Coaching Forum?
What do you know about your role and position in the team?
Was your team playing a Wellington College team at Mcalister last weekend?
4-0 haha was my first ever game coaching.
I didn't know Greenie was bobsledding kids at McAlister?
Out for the season unsurprisingly How's having wyners in your team?
Out for the season unsurprisingly How's having wyners in your team?
Gutted Shabba.
There are enough names being thrown around on here currently.
Fair enough, will do.
THE "Orange-ification" of Australian soccer continued yesterday when Football Federation Australia mandated that its junior development teams will play the 4-3-3 tactical system refined by the great Dutch sides of the 1970s' "Total Football" era and the conquering Ajax Amsterdam team of the mid 1990s.
FFA yesterday unveiled its "national football curriculum" which, says chief executive Ben Buckley, is aimed at "improving the skill level, quality and performance of Australia's top players and teams".
The most eye-catching feature of the reform � one which will be regarded as a legacy of the significant number of Dutch coaches now in key roles in Australian soccer development � is the insistence that all FFA-supported development teams (the Joeys, the Young Matildas, national junior sides) play in the one tactical system, with a flat back four, three midfielders and three attackers, two of them wingers.
Most Dutch clubs play with a nominal 4-3-3, although as in all sports, teams and players have to be reactive and flexible and able to adapt to varying circumstances.
The tactical approach has been seeded through the Dutch game for generations. As national team coach Pim Verbeek, assistant Henk Duut, former FFA technical director Rob Baan and his successor Han Berger, as well as national under-17 and under-20 coach Jan Versleijen all come from the Netherlands, this style will be familiar.
In contrast most English Premiership sides such as Manchester United play a more traditional 4-4-2, with a back four, two wide midfielders, two central midfielders and two up front.
Work on the blueprint for an Australian "national style" was begun by Baan, a former technical director at top Dutch club Feyenoord and briefly a caretaker coach of the Dutch national team. It was completed by Berger, who took over in January when Baan quit.
"The new national curriculum recognises two streams of development. The first is for talented players who aim to play the highest level possible, and the second is for community players who just want to play the game and enjoy the sport," Berger said yesterday.
As part of the blueprint, each state or territory will be required to appoint a technical director, funded under FFA's new Member Federation Charter, with the state technical director reporting to the national technical director.
Other measures include:
?Coach education programs will be reviewed to reflect the new curriculum.
?Specific levels of coaching qualification will be required for all higher level coaching positions (national team, A-League, W-League, National Youth League, and for institute and state technical director positions).
?By 2010 each state/territory will need to appoint at least one "skill acquisition trainer" whose role will be to ensure that skill development programs for talented players are universally implemented.
?Clubs, schools and academies will be accredited and rated.