Do you want to place players in the right position to help your team win? Want to know how to handle subs and rotations? Check out this video!
00:00 Start/Intro
00:50 Centerbacks
01:35 Fullbacks
03:06 Center Mid
04:31 Striker
05:36 Keeper
06:48 Summary
07:26 My 3 rules for subs/rotations
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What are your thoughts on in practice scrimmage? How do you make teams to develop your starting rotation? Do you make teams to be an even match in practice? Or do you put the players your going to have start your games together so they can get used to playing together. Thanks for sharing so much knowledge!
I know this is an older video, but I am a brand new coach with 12 U10 girls on a rec team. We have to play everyone 50%. Each game is 4 quarters with each quarter 12 1/2 minutes. Would you sub (everyone but the goalie) quarterly or do swaps at half time? I worry that might be boring for the girls who have to sit for half the game without playing, but I don't know if it would be good to swap out each quarter or just confusing. Thank you for the awesome videos – I've been watching a ton of them trying to do right by these girls. 🙂
My heart dies a little every time you call the outside midfielders "fullbacks"
Thanks for the great videos, this helps tremendously. Question for starting pitch without possession, are your player positions the same as if starting?
Still unclear where you put the weaker players. 🙂
What an amazing video. Thank you.
Thanks for these wonderful videos!
My league plays 8v8. Would you rather have another striker or another centerback?
Least experience at wing ?
Thank you for this video! It is very helpful. I’m a parent, and my kid is new to playing 7v7 this year. He was playing 4v4 last season. Since he is playing a year up, his coach expects him to understand positioning already. Could you recommend how I may help him in this area so that he doesn’t yelled at? Maybe you already have a video you could point me to? Thanks!!!!
love your stuff! except the leeds shirt
I've coached youth level for a number of years and never lost a goalkeeper and never had a team turn on one. The way I've done that is to coach them in practices and applaud them in games. During the game, I never coach them on the goals they let in. It should always be "that's ok! good try!" They are going to let more goals in during practice, I'll be able to coach them there. I am overtly positive, and very loud so parents and teammates can hear. Also I always applaud the goalkeeper on the other team when they make a save. If kids and parents only hear positive things towards keepers, they will mirror positive things back. Confidence is EVERYTHING for that position.
Thank you Rory…. this is amazing.
I coach girls in the rural of South Africa. The team has not played a match yet. We're building a strong foundation. Girls are age 10-12
Currently we're sitting on 23 girls.
Your channel is very helpful to me as a coach…..
I would like to plead to this community for donations to the girls.
Used soccer boots
Kits, bibs
Training equipment soccer balls, etc. Much love from SA
This is great stuff. I coach U10 girls rec challenge and started implementing the patterns last season. My team now knows how to execute the buildout from the back really well. Last weekend, they switched the field at least three times from the back. That is not typically done by any team in our age group. Repetition is key!
One thing that I would emphasize much more is to not over emphasize positions at this age. I want my most technical players to play all the positions and I want my least technical to do the same. Same with game understanding. Main reason is to expose kids to all the roles and allow their technical skills to develop without pigeon holing them. Additionally, I find that rotating them helps them understand their own role, but the roles of each individual on the team better. Over time, kids will gravitate to the roles they feel more comfortable in and begin to focus on the skills to excel in those roles.
Hi Coach! I am new to coaching (my daughters U9 rec team) and have never played soccer. I coached in the fall and had a few more strong players than this past spring season (so I thought, wow, I'm a natural🙂). Our last two games we have scored only one goal. I'm feeling pretty discouraged as their coach (not because we are not winning, we can't seem to get the ball down the field, work as a team, etc). I cannot get my kids to "spread out.," there is a lot of just kicking the ball and not keeping it to dribble, and about 3 kids are playing for themselves (just want to be the one to score, don't pass it, and only want to play striker). (I bring all of these things to their attention by drawing it, I sent the parents your video on 2-3-1 to show the kids and those are my coaching cues on the sideline (dribble, pass it, head up, find the SPACE etc). Subbing is hard when kids don't hold their positions, but this video made sense to sub the two fullbacks and striker (in rec all kids have to play a certain amount of time- but I think keeping stronger kids in longer will help – I can change at water break and half time, etc). I have also been putting kids in different positions so they can try them out, but it all goes to shit after the kick off and I'm not sure if that is super helpful, are they learning anything if they are all over the place? Plus some are new to soccer, so I want them to figure out what position they may be best at? After losing big time last weekend I went down the rabbit hole of your videos. I now understand my practices need to have pattern choregraphy at EVERY practice. I have learned a lot from watching your videos and if I coach next fall, I will be consistent with my practices. It's a bit stressful to be the coach and I'm trying, but the last two games have me doubting myself. There is so much to cover and 1 week of practice for 8 weeks is hard to fit it all in. But Thanks for the videos, they are really helpful.
I just started coaching U9 girls and my belief is that girls at this age have more fun when they score goals. So i chose a 1-3-2 formation for our first game and my girls scored 2 goals, they were so happy! The coach from last year was telling me the only goal they scored was an own goal from the other team. Now i just need to work on the girls understanding space and understanding their positions and making the midfield understand that they need to get back to help and getting my 2 forwards to understand that if they lose the ball, they need to work extra hard to try win it back in our final third.. thanks for the videos
I agree with pretty much every you said except for one. Fitness you don't think it's necessary I think you said a waste of time. I would have to disagree post covid I have coached a team in a spring fall and winter league and the stamina of these 8years old is poor and that's being nice. I'm talking 4 minutes into the game over half the team is begging to be subbed and the ones who are not their game is in slow motion and no it didn't get better with the season.
I feel I have no choice but to start every practice with a 5 minute low pace fitness drills with another 5 minutes at full speed. I found by doing this much fewer kids are asking to be subbed matter of fact I got a few who don't want to come of the field for a water break.
I don't know when you did these videos but covid has done a number on the youth most kids during the lockdown did no athletics and in some States did zero PE because the school they attend didn't open for months and depending which state didn't open at all.
I'm sure I am not the only coach who has notice the stamina of a 7,8, and 9 years old child has been affected by covid and the only way to build them back to pre covid levels is a few minutes of fitness training
My team is a little bit younger, but if you have a 5v5, could your show us some attacking patterns or passing patterns for that smaller team?
Thank you Coach Rory. I have always struggled with my 9 year old’s playing time. Now it all makes sense. He plays left/right wing and striker, almost always the first batch to be sub out, even though he is consistently the leader scorer of the team; while the CM and CB play most minutes in important games. Would you suggest focusing on his defense training to try to win some time playing in the CB?
Are league we have to have two girls on the field at all times. Really frustrating bc there not good at any position.
How about 9v9 with a 3,2,3 formation? Any tips? I have 14 kids.
Thank you for this video- I’m going to watch some more. I stepped up to coach and I’m doing two teams at the same time. I thought it would be easier since I’ve watched my kids play and my husband knows the game well but WOW. I’m doing u7 and U11 – the older kids know their stuff pretty darn well- the young ones are hard to keep focused. I don’t want to let them down on our 1st game this Saturday so I’m trying to educate myself so they feel good and my husband and I don’t look foolish 🤦🏻♀️ this is so much more stressful then I anticipated so I’m so glad to find these videos.
Coach!!!! I am a first-time coach of my son's U10 team. I implemented this at our first game today. I put together my 1st and 2nd half line up and balanced them how you recommended. It freaking work! I have only been able to coach for one week, but this was a safe bet! It also gave some insight to how they play in an actual game and I can fine tune at next practice. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving me the confidence as a new coach!
Thanks for these videos! So where should weaker non-athletic players play, if not CB?
I'm a president of a local club in Australia and I desperately want to improve our coaches. I have a feeling your videos will be a regular additions to our chat room
What do you recommend for a 8V8? add another striker?
What position would we put overall bad players? Slow, can’t pass well or shoot well but are strong physical players? (Football worthy) 😃
This is the best well explained video on YouTube thank you and I’m so glad I got two players who are willing to play goalie !
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Learned so many things
Thank you sir
Good video but black non bold text and green background is hard to read. Thanks for the time and effort to make. Very helpful info
Thank you so much for your videos. I’ve learned so much from them. For the U8 rec team I was coaching we were given access to some drills and rules; I had never coached 7-on-7 before so I was looking for how to approach it. Practice once a week for an hour for a 6-week season, 6 match season. Feel I should share my experience in case it helps someone else. There was great variation in skill among the players on my team. Some were limited in being able to make a pass or deal with much pressure in a game. I followed the suggestion to put my strongest players at back and center midfielder. But when we played a well-organized team, we were struggled to get the ball out of our half. Part of this was that the limited players at striker and outside midfielders were not contributing much and we were left to the stronger players making runs with little passing options to support them. Thinking about it after the match, I adjusted by putting my stronger players as outside midfielders with me telling them I was playing them there to help us get the ball up the field. I used cones to split the field into vertical thirds to emphasize to players in practice where they should be playing (we spent quite a bit of time doing this our last 2 practices). We were far more successful doing this for our last 2 games; limited players could understand playing in the middle and being passing options there. Emphasized to outside midfielders they needed to be running back to help on defense. We weren’t building out of the back; we were trying to get outside quickly to the outside midfielders and then have them look for teammates while they push it up the field. We were not attacked as much up the middle as I was worried about. Partly because our outside midfielders were controlling the game and we spent most of the matches on our scoring half of the field or pushing it up the field. May have been partly the teams we matched up with as well.
On the substitutions, I like to give my center mid a "long half time break". I'll put my second center mid in (who I'm very lucky to have because she has insanely good positional awareness for a 9 year old) and after five minutes I'll sub back in the starting center mid. If things are going well, I may let her play somewhere else but if we're struggling without her, I'll slide her back in and move the second CM somewhere else. Our league STRONGLY discourages anyone playing a full game so this has proven the least disruptive way to manage this for the team.