Comments during a game

By primarily coaching the team game coaches are teaching the predictable. It is a disciplined rote approach to developing players. Players who use only one and two touches have to be programmed to get and give the ball very quickly. There is much to admired in a quick incisive passing game but ball sharing and player interaction should no come before, or at the expense of, developing individual creativity and deception. In life the complete individual goes from dependent to independent to interdependent, to self-centered leadership and finally to mentor ship. As we can see independence clearly comes before interdependence. Yet most soccer coaches put the interdependent stage, team game, above the independent stage, development of a great individual dribblers and finisher. It should be obvious that the greatest players in team sport history developed the independent skills, dribbling and shooting, before the interdependent skills, receiving and passing.

So "by yourself" means that the player can beat an opponent or create space with a fake will penetrate more often. Critics of this method claim that creativity is developed at the expense of the team.

I believe that until the kid doesn't have a confidence on his/her skills to beat an opponent on 1 V 1 that doesn't make sense to make a pass.

"A team needs to be a solid unit, but like most Brazilian players, my instinct are to express myself, to get forward adn play with panache. That is my blood. For me, technique and intelligence are more vital than physical strength"
Robinho