6 Jun, 2012
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At TWSports.Org we always look to support young coaches & offer opportunities of on the job experience. We also have internal training along with club visits across Europe. Below you can read our feature in the Belfast Telegraph.
Feature in the Belfast Telegraph
On-the-job training...an open goal if you want to get ahead
There's nothing better than getting on-the-job training & real life experience.
That's the view of Tim Wareing of TW Sports, whose business has become the latest to back the Belfast Telegraph's campaign to create 100 apprenticeships in 100 days.
The ethos of learning & training on the job is one which applies to the sports field as well as more every day workplaces.
Indeed Mr Wareing (33) started his career training to be a travel agent, which he combined with NVQ II & III classes at then Castlereagh College.
But his business, which has become his life's work, is training football coaches & providing soccer programmes for young kids, including toddlers.
He is also the author of Toddler Soccer, The Essential Guide To A Toddlers First Steps In Soccer.
Mr Wareing, who has been recognised by Invest NI for his entrepreneurial achievements said he had been impressed by the commitment to sport & learning shown by the young people who have been trained by him.
That led him to be a firm believer in apprenticeships.
"I'd definitely back the Belfast Telegraph's campaign to create 100 apprenticeships in 100 days, because I'm a big advocate of learning on the job. To take someone & give them experience on the job as well as getting them the teaching is wonderful.
"When you combine the passion people have for football with learning, it's a great combination."
Mr Wareing coached at Lisburn Distillery between the ages of 24 & 30 & also became the club's academy director. He achieved his UEFA European A coaching licence at 24, but his career began differently.
"My background when I left school was in travel, but when I was made redundant at the age of 26 I set up TW Sports."
Yet working at Globetrotter Travel hasn't been wasted in his present business environment.
"It was this position in an independent agency that offered me the experience of how to operate a business - dealing with the public, making reservations, customer care, marketing & all the other jobs that operating a small to medium-sized business."
Now he is happy to ensure other people can get equally valuable training working alongside with him.
9 Feb, 2011
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I thought I would share my own Academy session that I performed with my squad last Sunday. We had a squad of 14 boys aged 11-13 that reported for the session. Typical Belfast weather - rain & high winds! With this in mind I wanted a session that would always involve the players and that was easy to manage in terms of setting up and developing.
As soon as my players arrive a ball is at their feet
I always arrive 20 minutes before the players so I can set my coaching area up and everything runs smoothly. On Sunday I set up 4 grids measuring 15 x 15 yards with a 5 x 5 yard safety area between them. This offered me an overall 35 x 35 yard coaching area which is what we would develop to. One session to the next only involved lifting a few cones - no waiting about for the players! Inside each grid I set up a 4 x 4 yard triangle.
On arrival my players know to get a ball and go for a light dribble in one of the allocated grids. This is their own time as I encourage them to arrive early, get a ball, go for a dribble and have a chat with their team mates - always giving each other a high-5 on arrival. I then welcome the group, give all the boys a high-5 and ask how they got on in their matches for their club sides. I then give them a quick overview to the session ahead. Players then focus and get to work. They continue the warm up through a series of dribbling, skills, turns & keepie ups. I like to run through the 'Ronaldo 7' and then organise them to juggle the ball in groups.
By the time my warm up is complete each boy will have touched the ball several hundred times. Yet how many youth set ups still keep the ball locked away and have their players run laps around a pitch! There is time allowed for players to stretch & take on fluids. We then run through our Speed, Agility & Quickness routine. We use a series of movements through the speed ladder, hurdles and hoops. Players again take a drink before returning for the first part of our technical session. I always like to use the ball and will always concentrate on possession games setting goals and keeping game realistic.
You will see from my first game we use the grids wisely. I ended up having one grid spare. In two other grids we had 4 v 1 and in the other grid we had 3 v 1. This was intresting as I rotated so that all groups had the opportunity to try 3 v 1 as it was more challenging. I always like to insure success in all my sessions but then like to challenge so feel free to make the triangle smaller (i did) or change it from 4 v 1 to 3 v 1 or maybe 4 v 2? Have fun, this is a great session to develop movement and work rate off the ball along with passing and supporting runs to passing and touch.
Movement 'Off The Ball' In A Passing & Support Game
Emphasis
Focus on improving movement 'off' the ball. Session to work on passing, movement off the ball, fitness & looking for the penetrating pass.
Set-Up
Play takes place in a 15 x 15 yard area with a 4 yard equilateral triangle in the middle made up of cones. There are 5 players in the activity with one being a defender & the other four being on offense.
Objectives
The 4 players try to maintain possession while also looking to score goals by playing the ball through the triangle to their team mates. The defender is NOT allowed inside the triangle so they must be constantly working their way around the triangle trying to cut of the penetrating passes.
What makes this such an interesting activity is the required movement off the ball by the offensive players. On every pass they are moving in order to get into a better position to either make a penetrating pass or receive one.
Play this game for a 5 minute period with each player having a one minute turn in defence. It gets the players working hard, thinking & competing while having fun trying to beat their team mates. The player who gives up the fewest number of goals in defence wins.
There is a tendency in this game for the offensive players to get to close to the triangle which takes away the passing angles. This is easy to correct & is a good learning opportunity for the players.
Progressions
- Change to 4 v 2, or 2 v 2 v 2. Keep the overload initially until players get good at this before you move on. Experiment with numbers increasing the difficulty of the session as you go.
Coaching
- Creating space for yourself or for a team mate by movement off the ball.
- Quality of passing (weight, accuracy & timing.)
- Quality of control & first touch.
- Effective maintenance of possession,
- Communication.
I then developed the session. As I had set up 4 grids with the safty area of 5 yards between each grid it left a 5 x 5 yard box in the centre and a 35 x 35 yard area to work in. I simply had to lift the 3 cones from the triangle in each grid and we could move straight on to this session. This offered a smooth transition with little to no standing about for the players (another pet hate of mine!)
You'll see from my session plan below that this game is 5 v 3 with the 5 in possession trying to play to the 2 target players in the box. With the 4 players I had over I had them play as wall players. they played with the team in possession. If the defenders won the ball the wall players played with them. For 5 passes they were rewarded with 1 goal, this offers incentives to both the defenders as well as the attackers. I rotated the players so everyone played in each role. Remember the target players inside the box are replaced by the player who plays the ball to them. My players carried this out great!
Target Passing & Possession Game
Emphasis
Passing & possession game to play to target player.
Set-Up
Play takes place inside a 35 x 35 yard area with a smaller 6 x 6 yard square in the centre.
Objectives
The 5 yellow players pass the ball & look to keep possession from the 3 red players. The object is to pass the ball to the 2 yellow players inside the square.
The 3 defenders work as a unit to stop the attacking players passing to the smaller square.
Apart from the 2 players inside the square, no one is allowed to enter the smaller area.
Progressions
- If the defenders win the ball offer them a goal for set number of passes that they retain possession.
- Players inside the smaller square follow their pass out of the square & the player making the pass replaces them.
- Play 4 v 4 with both teams looking to play the ball into the smaller square to the target players.
Coaching
- Keep possession - be patient.
- Pass & move.
- Good supporting angles.
- Work rate & movement on / off the ball.
- Communication.
- For defenders look to press.
- Intercept / block passes.
- Anticipate.
I then finished the session off with a 7 v 7 game into full size goals on a slightly smaller half a pitch. I simply asked them to get a basic shape and enjoy themselves. Only changes I add from a 'normal game' is keeper must roll out and play from the back. Throw in's are replaced with pass in's or dribble in's.
I do think it is important that players can have some freedom to play without continual instructions and 'orders' from the coach. We then finished off with a cool down.
Let me know what you think of my session and if you try out the sessions how you and your team got on with them and what variations (if any) you made. Remember you can have full access to all my session plans by
clicking here!
1 Jan, 2011
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Happy New Year! Now 2011 has arrived I thought I would review 2010 at the TWSports.Org Group. From attracting Benfica to Belfast to travelling to Holland and Portugal it has been another action packed year. I published my first book in March, celebrated 5 years of operating TWSports.Org in July and got married!
Of course I couldn't do this without your fantastic level of support and friendship. I continue to re-invest to help continue to make our product the most innovative around along with offering the latest in technology with our websites, social media my new blog to help communicate and make ourselves available to you.
January - TWAcademy.Org announced a tour to Holland for August 2010. Tour highlights included a game against PSV Eindhoven, a tour of PSV training complex, stadium tour and to watch a PSV first team game at the Philips Stadium. Players involved in the Academy come together from Irish League sides and boys clubs. Currently we have players from Glentoran, Cliftonville, Dungoyne, Larne Youth, Lisburn Youth, Ridgeway, Abbey Villa, Carryduff Colts and Lower Maze.
The Academy is open to all elite players that want access to additional elite training that focuses on technical training and game understanding. To get your child involved contact myself by email or by phone, 07740120788.
February - The TWSports.Org Group increase their presence on the social media sites of Facebook, Twitter and You Tube. Simply search for 'twsportsgroup' or click on the logos at the top of our web page and follow us for the latest news. We have also made it easy to share pages from our websites by clicking the link button at the bottom of each page!
March - I published my first book, 'Toddler Soccer the Essential Guide'. You can get a FREE download and your copy by clicking here.
You can listen to the BBC Radio Ulster interview on Tim's new book by following this link.
April - SL Benfica accepted TWSports.Org invitation to fly to Belfast to offer Coaching Clinics and Player Development Clinics. Hugo Vicente & Edgar Cardosa led the clinics that attracted a number of local coaches, parents and children. A family also flew in from New York to attend! They spent the week in Northern Ireland and attended the TWSports.Org Easter Camp in Dundonald.
Over 60 children enjoyed the Easter Camp along with a SoccerSixes.Org tournament being played by a host of local clubs. We catered for all boys and girls aged 2-13 along with an open age for children, young adults and coaches at the Benfica events!
May - 'Toddler Soccer the Essential Guide' book by Tim Wareing has now sold in 18 different countries! This stretches from the UK and Ireland, across Europe to USA and Canada, the Far East and Australia!
You can order the paperback version or the e-book by clicking here!
June - Amazon and SoccerTutor.com are now selling Tim Wareing's new book! Tim has done a telephone interview by his publisher to be used as a case study and offered another publishing deal to write a second book!
SoccerTutor.com have also requested that Tim writes a book based on elite coaching using his sessions as Academy Director at Distillery and his visits to FC Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven and Ajax.
July - What a special month! TWSports.Org celebrated its 5th birthday! Our Summer Camps offered over 14 venues across Northern Ireland and open to all boys and girls aged 2-13.
Director & Head Coach, Tim Wareing, married to his partner, Leanne.
August - 25 parents, children and coaches travelled to Holland for an unbelievable tour. From start to finish everything was a huge success from our direct flights from Belfast to the 4* Hotel & luxury coach.
TWAcademy drew 4-4 with PSV Eindhoven's feeder team and then recorded a fine 9-1 victory over Helmond Sport. Everyone enjoyed the tour of the PSV Eindhoven training complex along with the penalty shoot out with Hans Segars! A game at the Philips Stadium topped the weekend off!
You can read a full report from our tour by clicking here & view our video by following this link.
September - We kicked off another new season - our biggest yet! From offering 8 great products that cater for children aged 2 years +; to our web based products that have coaches registered from all over the world!
Along with the likes of Toddler Soccer, Mini Soccer & elite training through TW Academy we also offer other great packages to! From 1-on-1 coaching and organising birthday parties to coaching in schools and at local clubs we offer the most inclusive and innovative product around!
October - A successful Halloween Camp is held which offers affordable day care solution for parents while children are off school. Helping children get active, have fun and learn new skills from only £2 per hour! A party is held for all children and parents at the end of the week.
We base all our Fun Camps on a normal school day from 10am-3pm with an early drop off service available from 9am. For more information contact me by email or phone, 07740120788.
November - Tim Wareing organised a European Club visit to Braga, Portugal for his staff. They studied the training methods of SC Braga along with taking in the Champions League game against Arsenal.
You can read a full report from our tour by clicking here & view our video by following this link.
December - We made developments to the layout of our websites. We have free downloads of books, training sessions and videos! Simply visit our sites and subscribe to our newsletters. Along with our FREE chat facility (top left hand corner of each website) we launched a new blog, CoachTim.Org.
We continue to grow & have a huge following around the world that have registered to our web based sites & coach resource information. The TWSports.Org Group has a number of exciting new features & opportunities as we enter 2011. We will bring these to you & your child!
Thanks for the support in 2010. Good just got better for 2011 & we look forward to sharing it with you all!
