The Best Play In Youth Football

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The answer may surprise you. Many youth football teams attempt to emulate what the coach has seen on TV the past week or what the head coach ran as a high school player 20 years ago. Unfortunately what works at the College or Pro level on TV often doesn't work very well at the youth level. The coach's high school system may have worked well for his team 20-30 years ago with 6 days a week practices and fleet running backs, but fails miserably at the youth level.

At the youth level our job as coaches is to teach the kids how to block and tackle safely and effectively. We teach them how to get into good athletic stances as well as the base rules and strategies. Our most important job should be to make football fun for the player and coach our teams up to their full potential.

However, you can have fun and win at the same time. In fact most players that play on perennial losing teams lose their love of the game and quit. That is one reason I developed these coaching materials for my own 400 kid organization, so that our coaches would be competent enough to coach the kids to their God given potential. To allow our teams to play competitively so the kids would stay engaged in our program. In fact my materials are filled with how to make practices both well organized and fun.

Most of the plays or schemes the typical youth coach has in his playbook are not designed to the talent level of most youth teams. I see teams with no speed often trying to run sweeps, I see teams with kids that can't throw or catch throwing (trying to throw) 20 yard passes. I see teams running bootlegs with very slow quarterbacks. I see teams running a dive play with no lead blocker into the heart of youth defenses. I see teams trying reverses against well disciplined teams for huge losses. I see pass patterns with 3-4 and even 5 receivers. I see teams trying to get a 9 year old to read two different defenders on option plays etc etc etc.

I rarely see: good lead off-tackle plays, one or two receiver pass patterns, optional run and pass plays, trap plays, pulling, double teams, wedge blocking, designed plays to draw the defense off-sides, unbalanced formations, motion, and great sportsmanship.
In youth football each year is different; you will not always have a big team or have a very fast "feature back" that can outrun everyone on a sweep play. Unlike the colleges or pros, you don't have 100s of kids from all across the country to choose from or 20-40 hours a week practice time. In my mind the team that wins because they just happen to have the fastest kid in the league and he outruns everyone on sweeps and kick returns is a joke, a luck of the draw thing. Football is a team game and a well coached team won't give up sweeps for touchdowns or ever kick deep ti that speedster. My first team defense has not given up a sweep for a score in over 5 years.

I've coached youth football for about 15 years and one play that we have always been able to run effectively regardless of the size or talent of the team I've had is the lead
off-tackle power. It can be run by out of nearly any formation, I love it out of the Single Wing with 4 lead blockers and a double team block at the point of attack. While it isn't a terribly sexy play, it gets you 4-5 yards every down in most cases and sets up "home run" complementary plays like the trap, play action pass or wing reverse. Most youth teams are set up to stop the sweep, the "holy grail" play for most youth teams. Other defenses try to shut down the "dive" in the gaps next to the center. Very few youth football defenses are set up to stop even an average off-tackle play.

If the other team gives you the off-tackle, take it until they over-commit, then run the home run play. In our Championship game in 2003 the other team was so concerned about taking away our inside "wedge" play, they left open the off-tackle. We started the game with 7 straight tailback off-tackle plays to our strong side and scored. The very next series they moved out to our off-tackle hole and we ran wedge for a 65 yard score on first down. Then they tried to stop the wedge play and moved everyone up and we ran the wedge play action pass for a 60 yard score. We were up 46-0 in the third quarter when they finally just gave up and tried to run the clock. Both the wedge and off tackle plays can be run well by very average skilled kids.

In another game the defensive team was set up to stop the sweep and wedge plays but again were giving us the off-tackle play. We run no-huddle so we get many more snaps in than most youth teams. In that game we had 71 snaps, of which 51 were off-tackle strong plays. We were getting our 4-5 yards every time, nothing real big, but we did get some very big gains and touchdowns from blocking back traps, wing reverses (2 TDs) and TB run pass option (pass for TD). So we scored 5 touchdowns and out of the 5 TD's, 4 were in excess of 20 yards. We were only stopped on downs once and we fumbled once too. We were 2-2 passing for 56 yards and a TD. Now how much fun was that for our 3 tailbacks that shared duty at the tailback position that day and for our pulling guards? They all had a blast, so did our place kickers, and the 4 other kids that had TDs playing non-tailback positions. Oh yeah, our defense had fun too, they could play with abandon since we were moving the ball at will on offense.

The net is, the off-tackle play at the youth level is the hardest play to stop, yet few teams try and perfect it. It takes little talent to run the play, no studs required. In my Single Wing Offense, we practice that play more than any other. We block it a variety of ways so we know it will work and we will run it, regardless of what kind of defense we face. Our kids can run the off-tackle in their sleep, we often start our practices with the "Power Hour" as Steve Calande calls it. We run our off-tackle strong power for 30-40 minutes on air, fit and freeze and then with players holding hand shields going 100%. Ye,s just one play often makes up half of our offensive practice time.

If your team is doing poorly, you don't need a trick play or new offense (what most coaches panic and do) you need to get perfect at running the off-tackle lead power play.
We know we are playing a good team when they come out and try and establish the
off-tackle play. Of all the videos I've seen from youth teams from all over the country, regardless of the offensive set or personnel, the best teams always have a good off-tackle play. It isn't sexy but it does the trick and it sets up everything else in your offense.

Don't worry about putting in a bunch of fancy "trick" plays before you get your off-tackle play down perfectly.

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My brother is a huge sports fan. He loves all sports and when he was building his dream home he decided that an important part of his home was a game room. It wasn't just a game room, but it was a room that he wanted to have the atmosphere of a sports bar. We teased him about it, but when it was finished we couldn't believe all that he had done. He made sure that the room had a bunch of televisions, a pool table, air hockey and other activities. He had mentioned that he was doing these things, but what surprised many of us was the actual atmosphere.

What made the atmosphere was what he had on the walls in this room. He had jerseys of big time soccer players and several other sport jerseys framed hanging on his wall. Many were autographed with the signatures displayed so nicely. He had all kinds of sports memorabilia on his wall and with the lighting on the jersey frames it was amazing. You felt like you were at any professional sports bar out there.

As we were talking to him and getting the tour of his house I asked him where he found frames that were so perfect for the jerseys. They sat perfectly in the frames. They stood out with the perfect background behind the jerseys. He said that they were actually jersey frames and that were made to work with jerseys. I had never thought about finding jersey frames.

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National Mexican Soccer Team

Even though the Mexican soccer team did not succeed in earning even just a single major cup all over their more than a third of a century's existence, they slowly and painstakingly show to the world that had already matured and have a strength and ability to reckon with. All the other contenders in the current World Cups in addition to Copa Americana can attest to it. The Mexican's passionate behavior is what transforms into a particular playing approach when they were playing in the pitch. The Mexican's spirit is a kind of enthusiasm that made them into a team to be considered.

The Mexicans viewed the success of their neighboring Latin American countries as an inspiration and not as a hindrance. The inspiration that other Latin American countries gave to them introduced more motivation to pursue a more intense and passionate playing style. The burning desire to win inside them keeps the team on track.

From 1930 up to the present, they played 18 times in all World Cup matches without winning a single cup but despite all of this, the Mexican team continues to sharpen their abilities and playing skills and it is slowly gaining momentum now.

The soccer popularity in Mexico is spreading more and more everyday. This status can be apparently seen in the streets, that become more and more crowded of children and adults alike busy of dribbling or playing soccer games.

Mexican soccer greats Horacio Casarin, the Rosas duo, Manuel and Felipe and Enrique Borja were the driving force behind the Mexican soccer team. These legendary players served as an inspiration to the current roster of the Mexican team.

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Topless Women's Soccer

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Topless women's soccer has a potential to become widely watched throughout the world. This new concept in the football game can draw a large size of audience. This is another exciting and strange update on how it is being played. From the street soccer games, this new idea of the game can evolve into a new sport's phenomenon. This new approach in playing this game is indeed one of the most interesting to date.

This innovation can generate much excitement to people who watch the game right where it happens and even through television and internet. The excitement that every game provides is beyond compare, and if this new and fun way of playing soccer is injected to the game, the crowd will certainly go nuts while watching.

In topless women's soccer, most of the spectators wear big smiles on their faces. Since most of the viewers are men, this can be a new treat for them. This type of game features women who are literally naked. They have to show skin or wear nothing on top of their bodies. These women play football in the out field with just a brush of body paint to cover their private parts. The body paints are often used to draw the dominant colors of the team they represent. Sports apparels are not applicable in this type of soccer game, so do not expect to see long socks, football shoes, shorts and jerseys. The only thing these women wear is a piece of thong panty which makes the audience scream like there's no tomorrow.  

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Topless women's soccer has a potential to become widely watched throughout the world. This new concept in the football game can draw a large size of audience. This is another exciting and strange update on how it is being played. From the street soccer games, this new idea of the game can evolve into a new sport's phenomenon. This new approach in playing this game is indeed one of the most interesting to date.

This innovation can generate much excitement to people who watch the game right where it happens and even through television and internet. The excitement that every game provides is beyond compare, and if this new and fun way of playing soccer is injected to the game, the crowd will certainly go nuts while watching.

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Topless Women's Soccer Team - A Unique Game of Soccer

Topless women's soccer team is one of the most awaited events in the sport. Many years ago, the sport was dominated by men but as the game emerged as one of the most famous sport in the world, it slowly provided opportunities for women to participate in the game. Women players have proved that they can be as competitive as men in the field.

This event attracts many crowds especially men, not only because of the sport but the excitement of watching beautiful sexy topless women make it more interesting. The players usually wear panties and bra but some were nothing but thongs in which their skins are painted with the color of their team. The event is participated by many women's team from different countries.

In the recently held Euro 2008 match, the team of Australia made its first win when they were able to beat Germany's team with a score 10-0 with the delight of the crowd. The event was organized by one of the chat room websites in the country.

The Australian team was very happy with their victory and hope that this would provide moral boosting for their male soccer teams. After the defeat of the Germans, showing great sportsmanship, they joined their opponent having some fun and danced at the beach nearby Danube.

Though it the game was not as serious as the men's professional events, the crowd was satisfied and enjoyed a unique game of the topless women's soccer team the most loved sport of all time.

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