Lakeville Soccer Club Coaching Newsletter January 2017
Lakeville Soccer Club Coaching Newsletter January 2017
Benefits of Free-Play How often do you allow the players to participate in free-play or what is also referred to as “street soccer”? As a coach, are you able to just “give the game” to the players? Do you have the wait time necessary to allow them to get the activity started? Are you able to sit and watch without being actively involved? There was a time when players went to the park or the gym and got things organized without adults being around. That occurs less and less nowadays which means some life lessons are lost. Here is an excerpt from a book, which was recently shared online: “Just outside the village of Pittsford in western New York is what we called the stopgates, towering above the Erie Canal. In the 1950s and ’60s kids loved to jump off the top. Daredevils. Not me, though. I suppose some of those kids thought I was chicken, but I would jump only from halfway up the metal ladder of that big black monstrosity that I vaguely understood could be lowered for flood control… I’ve often wondered and written newspaper columns about what happens to children when they are constantly supervised by adults, never allowed to go out and just play, never allowed to work out disputes among themselves. What kind of adults will they grow up to be?... Sandlot Day was catching on in several communities — just one day, mind you — when the adults would disappear and let the kids play baseball. The Pittsford Little League liked the idea. But the organization couldn’t leave the kids alone, and league leaders planned to have a few parents hanging around. ‘The Erie Canal runs by the outfield at two of our fields,’ the league president said. ‘I’d like a few adults around so the kids don’t jump in.’ I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I guess that guy never had the thrill of jumping off the stopgates.” James H. Smith A Boys Life in the Baby Boom – True Tales From Small-Town America
Contacts: Chad Moore Director of Coaching
Lakeville SC Fantasy Premier League
Leader after Week #20: How I Met Your Mata Anders Oie
Functional Training Central Midfielders • • • •
Field Dimensions: 30 yds x 20 yds (dependent upon ability) 4 + 1 (CM) black players vs 3 white players Black team scores by combining with CM White team scores by dribbling out of area
Coaching points to consider are: • Help the CM learn to “hunt” the ball; always be a supporting option throughout the activity • Team shape of the attacking team to create space for CM • Movement/support of CM • Decision of CM in possession (penetrate v possess)
Upcoming Match Schedule January 29 3:00pm MNT v Serbia February 3 6:00pm MNT v Jamaica March 24 MNT v Honduras March 28 MNT v Panama June 9 MNT v Trinidad & Tobago
Coaching Education
Lakeville Soccer Club coaching education sessions have been posted to the website. Please see Coaches > Education for the entire winter schedule. Upcoming sessions: January 7 10:30am-12:00pm at Irish Dome January 19 6:30pm-8:00pm at Dundas Dome January 21 10:30am-12:00pm at Irish Dome
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