Coach Education Specialists | Positional Play | Juego de Posicion | Set-Piece Analyst
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At least two (that we know of) countries in the 2026 World Cup have coaches that have purchased these books and are currently updating us on how they use them in their day to day. Exceptionally grateful.
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Those that didn’t see the game, first pass from Mex was good, then mainly individual stuff from there. First pass from GK was good. Typically played with 3rd man. Recognized the press, #6 came short & found the CB. CONSTRAINTS allowed for multiple straight passes from GK to #6.
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This is a massive loss to Cincinnati soccer. Larry is one of the nicest and most forward thinking guys in the game. Willing to give people a chance which can not be said for most people in high positions within football. Good luck Laz!
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Love this Elliot. If you cut through all the science and skip forward to how it manifests, overload the players, provide protuberances which provide affordances, place them out of their comfort zone, remove patterns, vary the ball and amount of balls, force neural plasticity.
Currently reading the ball mastery book and enjoying it. Tried something different tonight on receiving, started with players being shadowed and player could nudge/badge the player who has to escape the pressure before going opposed. Worked well 🧠🔥
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And with respect, that’s why you’re wrong. Scanning is not a habit. It’s part of a movement solution. Rethink it.
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This again wrong on so many levels, basically his position is train the behavior that matches the information available in the drill
My position is even when the information isn't present, I want to reinforce movement habits that I believe scale upwards into elite match behavior
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Disagree.
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I think you've missed what I was getting at. I wasn't suggesting the drill should train scanning. I was talking about ingraining movement behaviours that carry over into real games. Both my comments are absolutely correct btw.
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Love it. He looks very comfortable on the ball.
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Absolutely. Please do.
I would love to show you a video on my 9 year old doing 1v1s in the garden against family, to see if you think he might benefit
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With respect (and this is the mistake a lot of coaches make) this still is removed from mid-long range scanning. He is scanning his immediate environment (2-3 yards) as that is all we are worried about here. Scanning further in this context would be artificial as there is no pass ever coming.
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Make him look up and not looking to his feet all the time
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Absolutely. My son is the one that runs with the ball down the right and provides the assist.
Has this transferred to 1v1s/matches?
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All those that have reached out about the conginive neuroscience approach to skill aquisiton: I can’t recommend following @AlphaInMadrid and Forms Academy (Instagram) enough.
Look. What. Is. Possible.
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This is my son (just turned 10), who has been working on this stuff for a short time, going from the slow & deliberate movements caused by just adding a tennis ball to the upper body to this, faster, smoother, more dynamic and more control.
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Yip. I work something similar in with my own son.
Juggling a basketball. Tossing a tennis ball up and down. Picking up cones from one pile and putting them in another whilst controlling the ball. Things like this. Then, dribbling with a tennis ball/futsal/Altinha ball etc.
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Interesting. With my U11 team I throw tennis balls at them to catch randomly to ensure they are dribbling with their heads looking around.
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Next time we will take video of the whole session and post it.
Respectfully… then post the video of ‘the last ten min with just the ball.’ Would be interesting to see.
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This is my own son. 10 years old. This looks rough, but when he does 30 minutes of this and other related CNS work and then the last ten minutes is just free with a normal ball, you can see the uplift over and above his normal starting point right away. I just wish I had more time to do this with him.
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Mot directly in the sense that ‘juggling a tennis ball helps you dribble faster’, but when you had movement and coordination from a different limb set (upper v lower/left v right) it forces neural adaptations that help you with the thing you are focusing on (dribbling).
It’s a definite choice also. In youth soccer if you only have 2 sessions a week, would you prioritize this over team principles or would you take a ‘risk’ with this v the traditional approach to skill acquisition? I think it depends on the bravery of the individual coach.
Do you think playing catch (using hands) can translate to football development?
The way I interpreted your book, it was that all movement - including throwing and catching tennis balls, for example - could translate eventually into soccer skills and should be used for young kids
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Thats fantastic. Delighted you’re enjoying it. Multi balls could be anything. The work I do with my own son I use little tiny toy bouncy balls, squash balls, tennis balls, size 1 balls, futsal balls, soccer balls and Altinha balls. And we mix them all in.
Just purchased and started reading “Football Ecology”
MAN this was exactly what I was looking for!
Question - your chapter on u5-u8 development: do you have any examples of what mixed-ball usage might look like in a practice?
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Just found out about @TST7v7
What an interesting concept for working on intensity, insuring offense whilst also prioritizing defense in training. Love it.
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