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All right, play practice play is the most common one. US Soccer pushes this on all their courses and there's a reason for it because it's an easy way
for inexperienced or new coaches to really get up and running. And it's a pretty simple concept. When the kids arrive, you have some sort of arrival game. So, as soon as two of them are
there, you can get them playing. Now, I got a whole video on 13 different welcome games because it's not always just the simple matter of put two nets
on the ground and have them play. You can do lots and lots in welcome games that then can feed into the middle part which is the practice part that
reinforce the things you're going to work on in the practice. And then you put at the end the play piece. Play practice play works for all ages. Uh
young, old, U14s, U16s. It can work all over the place. It's easy to break up these play practice plays in a 60 to 90 minute chunk because you can always
extend the play phases on either end.
You could spend more time in the practice. Whatever it is you need, you can kind of flex there. Maybe the kids, you realize today is not their day. I'm
only going to be able to get 15 and 15 or, you know, 12 and 12 with a break in the middle to get them to focus on
something. I'm going to let them go.
They came to play the game. You need them to play the game based on the things you're trying to work on.
