How To play out from the back | Kids Coaching Guide



Playing out from the back is one of the most common issues with kids Football Coaching. In this video we help you work out how, why and when to play out from the back.

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  1. 9:05 This is what I find curious. As much as a coach can train their defence to work like this, an offence coach can train their players to cleverly press this to make it as tough as possible. And if you make one mistake, either in your first touch, decision making or pass, it’s panic stations. I watch Arsenal, Man Utd etc like you say sometimes have real issues playing it out against a drilled side, and losing a goal because you were trying to play it short out from the back feels so galling and unnecessary. I’m genuinely interested in your opinion.

  2. I'm happy to have found this channel. I no longer coach, I did at club level and at some point I'll be coaching at high school level.

    When I coached at the club level (youth) I was teaching them to play out from the back on goal kicks and playing it back to your defenders.

    I reinforced with them that they will make mistakes in the game learning how to play from the back and that it is okay, it's part of life. I told them I don't want this kicking the ball up in the air down the field causing it to become 50/50 when we can retain possession and keep the ball away from the other team.

    I worked with the players to better their technique on the ball. First touch, passing, dribbling. I set up drills to get many touches on the ball and 1v1s.

    To get the players used to pressure I incorporated drills from Spain's youth academy that had players focusing on applying pressure in the one grid as the team in possession in that grid tried to complete a certain number of passes and then they had to make a through pass in the middle with about 2-3 defenders in that middle grid trying to cut off the passing lanes. If the pass was successful, that defending team had to send 2 players to the other grid to try the win the back back as quickly as possible. Drills like this worked wonders on applying it to an actual game so they wouldn't panic.

  3. Kids under u13 should be working on technique and only technique. Introduce a decision and it interferes with technical progression. There are too many technical details to inculcate to have time for anything else. Forcing them to do it in their own introduces errors that will prevent them from succeeding at a high level. Pretty ball movement at u11 is indicative of limited players at u16. They simply don’t need this at u11. Young kids should play a relationship oriented style instead of a positional style.

  4. English guy supposedly teaching Catalan soccer…. Does La Masia focus on passing patterns? No -that's 80/90's English coaching. Don't call this what it isn't. Catalan soccer is every training should include directional rondos. Focus on fundamentals of body posture, pass to back foot, forward touch, opposite movement, etc. These concepts taught in a simple 4v2+1 rondo will teach the kids the vast majority of fundamentals they need to build out of the back successfully, plus they learn to play under pressure in a fun "game". Repetitive passing patterns in training suck the fun and creativity out of the game.

  5. Encouraging video, half my girls struggle making accurate passes and i only get 1 hr a week training with them and the parents aren't as committed as i am with my daughter (i even offered my time to run a second training session a week) is this pattern exercise still worth my time? If for first 15 minutes of training i run passing drills then implement this build up from back pattern exercises, can it still work? On a positive note, we have won 2 of our last 3 games and so far i have the girls passing out wide from goal kicks, that's as far as i got with them so far

  6. I understand all these principles, how is it you have implemented this in training, getting kids from U10 and below to understand what ur trying to implement is normally the hardest part

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