What do you saying during half-time?

Hi everyone, welcome to another edition of the coaching insights newsletter. As the title suggests there are a couple of articles on communicating during half-time and how best to get your messages across. It’s always a fine balance between giving information and not overloading your players. considering we can only take in 3-5 pieces of information at a time, having you as one coach and maybe another, then other players and even themselves critiquing and re-assessing how to get the most from the next half it can be difficult to make the right messages stick. What do you think? how do you make the most of half-time… right on to the top ten!

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The Top Ten

1. Uefa A licensed football consultant Kevin Nicholson here talking through how best to effectively communicate during half-time. It's always difficult because there may be so much information you want to hand over, from individual to team to inspiration/motivation. use this to help guide you to get the most out of it.

   Kevin Nicholson @kevnicholson1

   The Coach’s Role at Half-Time: Managing the Process Effectively Half-time provides coaches with an opportunity to communicate key messages and make changes that positively influence a game. This piece highlights some practical suggestions for making good use of half-time.

   

   

   

2. Team talks seem to be the theme of the week but some more tips but this time from the player development project team

   https://playerdevelopmentproject.com/qa-what-advice-do-you-have-for-team-talks/

3. Eric Laurie with a good infographic about playing against a mid-block. Some helpful tips for helping your team when playing against opponents using this type of defense.

   Eric Laurie @EricLaurie

   📝Potential passing alternatives vs a mid-block

   

4. Over Christmas, Dortmund coach was going through his annual Q&A calendar. This thread was one of my favorites, he takes you through three concepts and coaching points that really resonate with how he coaches.

   René Marić @ReneMaric

   2nd one for today, from the German audience, again a fantastic good cause where I'm glad to donate 400 euros to! I will choose three concepts & three coaching points (instead of principles, because that's an issue by itself; principles = intentions), if that's okay?

   

   Massimo Thormann @mooLylo15

   @ReneMaric @pablo48pr Geil 🎉 Bin zwar etwas spät dran, aber vllt habe ich ja trotzdem noch Glück: Welche zwei, drei Konzepte oder Prinzipien haben dich in den letzten Jahren begeistert/ deinen Blick stark verändert und warum? Kannst du vllt jeweils eine Spielform/ Coachingpunkte dazu nennen?

5. The coaching the coaches team with a blog on the importance of effective relationships in sport. A lot on emotional intelligence even if they don't name it as such.

   https://www.coachingthecoaches.net/blog/2021/12/22/the-importance-of-effective-relationships-in-hp-sport

6. Ever heard of cover shadows? it's a principle of using your body to block passes into players. this graphic and explanation is great for both coaches and players

   Luis Österlein @LOsterlein

   The best way to explain young players the principle of cover shadows: "Imagine you play football at night and the ball is the only source of light" #Jaissle #Nagelsmann #Guardiola #TenHag #Tuchel #Gourvennec #Simone #Rangnick #Emery #Inzaghi #Klopp #Pochettino #Ancelotti

   

7. Michael loftman with some of his principles when coaching a high defensive line. Anything you agree or disagree with? how do you help you players play with a high defensive line?

   Michael Loftman @michael_loftman

   Coaching a high defensive line..... In relation to yesterday’s topic, i’ve put together some of the detail I have used when coaching a high line. I’m sure there is more so please feel free to share ideas.

   

8. Michael Loftman with a google drive full of great information on content that he has made along the way. From 4 types of counter-attacks, to build up structures, diagonal passes to isolate, and much more!

   Michael Loftman @michael_loftman

   Some Free Coach Education Content is now available on the below google drive link: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Feel free to watch, download, share, like, RT. Great idea with the google drive that I stole from @CarlonCarpenter

   

   drive.google.comCoaching Video Content - Google Drive

9. Another good coach to follow on Twitter, David Lazlo, takes you through the individual principles within the attacking phase. How can you help players think through some of these actions and use cues to recognize others so it's almost second nature?

   David Laszlo @David_laslo93

   Breaking down the attacking phase into individual levels. Five areas to consider in every tactical situation: - Space/time - Zones of the field - Teammates - Opponents - Result

   

   

   

   

10. Carl Wild interview from the Training Ground Guru team on developing decision-making in young players. Something always needs to be worked on due to their lack of experience in situations.

    https://trainingground.guru/articles/carl-wild-developing-decision-making-in-young-players

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