Helping a player who gets overwhelmed
This is separate but related to a recent post about coaching your own kids, more about seeing what I can do to help the player along.
This is a U10 player, one year in club. Super fit, athletic, strong. Good ball skills. She should be absolutely dominating in our town travel league and more effective in club (B team).
This player gets overwhelmed in games and scrimmages and makes bad decisions and isn’t aggressive. My daughter plays club with her, so I have a pretty good sense of what they work which included scanning, receiving, etc. Maybe the veterans here can help me put the clues together and put together a few drills.
This player:
-Dribbles a little bit upright but with her head up, you'd think she was seeing the field well
-Covers a lot of ground playing in the midfield, never stops moving, wins a fair amount of duels
-Is very one gear which looks around 75% on both sides of the ball
-Doesn't seems to process the information from scanning
-Never turns on the jets even though she is very fast
-Doesn't use 1v1 moves outside of small-sided, but has decent ones in practice
-Tends to shy away from contact a little bit but not outrageously
-Really never makes the correct decision in the final third, but is especially shy on pulling the trigger to shoot
-Seems overwhelmed on the ball and doesn't seem to process any information
Anything you think I can do as a coach to help her along? I also get some time with her in small group with my daughter.
Posted May 1, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC