Leave your ego behind, chill out, back off and let the children play!

Let the children play!

“The heart of the problem is that adults run children’s football and they bring with them adult ideas, rules, values, tactics and pressure. Many children today only experience football at an official club training session where enthusiastic, well-meaning coaches deliver complicated drills, instructions and team talks.

These look and sound great, and impress parents, yet they leave kids confused, frustrated, bored and asking:”When can we play a game?”

So when they come to me I let them play – and they do incredible things, not because they have been coached and told how, but because they have never been told they can’t!
Leave your ego behind, chill out, back off and let the children play!”

Tom Statham, Manchester United Football Academy

Why is Manchester United Football School using our small-sided, foldable football goals in their Academy?

To be perfectly honest, we are not really sure about this ourselves, but we believe it has something to do with the fact that the school has introduced small-sided training (3v3 and 4v4) as the most important means to develop young players. The club has recently commissioned a scientific research – in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University – to uncover/document the advantages and disadvantages with small-sided games in relation to traditional game form of 8v8. The results from the research is quite impressive. Compared with 8v8 game-play the small-sided football gives the following effects on number of ball touches, involvements and choices:

• No. of passes   + 135%
• No. of attempts on goal + 260%
• No. of scored goals  + 500%
• No. of ”1on1” situations + 225%
• No. of dribbles   + 280%

 
At Manchester United Football School they have in other words realised the need for thinking new and in a higher degree organise football activities that are:

• Simple
• Fun
• Involving
• Developing
• Intensive

The same can be said about our other customers;

• Blackburn Rovers Academy
• Hertha Berlin
• Schalke 04
• Hamburger SV
• NFF – The Norwegian FA
• FBF – The Finnish FA
• DFB – the German FA
• DBU – The Danish FA
• The Scottish FA
• Juventus
• AC Milan
• Intersport Kicker Fussballcamp
• Paris Saint Germain
• Rosenborg BK
• Vålerenga FK
• Stabæk FK
• Molde FK
• Viking FK
• Strømsgodset FK
• AEK FC
• Olympiacos FC
• Skoda Xanthi FC

Just to mention a few.

You do not have to be an elite club to appreciate our goals. On the contrary we could say, because the goals are really developed to make the simple game-play more accessible for more children. Whether it is in the garden, school yard, street, park, or at the club’s training field, where the ”competition” for space is often frustrating.
 
We now have the pleasure of offering all UK based football clubs the Platinum GoalTM package which consists of;

• 2, 4, 6 or 8 Platinum Goal goals or
• 2, 4, 6 or 8 Club/Sponsor Logogoals
• Training manual with tip for fun and developing football activities and small-sided tournaments/ event- concepts.

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