IN A SLUMP ! help ??

[northstars#7]

I recently joined a new team after many tryouts i was selected on my last team i was the star player almost the '' go to guy" but on my new team i feel like i can never perform up to my ability like i play good at practice and it never can carry over to games i train every day on my own working on all the fundementals and running 3 times a week to get into game shape but nothing seems to help out on the pitch i feel almost lost playing with these kids and now to my lack of performance im in fear of being cut

if ANYONE HAS BEEN IN THIS SAME SITUATION OR HAS ANY ADVICE FOR WHAT I SHOULD DO LET ME KNOW THANKS !

U15 FORWARD IN TROUBLE !!!!

[CC05]

I've been in that situation before. I don't know how I worked my way up to getting out of it but once ya score another goal you'll be fine. Maybe it's just nerves (from being on a new team or because it's a new season)?

[Tony Dellbird]

I think it's because you haven't learnt how your team mates play yet and your trying too hard to impress when if you did simple things and really observed the players and played the way they played you'd be more sucessful. This is what happened in my U14 team, most of the players i was used to playing with left because of the new manager and an existing player brought in lots of people from his school and they all knew eachother much better than i did and i played rubbish until eventually i learnt how they played and got to know them, then realised they were all boring and way too serious i left for a better team. lol

[Lg__o3]

All you need to do is calm down and play the game. You said you play striker, so when you get the ball, put it in the back of the net. the best way to make your self and others think you belong as a striker is to score, because thats what strikers do. you worry too much about what others are thinking and not enough on doing your job on the pitch. i was the same way, i started to play in a mens league where compitition is pretty good, most of the teams are made up of college students comming back home for the summer, or national military players, and i was worried about my performance. i would lose the ball alot, and not perform up to my standards, but i just calm down and played the game.

[C. Ronaldo7]

get some new cleats. lol.

[Callump]

amen.

[Futballer]

I had this problem when I first joined a team...
It will pass when you score a few goals.

[Sky_]

Wow that post is amazing, not one single comma or period, how did you pull it off?! :eek:

[C. Ronaldo7]

no seriously get new shoes, it will give the phsycological edge.

[Jc18star]

I had the same problem a few years back when I started playing again after about a 2 year break. I started playing on some crappy team and I was the go to guy I played right behind the two forwards "in the hole" so to speak and I started tearing the league up after I found my form in a few scimmages and the best team in the league wanted me to play for them in the next season as they we moving up to the top division.

So I ended up going with them in to the higher divison and they were expecting a lot out of me since I had torched them when I had played against them. We had a glut of midfield player though and I got moved from my best spot as the playmaker to an out and out forward which I had not played since I was 12 years old. Needless to say with a new team and a new role I was a bit out of sync. In our second match a player got hurt and I moved back to the playmaker spot and played well scoring they tying goal in the closing minutes of the match.

All seemed well but the next two matches it was back to out and out forward and I had a horror show including a missed PK(my one and only miss form the spot ever) 3 missed one on ones, a crossbar hitting blast from like 10 yards then I missed a header on a floated ball from the six while the goalie was on the ground.

My confidence was in the gutter, I was ready to go back to my old crap squad just so I could play my old position but I wasn't going to leave with my tail between my legs so I just started playing more of a deep lying forward role insted of trying to play off the guys shoulder like when I was 12, got some new boots(since you always feel good wirh new shoes), and just decided to let go of the pressure I put myself under thinking I needed to impress my new team and then bang I scored a sweet freekick the next game, and the flood gates opened after that and I bagged 5 in the following match and scored in every game of the season after that.

I just let go of the pressure I was under and stopped caring about impressing everyone and played the game the way I knew how, the nice goal helped get the monkey off my back so to speak as well but I wouldn't have taken that freekick if I was still worried about impressing everyone because I would have been scared to miss after the way I had been performing.

[Tony Dellbird]

Yeah it's all in you're head!