Could we learn some lessons from the French soccer development process? Here is some food for thought. This transcends soccer!
At Clairefontaine –
National Training Center for French Football Federation
Emphasis on
experimentation and creativity not matches. Access to top coaches
Value on
unstructured play
7 year olds play
no format larger than 5V5
No child slotted
into one position until teenage years
Individual
technique emphasized through age 16 over tactics
Coaches need to
be quality demonstrators
Yelling at
players not tolerated
All training
must be fun
mike
straight forward in my opinion. what I don’t understand is why this is so revolutionary that it appears on a blog and is just not accepted as standard.
Wayne Pedranti
This is exactly how it should be.
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Thanks for this update. Any vitamin deficiency leads to some problem, but this one is very serious.