G. J. EILERS Co.
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TRAINERS-REVIEW.
We have now had three weeks of summer
training and things in general have gone along
more smoothly than hitherto; on Thursday
June 23rd we had a demonstration of how the
Dutch International XI carry out their train
ing and we hope that all our players will con
tinue to attend each training-evening so that
we may carry on the good work with the hope
of experiencing a succesfull season.
My intention is to carry on as we have been
doing and gradually introduce more ball exer
cises. The mere fact that a trainer has been
engaged does not mean that success is gua
ranteed; just as much responsibility rests with
the players themselves, not only in their keen
ness when training but their regularity of
training. We need eleven fit players and there
is only one way of attaining this desire and
that is by regular training at least once per
week, once in every three or four weeks is
not sufficient and might as well be entirely
neglected.
Before we commence our friendly games
with other clubs, let me repeat what I have
mentioned on more than one previous oc
casion. Every player must think of the team
first and let it be quite clear, that there is
nothing that more surely leads to success than
accurate combination. We have no time
these days of individualism; we must have
combined play and every player, when on
the field (even though he is not in possession
of the ball, must be thinking out his own play
and deciding what he is going to do with the
ball before he gets it; every successful player
will readily acknowledge that it is absolutely
necessary to be thinking, thinking, thinking
for ninety minutes, even when the play is on
the side of the field, every player must be
thinking out his next move and under all
circumstances try to anticipate the movements
of opponents. Football is a game of tactics, one
side putting its skill and wits against the other.
The more all players think of their game, the
easier they will find the game to play. The
playert, scoring the goals, is not necessarily
the hero, the player, providing the opportunity
to make the goal is equally worthy of praise.
Whenever a player calls for the ball, the
man in possession should always try to give
it to him as quickly as possible. This leads us
to another very important point; no player
should ask for the ball unless he first makes
certain that he is in a good position to receive
the ball, he should make this position bij run
ning free from the opposition, but not offside,
the free he makes his position, the more room
will he have to bring the ball under control
before being tackled.
Running into an offside position and calling
for the ball is a mistake that should not often
happen, it merely provides your opponents
with a free kick. Here let me issue a warning
word to our extreme wing forwards, outside
right and outside left, whenever they are wait
ing for a ball to be kicked across to them, they
should not stand level with the opposing full
back, or even one metre outside. By doing
this they are expecting too much from the
referee. As the ball is kicked in front of them,
the wingers will naturally at once run ahead
to catch the ball, and will invariably look off
side to the referee, altho technically, it is not
offside. In nine cases out of ten the referee
will blow for offside and we cannot blame
him. because he hasn't seen the wing forward
start for the ball from a just outside position,
he usually sees the wing forward when the
latter has taken several strikes and looks to
be offside. Now these offside decision against
us can be greatly reduced by making sure that
we are outside by being say four, five, or even
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