11 thoughts on “7v7 Youth Soccer – Pressing”

  1. Coaching 9yr olds. Running into through balls to the 9 over the top when the center backs press to close. And the opposite side wingback #3 pushes up high and causes lots of issues. Any thoughts? Does our wingback #2 come all the way back with their #3?

  2. so I have a question in general…I’ve been watching a lot of your. Videos and I noticed that sometimes you call the 2 and 3 fullbacks and sometimes you call them halfbacks…is there a particular reason for this is or is it just one of those things that’s jus’t weird because it’s 7v7? Wanted to let you know your videos have been a big help getting my thoughts sorted out on how to coach 7v7.

  3. If you watch videos of the Barca/RM U10 teams, you'll see that when they build out, it looks like they are always swimming in space for long passes to be possible. In my games, the build out line experience always feels like a high intensity pressure fest where there is no space and once that initial pass is made to the center back, the swarm is quite effective – because it feels like there's nowhere to go. That being said, I haven't applied all that you've taught here in a live situation – maybe I'll find that if the swarm happens, the center midfielder will be available and we'll be the ones off to the races!

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