Thoughts on soccer

I’ve become more and more rabid about soccer over the past few years.   Now my son and daughter are playing a lot and I watch and wonder.  I have many questions.

  1.  How do you develop players who always make the easy pass, who rarely make bad turnovers, whose simple looking passes nearly always get where they’re supposed to be, and more importantly, arrive in a position where someone can do something with it?
  2.  On the other hand, how do you teach players how to first see and then make the amazing pass (see Kevin De Bruyne’s pass to spring Jesus Navas this weekend) and the ability to figure out when to try it and when to keep moving the ball along?
  3. How do you teach kids how to hit a shot powerfully?  Is this the kind of thing when you let them blast away until they figure it out?  Or are there foundations they should be building on?
  4. How do you teach tackling?  How? How? How?
  5. How do you teach players to rotate?  In other words, when a center back goes marauding forward, how does everyone else learn to sigh, hope for the best, and fill his/her position?

Note: none of these are things I want expertise about so I can inflict the information on my children.   I just want to know.

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