What are you strengths as a coach?

Hi Everyone, welcome to another edition of the Coach Insights newsletter. This week we have interesting reading on self-reflection, pressing, inverted full-backs and coaching methodology. Enjoy!

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The Top Ten

1. First up is Dr Josie Perry who will take you through a small exercise on knowing your ideal strengths and the strengths you actually have. I like this because it will help you see your weak points and where you need to improve.

   We are stronger than we think…

2. A few weeks back our top ten contained a person who put out some points that questioned the effectiveness of the Rondo, so it all fairness of balance here is APFCourses explain their points to prove the effectiveness of Rondos

   APFCourses @ApfcSoccer

   💣 A few days ago, there was a discussion about the effectiveness of the rondo & why we should stop practicing it 🙅❌ 🤔 It showed some interesting points. 🤜🤛 Join us in this 🧵 to find out our opinion on why we should about whether keep doing it 👇 [1/13]

   

3. Peter Motzenbecker highlights how to set pressing traps for full-backs or their number 6. Pressing is such an important part of modern-day football but if not done well or disjointed you’ll be easily played through and give up good opportunities in your goal.

   Peter Motzenbecker @petemotz

   In order for your team's pressing to be successful it has to be organised and setting pressing traps is a huge part of that organisation. We want the team in possession to play into a specific area that we've allowed them to so that we can press it. @SundayShare10 #SundayShare

   

4. Staying on the pressing theme. The mastermind site has produced a long-form article on the art of pressing. Key themes of when to go and when to stay, the popularised 5-second rule, recognising triggers, pressing from restarts, and full-backs and single-handed pressure. https://themastermindsite.com/2022/08/30/when-to-press-and-when-not-to-press-in-football/

5. Guardiola, Ten Hag, Arteta. What do they have in common? Their use of inverted full backs! what are inverted full-backs? EBL outlines the concept in this thread.

   EBL @EBL2017

   Inverted fullbacks, Juego de Posición, the modern game. Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta (amongst others) are evolving the beautiful game right in front of our eyes. Below is an in-depth video on the usage of inverted fullbacks. Made with @MetricaSports 👇

6. A concept here from big picture soccer around co-adaption or co-construction of skill. that is a move from isolated patterned build up into adapting acording to your opponent. e.g. isolated - we build up a certain way and stick to it. co-adpative we build in many different ways dependent on where the space is. It’s an interesting concept that would affect how you coach because one allows your players to thrive in chaos where as the other limits their ability to adapt to the opponent as they must always play they way that has been trained.

   Big Picture Soccer @bigpicsoccer

   Positional play has dominated the football discourse for over a decade now. Recently, however, awareness of alternatives conceptions (often Diniz or South American football) has been growing. The differences have been framed in multiple ways such as space vs time orientation 1/n

   

7. Do you know what makes a champion? Well Steve Magness has looked into the research of this very topic with some points to note. There are difference in amount of training, early specialisation, and rate of progress.

   Steve Magness @stevemagness

   What makes a champion? An analysis of over 6,000 athletes found distinct differences between those who made it to world-class versus those who didn't progress from child star. Similar research has been done on one-hit wonders and Nobel Laureates. Here's what they found:

8. An article here from Cody Royle on the crazyness of being a coach. why do we do it!

   https://www.thedaily.coach/p/coach

9. Dan Abrahams taking us through Barak Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction. review, question, sequencing and modeling, and stages of practice.

   Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77

   Coaching using Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction: Principle: provide models (from futsal coach @Damon_Shaw) Damon often uses a digital platform to show a model of the instruction he is giving to players The ‘worked-example effect’ minimises cognitive load for learning

   

And finally Cano Football’s look into one of the most effective (in terms of value to club when looking at assimilation into first team from Youth teams) academies in Spain, REAL SOCIEDAD’S ZUBIETA ACADEMY. From only starting their academy at U13 to having personal relationships with the 70 clubs in their catchment area. A people first academy that has been consistently producing player for both the first team andn national team. https://www.canofootball.com/articles/a-look-inside-real-sociedads-zubieta-academy-long-term-visions/

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