 Moving on sorry guys this is a video getting super long, but if you're real and you're and you're sticking with me You're listening to this information. This is going to improve your game so much faster Number five train the way you want to play So This is about realistic training a lot of players they say they want to play well in games But if you look at the way that they train, it's not helping them at all. It's wasting times wasting energy It's not it's not improving you you're getting better at juggling and hitting dead balls But guess what you didn't take a free kick all game and nobody cares if you can juggle to a thousand if you can't receive and pass a ball Train realistically train the way that you want to play So coming back you can improve every single area of your game that you want to I said this in beginning You have to believe that it is possible and number two It's all on you so it's possible to improve every area game and it's all up to you to improve every area Every area of your game. Yes coaches trainers will come along to help you teammates will come along and they'll help you And that's fantastic and use them to your advantage But at the end of the day you need to be your own best trainer You need to be your own best motivator I'm here to help you as well But I can't help you unless you help yourself and you're willing to put in the work yourself genetics are not an excuse You're a certain size size doesn't matter Lino Messi. We're saying he's the best player in the world He's like 5-2. He's a midget. I'm not even allowed to say that anymore. He's a short person He's a short person sizes and matter. It's not how big you are. It's how big you play It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog It's the size of the heart Okay, even if you're a small you play big If you're not the fastest you have other Genetics that told you back like let's talk about speed. Okay, I'm not the fastest player But I need to be the fastest version of myself and I have my other attributes I still need to be quick and I need to be sharp. Maybe I'm not the fastest player on the pitch I can't I can't change that but I can improve. I can work with what I have. Okay, so genetics are not an excuse Stop complaining about the problem and find the solution So stop complaining or first of all if you're complaining at least you're identifying it A lot of people won't even complain about their weaknesses But stop complaining about it start doing something about stop complaining about the problem find the solution So you're not good at long passing. Okay. Well, have you actually practiced that every single day for the last week? Have you pinged a hundred long balls with your right and left foot? No, then you have no right to complain go and put in the work identify your weaknesses You can prove everything weaknesses need to be fixed. Don't hide from weaknesses. Now if I'm a striker I don't need to spend all single day working on defending but I need to be able to nick a ball I need to be able to tackle a guy. He's around me. I need to work on it a little bit yes, I need to focus more on finishing and and shooting from around the box or whatever you want to whatever your skills you want to identify for a striker But I still need to identify some weaknesses and improve them because being a well-rounded player That's good for every single position So I want you to focus on total player development most players. What do they focus on just technique? Just improving technique. Yes, they need to be improved technique But if you look at my pyramid of player development, it's totally backwards from what most players do they go technique Fitness tactics mentality, where do I start? I start with the mind because if this mind is strong then everything else falls into place It's harder. It's easier for me to improve my technique if my if I understand how to think and I understand my thought process So start with mentality stronger mentality analyze your thoughts Every thought that comes into your head like ask yourself is this serving me or is this holding me back? Do I need to change that thought? Is this the voice of doubt or the voice of confidence? Excuse me Analyze your thoughts and talk yourself forward. You got to be able to talk yourself forward through the hard times You had a bad game. How do you talk yourself out of this? You had a bad Tryout you had a few bad touches you missed a chance You got beat in a one-on-one situation Everyone's making fun of you the coach has you on the bench You can sit there and complain about it But if you're a strong mentally you got to talk yourself out of that Become a smarter player every single day. So you got to learn the game You can't just show up and play and think that you know what you're doing You got to learn the game. You got to learn the positions. You got to learn the formations You got to learn decision-making you got to learn off the ball movement The average player has the ball for like two minutes a game Especially at the higher level you have it even less and less because you play faster and faster I might have more touches, but I move the ball even quicker. So it's on my foot for a half second Okay, you think you have the ball for like 10 minutes a match. You don't you have the ball for like two minutes a match What are you doing the other 88 minutes of the game? It's about off the ball movement. So what's your positioning? Where are you going? Where do you need to be? Watch the game watch professional players who play your position learn from them ask the coach for advice Watch tactical videos. You have to become smart. You have to improve your decision-making can't make the same mistakes and Focus on the skill of awareness. So this is when it's not ball watching most simply when I'm watching them If we're playing the game, we're going to practice and I'm just watching the ball I have no idea what's going on around me over here. I don't know where my teammates are I don't know where the guy I'm supposed to be marking is I don't know where the space is I don't know where the danger is. So I need you to practice skill of awareness I know where the ball is, but I'm constantly scanning when the ball is coming to me I'm knowing where the space is before I receive it. So shoulder checking awareness It's constantly scanning the field focus on that skill and that's something you can practice right away You can add that to your game right away Become more athletic. Don't just focus on the technique. It's not just what about you what you do about with your feet You have to be fitter. You have to be faster. You have to be stronger. You have to be more mobile so you can play longer So constantly thinking about physicality improving physicality as well And then we come to technique the fun stuff. It's easy to get on the ball and practice your shooting That's so much fun Yes, so focus on the other stuff first and then technique comes into place and these I don't want you to think I'm neglecting technique at all because you have to be able to execute technique is the ability to do what you see in your mind with your feet So improve your shooting improve every area of your of your technique your shooting your passing your dribbling your control You're tackling tackling is a skill Learn to tackle become a good tackler It makes the game so much more fun when you play both sides of the game defensively and offensively Don't just play one side You need two feet. You need two feet. You're not lean or messy. You don't have the best left foot in the world You need two feet So start from the beginning practicing developing two feet and pay attention to the details You might think it's enough to pass the ball to your teammate who's right there I'm telling you it's not you have to pass it to his right foot over his left foot You have to pass it five inches in front of him rather than five inches behind him Okay, so it's attention to the details. So when I have my first touch, where does the touch go? It doesn't just stop in my feet. It goes Five it goes two yards to the right or it goes behind me. Okay. It's so precise when I make that shot I need to curl it outside the post so it just comes back in at the last time I don't just hit it there down the middle with good power. Okay, it has to be accurate It's attention to the details and yes, it's good that I'm improving but I'm always asking myself How can I get better? How can I make that better? What's the next level? Okay, you're always seeking more and you're always looking for more Let's talk about hard work for smart work. What should you be doing? Well, the answer is you need to be doing both But I think that you have to start with smart work because if you're not focusing on things That actually make you better in a game like I said Train the way that you want to play most players. What do they do when they go to feel by themselves? They juggle a ball They do some freestyle tricks and then they hit dead balls for 20 minutes and then they go home And they think that's going to make them play better on game day. It's not you need to train Realistically, what is your position required you to do? Are you a winger? Okay? You have to be able to dribble at pace Sprinting with the ball down the line and you need to be able to deliver An accurate cross when you're tired when you've already beaten two guys When the pressure is on you at the last moment or you need to get past someone get your head up and actually bend the Ball into that corner. So are you practicing realistic game scenarios? So I need you to analyze your position specifically. What do you need to get better at? What are you struggling with in the game right now? And how can I put this? What type of drill can I use? To replicate that game situation and practice that over and over again. So when you get in the game Oh, I've actually already done this a hundred times. This is easy to me now Rather than oh, yeah, I got some good freestyle tricks That's probably going to improve my my ability to score goals and win games You're wasting your time. You can do those things. I'm not saying you can't do those things But you got to prioritize what's really important. What's actually going to make you play better on game day? So train specifically to perform well in matches Quality over quantity It's okay. Yes, you need to play with intense. You need to train with intensity You need to train and match speed. You need to play fast try to play under pressure try to Train with speed do the drills with speed, but At one point I need to really slow it down and I need to make sure that I'm getting the technique right So you really got to focus on the quality I can kick the ball against a wall a hundred times and just kick it there Or I can kick the ball against the wall 20 times and I can really focus on what I'm doing Think about what I'm doing analyze every single repetition. Oh, I should have hit it here when I hit it there I should have done this with my foot when I did that with my foot I should have bent my way like that way. I should have followed through with my body The quality of the repetitions is so much more important than the quantity now This comes back to smart working hard work. You need to do both so Do smart smart training realistic training focus on the quality of the technique But once you got it now we add up the repetitions and we work harder than anyone else And we put more time in than anyone else But for me I am And yeah, we'll come back to that But I just want to talk about Like training mentality for me. I'm about getting more out of a session in less time than other players do So I'm going to go to the field. I'm going to be there for less time. Maybe 45 minutes for an hour You're going to be there for two hours. I'm not saying to you I'm just talking hypothetically now that you got this information. You're doing the same thing that I am But I'm going to be there for 45 minutes and I'm going to get more out of it because my training is more specific It's smarter It's uh, the quality is higher. I'd have more focus. I'm more present in the moment I'm asking myself. How can I get more out of this and you're just going there or the other players just going there And they they think just because they spent two hours on the field that made them better When realistically you were wasting your time you could you could have just stayed at home We'll be at the same level right now. Okay, so Focus on getting more out of the session in less time, but What I wrote here is stimulate don't annihilate so On that same topic of training I want to be able to come back And train tomorrow and train the next day and train the next day and train the next day So yes, I need to work hard, but that doesn't mean I'm destroying myself every single day I'm not doing a beep test every single day. I'm not playing for three hours to the point where I can't even move my legs Every single day. I need to listen to my body and I need to train in a way that stimulates me enough to improve But doesn't annihilate me doesn't exhaust me doesn't destroy me and get me injured and fatigue me Okay, so yes, you want to work hard But you want to work smart so you can come back and work smart and hard the next day and the next day in the next day In consistency That's when you stack stuff up and that's when you get better You need to understand it takes time to improve But the more consistent I can be and the more I can apply these smart principles the faster I'll improve so it takes time to get better But when you're younger you can get or when you're just starting out your beginner You can get better a lot faster the better you get the harder it is to get better But you can always get better and you're never good enough. Let's keep improving And then the final thing I wrote here was I just wanted to prioritize Um your recovery so tree recovery as part of your training become better at recovery Especially as you get older when you're young you play like three games Three games a day your body doesn't even feel sore. You don't even stretch You don't eat properly that catches up to you real quick Learn how to recover when you're younger because you're really going to need it when you're older Especially when you play if you want to play long and you want to play at a higher level So treat your recovery Like any other skill that you're working to improve right now Prioritize your warm-up prioritize your cool-down hydration Nutrition and I also wrote tension release. So that's like recovery practices Whether it's foam rolling some additional stretching cold hot Contrast a hot tub a cold bath cold shower Vibration techniques massage tools things like that focus on those things are going to help you recover faster And it helps you play longer. You get injured way less. You have way more fun. Let's keep going Sorry, I wrote um So if you want to pause right now, I just want you to create a brief training plan For the next seven days because it's one thing for me to say Oh, yeah, I'm going to train every day. It's totally different. I just got to plug this here incident um It's one thing for me in my head to say, yeah, I'm going to train every day this week It's different for me to write it on a piece of paper or write it on a calendar And then actually cross it off when I did it make yourself more accountable to yourself Have better discipline better organization. So create a brief plan. What are you going to do for the next seven days? Are you going to do double or you're going to do a gym session You're going to do a workout session. Keep them brief. Remember, don't do three hours in the gym and three hours of the field Do one hour in the gym one hour at the field something like that Uh, or are you just going to if you're just getting started, maybe you're just doing a morning routine of 30 minutes every morning What are you going to do? Create your own training plan? We're all in different situations But we all need to improve and we need to be organized So right down