Today was the 2nd day of the August football course, with a successful day had. The focus today was defending, specifically looking at preventing goal scoring opportunities. Along with looking at this within a team context, we had a A1’s goalkeeper coach in attendance, to work with all the children.

The structure of the day started with large training sessions in groups, with smaller groups visiting our GK station at set intervals, to gain an understanding on handling/blocking. This is imperative for those that want to play in this position, to prevent goals from being scored.

The standard of playing has been of a very high quality and we are delighted with the application that the children have shown. There has clearly been learning taking place as our question and answer sessions have been hugely successful.

Tomorrow our focus will be on building up the attack, using the Cruyff methodology using their 3 pillars of positioning, possession and pressing.