It has long been recognized that the success of any team is relative to the collective improvement of the technical skills of each player. Therefore a format must be developed which addresses this need in a progressive and understandable manner and which provides players with the best opportunity for development. Our philosophy shall be to join those ideas into a single approach.

Players must first be made to see the importance of practicing the most basic of all skills and tactics. We must instill in them that repetition creates consistency. They must learn that any current success is due to the constant repetition of basic and advanced skills, which came from a desire within them to achieve.

Next must be a focus on advancing the technical skills of each player. By training skills with a 1-to-1 ratio of balls and players, every player is provided a greater opportunity for improvement due to increased time and touches on the ball. By training skills individually and with the ball players will learn and enjoy more individual actions and comfort with the ball. That in turn shall foster better success during play and cultivate a passion and commitment to the game as well as a greater desire to play.

There must also be a use of small game play, which will provide each player with a greater opportunity to be a part of play and to apply their skills, due to the reduced number of players involved. Small sided games - from 1v1 to 4v4 - teach all offensive and defensive elements of play which occur in every match, which provides more opportunities for physical and intellectual development.

Finally, in order to provide the players with a clear understanding of what they are doing and why they are doing it, we use progression training. This sequential development of skills, techniques, and elements of play, allow players to relate current training to prior and future training, so they may put the game together one step at a time. By using progression training the players are provided an understanding of what applies to play and why, as well as how they may apply it to active match play.

In order to compose these principles into a vehicle beneficial to the player’s, requires that every training session be challenging and dynamic, economical in athletic function, and present the correct information, in a proper and understandable format. By coupling that to an opportunity for each player to put those ideas and developed talents to competitive use, we afford each player a vehicle for comparative self analysis and assessment, which is crucial to player development.