Coordinative chains: why we don’t train the pass in isolation

With perception and decision-making already worked on, Level 2 of development deals with how the player executes what he decided. Here the difference in method is clear.

We don’t train gestures separately

We don’t train the pass in isolation, nor control in isolation, nor shooting in isolation. We train coordinative chains: the union of technical links that actually happens inside a match (control, carrying, passing and shooting) as a continuous sequence, not as repetitions disconnected from one another.

Every gesture continues a decision

In the real game no technical gesture happens alone. It is always the continuation of a previous decision and the preparation of the next action. Training in chains is training the way the game is actually played.

Making quality last

What we evaluate and develop is not that the gesture comes out right once, but that this quality holds over time: that control, passing and finishing do not degrade in the 70th minute, under pressure or fatigue.

We don’t train the pass in isolation. We train it chained with dribbling and shooting.