Seeing real improvements in the awareness of the players and their ability to pick a pass. Think I need to be better at remembering who is in my team as an U11 player said hello to me on the way to burgess and I didn’t know who it was. I said hello anyway. I’ll probably be starting FA coaching level 1 in the summer after exams.
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Really enjoyed today’s session. Continued with 11s B and switching play. Good to see players adopt advice that I gave some of them lat week such as opening up your body when calling for the ball. I was also much more active, warming up players and playing a bigger role in the drills.
Started helping under 11s B this week due to their coach Solomon being away for a month, so i was there to help Kennedy. Got to know some of the players quite well. Kennedy lead a drill about switching the ball, and was very impressed with lots of their awareness and vision. I jumped in goal at one point to start one team off with the ball. I made sure the wide players opened out their body so when they receive the ball they can see all their options and are not restricted to just going back to the keeper. They all really enjoyed the session and look forward to their match on Saturday.
Really enjoyed coaching session yesterday. Slowly getting more and more involved. Set up and got one group them playing keep ball 3 vs 3 where 3 passes gets a point. I then moved onto another group doing the same thing but with 2vs in a bigger space and joined in a a neutral player. Good banter with the players.
More of the same, getting to know players and the players getting to know me.
Assisted Matthew with U11a. Despite not having a big role in the training session, it was good getting involved and getting to know the players. They’re a really talented team, they just need to cooperate with eachother and be more supportive. I was impressed with the discipline they showed when warming up by themselves.
I mainly was there observing, giving bits of advice, controlling one of the possession drills and helping the coach with cones and bibs.
Look forward to next week.
I’ll officially start volunteering for Give Back Go Forward tomorrow, assisting the coaches for an U11 team. I’ll be keeping a log on this site and filing under category ‘Give Back Go Forward’.