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To 4 year olds.
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This should be interesting.
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Johnny K
Campo
alfiehammer
manurewa hammer
Tony P
Cochese
10 posters
I'm now a football manager
Cochese- Boot Cleaner
- Posts : 366
Join date : 2012-04-17
Age : 45
Location : Kennesaw, GA, USA
Tony P- 1st Team Bench
- Posts : 3651
Join date : 2011-02-19
Age : 63
Location : Sidcup, Kent
Good luck with that one !
manurewa hammer- Reserves
- Posts : 1714
Join date : 2011-04-01
Age : 74
Location : Auckland New Zealand
Best of luck with kids mate. Make sure they have fun first before anything else.
alfiehammer- Reserves
- Posts : 1927
Join date : 2012-08-15
Age : 41
Location : East Sussex
Sounds fun but ultimately rewarding stuff.
Make sure they call it football not soccer.
Make sure they call it football not soccer.
Campo- 1st team
- Posts : 5378
Join date : 2011-03-08
Location : Novichok City
Good luck mate
Johnny K- Academy
- Posts : 944
Join date : 2011-03-10
If you haven't got them playing an offside game within a month, I'd be very disappointed.
Seriously though when I trained my son's team when they were 7 the most difficult thing was getting them to concentrate & not run off & do other things. One kid used to disappear & you'd find him climbing something, somewhere! Plus at that age you get all the glory seekers, whose parents know nothing about the game (& I mean absolutely nothing in some cases over here!) & think their kids are the next Ronaldo.
Short sessions & variety, I'd recommend.
Much prefer to train with older lads myself. I helped out with my son's team the other week as all the proper coaches were unavailable. Expected the worse but they were great, as they are all serious about their game now. No time wasters!
Good luck mate!
Seriously though when I trained my son's team when they were 7 the most difficult thing was getting them to concentrate & not run off & do other things. One kid used to disappear & you'd find him climbing something, somewhere! Plus at that age you get all the glory seekers, whose parents know nothing about the game (& I mean absolutely nothing in some cases over here!) & think their kids are the next Ronaldo.
Short sessions & variety, I'd recommend.
Much prefer to train with older lads myself. I helped out with my son's team the other week as all the proper coaches were unavailable. Expected the worse but they were great, as they are all serious about their game now. No time wasters!
Good luck mate!
Admin- 1st team
- Posts : 5327
Join date : 2011-02-18
Age : 34
Location : Scandyland
Good luck mate
Jiggs- 1st team
- Posts : 5703
Join date : 2011-02-18
Age : 66
Location : Romford or Upton Park
Good luck. Make sure that they only have little goals and little pitches, cos they've only got little legs.
Kray JR- Reserves
- Posts : 1875
Join date : 2011-02-19
Age : 48
Location : Rayleigh, Essex
Jiggs wrote:Good luck. Make sure that they only have little goals and little pitches, cos they've only got little legs.
Not too far from the truth Jiggs.
They start playing matches at under 7 5v5 on a slightly smaller pitch than they use for 7v7
but with the same size goals !!!
mottinghammer- 1st Team Bench
- Posts : 2673
Join date : 2011-02-22
Age : 68
Location : Narf Naarfolk 140 miles from UP
hang on a bit cochese, where you are living 'football' is played by hulking great 6'5" tattooed 22 stone monsters at 4 years of age!!!! 
oh you mean 'soccer', that's played by 4 year olds over here, Rooney, Terry, cashley Cole
oh you mean 'soccer', that's played by 4 year olds over here, Rooney, Terry, cashley Cole