper has the ball for a goal kick I want to see where
6:14 you would go uh extra players can you go to halfway because what happens when the ball is a goal kick where do you have to go half field right we're going to make
6:24 some adjustments here first things first where are my Wingers put your hands up who the wide players you you all the way to the paint all the way to the
6:35 paint you want to get paint on your shoes when you're lining up now the next thing I'm going to have you do is maybe come down a little bit come down this
6:43 way come down this way come down this way hun great center backs where is the pressure coming from when she kicks the ball where do they come running
6:55 from so from there to there do they think if she starts running is she G to get to you and me first so let's come down here center backs come back here
7:07 ladies distance equals time if you give yourself more distance you have more time to make a decision with the ball so center backs I want to see you standing
7:17 like here great right here so we first we have first pieces of this that's a good start Wingers you naturally have to face the front of the field center backs
7:29 I like this you angled look at your feet right what can you see if you stand that way and you just don't move your feet turn your head what can you
7:38 see everything good this position here in the middle if you play this position this is the hardest one if you stand like this she stands like this where are
7:51 the bad guys coming from can she see where they're coming from no no so let's change our body shape to One Way Or Another We're turning sideways cuz now what can you do
8:03 with your head oh look let's watch both sides give me that high five right there so it's all about body shape ladies being able to see all your
8:14 teammates we always put our ball in the center for goal kicks why do you think we do that give me an answer you could put this ball anywhere
8:24 in this box why do we put it in the or up you can pass to either side if I put this ball over here what do you
8:35 think the other team's going to know we're going to do right do you see that when you play other teams they put the ball on one side or what do they do kick
8:43 it to that side is it hard for you to figure out where to go no it's not hard Strikers do you have to be on this side
8:51 of the field for a goal kick no you do not they have to be over there but you could come here you could stand here you can stand
9:02 anywhere you don't have to come to half don't be here because guess where the rest of the team is lined up right right here right on top of you get out
9:13 there so ladies we're going to play this ball one step at a time and I'm going to work through what you should and shouldn't be doing okay let's put a ball
9:22 here in the middle that's one that's not flat that's helpful all right so we're going to play ball off to this side first one step at a time go ahead
9:34 Play and Freeze great this is what I want to see this Center back doesn't move that Center back uh Wing doesn't move yet there's a concept we like to
9:50 remember it's called the second pass what if she got in trouble and had the pass back to the keeper and she had already run into the middle of the field go ahead run in here
10:01 run in here now she's in trouble so she passes to the keeper and now the person she wants to pass to next is right in front of her now you have to run
10:11 backwards right is that easy to do no right so first pass if you're in the back just stay where you are stay where you are because now you have a choice
10:24 right are you looking for her you looking for her Striker put that ball over here Striker you have a hard job you've got to Sprint over this way if
10:36 the ball's over here Sprint go quick as fast as you can stop what shape did we just make I two triangles a diamond right Striker what if she passes it back
10:50 to the keeper pass back to the keeper and then she passes it now over there right so let's do this first pass play to this person midfielder you're going to start
11:05 the slide over midfielder you're going to start the slide over you two stay Winger there's going to be come somebody coming from there right good teams and
11:16 I'm goingon to teach you how to do this in a minute good teams just run and stand on top of you bad teams ignore this player and come running in
11:26 here if I'm running in here where's your right there right once that play is there play that second ball folks on the far side now that second ball has been played where do you
11:39 think you need to come come on come in come in midfielder you're moving up not too close stay away up and you're there right so ladies the
11:52 second pass is your key on the far side to now move because now she has the ball you want to come out here keeper you're going to want to come
12:04 out a little bit because now if you're in trouble who do you have the pass to you could dribble you could pass you pass and you can pass right because
12:17 she's come behind you so again you keep asking yourself how can I help my teammate if the center back here decides to just keep standing over here that's a
12:28 long pass for her if she gets in trouble right if you don't move over you're not helping her you're coming over here right you're trying to find a way that
12:36 you can find the ball if the stands in the middle of the field is it helping her no Wingers I don't want you coming any closer than the edge of the circle
12:47 all the way up and down the field too many times the Wingers come all the way over here you get the ball and you look for your wide player and
12:57 she's standing right next to you play that ball back you got in trouble Center back got the ball what are you going to do back up Center back you play
13:07 to your keeper Winger you got to get going turn play you two stay Center back I mean midfielder you got to come over and help play Hey get on that
13:21 line move over that way hey the second pass up played where should you come where's the danger come here in the middle winger come on in to the edge of
13:32 circle there we go it's the second pass ladies all right bring that ball back here okay we're going to do this with a little bit of pressure we're going to
13:41 have the two ladies in red we'll start with two this time your job is to try to put pressure on you guys your job is to try and get it up the field to your
13:52 okay let's play and see what happens ready play first pass second pass good touch forward brilliant stop couple of really good things I saw there bring that ball back
14:10 here go ahead back here pass the ball pass the ball her again ready but we're going to stop when it comes here pass ball oh is that a good pass for her no
14:21 let's pass it back why was it a bad pass behind her right we want to pass it to her far foot firef foot pass now H right there when she stops it
14:35 with her far foot what could she see all of you shiny Smiley people all the way across right if she stopped it with this foot what could she see
14:49 nothing over there right so ladies that's the first thing if you've done Square passing the Y pass maybe it's receiving the ball with your outside foot letting the the ball roll across
15:00 your body so you stop it with this foot if you let it go across your body your body naturally stops to face in the direction you want to go if you stop it
15:10 with this foot the inside foot you're now looking someplace you don't want to go right there's a phrase We like to say play the way you're facing if I'm like
15:21 this and I get pressure I can't turn into the pressure I'm forced to play this direction if I'm looking like this I can play the way I'm facing I got one
15:31 two three four five options to go okay when you made that pass to her you put that in front of her she had Galo go ahead play that pass in front of
15:42 her watch this oh she used the wrong foot and what happened it got past her if you let that roll across and she stopped it with this foot it wouldn't
15:55 have kept going she tried to use this foot to stop it in order to do it ran away from her foot that's furthest away from you okay so Wingers Wingers you have an
16:07 important job when the ball gets to your Center back you have two choices you can go away or you come close it all depends on what the the
16:18 pressure does what you're trying to do is be able to see your Center back right so if there's pressure on you you might have to come down here come down
16:30 the line come down the line stay on the line or come down now if she has the ball and she's got pressure is this a nice easy pass
16:40 for her but if you're way up there and he's right there that's awfully hard for him her to get around him right go back to where you were yeah go back to where
16:51 you were you can see kind of but not really comfortable is it right but if you come down now you can make this easy pass you make that pass and you run past this
17:03 person that's the easy part playing out wide and then looking for an option but it is really important that these two players in the middle move with the ball
17:14 if you play midfield and the ball goes over here you come over to help if the ball goes over there you're going to turn around and come back the other way
17:24 I'm gonna give you the advanced version now because I think you're smart enough you smart enough for the advanced all righty tuck in a little bit you're a
17:32 little bit too far out right there this time we're going to play to the middle the person in the middle you don't have think if the balls is on this side of
17:44 your body when it comes to you you play to her if when she makes the pass it ends up on this side of your body you play to her you don't have to think all
17:55 right does that make sense now your body shapes like this she's expecting to come here but if she Mis kicks it you just have to spin around and play
18:05 back why would we play it into the middle ladies any ideas if you've had seven eight 10 goal kicks in a game do you think the other
18:14 team's going to start to figure out that we just play it out wide all the time so these people who are pressuring the ball they start to go further and further
18:23 away go ahead hun go over there for me go next to the coach right so now if the pressure is now they always running down the side keeper can you see the whole
18:33 field yes so if you see a giant hole there and you play that ball to her goad play that ball to her where do you think they're going to start running they're
18:43 going to start running to the middle now when she plays that ball we have some options right so that's the advanced version I'd love to find out you've tried it once or twice
18:54 in a game but don't do it just because I said so do it because it makes sense for you all right now ladies can you do me a favor
19:03 kind of just jumble up into the middle just go towards that way like we've been playing for a little while the ball's been bouncing around come on come on in
19:10 here come here you stay there keeper ball comes in there all sorts of thing come on come on the ball has been up the other end right ready ball things going
19:19 on there's a Shard on that she makes it say ladies what you should you be doing right now keepa has the ball go do it do it get into your shape hold on hold on
19:30 hold on hold hold on shape okay you're a keeper you don't have to throw it over your head like that roll it out because if I do this to you is that
19:40 harder to control as a player all right now give me the ball if I do this to you is that easier so what would it feel like to her right so that's what you
19:49 want to think about is what it would be so ladies good keeper has this ball immediately your first thought is get into my shape great a Midfield that has
20:01 ball come up here Defenders Wingers Wingers come in the middle here hold on that ball for a second come up here a midfielder has the ball I'm a
20:10 bad guy I got pressure on her and she makes a pass to the keeper what should you be doing right now find your shape find your shape because now your keeper
20:20 has the ball whenever your keeper gets the ball that should be your clue to be like o got to find my spot got to find my sh your keeper could get the ball
20:31 here everybody push up the field push up the field like we've been attacking keep going keep going keep going keep going go up the field you you stay here stay right here
20:42 at the bottom of the right here keep going go you're in the other half of the field go we've been attacking we've been doing well well and then all of a sudden
20:51 we had to play it back to our keeper keep her higher up higher up she's got ball who whoa whoa whoa you can she can play wherever she wants do you want to
21:02 go behind her what does your shape look like right it's not a place on the field it's a shape that goes around whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa you're the Winger get out
21:14 there so whenever your keeper has the ball ladies this is what you want to do right so we've talked about hey hey we've talked about body shape body shape
21:29 is all about being in a position that you can see the field and receive the ball we talked about receiving the ball on our quote unquote back foot letting
21:38 the ball roll across our body so we can turn and face where we want to go all right so let's go back here for a second ladies we've got three people
21:49 pressing this is what I want you to do we're going to use we're going to use this half of the field and the striker can come all the way to the bottom of
22:00 circle I want to see how many passes you can do in this shape you can move around but you're trying to keep your shape you're trying to move around all right
22:11 we got one two three if B wants to run around I sure as hell don't ready let's play here Comes pressure stck up look look around look
22:25 around is that a good pass good oh oh you want to take a first touch bring that back yep back to the keeper hey it's back to the keeper what do we do what do
22:39 we do it's back to our keeper what do we do find our shape that's it come back come back come back oh make a good pass oh you're in trouble right back to
22:47 her yep put something on the ball Play We a look where's the op option oh that's a good good idea but play come help her it's okay to play your keeper play a
23:06 pass oh that's dangerous there keep playing keep playing all right now push up and help her sure thing it is better to make two short passes than one very long pass because
23:22 what if you don't hit this pass right right if I didn't hit it right somebody's gonna come grab it right W there's there it is two short passes
23:34 play your keeper keeper if you let it roll across your body and it plays on your back foot where are you now looking yes exactly exactly play he didn't break
23:47 your leg I promise here we go come on red yep oh just a bad bounce that was an unfortunate bounce win it back Winger you have to come into the play you you
23:59 got to wake up oh great great oh he's coming all the way back find your shape find your shape oh you got to put your meat through the you got to put your meat
24:09 foot through the ball go ahead keep it in keep it in good yep oh who's that two that's to the wrong team red can you keep it red blue
24:22 can you keep it press them in win it back Win It Back win it back Win It Back win it back keep her pick it up ready here we go start
24:32 again it will get better Play Straight Ahead Play Straight Ahead that's it see she did exactly what there you go hey winger come on in Winger Winger ay come into the side of
24:49 the circle there stay wide all right win it Win It win it play Backwards oh turn turn turn oh great pass oh there we go okay get away from it go get it buddy there
25:18 go there you go go do good good over there who's running the most oh be careful of that pass you're passing right to her positional rondos are one of the
25:37 best things you can do with this age it looks like hell right now okay but honestly you can work on everything you need because it you got spacing right
25:48 they starting to figure it out already they starting to scan a little bit which is kind of difficult for them but they're getting there right they don't
25:54 see pressure coming necessarily but you can see a shape you can see spaces so just play half field like this if you got a half field yeah because it
26:03 compresses the space but when I did third and fourth grade Lally every practice we were like 6p3 like if I didn't have three people to pressure I
26:12 would play goal but I would always try to get somebody in my team who might play goal to just get comfortable back there with the ball but if there wasn't
26:18 enough kids but honestly like instead of Rondo in a circle which they're going to struggle with yeah right they're going to struggle with like is just it won't look
26:29 like I wouldn't say that this is your like like this is your everything but it's one of those things that you can do every practice it come to it look wide
26:37 look wide and what you can do is if you get a full feel like you are once they get a little bit better at this you can
26:43 say now guys we can do this when we have the ball and we don't have to be in our own zone so now push everybody up okay
26:48 put your keeper here do the same thing okay and then you can take it to the final third and be like when we're in that half do we always have to go H the
26:58 leather in one straight line until we run out the back side if you hit a wall turn around right come up there there's some rhyme I can't remember but like
27:05 part of is like hit a wall right but see now you've got the beginnings of they're getting this positional thing this look she slid over behind her right that's a
27:15 good idea right there and now the pressure comes right the hardest player will be this Midfield player the Midfield is the hardest well it's the hardest job because you have to scan
27:25 constantly and it does take a special kid early on to maybe be natural at it but the other struggle that happens when you go forward is that midfielder will
27:35 end up in the pocket of the striker because they just want to go forward yes well they want to go forward and they want to slide middle right because they
27:41 want to get the ball right so the other game that I do a lot of times is I'll either bring ropes or cones and I'll make a um what stinks here is you don't
27:48 have a smaller field like at the aen with the u8 fields it's so nice because I can just go to the the u8 field that's right next to us okay right and use the
27:55 smaller field and what I do is I'll put like I'll make a line from the edge of the 18 to the edge of the 18 and on both
28:03 sides and make those channels and say condition gain Wingers you can't cross the line and just force them to play in their zones and whether you do that in a
28:12 small sided thing like Ryan will run of a scrimmage like you do 3v3 in the Middle with two two neutrals wide outside the box outside the line and now
28:21 you're like hey and now you expand it and expand it until you go same thing you're looking for that wide player to combine make that wide player only play
28:28 no go down the line with it Joes one two or three touches you know what I mean but any of that sort of stuff because really well there it is uh I hopefully
28:39 uh my voice wasn't as annoying to you as it is to me through the headphones I don't know whether that one of the key Concepts as being trained as a music
28:47 teacher way back in the day doing General Ed was that you brought the picture of your voice to match the students you're working with and I think
28:55 I just innately still have that lesson in my head for all these years of working with kids and so I went up into the aler register uh more often than I
29:04 really were comfortable with when I edited this video I hope you found it useful I hope that the index of all the things you can come back to later um it
29:15 really was a good session the girls did a great job and like I said they were very successful in the season and one of the reasons they were successful you saw
29:22 that they weren't blessed with tons and tons of technical Talent um they're still learning they're still developing clearly but because this team played with a structure and so many other teams
29:36 do not have a structure their limited technical skills were Amplified and put to best use because they played within a structure that helped them maximize the skills that they had as they're
29:49 developing them so if anything I hope that you take from this playing out of the back session a bunch of ideas on how you can work with your players the
29:58 different concepts you can work with boys and girls in the third and fourth grade U10 program and that you can use this video over and over again or share
30:07 this video with others to say hey he talked about a bunch of these Concepts we're struggling maybe there's something in there that can help you I hope you
30:14 enjoyed please like subscribe and share and until the next time we'll see you out in the fields byebye
