2006 OFC U-20 Women's Championship Toleafoa JS Blatter Football

• Fitness and mobility development
o Quick feet, agility, strength and evasion games
o Acceleration and changing direction quickly activities
o Game and position related endurance training - linked to reading the game and game actions
o High intensity game actions - linked with mental concentration and specific match situations
o Pressure play incorporating ball centred attacking and defending game actions
o Fitness testing, monitoring, evaluation and program adjustments
• Group tactics and game awareness development
o Quick and accurate combination play - 4 v 4 , 3 v 3
o Group tactical awareness training - 3 v 4 / 4 v 3 : 5 v 3 / 3 v 5 , 6 v 5 / 8 v 8
o Group pressing, blocking and stopping crosses
o Counter attacking - tactical, random, collective
o Quick ball speed, game reactive and proactive speed
o Tracking opponents forward runs into goal-scoring areas
• Team tactics and game awareness development
o Cooperative team - game awareness and understanding training
o Maintaining an effective playing shape / formation when attacking, defending or tactical considerations
o Style of play when attacking, defending or tactical considerations
o Playing as a collective unit when attacking, defending or tactical considerations
o Defensive considerations - block, zone / man to man / flexibility, low and high pressure tactics
o Counter attacking and anti pressing tactics
o Changing the game tempo and style of play
o Playing without a sweeper and or defending with two central defenders
• Injury prevention, management and player welfare programs
o Ensure players have good technique and fitness levels
o Common football injury awareness program - player and coach
o Football injury treatment and management program - player and coach
o Physiological medical screening and player profiles
o Nutritional awareness and monitoring program
o Pre game & post game - warm up and cool down routine
o Recruitment or training of competent support staff
• Periodisation, training and competition plan
o International competition plan - short, medium, and long term
o Strong domestic league & underpinning club and development structure
o Talented player camps and training plan with outcomes
o Player identification and recruitment plan with outcomes
o Individual and team training and development program
o Periodisation plan for training to develop game specific requirements
o Equipment and resources to aid high performance player development
o Monitor, evaluate, review and adjust training & competition program
The challenge
• National teams meeting world standards over the next five years
• Forward planning, budgets and periodisation of a women’s national team program
• Opportunities and facilities for girls to start playing football at a younger age in the community and at school
• Training and educating competent, effective high performance coaches and support personnel
• Potential talented player identification and accelerated development programs girls and youth women
• Effective use of MA academies for training the talented female players at all age groups
• Aggressive marketing to attract the best female athletes to come and play football
• Recruitment and training of competent medical and sport science support staff
• A sustainable, strong domestic league and international competition for women
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