Pasquale Casà Basile is coach of the UEFA Pro License and specialist in tactics and team management. In its various functions, including those of the Catalan Football Federation and the RCD Espanyol, coordinates, facilitates and develops the work of the youth team. He has also written two books: Preseason Tactical Planning and The Offensive Phase Of 1-4-3-3.
Let's look together at some of the highlights from the interview with Pasquele:
Contents
- What aspects do you think provide more motivation in early age players in training?
- In juveniles, what would be the most important objectives in teaching soccer?
- Why do you think game-integrated training is becoming more accepted?
- What would be your option in the evolution of teaching technical gestures?
- What should be the coaching structure of a football club?
What aspects do you think provide more motivation in early age players in training?
Well, a teaching style, in which, we start from the same child, he is no longer a player, but from formative stages of the same child, we have to start from the same child, knowing how old he is, what he feels, what he thinks and from each age stage the certain characteristics, it is very important that the educator, more than the coach, knows what characteristics each age has.
In juveniles, what would be the most important objectives in teaching soccer?
The objectives, technical, emotional, effective in general, the objectives that you set at the beginning of the stage and consider to be important for the player's teaching in this junior stage, when we create a task from a context not from a training situation or a simulating situation, the preferential one as it is called in the structured, all the possible technical actions transmission, control, dribbling, which we have commented before, must appear and we have to focus on one of these actions. They are the tactical concepts that vary in each, in each task, especially waiting in 7-a-side football. I believe that the child already has to get used to the ball, look for the association as a game vehicle, I don't know if the teammates are already there and concentrate more on transmission, on control if we talk about technical concepts, while the tactical concept, small groups in the offensive phase as a single position, like a wall in the defensive phase, a coverage like an exchange small concepts that when they reach 11-a-side football and they will know how to recognize it.
Why do you think game-integrated training is becoming more accepted?
In the integrated training methodology, it is realizing that the traditional world of football, which we talk about traditional theories in the world of isolated football, the components, the elements that we had in football, is realizing that everything has to be optimized and time has to be optimized, so before we worked, we worked for minutes of isolated technique or physical preparation, then we put the ball in and did technique and maybe then at the end we said a 20-minute game of 15 minutes that you had worked on there, now we try Unifying everything with integrated training means integrating everything, but be careful to differentiate integrated training with inclusion from inclusive training.
What would be your option in the evolution of teaching technical gestures?
The same thing I told you before, all in a tactical context, that is, in a tactical context there is the repetition of that technical action that we are looking for. For example. Tell me a technical action, the shot itself, the shot, very well, well what we have mentioned, we do a 2 against 2, reduced number, analytical eh, technicalization, reduced number of players, ball, small space where there is a lot of touch of the ball, then the example from before, every 5 seconds there must be 1 shot, so in a 1 minute match imagine if every 5 seconds, is an example eh, there are shots, you are working on shots on goal every 5 seconds, this is a analytical work because analytical what we have said was, the systematic repetition of some, not the same, then if in a minute that lasts the 2 against 2 match every 10 seconds there are shots on goal it is important to understand this.
What should be the coaching structure of a football club?
Well, the sports director is important, no, I think the one who signs you is essential, then we have the coordinator who has to take care of the logistics as well and then, well, and who also helps you with the issue of the fields, someone who handles the figure of the delegates, which is something that is a little abandoned nowadays, no, or not abandoned, but rather it is not, I don't know the importance of the delegate, for me the delegate has to know a lot of rules.
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