The match we were supposed to play on Sunday didn't hold because the away team didn't show up and since we train on Sundays, we played 9 asides with goalkeepers.

These are training photos from Saturday's training. The training was full and we have an amazing training day.

Saturday is mostly dedicated to fitness so we trained different fitness, work out, and stretching. As an athlete, you must be fit and fitness training is what makes you fit.

Tire jumping improves your thigh and jumping power. We are using medium tires here because the boys are young.

Cone work is essential for every player. If a player lacks cone work, you will easily notice it because their ball work, controls, and dribble will be very poor. This is one of the reasons you can't compare the people playing from teens with people who start to play ball in adult age. We train cone and ball work regularly. That's what the basic drills (instep, control and passing, the volley...) improve in you.

After the stretching, fitness, and tactics training, we played aside which was a lovely one. We chose mostly u13 at one side and u15 at the other side and guess what, the u13 flogged the u15 with three goals to zero. The u15 took possession but were not able to break the u13 defense. When the u13 gain the ball they played a counterattack and scores. It was a lovely game and disgrace to the u15 😉

After some minutes, the coach blows the final whistle and that calls for the end of the training. We had some talks and everyone went home 🏠

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