Futsal and Youth Football I've hesitated in writing this for a few months now but after spending sometime mulling the subject over, I thought I'd bite the bullet and suffer the flak that will inevitably find itself my way. Twitter is my University of choice. It's where I find ideas and swap opinions with like minded fellow Football Coaches. It's amazing, I am constantly surprised at the level of resources out there and more importantly the generosity of many of the people I come across. It's also chock full of people determined to see every exchange as a battle that must be won. This is why I've hesitated. For months now I've been engaged in exchanges about Futsal and in particular why it's a great development tool. Throughout these discussions, I've asked one simple question: Why? Now some have taken this innocuous enquiry at face value and tried to explain the reasons why they feel it works so well, some have just trotted well us
Hi Tony, first thanks for referencing Wolfie!
ReplyDeleteSecondly, I think your point about "feeling and passion" is spot on. There is an age old friction between the game as an expression and the game as a process. A system that is the expression of a coaches ideas on how the game should be played Vs the players expression as themselves as a player.
That's why we have teams, to meld the two together into a functioning outfit.
I don't know any answers. I just know that sometimes, coaches are very quick to start with "what should my session look like" rather than starting with the game. This is particularly important at young ages. The game is the starting point or it doesn't mean anything.
Cheers Tony