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'The Future Game' - 8 a side at U12/13's |
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on 27 May 2010
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If you can't get the ball out of your own half, the quickest, easiest
taught solution is not to coach the kids to knock it about like
Barcelona and bamboozle the opposition - because that would take years
and a far superior pool of talent than is going to be available to a
typical under 11 coach - it is to get your two biggest kids, stick them
at the back and tell them to lump it forward.
This is how we
have produced generation after generation of clumsy defenders, the type
our opponents want to have the ball because they know possession will
soon be conceded.
Like most Football Association publications, 'The Future Game' is
well-packaged and glossy. It is a substantial document, too, full of
good ideas. For Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of football
development, it is the culmination of six years in the job.
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