Today’s blog hopefully helps you understand the need for carefully designed football practices that allow players to experience on-field game situations and from that, develop and enhance functional game skills ie 1v1, first touch, striking the ball and running with the ball.
“Football development experts talk about the fact that football, (and any team sport for that matter), is a game where players experience many similar situations but none that are identical. This should frame the need to understand how these situations/contexts vary, subtly or significantly, thus informing practice design.”
ttp://www.sportsrelations.com.au/blog/blog/2015/03/24/how-do-you-learn-the-first-touch-skills-of-iniesta-context-practice-design
Enjoy reading.
Scott Jackson says
The first touch makes or breaks a footballer.
So many professionals don’t have one, and it stops them becoming great players.
That’s where this daily training schedule can help in a big way.
Dennis Berhkamp, who had THE best first touch ever, said while his mates were practising juggling the football, he was practising his first touch.