Attractive and effective football requires highly talented players to be able to play it.As players of this type are rare today from amongst our ‘home-grown’ players, mediocrity of performance from both individuals and subsequentlytheir teams is too easily accepted by our Press and public alike. Our reliance on simple skills aligned to simple tactics to […]
Be honest, when coaching, when was the last time you taught and practiced tackling for the ball in a training session? The art of winning the ball cleanly in a ‘solid’ tackle without a player ending up on his backside is mainly a vision of the past. From frontal, sides or behind, tackling for the […]
What does Dribbling represent to you? Is it the use of nimble footwork — is it the ‘bogus’ use of feints with various parts of the body – or is it running with the ball followed by changes of direction…….. or is it something else? All of the aforementioned can be described as dribbling but […]