As mentioned in my previous post on coaching points, the 5 W’s are both guided questions that we could ask our player when coaching, but also are a part of the foundation of your training session. The 5 W’s include:

1. What do you want to develop? What is the goal of this training session/exercise? Do we want to improve our ability to build out of the back using the #2/3?
2. Who are the players involved? During every training session, there are relevant players which the session or exercise is focused on. Besides key players, there are functional groups who include but are not limited to our back 4, midfield 3, attacking 3 (if you are playing in a 4-3-3).
3. Where are the specific actions that we want to develop taking place? Are we in the midfield third? Final third? Are we in central areas of our defensive third?
4. When are the specific actions we want to look for taking place? Is it when we lose the ball in the final third that we want to high press?
5. Why are these actions taking place? We must look for cues which are visual signs that a specific action is going to take place.

The 5 W’s are all about specificity and attention to detail during your session. Everything that happens on the field has a reason to it. The better we can begin to identify trends and patterns on the field, the more we can work towards improving those patterns of play.

“The deeper we dig into our field the more we know about its details”
― Sunday Adelaja