It may come as no surprise that Fabio Vieira was named the UEFA European U21 Player of the Tournament by UEFAs team of technical observers, the future looks very bright for this young Portuguese attacking midfielder.
Described by one of the observers…
Si Houston (FA game insights analyst) and Mark Neville (FA youth coach educator) explore the findings from a recent case study on how game formats can affect an individual player’s actions, such as passing.
As players travel through their developmental…
10 top tips for dealing with unexpected scenarios at your training session.
1. Use arrival activities to assess the scene
An arrival activity at the start of the session is the perfect opportunity to stand back, observe and assess. To do this, the…
The FA’s Pete Sturgess adds to his first blog series which is designed to help people who are taking their first steps as a coach with players aged 5-11. Here he highlights the key messages from a video clip of a small-sided game.
Throughout this series…
Hi Mark, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Below is a pdf that Peter Sturgess shared with me which has loads of games I like. What do you reckon to these?
What is your favourite? Keen to hear about yours and others.
Is this fact or fiction? England has a men’s team that has reached back-to-back world cup finals.
We have a team that are ranked 2 nd in the world.
We have reached the semi-finals of the last five major tournaments.
We have come third in the last…
Hi James,
I hope you are well.
Here is a home made video on the basics of passing , this breaks up the technique of passing from the ground. Please note this was created for technical content and not practice design. Have a look at this video for…
Hi Christopher, this is not as uncommon as you may think. Is the player new to playing? I have had this with several of the young group we have at our club. Personally I think avoiding getting hit by a flying object should be considered a sign of intelligence…
Glad you mentioned this because we are running more 1 v 1, 2 v 1 drills at training sessions now based on the good feedback from the players so far. However, these are very much focused on the attacking side. So this week, I have planned out a simple…
“ In any football programme in any country, players should be playing futsal, because you get to a point where the coach cannot make you any better technically . It’s about repetition” Roberto Martinez (Portugal national team head coach).
In our recent…
