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[quote=Anonymous][quote]HOW TO EXPLAIN SPEED OF PLAY TO YOUTH SOCCER PLAYERS

Speed of play is a quick release time + the movement of the ball being passed from player to player, usually using 1 or 2 Touch passing to possess the ball, with players who can get rid of the ball within 2 seconds. When a team is playing with good speed of play you can actually hear, see & feel the tempo.

Whether it be a 1-Touch pass or a Trap then a pass, these will be what you want for speed of play. With 2-Touch you want to be comfortable with the time and steps between the first touch and the pass. There should usually be a time of only 2 seconds on the ball.

If you watch good soccer you will see there is 1 common thing going on, which is the time each player spend with the ball. When you see a team possessing the ball, you will notice that 80% of the time the player get rid of the ball within 2 seconds, sometimes faster. If they spend 3 seconds or more it slows up the speed of play and usually drives the coach crazy.

So people who dribble all the time they are slowing the tempo up, though there are times where a player needs to dribble/hold the ball. There are the times when a player is waiting for a window/space/gap to open up a deadly pass. Another good time a player needs to dribble is when a team cannot keep possession. You just need someone to make a play and open things up. Playing 1-Touch Soccer is by far the hardest thing in soccer. Even Barcelona has to trap the ball after 2 or 3 passes. You just don’t see teams making 1 touch passes 4 times in a row and hardly even 3 passes.

WHAT ‘SPEED OF PLAY’ IS NOT

5 things select students often guess define ‘speed of play’ (Note: these things are not speed of play, but they help with speed of play):

Touching the ball faster
Up tempo – high energy
Running faster
Movement off the ball
How fast a certain play is

3 WAYS TO PRACTICE ‘SPEED OF PLAY’

Team Possession Drills (5v5, 7v7, 10v10): Larger number of players to make things complex forcing decision making. If it’s just 1v1 or 2v2 you can’t work on speed of play. There is no way to keep making passes with 1 and 2 touch. Eventually in a 2v2 someone will have to slow the game up and dribble or shield. Even with 4v4 but can be done just a lot harder because there is NO time to rest in 4v4 type situations. If you watch a real game 11v11 you only see about 2 or 3 players actually running and everyone else is walking. This is because the field is so big that there will not be action every moment for one player. The only time you see most of the players all running at the same time is a counter attack or a situation in the attacking third. But when teams are in the middle third or possessing the ball you only see the players near the ball running.

Small Groups of 2-5 players can work on precision passing in small space. The more players the better or else it’s not much in decision making with groups of only 2-3 players. If you have 4 players then the coach can make 5 players which can make for a better session. At the end of the days you want the player to be as clean with both feet as possible and most players never get there unless they practice 4-6 times a week either with team, trainer or on their own. Using a wall or racquet ball court is a great way to work on this. You don’t even need a trainer for this because the 4 walls act as players.

Private 1on1 training you can work on really fixing the root of most players problem. This means being able to pass with both feet different ways. Using the inside of the foot, bending inside, bending outside. But especially able to open up their body/hips and use both the left and right foot to make precise passes. Also you can get involved as a trainer and set up training sticks or cones that force both the trainer and players to work hard off the ball and making 5-6 passes to goal.
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