Showing posts with label Styles of Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Styles of Play. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Farpost Report On Western Creek v Woden Valley Premier League Games, World Cup Predictions and the 1-4-3-3 in the Premier League

The Farpost is brodcast every Sunday afternoon on 2xxfm on the Australian Community Radio Network. Terrific show and all about Football! Doesn't get any better!

The Nearpost Local made a report from Woden Enclosed at the conclusion of the Western Creek v Woden Valley Premier League games on Sunday. We get to cover some interesting topics in Football that affect our local football development. Worth a listen, if I do say so myself.

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Dutch National Coach Has A Lot to Say That Has Meaning For Our Football

This is an excellent interview. Everything Bert VAn Marwijk has to say is directly transferrable to our thoughts and practice of the game in the ACT Region. Why not learn from a Master Coach? Perhaps he is a good candidate for the Socceroos job?


Interview With Dutch National Coach - BERT VAN MARWIJK


BY ANDY ROXBURGH,
UEFA TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Sourced from UEFA at http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Publications/uefa/UEFAMedia/94/76/74/947674_DOWNLOAD.pdf
 
AS A PLAYER, BERT VAN MARWIJK PLAYED ON THE LEFT WING, THEN MOVED TO MIDFIELD, BEFORE ENDING HIS CAREER AS A DEFENDER. HE PLAYED FOR GO AHEAD EAGLES, AZ ALKMAAR AND MVV MAASTRICHT AMONG OTHERS, AND WAS CAPPED FOR THE NATIONAL TEAM. UNFORTUNATELY, INJURY DEPRIVED HIM OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY IN THE FIFA WORLD CUP IN ARGENTINA IN 1978. HIS COACHING CAREER WAS LAUNCHED IN THE YOUTH PROGRAMME OF MVV MAASTRICHT AND, AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF NURTURING YOUNG PLAYERS, HE MOVED TO THE PROFESSIONAL RANKS. HIS FIRST TASTE OF A CUP FINAL CAME IN THE NETHERLANDS WITH FORTUNA SITTARD FC, BUT IT WAS IN 2002 THAT HE STRUCK GOLD WHEN HE WON THE UEFA CUP WITH FEYENOORD. FOLLOWING A TWO-YEAR STINT AT BV BORUSSIA DORTMUND IN GERMANY, HE RETURNED TO FEYENOORD AND WON THE KNVB CUP IN 2008. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THAT SUCCESS, HE REPLACED MARCO VAN BASTEN AS THE HEAD COACH OF THE DUTCH NATIONAL TEAM FOLLOWING EURO 2008 IN AUSTRIA/SWITZERLAND. IN HIS NEW ROLE, HE TOOK THE NETHERLANDS TO THE FINALS OF THE 2010 WORLD CUP BY WINNING THEIR QUALIFYING GROUP IN IMPRESSIVE STYLE. HE WAS A CREATIVE PLAYER WHOHAS DEVELOPED INTO A POSITIVE, IMAGINATIVE COACH AT THE TOP LEVEL, HE IS BERT VAN MARWIJK

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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".