David Powderly: Playing Through Midfield | FA Learning Coaching Session

The FA's David Powderly delivers a coaching session with grassroots players, aged 12-16, focusing on playing through midfield.

[gilessm]

I love how the coach progressively adds clear points/instructions while in between give the kids space to play and figure things out. The boys seem to be having a blast. Excellent session!

[footballtraininganddevelop]

The coaches use of questioning is very good. It really gets them thinking and he comes across in a positive way to make a simple practise very informative

[UHollis]

no matter how many times I watch this, I am inspired each and every time to create more positive and fun sessions.

[CoachWG]

Top end coach, really good guy too. Glad to see you doing well David

[roni_sidhu]

David is a great coach, love how he interacts with the players and asks them questions to get them thinking.

[brianlegacy]

This is one of my favourite sessions and always pops up in the queue. Powderly is an excellent communicator.

[yvonnecontreras]

Great coaching.
Let’s commend these athletes, they understood and it showed. 🙌🏽 really good passing and touching!

[bdesta]

Amazing to see the coach doing great work.

[fiozofs]

One of the best coaching sessions i have seen, with very good intensity and clear instrutions . Well done to coach .

[MiddleManFootball]

Such simple and yet very informative/effective drill! Loved it!

[pabloleao]

Great session. I like his coaching style, structure, attitude, feedback, players ownership. 🔥

[sugarresin]

Really like this practice. Good concise coaching points. Although I'd have rotated the 'red players' a bit more frequently.

[olivermd]

Thanks for the video, i appreciate that this is a session with grassroot players. From vidoes with academy players it is harder to learn, because every player there is so skilled that there are no inerruption by bad technique or else...thx

[bayudewantoro]

My lord, even my country's senior national team dont show this style of play

[korymagill]

Love it!! Nice drill. Nice attention to details coach. Thats top notch coaching!!

[BrightonLeccyTV]

Thanks for sharing. Some useful ways to paint pictures about creating space, recognising when/how your movement will create space for yourself or a teammate.

[salswervo]

that player in the top right is class with those passes lol

[jameelbrown]

Short mixed race kid looks like a baller, definitely one for the future

[keithyeah]

How do you get these young players so engaged? Half of my talks are waiting for them to focus.

[myrnblsm]

Nice to see. But the defensive aspects of this drill need to be worked on simultaneously. It feels as if the players who aren't "in possession" have very little idea about how to regain "possession". Consequently the team with the ball appears to be much better and more creative than they perhaps are as they are under very little pressure a great deal of the time. The nature of the drill tends to radically favour the team with the ball, which is fine to practice easy possession but it is rather too easy to my mind, particularly for players with a high skill level such as these players.