Hello everyone,
I have managed to get the all the teams registered with the GSYSL. If you did not sign in as a user with them then I did it for you. If you are one of these coaches I emailed your username and password. Please make sure you log on and do the kids safe background check.
On this subject, I realize that you are all volunteers for the spring coaching jobs, and for this I'm extremely grateful. I also realize that we are all busy in many different ways with kids, and jobs, etc. Having said that I would like to make a plea with you all to make more of an effort to respond to my emails and complete the tasks that I ask. I do my best not to burden you all with a lot of tasks to complete. What I'm running up against is dealing with another league. In the fall when it is just MCAA things are a little more relaxed with time frames and deadlines. This is not the case with this league I have certain deadlines to meet or else our teams will not be able to play. So again please do your best to reply to my emails and complete the tasks that need to be done. Ok I'm off my soapbox.
On to soccer stuff. I have managed to get gym space beginning the week of March 21 and running right up to the first games in April. We will have the use of the middle school gym and Heron Pond, and soon Bales as well. So now comes the tricky part of coming up with a schedule and who will get to practice in the gyms. On the preliminary schedule the U14 and U12 teams will practice twice a week, and the U10 teams once a week. Of course this is just until we get outside and then everyone will be twice a week. In order to make this happen I will have to utilize Friday nights and Saturdays. If you have any scheduling conflicts please let me know I will do my best to take care of it. The practice times during the week would be from 6 to 7:30 and on Saturdays I have not figured that out yet.
As far as what to do at these practices I recommend a lot of conditioning. Quite a few of the teams you will face in the spring have probably been playing right through the winter. So we need to get our players up to speed quickly. Another good suggestion is to work on foot work. We mentioned at the meeting the Coerver drills which you can find on you tube and other places. One last suggestion would be to get a futsal ball, they are very small and heavy. Use this to play your scrimmage games and it will help with passing accuracy. Focus alot on one time or two time passing to increase the speed of your game. I will put some clips on the page. This is part of what made Ronaldino so great. There are plenty of other things that can be done in the gym to get our players ready. If you have any please share them.
That's all for now.
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