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    Isolated Technique

    This article is for all you parents that are chasing dreams for your kids. For the parents it’s been thousands of dollars working with jack azz trainers teaching moves that can only be used in the circus. If you want your kid to be in the circus then work on isolated moves. Private trainers have created a monster with this stuff.

    https://www.fcevolution.com/isolated...l-development/

    #2
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    This article is for all you parents that are chasing dreams for your kids. For the parents it’s been thousands of dollars working with jack azz trainers teaching moves that can only be used in the circus. If you want your kid to be in the circus then work on isolated moves. Private trainers have created a monster with this stuff.

    https://www.fcevolution.com/isolated...l-development/
    Get out of here with that stupid ass stuff. Isolated technique is needed just as much as the other.

    Sometimes dribbling on its own is the challenge while having someone to dribble against is another.

    I’d take my kid doing 100 reps of isolated finishing than some idiot who tries to make it more complicated and the kid only gets 20 because they are focused on 4 other things.

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      #3
      Many people misunderstand Cruyff's remarks about "joining the circus".

      He was speaking of people who like to show off in games, and don't bother learning the higher level tactics of the game.

      Not of people who can master the ball.

      The point of juggling, of "isolated techniques" is to master the ball. Mastering the ball is only half the battle--you have to know what to do with it once you have control of it. But until you can do that, your abilities as a footballer are limited.

      Far too damn often, I see teams try to tiki-taka it up, only for passes to bounce off of feet and be taken away by the defense. No wonder so many teams like to pass it into space instead.

      You'll never do 100 juggles in a game. But you'll often do one, two, or even three... and if you can do 100 consistently, than 3 becomes easy, even with a defender on your heels.

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        #4
        The OP’s article is 100% correct.

        The remainder of the responses are coming from old school coaches or parents who don’t understand.

        I’ve coached in Norway, Spain and Holland and even did a 9 month stint working in the Ajax Youth Academy before I came to the U.S.

        I will say that while the American players are more abundant in athletic ability that they lack the coaching mentality and focus on all the wrong things. It reminds me when I went to go watch my nephew at an American Football practice...it was painful to watch. Three hours of nothing! I see the same with how soccer is taught. The game is 90% mental. It is more about how fast your brain processes and exploits space and time than anything else. Standing in one place and working on 27 moves is inefficient and a waste of time. Having 2-3 moves but more importantly knowing when and where to use them is most important. Juggling is most important for focus over a length of time, touch is secondary.


        Most of the comments above are not bad but typical of people from the US. Mainly because they’ve never seen anything else outside of their country.

        I do notice that the game is changing in the right direction. Less coaches are doing isolated technique work and standing in long lines doing what American Coaches call “drills”

        The more coaches that follow this route will in turn help with the plague of players that quit the game. As a player you shouldn’t be doing any more than 5 min of isolate technique during
        a 2 hour session. Any more time spent on it you should look elsewhere

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          The OP’s article is 100% correct.

          The remainder of the responses are coming from old school coaches or parents who don’t understand.
          Or parents who understand too well, and know when a coach is trying to peddle his style.

          I’ve coached in Norway, Spain and Holland and even did a 9 month stint working in the Ajax Youth Academy before I came to the U.S.

          I will say that while the American players are more abundant in athletic ability that they lack the coaching mentality and focus on all the wrong things. It reminds me when I went to go watch my nephew at an American Football practice...it was painful to watch. Three hours of nothing!
          And what makes you qualified to comment on American football? Different sport. COMPLETELY.

          I see the same with how soccer is taught. The game is 90% mental. It is more about how fast your brain processes and exploits space and time than anything else.
          Yes. Assuming you have the technical skill to make the ball go where it needs to go. Without that, vision and awareness are limited. Cruyff was a gifted visionary who saw things before anything else did. But he also was an amazing ball-handler and shooter. What he wasn't was a particularly strong athlete.

          Standing in one place and working on 27 moves is inefficient and a waste of time. Having 2-3 moves but more importantly knowing when and where to use them is most important. Juggling is most important for focus over a length of time, touch is secondary.
          Some of the drills done are inefficient. Juggling is useful, and wall-work are useful, because you get a lot of touches in a short amount of time. The point of 100 juggles is not to juggle 100 times in a row, it's to get those 100 touches, each one a little different, and to be able to control the ball well enough to keep it from touching the ground.

          Most of the comments above are not bad but typical of people from the US. Mainly because they’ve never seen anything else outside of their country.
          Many of the proponents of technical focus come from countries that are better at soccer than the Netherlands.

          I do notice that the game is changing in the right direction. Less coaches are doing isolated technique work and standing in long lines doing what American Coaches call “drills”
          Here I agree. Standing around in training is a waste of time. And "isolated technique", being isolated, should be done on a players' own time. Team training should be focused on the team, and not too much time spent on juggling, or on fitness. Some time is OK--so the coach can give advice. But nobody should be standing around waiting their turn.

          The more coaches that follow this route will in turn help with the plague of players that quit the game. As a player you shouldn’t be doing any more than 5 min of isolate technique during
          a 2 hour session. Any more time spent on it you should look elsewhere
          Players quit the game for a variety of reasons; I expect that training techniques are down on the list. Bigger issues are competing activities (especially as they get older), time and expense (especially if travel is involved), a-hole coaches, and the eventual realization that no, you're not going to go pro.

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            #6
            And a lot of girls quit because of torn ACLs and concussions. Girls get injured much more because refs don’t like to call fouls on girls and parents don’t complain because they want their girls to be tough! Same reason boys flop and girls don’t: girls know they aren’t going to get a call anyway so why flip?

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              The OP’s article is 100% correct.


              I will say that while the American players are more abundant in athletic ability that they lack the coaching mentality and focus on all the wrong things. It reminds me when I went to go watch my nephew at an American Football practice...it was painful to watch. Three hours of nothing! I see the same with how soccer is taught. The game is 90% mental. It is more about how fast your brain processes and exploits space and time than anything else. Standing in one place and working on 27 moves is inefficient and a waste of time. Having 2-3 moves but more importantly knowing when and where to use them is most important. Juggling is most important for focus over a length of time, touch is secondary.

              "touch is secondary"? really? How do you do anything if you cannot receive a ball? How do you dribble, pass or shoot if the ball bounces 5 feet of your foot to the other team every time a team-mate passes to you? Without touch you simply cannot do anything. Creativity and the "mental game" are meaningless if you cannot receive a ball.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                "touch is secondary"? really? How do you do anything if you cannot receive a ball? How do you dribble, pass or shoot if the ball bounces 5 feet of your foot to the other team every time a team-mate passes to you? Without touch you simply cannot do anything. Creativity and the "mental game" are meaningless if you cannot receive a ball.
                I find new and creative ways to turn the ball over every time I play.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  "touch is secondary"? really? How do you do anything if you cannot receive a ball? How do you dribble, pass or shoot if the ball bounces 5 feet of your foot to the other team every time a team-mate passes to you? Without touch you simply cannot do anything. Creativity and the "mental game" are meaningless if you cannot receive a ball.
                  I have coached in England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil. I have forgotten more about football than you shall ever know. I played professionally, look it up. You should be fortunate that with my vast experience, I have decided to set up shop here in this miserable backwater to teach your schoolchildren football. Do not argue with me, pissant; my word on this subject (or on any subject) is law, and you are barely worthy of reading the pearls of wisdom that I deign to cast before thee.

                  Know your place, peon.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    And a lot of girls quit because of torn ACLs and concussions. Girls get injured much more because refs don’t like to call fouls on girls and parents don’t complain because they want their girls to be tough! Same reason boys flop and girls don’t: girls know they aren’t going to get a call anyway so why flip?
                    My daughter flops. Light contact in the box on my daughter = PK. Torn ACLs happen even without contact. Teammate of my daughter was just changing direction. Some ACL are just more likely to get injured. Can't always blame the ref.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      My daughter flops. Light contact in the box on my daughter = PK. Torn ACLs happen even without contact. Teammate of my daughter was just changing direction. Some ACL are just more likely to get injured. Can't always blame the ref.
                      Of course not. However, they also happen from contact. Concussions most certainly happen from contact, most often from contact, in fact. The girls and women’s games aren’t being called like the boys/men’s games. Same rules but most refs swallow their whistles in girls’ games. Apparently, same in the NWSL and definitely in college. This is one of (not the only) reasons their are so many more acl tears, concussions and other injuries in girls soccer. The refs need to be retrained. It’s a rampant problem.

                      As far as your daughter flopping, well, there you have it. It’s refreshing that most girls and women don’t flop but to each their own.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        I have coached in England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil. I have forgotten more about football than you shall ever know. I played professionally, look it up. You should be fortunate that with my vast experience, I have decided to set up shop here in this miserable backwater to teach your schoolchildren football. Do not argue with me, pissant; my word on this subject (or on any subject) is law, and you are barely worthy of reading the pearls of wisdom that I deign to cast before thee.

                        Know your place, peon.
                        But you drive a Mercedes and told me my child is "gifted." I truly am in the presence of excellence!

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          I have coached in England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Argentina, and Brazil. I have forgotten more about football than you shall ever know. I played professionally, look it up. You should be fortunate that with my vast experience, I have decided to set up shop here in this miserable backwater to teach your schoolchildren football. Do not argue with me, pissant; my word on this subject (or on any subject) is law, and you are barely worthy of reading the pearls of wisdom that I deign to cast before thee.

                          Know your place, peon.
                          MJ Tate didntbtake his meds yesterday

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            MJ Tate didntbtake his meds yesterday
                            Thought it was MJ. If the spammers show up in this thread to hawk Viagra, we'll know for sure.

                            (It's always HIS threads they invade. Wonder why?)

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              MJ Tate didntbtake his meds yesterday
                              Grammar too good to be him. Too creative and too many big words. His posts always include lol and ..... Stream of thought type of writing I expect from a middle schooler

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