11 a side football or 5 a side?

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   What do you lads think requires more skill? 11 a side on a Sat morning where you might just wander around up front for the last 20 minutes or 60 mins of 5 a side in Astro?

Poll Question: What requires more skill?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
11 a side	6	[54.55%]
5 a side	5	[45.45%]
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ABFC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Liam Brady Joined: 25 Oct 2014 Status: Offline Points: 1599	Post Options Post Reply Quote ABFC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: 11 a side football or 5 a side? Posted: 28 Jan 2015 at 3:09pm
	What do you lads think requires more skill? 11 a side on a Sat morning where you might just wander around up front for the last 20 minutes or 60 mins of 5 a side in Astro?

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horsebox Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Robbie Keane Born n bred in darndale. Joined: 03 Feb 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 34856	Post Options Post Reply Quote horsebox Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 2015 at 3:14pm
	Christ you must be bored. 5 a side is higher intensity.
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Devrozex Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Jack Charlton Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 7675	Post Options Post Reply Quote Devrozex Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 2015 at 3:35pm
	Yeah higher intensity and probably requires more all round talent. I.E a big lump can be handy in the 11 a side game (either at CB or FW) but would be exposed a lot more in 5 a side.

SuperDave84 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperDave84 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 2015 at 5:32pm
	However, as a striker, you require more skill in eleven a side, and you may well have to cover more ground. You will get a lot fewer chances at eleven a side so a miss is more likely to be remembered. They both require different skill sets and while you might repeatedly make mistakes in five a side, it'll be more noticeable in eleven a side, given the decrease in number of opportunities. It all depends where you play, too. I mean, a decent centre half is going to find that mistakes in five a side are less noticeable. Mistakes at eleven a side that lead to a goal will be noticed and thus arguably it is a tougher position requiring more skill. However, a pacy winger (a position where mistakes are forgotten and skill more memorable) is more likely to have a good time and look good at five a side, with a lot of chances on the ball and lots of dribbling, whereas playing eleven a side, a few good dribbles and a few bad dribbles will only highlight inconsistency. The same in five a side is likely to lead to a few goals for him (given the smaller pitch) and he'll look a better player. It depends what you mean and what you are after.


Landon Donovan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Paul McGrath Sheldon Cooper Joined: 27 Aug 2010 Location: Neutral Zone Status: Offline Points: 15708	Post Options Post Reply Quote Landon Donovan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jan 2015 at 10:47am
	Good point Dave re:Strikers. Spain, Portugal and Germany have much lauded underage systems. One of the biggest things people talk about are smaller sized games. Yet when you look at Portugal, they haven't produced a decent proper CF since Pauleta and Nuno Gomez. Spain were playing with no striker until Diego Costa became Spanish. The Germans have been using Muller as a makeshift CF and 36 year old Klose, with no other CFs in their Wc squad. The Dutch too have RVP, Huntelaar and then a gap for anything else.

SuperDave84 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperDave84 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jan 2015 at 11:43am
	Well, I'm not saying that playing five a side as youngsters is going to mean you have a problem producing strikers. Finishing should, theoretically, become more instinctive if you play a lot of five a side. What you'll miss out in player development is aerial work - headers, volleys, upper body stuff. That, to an extent, is clear with the Spanish model. A balanced system of youth development work is needed to produce rounded top level players and to make sure you don't miss out on players who can do a job just because they aren't comfortable with tiki taka five a side. I was more referring to the park level eleven a side and the hungover sunday five a side than elite player development processes.