1. Continue to address to scoring problem.
Tuesday 30th October 2007
Having gained progress in the crossing department, I felt it was now appropriate to focus on shooting. The shooting drills would be key in solving the scoring problem, but more importantly, I would then be able to combine the learnt crossing drills from the previous week. Combination of both drills could then be used to end the worrying drought.
Having said that, I feel I must explained why the crossing drills were practiced before shooting. I believe that by creating more goal chances it is obvious that there are going to be more opportunities to score. This made my mind up. If I had decided to practice shooting last week I believe that there would have been fewer opportunities created to solve the scoring problem.
The session began with the routine warm-up. While the lads were stretching I set up all the required drills. Once completed I called the squad over. During the discussion I explained what drills were going to be undertaken. The players moaned about the following drills, they were particularly upset about by being made to shoot into a goal with no goalkeeper. This moaning caused me to change my attitude towards the squad. I decided to use a more autocratic approach. An aggressive but dependent method which can be successful (Malim,1998).
Using full-sized goals I began laying the ball off to the players, the problem was obvious. Every member of the squad were trying to blast the ball as hard as they could. To solve this problem I only allowed placed shots to be used. The outcomes were improving. Once I was happy with the outcome I decided to take the drill further. I started involving situations where the scoring outcome was harder. Firstly, I put a goalkeeper in goal, this was then followed by the introduction of defenders (Expertfootball.com). The players were now being forced to think. To make it competitive I challenged the squad to score twenty times in 3 minutes. If they succeeded I promised a game. Myers,1998, suggests that ‘creating incentives can help in motivating to achieve excellence.’ They won the challenge. The session ended with a game.
Myers, D.G.(1998)Psychology. USA. Worth Publishers, Inc.
Malim, T. (1998)Introduction to Psychology. Spain. Macmillan Press Ltd.
Anon (2007) Expert football [online] [accessed 1st November 2007, 11.24 hrs]
2 comments:
You are making a good effort to academically justify your coaching practice. However, more references from journals as opposed to books and websites would improve the quality of your work.
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