 Hey coach welcome back to the channel if you haven't yet make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all the latest content that we put out. Now today I want to talk about an idea that you can implement into your soccer training business that doesn't require you having hundreds of kids. So a lot of times I get a lot of questions every single day from coaches who want to start tournaments or want to do a competitive type of program within their actual training program but the problem they find is maybe they need too many kids or they need a lot of field space and sometimes it becomes very difficult for them to do that. Now the idea I want to share with you is something I have done personally in my business and it's a 1v1 mini soccer tournament. So at the beginning steps when I when I first started my my training business an idea I had was I wanted to create an environment where it was competitive and I wanted to create a type of tournament where kids who are committed got rewarded. So the idea I had was to put together a 1v1 tournament which only required up to 10 to 20 kids to make that tournament happen. So what I did was I reached out to all my current clients that I had at that time and I said to them that this was the tournament that I was going to be running in the next couple of weeks and this is what it consists of. Okay so what I did is I set up a set they said time to host the tournament. So I remember what I did it was a 1v1 tournament that ran on Saturday morning. I think it lasted for about a couple of hours so it might have been two hours or up to three hours and all it was is I hide out a five-a-side field in my local area and on that field what I did is I broke well I divided the the field into quarters so it didn't require a lot of space it didn't require a lot of equipment all I had to do is I had to purchase mini goals so it was about four pitches on a five-a-side split into into quarters so I did four mini pitches on that five-a-side pitch with two mini goals on each quarter of the pitch so essentially at one at one time I had four 1v1 matches going on now the way I did it was I made sure that I had a couple of things number one I made sure that parents registered before the tournament so I remember what I did at that time is I set up a Google form that it's free to do I set up the Google form online and I sent that link to parents so what parents would do is once they've received that link they would they would sign up to the mini one-on-one tournament and once I got that form then on that form attached was the bank account details for the program so essentially what they complete they they get the form fill out the form and then once they filled out the form they can then make the payment into the business account once that that payment was done I received it and I was able to then hire out the field for that mini tournament now once the field was was was hired out I had it in place the next step was I made sure that I purchased all the equipment for it so all I really needed was cones and eight mini goals for the tournament that's pretty much all I needed and plus also what I did is I invested in a couple of metals for for the winners of the tournament now the requirement was I had to have even numbers to make the tournament happen you don't necessarily have to have even numbers I wanted it because it just made everything run a lot more smoother because I could have eight players playing at once and then eight players rest eight players player ones a player so essentially I had 16 kids that I did the mini mini one-on-one tournament and all it all it was is the way I set it up was as I just mentioned I had one fiver side field I split it into quarters so that created four mini 1v1 pitches on that fiver side which included the two mini goals so I had eight players playing at once 1v1 on four pitches so two four six eight eight players playing at once eight players sitting out and the games with I believe five to ten minutes long and it was literally roll on roll off all I needed was a pen paper to make sure that I kept count or kept note of the scores now what I did at that time is I got a family member to help me on the day and that family member was the one that kept the scores so what I did is I made sure that each player okay when they arrived they got given a bib or in the United States they called them pinnies of a certain color okay and that color was always set to a specific pitch on on that day okay so if you were on pitch number one you would be wearing this color if you were on pitch number two you'd be wearing this color and what we did is we did a round robin so I did I remember I set it up to I think it was it was like a and in yeah so each player played each other once and then we went into a knockout a knockout tournament okay so each player got to play each other once it was two points for a win zero points for a loss and if it was a tie then each player got one point and we had 16 players they all played each other once and then after that we went into a knockout tournament so if you lost you were out directly and the tournament was nice it lasted for about two hours and again it didn't require me to have a lot of space it didn't require me to have hundreds of kids as I mentioned I set it up with 16 players one five a side field and all I did was I invested a little bit of money into cones to divide the fields to create the mini fields and the mini goals to to use for those fields so I had eight players playing at once eight players resting eight players come on another eight players rest and all it really required was good organization okay so making sure you have a set day set time to do the tournament making sure that the field is obviously reserved hired out for the day and as I mentioned I got an assistant to do the tracking of the scores okay because what you start to realize is a lot happens even though you have 16 players but a lot starts to happen on that on that day which if you aren't very organized you might lose score you might lose track of the scores by the way it was set up as I mentioned everyone plays each other once so we had 16 players in one big group they all played each other once they they were five minute games I fit I believe all played each other once once they all played played each other then we get into a knockout tournament where if you lost you were out straight away until we had a winner so the way I set it up was we've done a mini league where each player plays each other once the winner of that league gets a trophy and then the way so the winner and runner-up of that league gets a trophy and then the winner of the knockout tournament and runner-up gets a trophy as well okay so that's just a simple idea to set up your own 1v1 mini soccer tournament as I mentioned you can do it in one day you can run it within a couple of hours right so two to three hours you can run your mini 1v1 tournament you get players parents to register online so you have so you know who's coming on the day and it doesn't require a lot of staff as I mentioned it was just me and an assistant and the requirement for the the tournament wasn't massive in terms of the costs okay all I had to do was I'm invested in cones I invested in bibs okay bibs or pennies to to run the tournament and then mini goals so we could do the 1v1s okay and then obviously you need a whistle and a timer to make sure your timing each match and then making sure you're organized so you're so each player gets to play each other once and you're keeping track of the scores and the results okay so if you need more help with setting up your own mini 1v1 tournament reach out to me check out the description below this video there's a number of ways you can get in contact with me you can book either a 3 15 to 20 minute call where we jump on zoom I can ask you a couple of questions to do with your your coaching business and I can show you some actual steps to take this week you don't want to do that send me Eva a whatsapp message with your questions or you can email me directly to make money coaching sports at gmail.com okay thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video