DevonSpurs

I always set up specified schedules for the first team, ie Defender Training, Midfield etc, but never touch the youth training.
But I have noticed over the past 2/3 seasons that my under 18's are producing better quality players - so my question is, whats the best way to train the under 18's?

chopper99

Personally I set up similar schudules to my first team ones but less intensive. Seems to work quite well for me.

DevonSpurs

Thanx for the reply, I will give it a go later.

opul

I have experienced with youth schedules for a while. After having always only used the standard training I decided to give it a go and made individual training for all the positions.

But because you cannot train youth playres that hard, I noticed one thing: their physical stats did not develop too well. So I went back to the standard youth training for all positions and it was worth the try.

The physical stats improved, the rest just a bit, but they will have plenty of years later to work on that.

Also, as soon as a player can sign a professional contract, I put him into the amateur/reserves squad, because then they do normal training, not just the limited youth training. And this is where they start kicking it off, regarding all their stats, but more so the technical ones.

With a tough preseason programme this works really well and the players develop wonderfully. To further technical development tutoring is also good.

So all in all I can say that physical development is important in the early years, because it is the foundation for their entire career. technical stats can still be developed through individual training quite heavily, even at "older" age.