PHILOSOPHY
LAYER DEVELOPMENT AND TEAM TRAINING
The DCYFC training philosophy is based on a progression of activities that emulate soccer movements. It uses a progressive system of rondos, small-side possession play and training matches.
This system integrates all the technical skill development, physical conditioning, tactical understanding and mental awareness in a wholistic fashion. It also combines technical ball skill development including dribbling, control and receiving with passing, moving, positioning, shooting and decision-making.
It's logical, progressive and interactive. Because the training exercises are built on a progression, it allows our coaches to apply these exercises to mimic the game.
Maximum touches on the ball and small spaces provide the foundation to develop technical skills while creating the game understanding necessary to become a complete and elite player.
Small spaces allow you to play the game inside the bigger game. Watch a professional match. It's about the game inside the game. It's about players and their movement on a chess board. It's creating the right shapes to maintain possession, properly defend and how and when to attack. It also focuses on transition -- when a team loses the ball, you regain control, look up and build a quick counterattack by an immediate forward one-touch pass to a target player. This is precisely what the DCYFC system seeks to accomplish.
Ask AND any world class soccer player will tell you that small fields allowed them to develop their technical skills, first touch and game understanding. It is still incredible to us that 13 and even 14 year olds are playing competitive league matches on 100 x 50 yard fields. It is a disaster for teaching how the game should and needs to be played.
YOU LEARN FROM PLAYING THE GAME & SPORTS SCIENCE
Core technical skills are developed through various training exercises and then applied during a scrimmage or a match. DCYFC will then integrate these skills by teaching and demonstrating how geometric shapes on the field are used to maintain possession (by using the proper ball receiving techniques), keep team shape and create total "Futbol".
DCYFC has a special relationship with the Brazilian style. In Brazil, kids are weaned on "futsal," a lightly structured and miniaturized form of soccer. Futsal is played on tiny patches of concrete or on indoor courts and typically by teams of five players. While we do this system during winter indoor (because covid still lingers we are cautious and conduct winter outdoors), we also try to use this during outdoor practices to force players to think quickly and develop a first touch.
Players touch the ball up to five times as frequently as they do in traditional soccer, and the tighter playing area forces children to develop foot and decision-making skills under pressure. Free play forces a player to think, make decisions and coaches will be there to develop player talents and maximize their potential.
The sports science data support a "sampling period" through at least age 12. Mike Joyner, a Mayo Clinic physician and human performance expert, would add vernal physical literacy-building to the the sports menu. Perhaps using padded gymnastics gyms for parkour, which is essentially running, climbing or vaulting on any obstacle one can find. In addition to athletic diversity, kids' sports should be kid-size. A futsalization of youth sports generally would serve engagement, skill development and health.
The DCYFC training philosophy is based on a progression of activities that emulate soccer movements. It uses a progressive system of rondos, small-side possession play and training matches.
This system integrates all the technical skill development, physical conditioning, tactical understanding and mental awareness in a wholistic fashion. It also combines technical ball skill development including dribbling, control and receiving with passing, moving, positioning, shooting and decision-making.
It's logical, progressive and interactive. Because the training exercises are built on a progression, it allows our coaches to apply these exercises to mimic the game.
Maximum touches on the ball and small spaces provide the foundation to develop technical skills while creating the game understanding necessary to become a complete and elite player.
Small spaces allow you to play the game inside the bigger game. Watch a professional match. It's about the game inside the game. It's about players and their movement on a chess board. It's creating the right shapes to maintain possession, properly defend and how and when to attack. It also focuses on transition -- when a team loses the ball, you regain control, look up and build a quick counterattack by an immediate forward one-touch pass to a target player. This is precisely what the DCYFC system seeks to accomplish.
Ask AND any world class soccer player will tell you that small fields allowed them to develop their technical skills, first touch and game understanding. It is still incredible to us that 13 and even 14 year olds are playing competitive league matches on 100 x 50 yard fields. It is a disaster for teaching how the game should and needs to be played.
YOU LEARN FROM PLAYING THE GAME & SPORTS SCIENCE
Core technical skills are developed through various training exercises and then applied during a scrimmage or a match. DCYFC will then integrate these skills by teaching and demonstrating how geometric shapes on the field are used to maintain possession (by using the proper ball receiving techniques), keep team shape and create total "Futbol".
DCYFC has a special relationship with the Brazilian style. In Brazil, kids are weaned on "futsal," a lightly structured and miniaturized form of soccer. Futsal is played on tiny patches of concrete or on indoor courts and typically by teams of five players. While we do this system during winter indoor (because covid still lingers we are cautious and conduct winter outdoors), we also try to use this during outdoor practices to force players to think quickly and develop a first touch.
Players touch the ball up to five times as frequently as they do in traditional soccer, and the tighter playing area forces children to develop foot and decision-making skills under pressure. Free play forces a player to think, make decisions and coaches will be there to develop player talents and maximize their potential.
The sports science data support a "sampling period" through at least age 12. Mike Joyner, a Mayo Clinic physician and human performance expert, would add vernal physical literacy-building to the the sports menu. Perhaps using padded gymnastics gyms for parkour, which is essentially running, climbing or vaulting on any obstacle one can find. In addition to athletic diversity, kids' sports should be kid-size. A futsalization of youth sports generally would serve engagement, skill development and health.