Clubs and national teams
Precision Soccer Academy offers clubs and national teams a unique developmental solution by using our Synergy coaching methods.
These methods make the mind equivalent to the skills so that the players learn to select the correct skill in the correct situation.
It is based on setting practical coaching sessions by involving the mind in all aspects of the game, in any part of the field. One example would be our coaching about when to shoot and when not to shoot.
The mind plays a vital role making the kind of decisions that require a quick reaction. Correct and quick decisions are only attainable when the mind is involved in the training sessions.
Through intensive research concentrating on World Cups between 1990 and 2010, we discovered the necessity of developing this new method of coaching to engage the mind in practical training sessions instead of leaving it out as is the case with traditional coaching methods. We have found that training sessions are very entertaining using these methods, which increases absorption by the players.
These methods have been developed through countless clinical trials throughout the years. For example, to find a cure for a disease, you need to have clinical trials to discover the medicine. You cannot cure the disease without the medicine. It’s the same case with football; you can pinpoint the mistakes of players, but if you don’t engage in practical coaching sessions as the medicine, you cannot eliminate the weaknesses in the player.
Practical coaching sessions are the only solution to develop players. It is necessary to have an inventive mind to create purposeful, practical coaching sessions which develop players as individuals and as a team. After doing this it will be noticed that the players start making progress with fewer and fewer mistakes.
We can often see managers demanding players do this and that, all in a theoretical way, because they have never coached the players in a practical coaching session for what they are demanding. This creates players who are mentally burned out with theoretical training, ones who would never experience this in transformational practical training sessions.
The signs of theoretical coaches and managers are evidenced by their body language. They are offended, they lose emotional connection with the players, and the result of that is a negative relationship between a player and coach. This proves that they have no coaching content and have never sown their demands in the players through practical coaching sessions, and so they will not reap those demands.
The following are strategies for national teams and professional clubs.
Defending third
Defending third is a vital area of the field, which is why defending both as an individual and as a team has to play an important part in a training session. The player’s ability to defend this area with correct technique will avoid set plays, red cards and penalties. The reason goals are scored is poor individual defending technique. Here are the areas and skills that we develop:
Being first to the ball in air and ground- Defending against blind-side attack
- Defending against crosses, near-post, mid-goal and far post
- Defending against corner kicks
- Defending against long throws
- Defending against set plays
- When to mark man, when to mark space
- Recovery runs and recovery lanes
- When to recover, what to recover, where to recover, why to recover
- Speed of move and mind in the recovery runs
- Defending as individual technique, to avoid yellow and red cards
- Forcing the opposition to play the ball square or backward
- Forcing the opposition to play predictable
- Forcing the opposition to play either outside or inside the field
- Direct the opposition’s direction
Analysis concentrating on the defending third includes development strategy as it applies to the individual as well as to the team.
Mid third
The mid third is a link between the attacking and defending third. It plays a crucial role in the game. Mental and physical fitness plays an important role in this part of the field, and without these attributes there will be no connection between the attacking and defending third. In this area we focus on the following skills:
- Vision
- Distribution
- Support defence
- Supporting attack
- Fast reaction in performing recovery runs, when to mark space, when to mark man
- Fast reaction to support attacking third with overlap, diagonal, and crossover runs with and without the ball
Analysis concentrating on the mid third includes development strategy as it applies to the individual as well as to the team.
Attacking third
Attacking third is an equally important area of the field, and it is the most exciting area for managers, coaches, and spectators. To develop this part of the field, it is necessary to use the new revolutionary coaching method of combining the mind and the skills so that productivity is maximised. We focus on the following skills:
- Attacking near-post by being first to the ball, ground and air balls
- Attacking far post, ground and air balls
- Attacking from corner kicks
- Attacking from throw-ins
- Attacking from set plays
- Mobility in attack
- Penetration attack
- Penetration in attack by shooting
- by passing
- by dribbling
- by running into the open space
- by using diagonal runs
- by using overlap runs in the correct time and situation
- by using crossover runs with and without the ball
- by stretching side-to-side and end-to-end
- by creating space by one-touch football and good ball control
Analysis concentrating on the attacking third includes development strategy as it applies to the individual as well as to the team.
Our methods include the following:
A) Special tests to determine the gap between the mental and physical skills of the individual, and also as they apply to the team. Numerous practical Synergy coaching sessions are used to measure the gap and to set the correct training sessions to develop the mind to be on a par with the required physical skills.
B) A shooting program consisting of 10 stages to develop shooting ability, which will result in a high percentage of goals scored from the opportunities created outside and inside the box with the mind engaged.
C) A footwork and dribbling program to develop players dribbling ability. The dribbling program contains 85 types of dribbling and methods of building footwork which enable players to create space and shooting opportunities with the mind engaged.
Other programs include are ball control, passing, defending, attacking, mental combined with physical fitness, and a pressurising program.
