Heading Ban

[jon1959]

A point made in the discussion about this on SSN just now was that the ball is rarely headed in u12 games - it happens but not anything like as much as in older age group games - but that heading can be a big part of some training sessions with some coaches. If the focus is mainly on what happens in games it might miss the bigger problem.

[qccfc]

A point made in the discussion about this on SSN just now was that the ball is rarely headed in u12 games - it happens but not anything like as much as in older age group games - but that heading can be a big part of some training sessions with some coaches. If the focus is mainly on what happens in games it might miss the bigger problem.

We used to play headers and Volleys as kids, where one kid constantly pumps balls into the box and you had to score before the ball touches the ground, if you missed the target you went in goals. We used to play this daily. Heading the ball came on leaps and bounds at that point.

You would imagine that players are doing specialist heading sessions on a weekly basis heading the ball hundreds of times on a weekly basis in training alone.

[blue matt]

A point made in the discussion about this on SSN just now was that the ball is rarely headed in u12 games - it happens but not anything like as much as in older age group games - but that heading can be a big part of some training sessions with some coaches. If the focus is mainly on what happens in games it might miss the bigger problem.

I know the county U12 girls do heading drills once every 7 weeks, its only a 15 min drill, but still part of the training program