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The System

The Symmetrical Soccer System (a brief Introduction)

Symmetrical Soccer is a comprehensive training system that guarantees improved ball skills, fitness, and match preparedness for boys and girls of all ages and experience levels.

What makes this training program unique is that it's specifically designed to close the skills gap between the athlete's right and left foot by working both feet symmetrically, within the sequence of the same exercise.

The system consists of groups of exercises that can be divided into four main categories:

Stationary, Lateral, Forward Moving and Restricted Spaces.

A. Stationary exercises, which serve as building blocks for the entire system, are exercises where the athlete stays in a small zone while performing symmetrical drills with the ball.

B. With Lateral exercises, the movements are of course lateral, while being completely symmetrical in nature. These exercises are perfect to allow the player additional means of creating space in soccer action.

C. Then, there are Forward Moving exercises with the ball designed to support appropriate 1v1 match action.

D. Finally, exercises in Restricted Spaces help trainees obtain additional precision in their ball handling skills.

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Action Plan to success

1. Assessing the Player

2. Focusing on Technique

A comprehensive assessment of the player will be conducted, from technical abilities to physical capabilities. The player's strengths and weaknesses will be identified, and the sessions will be planned and executed accordingly.

2. Focusing on Technique

Technique is the most important requirement for mastering any sport. This is why it is absolutely necessary to break down the technique of the skills we learn into their simplest elements before focusing on speed. During this training step, the player learns to visually distinguish proper technique from improper, because the trainer will not always to present to correct right from wrong. Also during this time, good habits are established and bad habits are eliminated through detailed focus and instruction.

3. Building Confidence

2. Focusing on Technique

4. Venturing Outside the Comfort Zone

Confidence has a placebo effect in sports. Believing you are good at something actually makes you better at it, and when you're better at it, you tend to like it more. Keeping these two in mind, it is important as a trainer to recognize and acknowledge the player's positive steps in order to boost their confidence and inspire them further on their journey to success.

4. Venturing Outside the Comfort Zone

5. Increasing Training Intensity and Complexity

4. Venturing Outside the Comfort Zone

A 100 m sprinter does not prepare for a race by going to the track and jogging 100 meters; the sprinter prepares by sprinting. But if the sprinter has an incorrect running form, all that sprinting will be pointless and show no results. Similarly, a soccer player must first learn the proper technique for any movement. Once they have, the next step to improve on their skills is to increase the training speed and push themselves outside their comfort zone, where they will only be successful some of the time and where mistakes will be made and tolerated. Gradually and naturally, their own bar will be lifted higher and higher, and less mistakes will be made at high speed.

5. Increasing Training Intensity and Complexity

As the player becomes capable of training with the ball at a higher speed, training sessions become more intense and the player begins reaping more of the cardiovascular benefits from the workouts. Training sessions also become more complex, helping expand the player's range of available tools for different match situations and helping the player become more versatile and closer to complete.

6. Understanding Match-Time Applications

5. Increasing Training Intensity and Complexity

Now that the player is equipped with the necessary tools for success on the soccer field, they will begin to discover match-time applications for everything they have learned through personal advice and self-exploration. The player will spend less time focusing on controlling the ball and more time on scoping the field, consciously making informed decisions, and expressing themself on the field. Over time, some of their decisions will become second nature.