100 Years of Football Drills

[Music] [Music] about a week ago I was scrolling on my phone and this old clip from this team training session back in about 19 1920 popped up and as a current professional footballer I was mesmerized I loved how much has changed over the Hundred Years of science and research and training sessions and all this stuff but at the same time how much has stayed the same so in this video I'm going to go decade by decade over the last 100 plus years and analyze the training sessions the drills and the exercises that I found so immediately we got some jump Ropers I'm guessing using this as a warm-up I've never been a part of a team that really incorporates jump rope into the warmup but the idea of moving your body and getting some high knees is not terrible then we have some baton movement for the shoulders which probably a good Mobility exercise I'm guessing they're weighted and then the next clip is them using their head to keep the ball up using their feet to keep the ball up which which is really exactly the same as what we do now almost a hundred years later you get in a little circle of five six guys and you just use one two touches to keep the ball up in the air the one thing I noticed is that uh they use a lot more of their head here I think for us majority of the time it's with our feet it's the first clip that I found of players actually training with the ball on the ground and playing it just really does like just watching this just reminds me so much of just like you're out at the schoolyard like just playing for fun no positioning just get the ball around the goal and and swipe at it kick out it to try to score I love this one it's funny it looks funny but really it's just a form of plyrics honestly you're just jumping up in the air trying to clear this string I mean I think that if we were to do that today it'd be kind of a joke thing like almost stupid but what's the difference of doing this jumping over a ball in a string versus jumping onto a box for a box jump it's still the same concept of of working on your explosive vertical jump has some slow motion and the body positioning it looks a little awkward a little unathletic but the same concept of trapping the ball like that is still 100% use today and the kick looks it looks again like you can just tell like the technique looks old-fashioned it's almost like it's just kind of like swinging your leg really high but he's hitting it with the right part of his foot it looks perfectly fine it's almost like I can recognize the movement as being oldfashioned and I and I can't put my finger on why it looks so oldfashioned it's and it's not really that it's stiff it's just that it looks it's almost I guess a little inexperienced it's like if I were to see someone move like that today I think that they're not um they haven't been playing football for that long but it's interesting it's also funny how different a lot of the people kick the ball and their their movements are and how their upper body is if they're leaning if they're landing on their shooting foot and I feel like it's because you're kind of just training based off who's around you there's no National coverage of of TV that people are watching that there's no training manuals for how to kick a ball or how to do whatever there's no YouTube to how to learn it so everybody just kind of learns it on their own and develops their own techniques and and mannerisms when they kick it again a lot of their training session looks like what would happen at recess or just in the schoolyard guys standing around the 18 Yard Box balls just being pelted everywhere guys CR ing in the ball shooting on two goalkeepers it's just like a no structure at all let's just go out there and do whatever we want to do and that's usually what happens when there's no structure at recess or you're training with your friends um it's funny how this is the top level at this time and it looks exactly how it looks like at the very Grassroots level now next we have Sheffield Wednesday 1935 so now we're looking about 90 years from today right off off the bat it looks more professional already a 10-year jump the the uniforms look a little bit more polished I guess the video quality is getting a little bit better but you have some huge huge shingar but everybody's dressed the same it definitely looks way more professional than it was before now this I love this little idea just kicking the ball against the wall um it's interesting the technique is just completely toes down with the laces it's not really like leaning to the side and and and hitting more of like a long ball or dri ball technique and it's not with the inside the foot it's just straight up and down straight with the laces but using the wall as your friend and just hitting the ball back and forth against the wall is something that I preach about doing all the time and I still think is one of the best drills you can do to improve your touch improve your passing the heading technique is really funny too of jumping straight up in the air and just kind of just bounding straight up there's no coming back and snapping forward like using your abs at all there's no off the forehead it's kind of like just jumping straight up and hitting it with the top of your head almost the shooting technique they're doing the same technique that you saw that the guy was passing with the wall they kind of run up straight up the ball and they're not really getting their foot wrapped around it or opening up the laces it's straight up and down toe down and just swinging their legs straight through and using the laces which is very old school we have mil wall from 1938 I couldn't imagine training the materials that they're training in looks like wool or cotton just full turtleneck sweater some probably heavy heavy pants or shorts thick shinguards leather heavy boots they get really soggy in the rain I just couldn't imagine how heavy you'd feel I complain about pants sometimes now this is really cool to see it's like a soccer tennis and that's a game that I play pretty much you know weekly if not every other day now it's cool that this is happening in 1938 you're seeing a video of it and it's still something that teams all around the world consistently add to their training regimen now we're making a big jump Arsenal FC in training from 1950 right off the bat the technique looks way way better I feel like their movements their body language just looks way more confident with the ball heading the ball I can tell like these players would be better still it's not great but it looks a little bit sharper I wonder I wonder what that is it looks like a game ready it looks exactly like a game ready I have no idea what it's doing I don't know if it's heating or icing it's probably heating cuz he's going to massage it after building the football boots hammer and nail the technology that is found in in football boots now compared to 1950 is insane to think about how light a pair of vapors are or Adidas Crazy Fast boots are now how they're just like how they just weigh like grams compared to what you're seeing with hammering Nails into these boots heavy leather metal in there it's those things probably weigh a couple pounds and we have the English national team training for the World Cup in 1954 it looks way more professional the field looks better quality um they're still not 100% matching but uh it looks less like a schoolyard pickup session and looks way more like an organized team training session again in the line doing very classic almost like jumping jack high knees type things and it's still stuff that we do in warm-ups high knees butt kickers squats it's all the same but uh just the way they in the lines like that stationary looks way more old school than us some relay races we do relay races in this aspect we incorporate a little bit more of the ball usually but we do stuff like this in our warm-ups all the time there's little movements and and mannerisms that make it seem such a a lower level than what we're used to seeing now but it's kind of like when you take the touch and it's not out in front of you where you want it so you have to back up a little bit and then go back up to kick the ball or it's like with your hand just being out like this all the time running around those mannerisms to me just seem way more amateurish than what you're used to seeing now with guys in the Prem and that just look so natural out there with the ball just to see how far science and nutrition and the workouts and everything has come to now make much much more athletic more technical smarter players I don't want to make it seem like I'm I'm completely saying these guys are terrible or unathletic they definitely are than today but these guys were the best in England in 1954 they still were athletic they still had good technique they still were were able to play moving into the 60s now I think immediately too just noticing some of the passing patterns this is the first time that you're starting to see this at least I've seen it in the videos they were doing you would have some typical giv goes or some three-man weave type stuff like that in the old videos but this is the first time you're seeing move movements runs third man runs passing the ball turning out receiving on the go again probably more tactically Based training as running on the two lines around the field with some headers jumping up we do the same thing the same thing running jumping working on that as a form of warming up this is really cool to see the football boots you can start to see some adus boots back there all black you get the iconic three white stripes but they're still hammer nail building the the boots you can see just how many nails or pins are in there as well but it already looks a lot leaner Slimmer way way lighter than you had in like the 40s or 50s you're only seeing Clips but it does look like the players are getting a little bit more athletic but the the still the technique used to kick still screams old school for me now again the English national team 1970 some agility Fitness where you're running not at just a constant speed or constant Direction but they're incorporating a lot of of cuts and turns but my stereotype of of football in this time is is a lot of running it's almost like you're doing way more without the ball than with the ball I don't know if that's 100% true and it's definitely not true for every single team out there but um that's just like the perception that I have of of football in this day and age now we have it looks like two games going on at once I it looks like I don't know if it's 11v 11 or 5v5 or something but the technique looks better these players are obviously very very fit you can just tell that all these guys could probably run for days but obviously the the fast twitch explosion speed is probably not where it's at today but it was a different game and the game was played very differently I love this documentary about ax and this is from the in 1991 to 1997 but aax had this huge influence about the shift in culture and training methods and and training ideology during this time and even before this time even stuff like this if you watch this passing pattern the dynamic movements how sharp it is I mean that has quality even here in these little moves like this with the ball it it's Sharp and I'm not saying that back in the 70s or 60s players couldn't do this but I think there is a big emphasis now in the 9s working on those techniques working on moves and really being sharper with the ball faster with the ball that's what really sticks out to me in this this footage is just how much faster the balls moved in these clips in these training sessions I have England training for the FIFA 2010 World Cup a lot of reason why the ball starts to move faster and faster as well is the the quality of the pitch not only is there this emphasis to train with the ball more get the ball on the floor more and not just kick it up in the air but there's also this movement of getting better and better Fields where you can play on the ground back in the 1920s you really couldn't play on the ground that fast because the ball's bobbling around so much because of the pitches compared to the fields here this is where we start to get into training sessions that look exactly the same as the training sessions today maybe some some tiny tiny differences but the differences might just be from Team to team or player to player or coach to coach the same aspect speed ladder Dynamic warm-ups with the ball getting touches in is the exact same as today the only difference that you can really see is the quality of the film's a little bit lower being it it's in 2010 and uh some of the clothes looks a little outdated a lot of the shoes the boots look a little bit outdated compared to today and obviously you recognize the players and understand that these aren't players that are still playing right now now we have England team training from 2012 now you're starting to see some players that you still see playing today Kyle Walker James Milner and probably seeing a lot more familiar faces and again there's not much that I can really talk about in in these training sessions the only thing that stands out as being different is the clothes the shorts are a little bit longer now a little bit more baggy the the drills the pitch the the movements the the exercises it's all the same pretty much now I think there's a big shift in probably around right now where you start to see a lot of sport Science coming into the game and players are looking faster bigger stronger more athletic than ever they still have the fitness they still have the Tactical IQ but really it's the speed and the change of Direction and how Dynamic every single player looks is the big difference really to me and I think in the shift in the 2000s in the 20110 um to now I honestly have no idea how this video is going to do I just thought it was really really interesting and I love seeing how the game changed and evolved throughout the decades I hope you guys enjoyed that as well but if you did please hit the Thumbs Up Button subscribe I'll see you guys in the next video all right guys peace [Music] oh

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Length: 15min 30sec (930 seconds)

Published: Sun May 05 2024