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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At that age, a child should not BE one position.

I started telling my kid - you're doing good but for you - the next level is x.

For ex.
Like one year, he was a great foot skill and speed, but his positioning was all over the place.  Some days great, some days just awful.  I was like this year - I want to see you learn positioning - and then we were specific  - you need to be within this place of the ball and within the team.

Or another year - we said - on your on days you are fantastic, on your off days you are horrible. the coach doesn't know to depend on you to win the game or just do nothing.  this is the year of consistency. We want every game to be at least within your 75% best.

believe it or not, this has totally worked.  So I would take this info and give it to him and give him a few months to work on it.

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It's sad the coach couldn't relay that information to him---especially positioning!!

You might want to rethink where you are.  [/quote]

At U9/U10? Nah. Not many coaches will do much with positioning beyond "create space." That's the USSF curriculum.[/quote]

At 9/10 they have no idea what 'create space' means--unless a coach tells them.  This is why some clubs still have bunch ball going on or players from their own team tackling them.  Yes--very specific tactical information can be detrimental ---but knowing where to move and get open and not dragging defenders over to your teammate with the ball is definitely 'positioning lite' that should be communicated.[/quote]

in my experience bunch-ball at that age isn't so much a function of kids not getting the concept of space but kids not having technical skill to take one two touches to extract themselves into space and hit sharp passes over a medium distance on the ground. teams with low technical ability get frustrated and start bunching.

I coached a u10 team once that struggled with bunching - midway through the season I had two italian brothers come to my team midway through the season (his dad transferred via work and the kid was in torino's youth academy). Bunching markedly dropped when I paired the kids together in midfield in 7 a side.

Why? Because the other kids realized those two could get out of pretty much any pressure and hit passes accurately at will and within about 4 training sessions, the whole teams understanding of space and positioning went up immeasurably. [/quote]

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