It was an honour to be on the
@msceducation
podcast to speak about developing the individual player. Thank you
@GaryCurneen
for allowing me to share the Futuro Core Skills Model.
1v1 Lose😶🌫️Your Man
📈Change Tempo
2️⃣Double movements
3️⃣Triple movements
🦶🏽1st touch set
⚽️Coach
@Dicoblei
from 🇳🇱AZ Alkmaar working with
@OttawaStAnthony
Futuro players
Multiple finishing scenarios on top of the box
🇧🇪Skills Coach
@BrentVanSnick
(
@UnionStGilloise
Academy lead skills coach 2022/23 season. Former
@KAAGent
Skills Coach for 3 years)
Futuro 03 player Sadie Sider-Echenberg has only been coaching for 6 days.
👩🏼🏫 Body Language
📣 Voice
🗣 Confidence
📖 Knowledge
⚽️ Technical Details
👩🏼🎨 Demonstration
👀Find the Gap🕳
8️⃣ Gates
4️⃣ Defenders
1️⃣ Dribbler
⚽️ Manipulate ball
🔄 Constant change of direction
⚖️ Unbalance defender
👀 Scan for flat feet and space
🏎 Change of Speed
🧠 Reaction
⚽️Coach
@Dicoblei
from 🇳🇱AZ Alkmaar working with
@OttawaStAnthony
Futuro players
Coaching Tutorial: Taking away LINE OF SIGHT from defender
Skill: Memphis Depay Turn
🃏Details on hacking the Next Level Legends Pack
FAKE
🫣Hide: Balance leg is between⚽️ & defender
📐Angle: where you position your🦵🏾& ⚽️
ACCELERATION
💪🏾Swing your arm back & hook🪝 defender
1st & 2nd Touch Change Direction
Role Models:
🇳🇱De Jong
🇧🇷Antony
🇪🇸Iniesta
🇩🇪Gomez
Coach Bio:
👨🏽✈️Thomas Ruesink
🎩Head of Children’s Program at Queens Park FC 🏴
🤹🏼Former PSV Eindhoven🇳🇱Skills Coach.
1v2
🥷Defender tracking
🛡Defender in front
⏳Natural time limit
Attacking ingredients
💨 Speed
🔄 Change of direction
⚽️ Ball manipulation
⚖️ Unbalance defender(s)
Find The Gap. Game designed to find space and exploit it using fakes, change of direction, acceleration and deceleration. Various progressions of the exercise shown from simple to complex.
17 year old Sadie Sider-Echenberg providing a depth of detail in educating our youngest Futuro players.
Along with developing players our ambition at the academy was to create leaders.
1v1 back to goal
Use your 4 senses to gather information:
👀 See
🖐🏽 Feel
👂🏽 Hear
👃🏾 Smell
1st touch decision making exercise.
Newly appointed FC Twente Technical Director Bas van Baar. Former AZ Alkmaar 1st team opposition analyst / u14 head coach.
📚Instructional Video📖
How to Protect the Ball❓
🦶🏽Which foot
😶🌫️Hide the ball
⚽️ Ball manipulation
🎧Listen for coaching details
🙋🏽♂️Guided Discovery coaching methodology
Creating A Separation Touch
Scenario: Back to player
Solution: Get faced up
Protect:
🖐🏽 Hands
🦵🏽 Hips
⚽️ Hide
Escape:
🦶🏽Touch away from defender
🔄 Turn to face defender
🇧🇪Skills Coach
@BrentVanSnick
(
@UnionStGilloise
Academy lead skills coach 2022/23 season)
1v1 receiving back to goal transition into 2v2
Champions League Study by
@TimLees10
concluded that 80% of receiving situations in a game have pressure from behind.
If we want to create a player for the future, we need to create an image of what the future might look like.
Body Orientation & Scanning Exercise
📐Angle
✖️Multiple Micro Scans
🙋🏽♂️Peripheral vision
👀Critical Scan
⚽️ Aerial technique
If player behind puts up hand, then attempt to play 1 touch pass to him.
If player behind doesn’t put up hand, pass it back to original thrower.
Position Specific Scanning Warmup
4️⃣ Players
🏃🏽♂️Movement to create passing channel
🫴Receiving between lines
👐🏾Open body shape
👀Critical scan
➡️1st touch decision
Inspired by the research of Geir Jordet on the critical scan.
🧠Cognitive Ball Mastery⚽️
An example of how we have evolved our ball mastery methodology to develop the🔮FUTURE player.
🧱Foundational movement: Sole of the foot (The Dominator)
🧠Cognitive Load: Catching and Throwing simultaneously
👀 Scanning
@COGNIGOALS
@ViCoCoaching
1v2 To Goal
ATTACKER
🙈Lose your tracker
💨Fast Attack
🕳Move opponents to create space
🙅🏽♂️Use defender as screen
DEFENDERS
🛡Front
⬅️Recovery
🧭Force to weak foot
#soccerdrills
⚽️Coach
@Dicoblei
from 🇳🇱AZ Alkmaar working on receiving back to goal with
@OttawaStAnthony
Futuro players
👀Shoulder check
⏱Timing of movement
📐Angle of 1st touch
💪🏾Weight of 1st touch
Progression
🎭Disguise before turning
FMS 1v3 Tag
The player can demonstrate multi-directional running while planning and plotting their route through and around the opposition
🔄 Change of Direction
🏎 Change of Speed
🧠 Reaction
⚽️ Ball manipulation
🏆 Competition
@CenteredPlayer
@Lee_hodge1
Ball Mastery tag games that include so many different aspects of physical, technical, mental, tactical and social.
See if you can find what learning outcomes the children might be getting?
Position Specific Skills
CAM:
↗️ Cruyff Turn
⤴️ Bent through ball
FB:
🏃🏽♂️Recovery Run
🛡Block cross
WINGER:
🦶🏽1st touch on the run
🧠 Deception
🥅 Cut back or near post cross
🇧🇪Skills Coach
@BrentVanSnick
(
@UnionStGilloise
Academy lead skills coach 2022/23 season. Former K.A.A. Gent Skills Coach for 3 years)
Scan & Plan Passing Warm Up
👤 Body Orientation
👀 Scan
🙋🏽♂️ Set
🙌🏽 Turn
#soccerdrills
PSV Eindhoven Skills Coach Thomas Ruesink introducing another chaos game with transition where players are given the opportunity to add deception and disguise into their game to be successful in the 2v1 situation. This is the second stage of the Futuro 1v1 model.
@TPiMBW
Position Specific Exercise: Striker Up Back Through Combo:
Movements: ↗Show ↙Pull away ↖In behind
Timing: ⏰Timing to beat offside line
Passing: ⚖️Set (weight), Through ball (angle & type)
Finish:👀Recognition (type of finish)⚽️
@TPiMBW
🎥 Video starts with 7 year olds and shows how a player develops over 5 years by 12 years of age.
🏃🏾♂️Movement efficiency
💪🏾Body control
↔️Change of direction
⚽️ Manipulation & comfort
1v1: Identify the gate
SET UP:
🔴____🔴 🔵____🔵 🟡____🟡
🟡____🟡 🔴____🔴 🔵____🔵
🏃🏾♂️Tracking defender runs through gate
⚽️Attacker dribbles through same colour gate
Progression:
⬇️⬆️ Go through different colour gate
1️⃣ versus 2️⃣
#soccerdrills
Bicycle Kick Intro
Step 1: lying down ball in hand
Step 2: lying down throw ball
Step 3: sitting up ball in hand
Step 4: sitting up throw ball
Step 5: crouching ball in hand
Step 6: crouching throw ball
@OttawaFooty7s
#lilsambasoccer
Erik ten Hag Drill
💪🏾Weight of pass
📨Message in pass
🦶🏽1st touch set
⏱Timing of movement
🏎Speed of execution
⚽️Coach
@Dicoblei
from 🇳🇱AZ Alkmaar working with
@OttawaStAnthony
Futuro players