 Where are the defenders? Where are the defenders? There you go. There you go. Keep it going. Simple. All done. Keep it up. Where we're going to pass is based on where the defenders are positioned. We need to play the simple option unless it's on to play over there. He's all the way over here so there's no need for you to put it down in the middle because he's going to intercept. So when you get it, just play the simple option to the side. Go on. Play the simple option to the side. Now they're going to start pressing. Go on. And now we can just move it side to side. Eventually we can maybe bypass a little bit, buy ourselves a little bit more time. Simple. Simple. Simple. Where's the defenders? Where's the defenders? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Simple. Simple. Good. Here. Back. Good. Split. There we go. You see that? Keep it going. Keep it going. Here we go. So this is what we're going to do. All right. Everybody's juggling the soccer ball. Do not let it hit the ground. Every time the ball hits the ground, we got three push-ups. Go on. Go on. Come on. As we move. As we move. Come on. Come on. Come on. Don't drop it. Don't drop it. Hey. Three push-ups. Three push-ups. Let's go. Good. Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up. Nobody drop it. Who's going? Every single time. Somebody should be calling that ball. Every single time. Yes, PD. Love it, PD. There we go. We're creeping up. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come this way. Let's go. There we go. There we go. Hey. Okay. So I was looking through some of the training footage from yesterday and we were very, very effective when we moved the ball quick. That doesn't mean you have to pass the ball right away. That's not what I mean. But it means you moved the ball. So if there's no space at the moment, instead of waiting for someone to pop into a space, you might have to dribble, create a little bit of space for yourself. Move the ball until the space is created. The focus for the round is what we're trying to get out of the round-dose as well. One of the main concepts that I was trying to get you guys to get out in here is recognizing where the defenders are and where that tells us to move the ball. So if the defenders are right in front, can we move it side to side quickly? If we start spacing them out, we start spreading them out through some quick passes, now can we get in behind them? All right. Bypass one of those lines. So start thinking about that. Now we're starting to go big picture and we're going to finish off with some full field stuff. Go! Go! Go! Because most like, I mean, I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not saying this is wrong. This might completely be the option. He gets the ball. This probably will happen more than, more than not. But I want you to practice the pattern. Like this is one pattern. Is it right? Can you do something different? Can you do it? Yeah, yeah, of course. In the game, I'm not going to say this is wrong. Sometime you get the ball here and you ping it around. That's no problem. However, you see the distance between him and Rudy? Yeah. It's way too short. Way too short. Now if you're a defender, you can stand in between them. You've got both of them. That's the thing you've got to look. Hey, winger, 7-11. Full stand means come in, but when we don't have the ball, stay wide to create the space to come into. Okay? Yeah, can we play underneath? Can we play underneath? Now can we go up? Yeah. Rudy, you're standing in the position. Rudy, you're standing in the space. Stay wide, come in. And the whole point is what, boys? What are we doing? What are we creating? Over... Overload. We're overloading them on the sides. For now, we have angles. So if you play me, yep. Okay, maybe I'll drive. Maybe I'll play in here and then can you pop it underneath? Can we go to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay? Okay, you've got to widen. Wide now, you two. Yeah, up there now. You understand? Play with the way you face. Play the way you face. Okay, we're going straight into 11-11. Okay? Straight to 11-11. Free play. However, every goal kick, this is the only thing we're introducing today. Every goal kick, we start on the 6. I don't care if a great team is pressing a green team. Play. Well, if they play with two backs, Mark could go press and now we're defending a little bit deeper. All right? In our half. And then, look, guys, we're fine in that shape. We should be able to dominate the game. So what we want to happen is if he's now deeper because of our pressure here and because we're standing high, he may drop back in there. They may just kick it. And if they do, what are the numbers in this situation? How many for them? Three. Three. Good or bad? Two. Yeah, good numbers for us, okay? Yeah, for us, film is very important. Very important. And the major thing with the classroom session is that it's team concepts. Typically 30 minutes is the longest I want to keep them in there just because the tension and it's dark and for every training session we lay out exactly what we're doing, who's moving where and what's going on. So they can see it in multiple fronts. You know, they can see it before they get to training on the paper. They can see it at training and then we can see it on the film. We try to video every training session so they can go watch it on their own. If they come in for an individual, we'll use that film for an individual session just so we have film of them and working on what we want to work on. And then, you know, it's very important that players see themselves but then also see the big picture and how they fit into that big picture is important for us. We started today's session with a dynamic warm-up before we went into Rondar's to see behind me. The focus on this session is to see some of the attacking principles, especially building out of the back and some of the things we worked on the last couple of days. And can they link together? Can they find those pockets? Can they keep the ball on the ground and go from side to side to find the best opportunity to penetrate their back line and the other team? I also was also looking forward to see some flair in the attacking third. Can we see some creativity? We haven't worked too much on the defensive principles so I'm not so much concerned about that right now. I want to see them play soccer. They've been the ball on the ground on one and two touches being dynamic in the movement and getting scoring opportunities. Basic passing patterns. Jeremiah is going to go to Brian. Nick is going to go to Petey. You follow your pass and you just go in a square. You just go in a square just to start off. Got it? So you'll come this way. You'll go that way and then you just go like this. You follow your pass. All right, off we go. Let's go. Don't just stand at the cone. Start in front of the cone and check behind. Check away. Open up. Receive with the farthest foot. Play it forward. All right, even in a basic passing combination like this, the square passing, we can start incorporating some concepts that we've been talking about. Those passing combinations that we go up, back, and through is all about our timing and receiving the ball being able to go and play. So when we start here, we can start inside. I'm waiting my cue to check out and create some space is what? When Luke takes his first touch and he's facing forward, right? He looks up. That's my cue. So I'm waiting here. Jeremiah plays Luke, right? Takes his touch. Now I check out. Yes. That way I can create some space. I'm not in too early. I'm not in too late. And I can play the ball. I create some space from the defender. Okay? So don't just stand at the cone, but check away when it's your time to check away and then play. Okay? Off we go. Let's go. Next progression. It'll go up, back, skip one. So I'm backing through. Play it to call. He lays me off at an angle. Play it there. He lays him off. Skip one. Good. Plays it back. There we go. So watch this. Even out the lines. When that ball goes, if it goes into a call, I want to be back here. So it goes into a call. Let's say he just skipped it. I want to be back here. Now my body's facing in the direction I want to play. As opposed to doing this. So he plays it there. He drops it off here. But now I have to do this. If I'm the defender, Cole, you're going to go in this direction. I'm probably going to be right here, right? So if he plays a square pass, I'm going to intercept it. If he plays it there, I'm not going to be able to intercept it. I don't mind you guys messing up a pass. I get it. If you play it a little too hard, you take a bad touch. That's totally fine with me. The moment you get to that line and you're not paying attention when the ball comes at you, that's what I'm going to get pissed off. Right? Because that doesn't take skill. That just takes focus. He'll play me in. I'll drop it off. He'll come and he'll play Pedro. I'll go to the back of this line. I'll follow the ball and go to the back of this line. You grab the next one. Play. Drop it off. Go there. Lorenzo, you turn and follow the ball. Grab the next one. There. Drop it off. Play. Pedro, grab the next one. There. Drop it off. Play. Rudy, grab the next one. Yes, Chris. Hey. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Hold on. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Quicker, quicker, quicker, quicker, quicker. You pass the ball, you get the next one. You pass the ball, you get the next one. Good. Good, boys. Good. Good. Yeah, let's go. Ask for it, Cole. Help each other out. Ask for it. Especially if they get confused. Where are they going to go? Yes, yes. Where are they going to go? Yeah, Myron. Myron. That's why we got to talk to him. Come on, boys. Let's go. Hey, baby, baby, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Hey, baby. Let's get to this guy. Maybe I have one of the videos, but this is Ali, absolute legend. He played here for four years, just graduated. He is now the assistant on the men's side. That's right. And him and I... Err, me and him... Him and I... We're both in charge of the reserve squad. So all the sessions that you see us running, that's the reserve squad. So the point of the reserve squad is for us to get as many of those players up to the first team. Or, if the first team players, are injured, or someone's coming back from injury, they start off with the reserve squad, get some touches and then they go out. So this video that you guys have watched has been a coach's perspective so it's been mostly from my perspective, from Ali's perspective and a little bit of Brad. Brad is the first assistant on the men's team. Bradley and coach Tony who is the head coach for the men are in charge of the first squad. So this video has been a perspective from the coaches right? So what is something that you're looking for when you're coaching the reserve squad? Like what are some things that you're looking to get out of the training session or in terms of like the players ought to look what are you looking for when we're training the reserves? I expect you to work hard, I expect you to give a hundred percent in terms of effort and you know these kind of things. What I'm talking about is are you able to take the information we're giving and use it on the field and that is the biggest disconnect sometimes between yeah you're working hard but you're doing the right thing. We're not looking to get them to the first team for them to be there two weeks, we're trying to make them better players so they can play there for three years or two years or maybe a year and hopefully going into the next level after that. There's another misconception in college soccer is that championships are important you always play to win but our job is still in developmental we're still trying to develop these kids they're not done with their development I mean they're still in the stage of there's a next level above that so we are in the process of trying to prepare them for that next level. Can they show me some of the things that they are brought in here to do and can they build on that because some of the kids we are brought into our new web is maybe not ready yet to play at the first team and to play division one soccer but they have the potential to. What I'm looking to see is can you take the information we'll give you and can you apply it to the game you know making the right decisions is something that I am not obsessed about I don't care if you make a mistake passing or a technical mistakes no problem did you try to do the right thing did you try to take what we what we practice on news in real life that mean that's the end of the day that is what we're trying to do I want you guys to get the different coaching perspective so it's not just my coaching perspective but there's multiple things he has a different perspective on the game than I do and when we coach the reserve team and we work together we have different philosophies different perspectives and what we try to do is we try to blend that in to give our players different opportunities to learn the game so I guess that's the biggest takeaway from that and again we will be doing a video on scouting players and the whole process that comes in with recruiting he recruited me to come here so he's technically scouted me and recruited me not as a player but as a coach and on top of that about 90% of the guys on the very first team here were recruited and brought in by him and about probably like 50% of the the reserve squad players as well so this guy knows what he's talking about so we will make that video soon but that's it for today's video and we'll see you guys next time