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0:01 hello coaches welcome back it's coach KW here hope you're all well today I'm going to kick off three sort of mini episodes on footsal uh today we're going
0:10 to go over a basically a bunch of the formations that uh you might consider when I play footall I'm playing football with my teams to get better at soccer
0:19 I'm not a football specialist at all I'm a soccer coach who knows a bit about football and I like using footle in the winter time because it really works on a
0:27 whole bunch of skills with my players namely that close ball control the ability to read the play scanning reacting to your teammates um really all the things that come from playing in
0:39 small spaces that require quick actions and quick thinking that's what I love about footo and so really these three bits that I'm going to do go off of my
0:49 last video I hope that you saw my why why you should play footall in the winter time and I went through a whole bunch of reasons there today I'm going
0:56 to go over the different formations that you would consider on the court um as a soccer coach playing footall so I have a whole bunch of slides we'll go through
1:06 them we'll look at some of the attacking components and defending components as well and we'll leave it at that and the other two episodes I'm going to do one
1:13 is going to be on some of my favorite activities that I like to do I have four activities that we'll highlight and the other video talks about how to play out
1:22 of the back which might be the most challenging piece of playing footall because again small Court lots of pressure and you can't use your keeper as is that spare player so keep an eye
1:32 out for those watch all three subscribe like share with your fellow coaches and let's get into these formations and setups uh that you might consider using when you if you play footall and we'll
1:43 get into those slides now okay so we're talking about footo Basics and formations now in footo uh formations are really more of a reference or a starting point because
1:55 footall is so fluid that players interchange frequently on the Fly throughout the game trying to take advantage of space and opportunities so players will have roles but they also
2:07 have to understand that the role that they start in after a restart might not be the one that they perform as the game or the play moves along so it's really
2:16 important that that fluidity of your players gets to be part of their way of thinking and not be so ingrained as the outdoor game where it's no I'm a center
2:26 back I stay back here I'm a striker I'm the left Winger Etc ET ET formations can morph quickly also into one or another um as the game goes you may defend in
2:37 one formation and attack n of that as we'll take a look but let's take a look at some of the basic formations that are out there that you might consider so one
2:45 of the most common most uh basic ones is the two two or the box where you set up with two players forward and two players back or two players left and right
2:55 however you want to consider it um and you defend in this box and you attack in this box right now we're just looking at the overall picture of what this might
3:03 look like now again these formations will change a lot but this is a straight up very common 2 two similar to this and maybe a little bit more
3:13 um better in terms of coming from the outdoor game is the diamond where basically you take the box and you turn it on its side because here you kind of
3:22 have those defined roles of a a number six or number eight that defending player in the back you've got two wide players seven and 11 and you've got
3:31 somebody up front a striker but again attacking and defending this is going to morph and move and change as the play goes along but it is helpful to have
3:40 that sort of mentality of like hey someone also always has to be the person in the back protecting in case of her Counterattack etc etc there's a couple of why formations
3:52 that are happening that can happen here's the first one the 112 where we have one player in the back a center player and two wide players and again
4:00 we'll take a look at the attacking and defending formations but this is one that tends to work well as well because you've got sort of that triangle pivot
4:09 in the Middle where players can move around plus a player that is responsible for taking care of what's happening in the back uh you know you're not you're
4:18 necessarily going to defend in these uh formations but we'll take a look at that in a second you can invert this y so now you have two players in the back a
4:25 center and a forward player their official names allas and peos and things like that again I'm not a footall expert uh I'm a soccer coach who plays football
4:35 but this is another formation when attacking uh or defending and setting up that you can set your players in where you have two Defenders and now you so
4:43 your triangle is deeper with the player front and then lastly sometimes you'll see teams set up in a 3-1 with a line of three and one player and those two wide
4:53 players actually acting like Wing back so it almost kind of transitions through a diamond back and forth the struggle with this one is that remember there's no offside and footsole
5:04 so that backline of three is not holding a restraining line like an offside line on the outdoor game and so it can be penetrated with balls in behind uh
5:14 pretty easily so not necessarily how we defend speaking of Defending most of these formations when defending they morph into a box or a diamond shape that rotates to meet the point of attack
5:26 because like in all types of soccer the idea is a the central scoring area the middle of the court from the ball and the team occupying that and getting a
5:36 good shot remember that net is only 3 MERS by 2 meters it's kind of narrow and so a lot of goals are scored by getting that ball to the back post for a tap in
5:45 and that's what you're trying to do when you're defending you're trying to set your team up so it's difficult for that ball to cut across diagonally from one
5:52 side of the court to the other for a player coming in on the backside just like hockey with a play to the back post trying to tuck it in as the goalie comes
5:59 across across the crease it's the same concept in footsole you're trying to get the keeper to move because the net is so small it's just more of a challenge of
6:06 taking that direct shot and of course those compact shapes really are designed to try and prevent that from happening from taking that ball and getting it across from one side to the other so
6:18 most of the shapes that we looked at when defending end up collapsing down into a box of some sort and the Box will rotate so that there's a facing the
6:30 point of attack the player with the ball but as the as that box rotates into a diamond and such it maintains that shape because the idea is you're trying to
6:39 deny a quick pass through the middle so if the ball is out here this player is keeping it from coming this way and if the ball moves the whole unit
6:50 moves so that it doesn't open up these seams and gaps as it goes through so when we're attacking we can look those shapes we were looking at
7:00 first we'll look at again but foot is very fluid so that shape that you're in and those positions that you've placed your players aren't necessarily where they're going to always be as the game
7:11 goes along because footz is very much a high movement game uh players in the ball rotate quickly because the idea is you're trying to unbalance a good
7:19 defense that's in that box shape trying to get one or two players pulled out of position to make that Gap so that you can either dribble or pass to get to the
7:27 either the central area or to cut the ball across for a back post attempt usually when you're playing always you're trying to keep at least one player back as a safety net that's at
7:37 the back of the attack but that doesn't always mean it's the same player all the time because again as you'll see lots of rotations going on and we talked about
7:46 in the first video about how footall is great for 1 V ons if you can win your 1 V one you can immediately make that Advantage because now the next play is a
7:56 2V1 or 3v2 or even a 4 V3 and so the idea is if you can win your 1 V ones in your attack you instantly now have a
8:04 numerical Advantage for a few seconds that you should try to take advantage of because it's a small compressed space that play is going to get back in but
8:13 the idea is because footz is very quick small spaces you're trying to move that ball real quick you're trying to take advantage of that new opportunity after
8:20 beating one player to try and gang up on another to double your advantage so here you can see here's a 2 two with attacking but the players can
8:30 interchange and rotate so that if a player pulls out maybe another player pulls into their spot or maybe this player makes a run into the middle which
8:38 means this player has to be aware enough to hold their position to be another Defender you've just taken this box and now we've turned it into a y you'll see
8:47 that in a bunch of the slides as we go forwards here's that diamond it's the same thing we've just turned it on its side but it's not like these players are
8:55 going to stay out wide all the time because we're trying to make runs in and through into the back post and so the shape becomes very fluid but again the
9:05 idea is to be aware of on transition when losing the ball can we both press and get back into a shape as we go back to defend our own
9:14 goal here's that 112 the opposite of that Y and now you can see again it may start out looking in theory like this but again this player might push through
9:25 here looking for a pass from one of the wide players maybe this player steps out this player steps in and now this player realizes I have to come in and defend so
9:34 again very fluid the reverse of that why where we have two players and one here but you can see that I have that player pulled out wide so now this player is coming in
9:44 to take up the space at this player vacated again I just want you to get the idea while you have a shape it can become very fluid and it's part of the
9:53 game to teach your players to rotate and replace each other as they move forward and and here's that one that 3-1 with those quote unquote Wing backs as
10:03 they get up the field and now you're attacking with three with one player behind again the same things go into play perhaps the ball earlier on this
10:12 player came up here so instead of coming straight line maybe this player is cutting in or maybe this player made the step up and so this player was smart
10:20 enough to be the last Defender as it goes forward so that's a quick overview of some of the different attacking and defending shapes that you might see in
10:28 footo if you're decid iding to play inside the most common are the diamonds SL squares uh just because they're simple and effective uh the other ones can be as effective as well but have a
10:40 little bit more um nuance and moving parts to it uh but again if you're coming from soccer you're looking for something that can mimic what you're used to out in the game perhaps the
10:52 diamond is the best start place for that or maybe one of the Y formations might work for you but either case when you stop to defend you tend to drop into
11:02 that box square SL Diamond to maintain the compactness in the middle of the field so I hope this quick hit was helpful this is the first of three so
11:11 make sure you keep your eye out for um how you might think about playing out of the back and then lastly I have one on four of my favorite activities they're
11:20 all going to be quick short videos but that's the whole point of these is want you to be able to digest them uh I tend to go on longer than I always think so
11:29 you know having these short videos I love to see how this goes so remember like share subscribe love to hear the comments and until next time I'll see
11:36 you real soon bye
