Horst Weins Complete Development Programme

for young players from 7 to 9 years of age

The Beautiful Game for Kids

The Ultimate Mini Football Game with 4 goals to stimulate and unlock
Creativity and Game Intelligence

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KEEP THE POSSESSION IN THE 3 vs 2 - SITUATION

WITH SPACIAL RESTRICTIONS

ON DIOGONAL OPPOSED GOALS

No over-coaching here!

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The Game is the Teacher

Fall in love with the

Game

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IGNITI
Children must fall in love with the game
ON
What do young kids 7-9 years of age want most?

To
To
To
To
To

have the ball

dribble
score goals
show their skills
be admired
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= IGNITION
What do young kids 7-9 years of age NOT want?

NO DRILLS AND WAITING IN LINES

NO INSTRUCTIONS

NO LAPS AROUND THE FIELD AND

WARM UPS

THE

NEEDS OF PLAYERS
YEARS OF AGE

1. The Need to Play

2. The Need to Feel Safe
3. The Need to Discover through Experience
4. The Need for Recognition of Their Efforts by Others
5. The Need for Independence
6. The Need to Socialize with Others
7. The Need to be Active
8. The Need for Variety
9. The Need to Live in the Present
10.The Need to be Understood by Adults

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Standard Training Session

for Young Players
WARM UP
Physical training
Drills
Game

10 mins
15 mins
20 mins
15 mins

How much time?

Listening to coach_______________?
Standing in line _________________?
Physical conditioning ____________?
Playing the game________________?
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Typical

Training

No warm up or physical training, or drills!

1. Play one of the 32 games for 15 mins
- Discover any issues with players.
2. Use corrective games to fix issues.
(Players will be more motivated to fix problems that affect their
game result and performance).

3. Repeat game with a variation

- see if issues have been resolved.
4. Apply more corrective games
(or some multilateral games)
5. Repeat game with another variation

FESTIVAL
ON 8 MINI PITCHES FIT INTO ONE REGULAR
FIELD WITH 64 GIRLS AND BOYS PLAYING 3
TIMES 10 MINUTES

FUNdamentals - Learn to love the game!

Fun for kids

Plenty of goals

The Game is the Teacher

Plenty of action
Involvement

No specialization
Equal playing time
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CULTIVATING TALENT

USING

1. The Rules are the instructions - the Game is the teacher

2. Let them dribble, dont force them to pass the ball
3. Start a training sessions always with a game
4. Limit the use instructions and use Guided Discovery
6. No need to warm up, no running laps or separate physic
training
7. Size 4 ball
8. Use all the variations
9. Offer a varied competition program and not only one per season
10. Use a great variety of multilateral activities in training

The many benef

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Benefits of
Improves all the basic skills:
Controlling,Passing,Dribbling ,Shooting, Tackling
The player has plenty of opportunity to
- "be in love with the ball"
- improvise and to take risks
without fear of making mistakes
All 3 players are vital and participate

Wide goals = better peripheral vision

Reduces swarming
More time and space to think/decide

More benefits
34 variations make sure their cognitive development
As no instructions are given the kids have to discover
that is much more stimulating than traditional training
or and playing 7-a-side and 11 a-side.
Smaller players make up for their size
through clever play
Rolling substitutions and equal
playing time benefits everyone
Frequent repetition of basic game situations

The two goals create options which stimulate

intelligence, creativity and improvisation
Develops support play and off-the-ball play
Learning takes place in a fully-integrated holistic
environment, just as in the real game itself. There is no
isolation of technical, tactical or physical elements.

Usually everyone scores!

Game Intelligence

In
having 3 players means that
usually one goal is less-protected than the
other, there is always a better option on the
pitch leading to greater Game Intelligence..

3 IS THE MAGI
Triangle provides
width and depth

11 v 11
3v3

5v5

7v7

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Education is not
the filling of a pail,
but
the lighting of a fire!
W.B.Yeats

Nature decrees that children should be

children before they become adults...

If we try to alter this natural order, they

will reach adulthood prematurely but with
neither substance nor strength.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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