@@tomisina7144 thank you Tom! Really appreciate that. The reason I make this content is because I couldn’t believe how much important information was missing from coaching courses. Thank you for taking the time out to write a comment, it keeps me wanting to make more videos ❤️
Its sad when I come here and always see the comment of "you talk to much"..... Obviously this is a cut video from at least an hour practice. Secondly, if all kids had to do was to play the game and they would be great, then why isn't the amount of youth players who go pro higher? It obviously isn't that simple. Coach, fantastic job. I think you do a great job interacting with the kids and explaining it on their level.
Thanks for the feedback and understanding the process we go through! Parents want their child to develop quickly and Effectively, if just letting them play was the best way for it to happen then grassroots football and the playground would produce the best players.
Absolutely spot on. You always have to model, explain, and slow down a drill the first time (maybe even the first few times) you do something. It's not just for the kids doing the drill either. He's explaining to the viewers the logic behind every movement so that they can look for the little things that make the difference. The little details make all the difference in games. As a coach, I have lost important games because I didn't emphasize the small mistakes the players were committing during the drills and corrected them on time. It was so obvious to me during the important games that I didn't spend enough time trying to perfect the drills, because those are the mistakes that cost us the games. Thank you @CatalanSoccer and keep up the great work.
This is obviously the first time coach has introduced the concepts here so of course he “talks too much.” Also listen there are lots of times coaches is checking for understanding. The only thing I might add depending on the children’s developmental level would be “can someone restate what I just said?”
This is possibly the best coaching video I have seen on this platform. Every step by step part of the process carefully explained in a way kids (and coaches) can understand, then backed up with a walk through of the excercise before increasing pace and difficulty with each phase of the training, which are all interlinked 🔥
Absolutely love the progression of exercises building upon the previous one until it becomes game speed and game related. Huge fan of your process and connection with the kids!
Bournemouth shots fired. 🤣 Any one can critique or say they would teach it differently, but they rarely have the courage to show their work. Loved the video.
Great Video. Perfect rapport with the players highlighting the importance of fine details which have huge impact, especially if your working the way up the pyramid. 👏👏👏
Great video with Simple explanations. My 9yo has just taken up an interest in football. So I did what any dad would do and dived down the TH-cam rabbit hole for drills to help him improve. I started playing when I was 16yo and was a goalkeeper, so I never really learned a lot of the fundamentals. Absolutely love this game and hoping he'll stick with it🤞. Love how you make the drills fun and challenging at the same time.
@CatalanSoccer you have no idea how many videos I've already added to a Playlist. Also, saved your video on teaching how to tackle as I noticed that at their age they really do shy away from contact. I like the drills you had to introduce them to making contact and not taking contact. Awesome channel. Has me reliving my love of the game in a whole different way. Random I use to be a personal trainer and my dream job growing up was working in strength and conditioning with football athletes.
Thoroughly enjoyaable and a brilliant progression through the drills. Your enthusiasm shines through in all the sessions you do that i have watched. Happy to confirm that i use your ideas as the basis of sessions i do with my Ladies walking football group. Keep up the great work; its fascinating.
Thanks Ian! So kind of you to take the time to feedback on the video. I’ve worked really hard to be engaging and captivating to kids so that my coaching sticks with them in all their other football. Really pleased to hear it’s helping you too!
I would like to ask if you think that before doing this type of session, would you say that it is better to teach the types of passes there is? I have U11 they are a bit late on development for the age, and so far me and my m8 have been putting some work on the basics but, watching this made me ask that question, might be quite an obvious answer but im taking my coaching license and weird enough they dont touch that part. Brilliant session btw, love your energy.
Thanks for the feedback and comment! Unfortunately they don’t touch on stuff like this, I created this channel because it felt like the coaching courses don’t give much information on this stuff! Yes coaching the different options of passes, the context of when to use each one and the technique to play each pass is what makes kids really master passing!
Too much talking to 8-10 year old kids. Their brain concentration with talking is super low. You gotta just get them playing, stop it after a few mins, give coaching points, let them play again, stop it again, and correct them, and then continue. The talking part each time should only be 1 minute
Each to their own. Kids listen to teachers, videos and parents for a lot longer than a minute at a time. In a one hour session these kids had plenty of ball rolling time, but the detail, the engagement and demonstrations form a vital part of the learning process. They can “just play” in a playground, in a match and in the garden, kids come to football classes to learn and get educated, not just play for extra time. All kids develop through play, but a coaches job should be to accelerate their development through guided discovery and digestable information.
@ i disagree. Ive been coaching for 12 years now. Ive coached from U6 all the way to mens football, and im certified just to share my background to you. Kids dont learn by talking a lot, ive done it and it doesn’t work. It would fly from their heads. Kids learn especially the younger ones when you let them play, and talk play by play for 1-2 minutes max. Mistakes are part of the game, you pick them up one by one not throw so many information at them. They can’t listen for that long. Also kids at 6-7-8-9-10 years of age need to play a lot with the ball, the more they play, the better they will get. Lots of dribbling, lots of different footwork with the ball will give confidence in all the other technical aspect you teach them in the future.
We will carry on educating players the way we see best to do so. We have a coaching team of 20 coaches and have worked with kids from 3 years old to 17s, from absolute beginner, to academy and elite performance. We hold strong in the value that kids are capable of more than most people think, we make our coaching sessions easy to follow, educational, technical, tactical and psychological. This 15 minutes video is from a 60 minute coaching session where every single player got dozens and dozens of repetitions. They all showed huge progress from the start of the session to the end, so clearly it didn’t all fall out of their heads. This group in particular are extremely focused and if you watch the video, you can see they have a strong attention span, hence the longer interactions. But to say coaches are talking too much, without any understanding of the group dynamic or the relationship between the players and coach is a little short sighted. To say that you’ve done it and it doesn’t work, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for all coaches, or for all kids. If coaches are merely there to watch kids play, say well done and give the odd tip to a child in a one hour session, then we believe they are stealing from that child’s development and potential. If every kid was capable of reaching their potential merely through play, without being given context, reasoning, examples and decision guidance, then the playground would produce professional athletes. Every coach would be out of a job.
@ i understand there was an hour of this practice and there was cuts. But the same exact drill in the beginning is explained, and then you got the players to sit down, and teach them the same session plan with the board. You can even tell the kids aren’t fully there. You can literally just do that in the moment of the drill. Pause by showing how to make the right touch yourself as a coach and proceed by making coaching points while it’s being progressed. This is something we call session progression. I understand parent coaches and volunteers struggle with this. But coaches who are actual competitive footballers can easily demonstrate this themselves. Kids like it when you show them yourself and display it. It makes them want to be as good as you. I never said coaches should watch kids play, you obviously didnt read anything I wrote above. I said kids dont listen when you talk for so long. You should show them the move, and speak/teach for a minute. Because kids concentration span is not long enough to understand what you are even saying, they get easily distracted. If a bird flies around, they get distracted by it. Its a childs nature. Which is why even academy like PSV does is to get them to play lots, focus on dribbling, and show them what needs to be done. I do agree with some stuff you said, but just not entirely. You cant treat the sessions for each age the same. Every age should be dealt differently.
The chat with the tactics board is because we are dealing with different learning styles within the group. Some children learn better by doing and watching, some by listening and some need a more classroom style showing to get it to soak in. We try to cover all those styles to make sure things aren’t going over kids heads. You’re right some kids can’t listen for that long, but I’ve worked with this group for 18 months and I assure you, they can. The whole group is developing well and the parents appreciate that they are getting educated about the how’s, whys and when’s of the game rather than just running drills. Everyone has their own style, this is the one that works for us.
@@CatalanSoccer guess what, kids learning by playing. Your are take yourself to serious. It’s not you playing the leading role. Of you are there to watch the kids play in the first place. That’s what they do in Barcelona, Catalonia, where you’ve obviously never been. Best the small sided game or exercise help the kids solving the problems. The children are tired of being taught. They got it all day long in school. You are not helping me learn by talking much. I learn by watching the drills.
@Aelbereth yes kids learn by playing, they don’t learn by making the same mistakes over and over again without guidance on what the mistake is, how to avoid it and how to improve. Thinking playing the game is the only way to learn is so narrow minded. Even professional players who are already experienced still listen to their coaches and learn through talking. If kids only learn by playing, then playing in the street would produce professionals. These kids are learning. What football is, how to play, how to adapt to different situations. If you don’t agree with that then why are you on TH-cam watching coaching videos? Surely you could make your own videos of you standing and watching kids play without talking to them. Our research visits to Barcelona, Espanyol & Girona gave us a very different experience to what you’re saying. But you stay on your coaching journey and we will stay on ours. We don’t claim to be the best coaches, we have methods that work for us and like to share them with other coaches. Feel free to watch someone else.
I’m a 29 year old man, and im learning as much as these kids! Really great content dude
@@tomisina7144 thank you Tom! Really appreciate that. The reason I make this content is because I couldn’t believe how much important information was missing from coaching courses. Thank you for taking the time out to write a comment, it keeps me wanting to make more videos ❤️
Its sad when I come here and always see the comment of "you talk to much"..... Obviously this is a cut video from at least an hour practice. Secondly, if all kids had to do was to play the game and they would be great, then why isn't the amount of youth players who go pro higher? It obviously isn't that simple. Coach, fantastic job. I think you do a great job interacting with the kids and explaining it on their level.
Thanks for the feedback and understanding the process we go through! Parents want their child to develop quickly and Effectively, if just letting them play was the best way for it to happen then grassroots football and the playground would produce the best players.
Absolutely spot on. You always have to model, explain, and slow down a drill the first time (maybe even the first few times) you do something. It's not just for the kids doing the drill either. He's explaining to the viewers the logic behind every movement so that they can look for the little things that make the difference.
The little details make all the difference in games. As a coach, I have lost important games because I didn't emphasize the small mistakes the players were committing during the drills and corrected them on time. It was so obvious to me during the important games that I didn't spend enough time trying to perfect the drills, because those are the mistakes that cost us the games.
Thank you @CatalanSoccer and keep up the great work.
Someone who gets it! It’s a session for the kids and the coaches watching! Thank you for the support!
This is obviously the first time coach has introduced the concepts here so of course he “talks too much.” Also listen there are lots of times coaches is checking for understanding. The only thing I might add depending on the children’s developmental level would be “can someone restate what I just said?”
This was a FANTASTIC instructional video session. Really well shot and the audio was perfect. Good tone with the kids and positive.
Thanks so much! ❤️
this is an excellent drill! I love the multiple facets of control and paying attention.
I watched a couple of videos of you recently and I find it amazing how you explain things to the kids. Really, really good.
Wow! Thanks so much for the kind feedback!
Thanks, trying grassroot to make understand, they can do
This is possibly the best coaching video I have seen on this platform. Every step by step part of the process carefully explained in a way kids (and coaches) can understand, then backed up with a walk through of the excercise before increasing pace and difficulty with each phase of the training, which are all interlinked 🔥
Thank you so much! Hopefully the rest of our channel helps you with more topics!
Well done. Emphasizes communication, touches, teamwork, passing, heads up, vision, some pressure too
Absolutely love the progression of exercises building upon the previous one until it becomes game speed and game related. Huge fan of your process and connection with the kids!
Thanks Chris! I like to think of it as scaffolding. Build from the bottom but every next step relies on and reminds them of the previous step!
Bournemouth shots fired. 🤣 Any one can critique or say they would teach it differently, but they rarely have the courage to show their work. Loved the video.
Haha first team that sprung to mind but I felt harsh after 😂
Thank you, really appreciate you!
Ye he's done a good job there... good info. Good examples and good flow.
@dannygaskin5806 thanks mate!
Great stuff, coach. Thank you!
Dont waste touches, but take them when you need. Excellent and simple explanation.
Thanks a lot!
Great Video. Perfect rapport with the players highlighting the importance of fine details which have huge impact, especially if your working the way up the pyramid. 👏👏👏
Thanks Lee! Really appreciate that!!
I find your videos so inspiring as a coach thanks so much for sharing your ideas so we can all get better.
Thank you for the support and feedback! Stuff like that is what keeps us going!
Great video with Simple explanations.
My 9yo has just taken up an interest in football. So I did what any dad would do and dived down the TH-cam rabbit hole for drills to help him improve.
I started playing when I was 16yo and was a goalkeeper, so I never really learned a lot of the fundamentals.
Absolutely love this game and hoping he'll stick with it🤞.
Love how you make the drills fun and challenging at the same time.
Thanks Kevan, there’s lots of other stuff on the channel to hopefully help you. Best of luck with the journey, yours and his ❤️
@CatalanSoccer you have no idea how many videos I've already added to a Playlist.
Also, saved your video on teaching how to tackle as I noticed that at their age they really do shy away from contact.
I like the drills you had to introduce them to making contact and not taking contact. Awesome channel.
Has me reliving my love of the game in a whole different way. Random I use to be a personal trainer and my dream job growing up was working in strength and conditioning with football athletes.
Thoroughly enjoyaable and a brilliant progression through the drills.
Your enthusiasm shines through in all the sessions you do that i have watched.
Happy to confirm that i use your ideas as the basis of sessions i do with my Ladies walking football group.
Keep up the great work; its fascinating.
Thanks Ian! So kind of you to take the time to feedback on the video. I’ve worked really hard to be engaging and captivating to kids so that my coaching sticks with them in all their other football. Really pleased to hear it’s helping you too!
Fantastic video. Great coaching!
Thanks so much!
Excellent session coach!
Wonderful video. Gonna use this tomorrow!
Thank you! Hope it helps!
Brilliant one, great teaching minds must be appreciated 👍 👏
Thanks so much that’s really kind of you😀
Great job - love it!
Thanks for the feedback!
brilliant video...absolutely brilliant
Glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant this m8 👊
Good job coach...
I would like to ask if you think that before doing this type of session, would you say that it is better to teach the types of passes there is? I have U11 they are a bit late on development for the age, and so far me and my m8 have been putting some work on the basics but, watching this made me ask that question, might be quite an obvious answer but im taking my coaching license and weird enough they dont touch that part. Brilliant session btw, love your energy.
Thanks for the feedback and comment! Unfortunately they don’t touch on stuff like this, I created this channel because it felt like the coaching courses don’t give much information on this stuff!
Yes coaching the different options of passes, the context of when to use each one and the technique to play each pass is what makes kids really master passing!
@@CatalanSoccer Thanks, i appreciate that you took time to answer, i have some fun exercises in mind already.
Once again thanks! :)
Great video 👍
Thank you!
Brilliant session coach 👏 out of interest what age group are you training?
This particular group is 7-9 year olds! Thank you for the feedback!
@@CatalanSoccer they listen better than my U12s lol
@@maxwellmeyer6482 yup, mine too 😂
@emilioaita5104 there’s videos on our channel to help get kids listening better! Check them out!
Man I wish I could deliver that session to my u13 girls team.
Give it a try yourself Dean!
Good work. How old are these kids
Youngest is 7 and the oldest is 9!
Hi How we can contact you please as my son follow you and he need to joining you sessions
Email me! Inbox@catalansoccer.com
I like your coaching style
When i watch my nearest football academy and i watch your video.then i realised they are bullsit
Ouch! 😂 send them some links to our videos! 👌🏻
@@CatalanSoccer definately I learn many things from your video
Too much talking to 8-10 year old kids. Their brain concentration with talking is super low. You gotta just get them playing, stop it after a few mins, give coaching points, let them play again, stop it again, and correct them, and then continue. The talking part each time should only be 1 minute
Each to their own. Kids listen to teachers, videos and parents for a lot longer than a minute at a time. In a one hour session these kids had plenty of ball rolling time, but the detail, the engagement and demonstrations form a vital part of the learning process. They can “just play” in a playground, in a match and in the garden, kids come to football classes to learn and get educated, not just play for extra time.
All kids develop through play, but a coaches job should be to accelerate their development through guided discovery and digestable information.
@ i disagree. Ive been coaching for 12 years now. Ive coached from U6 all the way to mens football, and im certified just to share my background to you. Kids dont learn by talking a lot, ive done it and it doesn’t work. It would fly from their heads. Kids learn especially the younger ones when you let them play, and talk play by play for 1-2 minutes max. Mistakes are part of the game, you pick them up one by one not throw so many information at them. They can’t listen for that long. Also kids at 6-7-8-9-10 years of age need to play a lot with the ball, the more they play, the better they will get. Lots of dribbling, lots of different footwork with the ball will give confidence in all the other technical aspect you teach them in the future.
We will carry on educating players the way we see best to do so. We have a coaching team of 20 coaches and have worked with kids from 3 years old to 17s, from absolute beginner, to academy and elite performance. We hold strong in the value that kids are capable of more than most people think, we make our coaching sessions easy to follow, educational, technical, tactical and psychological. This 15 minutes video is from a 60 minute coaching session where every single player got dozens and dozens of repetitions. They all showed huge progress from the start of the session to the end, so clearly it didn’t all fall out of their heads. This group in particular are extremely focused and if you watch the video, you can see they have a strong attention span, hence the longer interactions. But to say coaches are talking too much, without any understanding of the group dynamic or the relationship between the players and coach is a little short sighted. To say that you’ve done it and it doesn’t work, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for all coaches, or for all kids.
If coaches are merely there to watch kids play, say well done and give the odd tip to a child in a one hour session, then we believe they are stealing from that child’s development and potential.
If every kid was capable of reaching their potential merely through play, without being given context, reasoning, examples and decision guidance, then the playground would produce professional athletes. Every coach would be out of a job.
@ i understand there was an hour of this practice and there was cuts. But the same exact drill in the beginning is explained, and then you got the players to sit down, and teach them the same session plan with the board. You can even tell the kids aren’t fully there. You can literally just do that in the moment of the drill. Pause by showing how to make the right touch yourself as a coach and proceed by making coaching points while it’s being progressed. This is something we call session progression. I understand parent coaches and volunteers struggle with this. But coaches who are actual competitive footballers can easily demonstrate this themselves. Kids like it when you show them yourself and display it. It makes them want to be as good as you.
I never said coaches should watch kids play, you obviously didnt read anything I wrote above. I said kids dont listen when you talk for so long. You should show them the move, and speak/teach for a minute. Because kids concentration span is not long enough to understand what you are even saying, they get easily distracted. If a bird flies around, they get distracted by it. Its a childs nature. Which is why even academy like PSV does is to get them to play lots, focus on dribbling, and show them what needs to be done. I do agree with some stuff you said, but just not entirely. You cant treat the sessions for each age the same. Every age should be dealt differently.
The chat with the tactics board is because we are dealing with different learning styles within the group. Some children learn better by doing and watching, some by listening and some need a more classroom style showing to get it to soak in. We try to cover all those styles to make sure things aren’t going over kids heads.
You’re right some kids can’t listen for that long, but I’ve worked with this group for 18 months and I assure you, they can. The whole group is developing well and the parents appreciate that they are getting educated about the how’s, whys and when’s of the game rather than just running drills. Everyone has their own style, this is the one that works for us.
A very good drill imo but way too much talk, sorry. Let the kids play.
These are clips to help coaches learn, the video is taken from a full hour of kids playing. We are there to teach, not just watch the kids play.
If you coach long enough you know games are for letting the kids play. Practice is the time to teach.
@michaelschlueter6162 and a good blend of both is always the best way 👌🏻
@@CatalanSoccer guess what, kids learning by playing. Your are take yourself to serious. It’s not you playing the leading role. Of you are there to watch the kids play in the first place. That’s what they do in Barcelona, Catalonia, where you’ve obviously never been.
Best the small sided game or exercise help the kids solving the problems.
The children are tired of being taught. They got it all day long in school.
You are not helping me learn by talking much. I learn by watching the drills.
@Aelbereth yes kids learn by playing, they don’t learn by making the same mistakes over and over again without guidance on what the mistake is, how to avoid it and how to improve. Thinking playing the game is the only way to learn is so narrow minded. Even professional players who are already experienced still listen to their coaches and learn through talking. If kids only learn by playing, then playing in the street would produce professionals. These kids are learning. What football is, how to play, how to adapt to different situations. If you don’t agree with that then why are you on TH-cam watching coaching videos? Surely you could make your own videos of you standing and watching kids play without talking to them.
Our research visits to Barcelona, Espanyol & Girona gave us a very different experience to what you’re saying. But you stay on your coaching journey and we will stay on ours. We don’t claim to be the best coaches, we have methods that work for us and like to share them with other coaches. Feel free to watch someone else.