Next Season - What is expected?

We can easily split expectationsfor next season into two sections: Mental and Physical

Physical
Personal skills - touch, accuracy of passing, tricks and skills

10,000 hours to become a potential professional. Practice, juggle, dribble at every opportunity.

Mechanical - speed, stamina, balance and strength

Do not go to the gym and bulk up. Strength comes from the core and from the ability to time your movements that suit you best.
Speed omes from your alertness (reaction time) and your foot speed combined with an efficient running style. Watch the sprinters in this video and you will see that each is taylored to their different bodies, but they all share some common attributes (power through the hips, use of arms, knees high)


Stamina will come from your commitment to run 4-6km four times a week. I expect each of you to be able to run 10-12 laps of a field in 15 minutes. If you can, if we can, we will beat teams on stamina.

Balance will come from you being able to perform on with both feet and adjust on the fly. Trust your eyes and learn to find your centre of balance quickly.

Strength comes from the most basic exercise. Push ups, sit ups, squats and step ups. Sprinting in sand, running up hills.

Mental

You probably haven't given this much thought, but there are a few basic things which we will make our mantra.

1. Focus on you want to happen. Forget the past and don't think about the future. It's about the now.

2. Control the controllable. We can't do anything about the weather, the referee, the pitch, but we can control what we do. we control how we train, how hard we train and how we communicate. That's all we will focus on.

3. No negative comments. No arguing and no dropping your head. It's the inner drive which will help you stand apart.

I expect the highest standard at every training session.

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