Hi chris 

Hi chris 

Hi Chris - I don't personally think a template is needed as much as maybe a slide on powerpoint to support the things that you want to reinforce as your philosophy. Ironically I think this can be overly philosophical .. where a simple clean perspective is / can be really effective.

As an example - our philosophy (Under 10) is "Develop through play" - so what this means is that our weekly training sessions are loaded with game-play situations / small-sided games / game-like situations that are developed around a theme (recently "where's the space" / Hit the danger zone /  Unpredictable me and so on. 

The "rules" and "values" such as Respect for all, trying my personal best that every one signs up to can sit under your philosophy ultimately creating your team culture that players and parents can easily understand and relate to.

Tat works for me anyway .. hope you find your own way!

Hi Chris,

I can share what i have done for my Level 2 project if that helps?

If you are still interested I can share mine too. We have a couple of points on how we like to play- in possession attack, out of possession- defence and each transition between the two. It is the transition that is as important. I coach U9's and wish we had this early on as it allows us to build the curriculum and learning goals around. Also educate parents and ensure that we are not just doing random training sessions based on someone seeing a YouTube video.

Hi David, if you could share your template it would be appreciated, thanks, Mark 

I'll also like some guidance on this if you still have it to hand David?

Hi David, this sounds very interesting and would appreciate if you could share, thanks, Nino.

I'd love to see this too please David

Hi David,

I'd love to take a look if you could share?

Thanks in advance