MODULE 2.03 THE TRAINING SESSION PART 2 VIDEO

Question 1

How should the coach carry out differentiated

integration in a planning program?

Answer 1

• Soccer is a team sport. We have to continually fight against individual egos.

Egos destroy a team.

• The coaches priority is to foster a high level of dependence between

all of the teammates, because it’s the only way that a potentially talented

player can continue to become optimized with the help of others.

• On the other hand, those players who are less talented will observe

what the talented player does, thus learning new elements and new situations.

Therefore, the relationship between the individual and team is an

in disputable aspect of all training sessions.

Question 2

PART 1

How should he/ she specifically and personally approach each player,

while keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is the performance of the team?

Answer 2

The coach’s interventions with a particular player should be carried out

during practice, avoiding an individual rebuke while the group is present.

Question 3

PART 2

How should he/ she specifically and personally approach each player,

while keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is the performance of the team?

Answer 3

• The interventions must be condensed, with specific and relevant

information that supports the player so that he/she

immediately returns to his/her group practice

• What the coach can do within a team practice is take the player

aside for a moment and give him/her some advice, or require him/her

to identify the purpose of performing a certain action. By extracting the player

during team play, he/she is able to recognize his/her identity and can

differentiate his/her playing style from that of his/her teammates but

continue practicing immediately after.

• The whole team doesn’t have to stop so that the coach can pull a player

aside for a moment. No. During practice, do we suddenly stop? No. We

keep playing and the coach takes the player aside for a moment. We’ll talk

to him/her for a few seconds about an important matter, and then

integrate him/her back into the group.

• All practice done in a team must always be done collectively. The team either

helps one another, or part of the team can play as opponents against

the others so that there is opposition. And that conscious opposition which

identifies those who are playing as opponents, lets their teammates know

what they’re capable of.