Setting up your team in a formation when they first start playing matches is as much a learning curve for the soccer coach as it is for the players.
Setting up your team in a formation when they first start playing matches is as much a learning curve for the soccer coach as it is for the players. When you coach a soccer (football) team that hasn’t played matches or worked on formations before, a good coaching tip is to start by looking at individual players and writing down the strong and weak parts of their game and their particular soccer skills. You will often see soccer coaches putting their weakest players in defence and their strongest players up front. This is wrong. You need balance throughout the team and, with U10s and below, you really need to be letting all your players try all the positions. The 2-3-1 is an ideal formation to coach positions and give your young soccer players a good idea of what is expected when they move up to 11-a-side. This is because the responsibilities of each soccer player are similar to the ones they will advance to.
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