How to get better at football faster | Day 25: Your Most Valuable Asset

You are wasting your time doing drills

Nothing can replicate the game

The power of free unstructured play is impossible to copy.

Cone drills, ball mastery, and band warmups are so far from what has to happen in the brain and the body at speed of actual football.

A 2014 German study looked at a group of national team players and first Bundesliga players vs a group of 4th to 6th division players:

National Team differed from amateurs in more non-organised leisure football in childhood

More engagement in other sports in adolescence

Later specialisation, and in more organised football only at age 22+ years.

You can look at the numbers:

The earlier you institute structured play in children and specialize them to one sport, the more and worse injuries they sustain.

A 2014 study on NBA first round draft picks found:

Those who were multisport athletes participated in more games, experienced fewer major injuries, and had longer careers than those who participated in a single sport.

Let the mind & body grow by freeing yourself

This is what the natural does unconsciously

They just are...

Play small-sided 3-4x a week

Join an indoor futsal league

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