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U11 Positions

Simon Parkhouse

Hi All

I help coach an u11's team now moving to 9v9. Until now we have always rotated positions every quarter for every player. Whilst this has developed all our players all round games well (but often put us at a disadvantage as we've noticed other teams not do this, and the boys can get a bit confused). We now have a team with generally good all round skill levels and understanding of every position. They have their natural strengths and weaknesses; speed, touch, awareness, anticipation, strength etc but it's hard to place almost any of them (apart from a nail on centre back) in any positions but we feel we need to start specialising to some extent.

We have one very fast, technically capable lad with Autism who generally tries to dribble around most of the opposition. I've done a lot of work with drills/ games on trying to get his head up and assess options.with mild success but it can still dominate a game. He's also a fantastic ball winner (but then doesn't distribute)

Any thoughts and advice gratefully received!

Cheers

Simon

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    You could do a little test in one of their training sessions. make small sided games for the players and tell them that they have to play in a formation but do not tell specific players where to play, let them sort it out themselves, tell them to discuss where each other should play, this will give you an idea on where they want to play and also where the players think all the others can play (if this makes sense). This worked for me in a weird way as it found me three leaders in the team who became very vocal and then I could use these players to help get across my ideas. This also worked on seeing where some players thought they should be playing as well as a couple of the more versatile players that will be able to change positions comfortably!

    hope this helps.

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    You could do a little test in one of their training sessions. make small sided games for the players and tell them that they have to play in a formation but do not tell specific players where to play, let them sort it out themselves, tell them to discuss where each other should play, this will give you an idea on where they want to play and also where the players think all the others can play (if this makes sense). This worked for me in a weird way as it found me three leaders in the team who became very vocal and then I could use these players to help get across my ideas. This also worked on seeing where some players thought they should be playing as well as a couple of the more versatile players that will be able to change positions comfortably!

    hope this helps.

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