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Is it fair to take a few players aside and work on specific techniques?

Kane Simms

I coach an U7 team and they’re all developing well. There are a few players that don’t have great passing technique however. Either toe poking it, not hitting with enough power or even just booting the ball fat too hard. 

I have an idea to pull these players aside and do some specific passing drills with them to get them up to speed. 

Is this a sound thing to do? Will the other players feel like these players are getting special treatment? Will the players in question suspect that I think they’re no good and therefore lower their motivation?

Any advice on a) whether this is a good idea and b) what drills would be fun, is greatly appreciated. Cheers

kane

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    If you design your training session so smaller groups rotate through a number of planned activities ( including ones you're describing) then it solves the problem.

    If the drills you have in mind can be easily regressed or progressed, then all kids can benefit regardless of their current ability level.

    One example - Set up boxes the kids have to stop a pass in to get various weights of pass. Once they've used inside of foot, then use toe, then use outside.

    Start with very short range, then short range etc you could make it a little competition to see which of the 3 or 4 players can complete it first. Group the players on nearest ability?

    Next one is a SSG game where you give each player a point for passing or scoring with different parts of their foot etc

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    Doing specific work in small groups has benefits, if you are worried about the other players rotate the groups and work on particular thing.