Capital Football High Performance Program Review - Report With the Board

CEO Capital Football, Heather Reid, confirmed yesterday (Monday 6 December 2010) to the NPL that Ron Smith had submitted his review report.

The CEO advised the NPL that the review report would be presented to the Board meeting that evening and there would follow a period of consideration and discussion of the report at Board level. Its not clear yet when the report (in full) will be made available to the ACT Football community.

In addition, the CEO made the point that the Board's decisions with regard to the recommendations contained in the report and any other adjustments to player development programs (as distinct from ACT Representative Squads / Teams), are likely to coincide with the appointment of the new Capital Football Technical Director.

On the subject of the Techncial Director's position, the CEO indicated that they had recieved a number of very good applications for the position and that the selection process, which is a collaborative effort between the FFA (Han Berger) and Capital Football (CEO), now depended on the avialability of the FFA Techncial Director. The hope is that an offer will be made and the person in place before the commencement of the next phase of what we presently call the HPP.

Oh yes, expect the name of the program to change perhaps to simply "Development Program".

This matter is discussed with Heather Reid on Part 2 of our recent interview with the CEO Capital Football.

FFA National Curriculum Road Show heads for Canberra

This a must attend!
It's the first time that the FFA Technical Director has been to the ACt to hold a public forum on the National Curriculum, since the launching of the curriculum in the ACT at the AIS.


FFA National Curriculum Road Show heads for Canberra

All coaches in the ACT are invited to attend the FFA National Curriculum Road Show to be held next Wednesday the 28th of April at Deakin Stadium.

 

FFA National Technical Director Han Berger and National Assistant Technical Director Alistair Edwards will present theoretical and practical sessions on the National Curriculum and the 1-4-3-3 playing structure.

 

The Road Show is free and all coaches are welcome to attend. No pre-registration is neccesary.

 

Date

Wednesday 28th April

Time

•  Theoretical Presentation 6pm-7pm
• Practical Presentation 7:30pm-9pm

Location

 

Deakin Stadium, Grose Street Deakin

 

National Junior Championships - Under 13 Girls and Boys - Who is doing the Assessment?

The following press release has been issued by the FFA. Han Berger makes it perfectly clear what he is looking for and the composition of the FFA Technical Committee for the 2010 Westfield FFA National Junior Championships for Girls and Boys is listed.  This is a must see tournament - make time to get see a game.

"FFA Technical Director Han Berger believes that the championships are an important part of the Talented Player Pathway within the National Football Curriculum.
“If we want to take our football in Australia to the next level, our youth development programs should focus more on development instead of results,” Berger said on the eve of the tournament.
“We are now looking for the skilful instead of the powerful, with mistakes being learning moments instead of being punished.
“We need to encourage individual play, initiative and risk taking."

Capital Football Technical Director Talks About The NJC To Be Held In The ACT In April 2010

The Capital Football Technical Director, Ian Shaw provides some excellent information, observations and advice to all concerning the National Junior Championships (NJC) for the Under 13 Girls and Under 13 Boys, to be conducted in Canberra in April 2010. All games will be conducted at the O'Connor Fields. The U13 Girls will play the first three days and then the U13 Boys will play.

This is where you rediscover why you love Football! Its also a chance to get yourself informed of the new directions being implemented around the nation by the FFA, through the new National Curriculum.

Both the ACT teams have been well prepared for the forthcoming Championships.

This Football tournament is a flagship event in the player development cycle for the FFA and State / Territory organisations. There are several points to note:

1. This is all about "development", so if your motivation to attend is based on requiring your team to "win", this is not the event for you - you need to be somewhere else and preferrably a long way away!
2. The teams will play the 1-4-3-3 system, with the midfield three players in the form of a triangle with the apex pointing forward (ie two back one forward) - called "point forward". Get familiar with this system so that you can do some analysis yourself. See posts on this blog for details.
3. There will only be two substitutes allowed each game to ensure tat they assessors get a good look at all players. Each team will play two games a day to enable coaches to play all their players. Its a good format.
4. The FFA Techncial Study Group will make continuous assessments of each team as they play. They will assess players. The FFA Media Relations advise NPL that information to the public on the team based technical assessments, will continue to be limited at this time to the periodic advice during the NJC, on the first three teams' bonus points  standing. It would be good to see more detail available to the football community (particularly community and rep coaches that attend), so that they can also become educated / guided by this essential and innovative emphasis on "development". But its a good first start overall and perhaps more will come.
5. The Coach of each team is also assessed each game. There is a lot of pressure on Coaches in this tournament. Only spectators have the luxury of avoiding scrutiny - worth remembering!
6. Points will be awarded for technical performance, in addition to the ordinary win or draw points from each game. As the ACATAS team discovered in the NTC Challenge, you can come out in front on win/draw points, but loose because you are not judged to be the more technically proficient team.
7. The assessment of technical performance is based on the quality of execution of the FFA's national curriculum. Use this as your start point - to quote (page 16 of the FFA National Curriculum, National Cuuriculum Framework ):

The total STRUCTURE OF FOOTBALL is always the starting point.

The Main Moments of the game are:

1. Ball possession (BP): Building up, attacking and scoring (team tasks).

2. Transition: BP to BPO (team tasks).

3. Ball possession opponent (BPO): Disturbing and defending (team tasks).

4. Transition: BPO to BP (team tasks).

A game of football is a constant repetition of these 4 main moments, each with its characteristic team tasks.

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So now we have a "System of Play" - So what "Style of Play" will we adopt??

The FFA Technical Director, Han Berger, talks about two things when he is speaking about the new National Football Curriculum:

1. The "System of Play" he wants adopted in all "developmental" contexts  - the 1-4-3-3
2. The "Style of Play" he wants employed when using the "System of Play" - a possession based game and playing out from the back.

The two together are the way ahead. You can have a 1-4-3-3 system of play and not be a possession based team. We want to be a possession based team. Peaches and Cream!

Let's have a closer look at this one - it's worth the effort. Courtesy of the publication "Soccer Systems and Strategies, Jens Bangsbo and Birfeg Peitersen, ISBN-10:0-7360-0300-2" and "The SBS World Game video of Han Berger at the FFA Coahing Conference March 2010".