Yakblade
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No this isn't a post about robots playing football (as interesting as that could be!!). Cesc Fabregas said that football is becoming too robotic ie coaches telling players exactly what to do on a pitch and basically putting a leash on flair players. This does strlike a chord with with me.
I coach an U13 girls football team and the emphasis is simply on the girls enjoying the football. We give them the basics and put them in a formation and then just let them go out and play. But I also help out with a boys U17 team and I have disagreed with the manager about one thing in particular. He tries to give them a set way to play for every scenario. If a player goes against his plan by beating an extra man for example, he'll stop training and make them do it again. For me this is wrong. It takes away a footballers natural instinct for the game. And this is kind of what I see with United.
Too often the players look lost if plan A fails. The ball gets played back to the keeper and they either try the same tactic again with the same result or the ball is lumped upfield and lost. Any flair seems to have been coached out of them. If a player does show some individual skill more often than not there's no one reacting to it because it isn't part of the plan. CWAK gave us some of the best football I have seen in my lifetime but it did feel like they players were overcoached.
It's a worrying trend that has crept into football of late. Hopefully Slav can introduce some flair and excitement back into our play and us back to the promised land.
I coach an U13 girls football team and the emphasis is simply on the girls enjoying the football. We give them the basics and put them in a formation and then just let them go out and play. But I also help out with a boys U17 team and I have disagreed with the manager about one thing in particular. He tries to give them a set way to play for every scenario. If a player goes against his plan by beating an extra man for example, he'll stop training and make them do it again. For me this is wrong. It takes away a footballers natural instinct for the game. And this is kind of what I see with United.
Too often the players look lost if plan A fails. The ball gets played back to the keeper and they either try the same tactic again with the same result or the ball is lumped upfield and lost. Any flair seems to have been coached out of them. If a player does show some individual skill more often than not there's no one reacting to it because it isn't part of the plan. CWAK gave us some of the best football I have seen in my lifetime but it did feel like they players were overcoached.
It's a worrying trend that has crept into football of late. Hopefully Slav can introduce some flair and excitement back into our play and us back to the promised land.