SMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments

In field hockey no team can’t function anymore like a rígid machine, with predefined mechanisms and protocols. However, no team can’t function without any kind of organization and common language either. The key is precisely to find this grey area where we can induce a certain level of coordination and at the same time flexibility and adaptation. As coaches, one of our main responsibilities will be to generate a “Game Model”. A Game Model can be understood as the common interpretative framework that will promote different patterns of coordination between our players. And coaches will have to design training sessions respecting this complex and variable nature, and training sessions where the Game Model is represented. Trainings must contain tasks of high variability that reproduce the complex nature of the game. For that purpose, the best tool we have available is the use of “Small-Sided Games”.This field hockey book is an excellent resource for any aspiring coach and provides real life examples tried and tested by Andreu. The incorporation of Small Sided Games combined with constraint based coaching, provides an excellent basis for any coach wanting to build functional, exciting and fun trainings that engage the players and provides a well-rounded development platform." Adam Commens"This book is excellent because it gives every player, coach and team the opportunity to work creatively, complex, varied and purposeful for the Competition and their development." Jamilon Mülders"Andreu Enrich takes these ideas to the next level, fully acknowledging the special mix of technical demands and speed adding an intelligent set of game specific principles that connected with an attractive variety of matching game formats." Thomas TichelmanPAPERBACK FORMAT PRINTED IN PREMIUM COLOUR Read more