Month: April 2023

GERMANY FOUNDATION PHASE We touched on Germany Youth Soccer above and here’s a bit on more on some of the changes they made to make youth soccer developmentally fair, age appropriate, more game time, more dribbling, more individual success, more goals and more ball contacts. In U11’s they switched from 7v7 to small sided games...

I’m always interested in reading how other sports and clubs from around the world set up their junior programs as I strongly believe we could be doing it much better over here, especially for Aussie Rules Football. We have huge dropouts from under 12’s to u16’s and that definitely filters into senior ranks down the...

The Cave of Adullam follows Detriot-based martial arts teacher Jason Wilson and his teachings within his facility. He focuses heavily on releasing past and current trauma through various techniques, not just martial arts, for not just kids but adults as well. The hyperlink above says it will take you to the movie but it doesn’t...

I’ve done another of these back in Jan/Feb 2020 and I have a heap these so I should do them more regularly plus there might be 1 specific point that you decide could take your club to the next level and then it’s all about action. The season has already started but building culture should...

These notes come from an article from soccer coach David Garcia about option making from teammates off the ball so the player with ball can have an easier time making positive decisions and I add some real AFL specific scenarios at the bottom of the article. Playing football is a constant decision making process and...

Earlier in the week we looked at Collingwood’s defensive positioning allowing them to transition off turnover in a matter of seconds and today we’ll look at something similar but within a different stage of the game. This mostly used on kick outs but also on slow plays that they initiate from deep in defense. It’s...