Importance of winter practices

Until human growth ceases at physical maturity the body is constantly laying down new muscle and nerve tissue. From the average onset of puberty at approximately 12.5 years boys add about 50% of their mature physical weight.

On second hand, kids are stopping playing sports at age 13! Players who neglect their deceptive dribbling and shooting skill training at any stage during the growth cycle will get rapidly clumsier than when they first cease practicing.

A young dribbler and goal scorer will gain self-confidence. This should surprise no one because players who have the ability to make the plays that can win the game for their team will automatically become highly motivated team members and eventually leaders.

Kids need to emphasize that during winter, they will benefit because all the live situations that are used to develop great dribbling. Keep them motivated.

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Mindset

Yesterday was a strange game.

The history of soccer is littered with examples of teen-age prodigies who failed to fulfill their potential, while others who once shared the same hype went on to become global superstars.

Players with a fixed mindset rely almost exclusively on their natural talent to deal with setbacks in their careers. They believe that talent on its own will help them through setbacks. We can say that yesterday was an example of that. Their mindset was in trick or treat… Rush team was fighting without talents. Rush team was winning their duals on 1v1. Players born with talent have a little experience facing obstacles or challenges. As a result, they often view these roadblocks as threats. When things get tough, they quit very easily and avoid hard work.

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First Season

After our first season in Premier league, Les Bleus are Champion for their League. For our first tournament, we went to Topeka and finished second.

It was an incredible season!

Thank you all.

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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

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Weekly Les Bleus News

Philosophy and Commitment
As independent coach, I am trying to establish my own culture free from local club politics. Families involved in youth soccer are being asked to pay a lot of money, travel a lot and we don’t even sure that the coach will develop the player.

MOTIVATION

As today, our kids are young and need to get the proper techniques in soccer. We are still developing a player. Players must love the game and want to play for themselves not their parents or siblings. Players and parents should appreciate that to fulfill individual and team potential it will require a willingness to learn, a commitment to practice, and a desire to work harder than our opponents. Players should acquire the right technique before the age of 12-14 years old. After it is too late to correct it. It is almost like golf!

MEASURING PROGRESS
Short term success will not be measured by winning games, or scoring goals. Individual skills, proper technique used at the right time, effort and combativity will create a complete athlete. The team will learn a style of passing, movement and team possession play that will require a great deal of thought and patience and that will create complete all round players.

Finally
Have fun practicing and playing together
Help each player reach their full potential
Develop individuals who respect each other, rules, officials and opponents
Create well balance players who understand the game
Develop a positive and supportive parental group who have fun together

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