Soccer Mentorship
What do you know about the game? In the 11-a-side game, you spend more time without the ball then with it. What are you doing during that time? Where to run, when to run, occupation of space, moving to create space, reading, anticipating, walking, running… When you have the ball, each second is crucial to […]
TRAINING vs GAMES
What to focus on? Where do you feel less pressure and work on things such as weak foot? Specific moves? More repetitions? Different game situations? Training. When you are in competitive environments, you want to perform, there is more pressure and you don’t want to make a mistake. Normally, you will prioritize your dominant foot, […]
Coaching during games
What is the representation of a game? The weekend game is the most chaotic event inside a kid’s mind. Motivation, anxiety, excitement, fear, happiness, competition, opposition, unknown field and opposing teams, etc.. Imagine, as a beginner of a sport, you are dealing with all this new information and trying to process, analyze and make decisions […]
Intentions?
At Twelve Academy, we believe on the early encouragement of developing critical intentional thoughts on the kids since young age and “force” them to think. What does that mean? Every time during the game, when something happens, that “not supposed to happen” or “something wrong” within the current context at the time. Instead of blaming, […]
FUTSAL AS A DEVELOPMENT TOOL
What is Futsal? After moved to the United States, I was surprised (and still) how many people haven’t heard about futsal, and still most of people don’t know, depending on the area. In case you don’t know, in few words: 5v5 game (4 outfield players and 1 goalkeeper) played on a court (indoors or outdoors) […]
OFF FIELD LEARNING
When learning happens? Let’s start thinking on how much can be (should be) done off the field to improve buy-in and learning of anything. Example: if you practice two times a week (60 minutes session each), we are talking about 2 hour practice in the week and that is the only time you got to […]