Thoughts on Charlie Francis and soccer

[no23]

@Pioneer

Once you have them back or rather if you have them back to the point where they have no restrictions or limitations, do you train them in the ideal fashion with what you believe to be best or must you cater to what they know they will be doing when they come back?

I guess if you had enough time, which you obviously don’t with the top guys, there has to be more of a concession to what they will have inflicted upon them when back with their team?

If you had an athlete over a longer period of time would you just train them the way you knew to be best which would likely leave them performing better during the “less than ideal” training they must do when they return to their teams?

Thanks.

Always prepare the athlete to play the game, not to be ready for training. You must explain that to the player too though.
Occasionally you have to prepare them - or bullet-proof them for team pre-season training.

Yes, if you train a player for 6 weeks at dominoes but when they go back to the team and they perform better - the coaches or the player don’t care - they just want the player playing well in matches.