Can highly-competitive environment be good for your team or not? Today, we prove it can!
In this latest episode of Leader Manager Coach Podcast, Rob shares with you the book he has read and learned a lot from, Anson Dorrance's Training Soccer Champions. Discover how he used his Competitive Cauldron, a very intense and highly competitive training process, to champion his teams.
Rob concentrates on 4 key aspects of Anson's book: team organizations, training, play management, and tactics. Listen in as Rob talks about specifics to improve each aspect – from the well-known competitive cauldron to the 80/20 rule of fitness to the players' total responsibility for their bodies. There's also a lot of effective strategies you could learn and apply onto your team from Anson's book.
Anson Dorrance is the winningest head coach of all time in NCAA with 22 National Championship in the US. He has also won World Cup in 1991 with the US Women's National Soccer Team.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Team Organization.
- Soccer is a simple game that can be over-complicated. Forget high standards. Always look at the potentials of each player to be a leader themselves.
- Learn the Game. Great coaches help players to learn the game. Learning the game will help them facilitate their development and their leadership.
- Competitive Cauldron. Anson's trademark. Players are trained on the edge. Training sessions are intense that players get stress enough just to make them grow.
- Fury and composure are needed to be in the ability of maximum zone where you give your 100% with control. It's not an easy thing to do, you have to have the proper mindset, knowledge, and focus.
- Players should take total responsibility for their fitness. Players should condition themselves before any scheduled training or game.
- 80/20 rule in fitness. 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
- Using the basics – push-ups, lunges, etc.
- Play Management.
- According to Anson, men respond better to hierarchal structures and women respond better if they see human characteristics in you as a coach.
- Be community-oriented. Have a focus on the team and not on yourself.
- “The true joy in life is to be a force of fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy” ― George Bernard Shaw
- Tactics
- Anson loves front three, numbers in the box, and the percentage game.
- Framing the goal – a tactic that maximizing the abilities to get over the line.
- Players should look at ‘seams' – a penetrative line between two defenders.
BEST MOMENTS
- “How you do something is how you do everything.”
- “Desire-driven state is not the issue; the issue is controlling your own mind so that you can exert that absolute maximum intensity and you've got a control.”
- “It's not necessary to create a rapport with a male player, but you'll get much greater results, according to Anson, if you get respect.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Ryles is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.
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