Game intelligence library

The game intelligence library collects training games that coaches in many countries use, and that make children look, choose and time what they do. Hobbit keeps searching the world for games built on the same idea, and adds each one only after checking where it comes from. Open Drills at the top of the sidebar.

What each game tells you

• How to play: the area, the numbers, the scoring and the rotation, so you can set it out from the page.
• The decision it trains: what the player on the ball sees and chooses, and what the others do.
• Harder or easier: one change for when it is too hard, one for when it is too easy, one for younger players.
• What to ask at the breaks: three open questions, with no answers given.
• Where it is played: the countries the game is documented in, its local names (rondo in Spain, bobinho in Brazil, Schweinchen in der Mitte in Germany), each linked to its source.
• Where it comes from: only what a source says. Some games have a named origin (Funiño is Horst Wein's), some belong to a place (Panna to the streets of Amsterdam), and many have none: then the page says so instead of inventing one.

Every game has a diagram, and "Plan a session with it" opens the session planner with the game as the starting point.

Finding a game

The world map shows where the games are documented; the bigger the dot, the more games. Pick a country on the map or in the list to see the games its coaches play. Filter by skill, game intelligence focus, age, number of players and how sure the origin is, or search by name, local name or country.

Free and Pro

Four games are open to everyone, signed in or not, so you can try the library before paying: Rondo, Funiño, Sharks and Minnows, and Panna. They are marked Free and come first in the catalogue. Without Pro you can also browse the rest of it: the names, the local names, the ages and the numbers. Their diagrams and full pages open with Pro.