Thread by @coach_kevin_m

When coaching stoppages, do you only focus on the player on the ball?

For example, the player is struggling to win their 1v1. You stop, coach them, and then restart play?

What about looking at the bigger picture?

The player on the ball, the players around the ball, and the players away from the ball.

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To break this example down further:

Your wide player struggles to beat their defender, so you coach them on how to do that.

They then cross, and if your furthest away wide player is standing still instead of making a back post run, do you stop the play again to coach their movement?

And if the type of cross is wrong, do you stop again to coach the cross?

It's a flippant example, but everything is connected in football.

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If you were to consider coaching on the ball, around the ball, and away from the ball, then it would be one stoppage.

One stoppage, with three quick coaching points, with maximum impact.

and this would be throughout all phases of the game. In the image below, around the ball we have stability to counter-press if we lose the ball.

A really important consideration in this phase of the attack.

Players who understand how their actions and their inter-actions impact the team will see the game differently.

Every stoppage is a choice between fixing a problem and building understanding.

I've found that if you choose understanding, the problems will fix themselves.

You connect actions to outcomes.

If you choose to constantly stop and fix problems, players may lose contact time with the ball and tune out of sessions, learning very little.

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