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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coaching education provided by USSF just isn’t good enough. The fact they discourage coaches from using rondos tells you everything you need to know about why players are not being properly developed.[/quote]

Wait, WHAT?  They seriously discourage rondos??  I don't pay attention to USSF coaching education, but this is idiotic.  It's also how most European teams warm up, certainly the successful ones.[/quote]

Our DA team warms up with rondos.  This is yet another crap comment brought up by some anti-US soccer nut who found a quote in an interview somewhere and extended it into some fantasy that US soccer discourages and forbids rondos as a matter of policy.

Par for the course, here, unfortunately[/quote]

Stop. I’ve literally been told my USSF instructors that I shouldn’t use rondos because they are “non-directional.” Never mind that there’s dozens of ways to structure a rondo.[/quote]

From the linked to article:
[quote]One of the central tenets of the USSF’s framework is “directional play,” the idea that drills and activities should replicate game situations by guiding movements and focus towards goal. That seems to have led some instructors to discourage rondos, on the basis that they are fundamentally circular and lack that forward direction. Tschan and Russell say that’s not a directive – far from it.

[b]“No, I think that’s a rather bold statement. I don’t think there’s a war on anything,” said Tschan when I asked him about rondos.[/b]

[i]“It’s less about US Soccer stating what’s right or wrong but more about inspiring the coach to think about why they’re doing the things that they’re doing and is that effective for the player and their development,” said Russell.
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The reality on the ground may be harder to pin down.

“[i]When you have a grassroots coach who comes into these early, open-entry, low-barrier, easily-accessible course experiences, there will be a little bit more direction, shaping them and their ability to understand and lead young players,” explained Tschan. [/i]“As the pathway becomes something a coach navigates towards, ultimately, the professional level, there might be a more autonomous approach to then developing their ideas based on that particular professional environment … to be able to work according to their own principles and beliefs. It’s a bit of a scalable thing.

“[i]You’re talking about a tool,” he added in reference to rondos, “so the ideas of specific activities, specific exercises, all the things connected to technique and tactics, the tools that we use to solve the problems of the game, we look at those within the context of our philosophy.[/i] So reality-based, starting with the game as the driver for our decision-making, is directional and is something that has opposition, then we would want to have that in the actual training environment. So we want to make our environment as reality-based as possible. We define that by some of those constants that are in the game of soccer when we see it being played.”[/quote]

You are misunderstanding the intent. US Soccer is essentially saying that coaches should be focusing on coaching directional soccer as a method of tactical development. They simply view Rondos as more a technical development tool that is more reactionary.

The other missed point is US Soccer simply want coaches to be more aware of the purpose of the drills that they are running in practice. Run a Rondo if you want but understand the PURPOSE of why you are running and more importantly, make sure the players understand the purpose. [/quote]

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