By Sean Pearson Area Size: 36 x 50 yards. (middle zone 36x30, end zones 36x10) Teams: 7 v 7 Time: 20 Minutes Objectives: To know when to run beyond the striker To know who should run beyond the striker In games the idea is to score, simple. The best player at this job is the
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By Sean Reed - Objective These sessions focus on movement, specifically mirroring movement. At any point within the game players will come up against an opponent where they will need to create space, get away or get past the opponent. On the other hand players will come up against an opponent where they need to prevent
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By Alex Trukan Dominating 1v1 situations has been a widely discussed topic over the last years. Many clubs have chosen to design their philosophy around this area stating that they want to consistently win ‘1v1’ situations both in attack and defence. That approach can be adapted at all levels of the game, whether it’s U6’s
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By Chris Kouns USSF A License (USSF Coaching Education Instructor) – NSCAA Premier Diploma (NSCAA Coaching Education Associate Staff Coach) – Head Women’s Soccer Coach – Georgia Gwinnett College Set Up: Set up cones in a “T” formation with approximately 8 yards between them. On the opposite side of the cones place two small flag
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By Alex Trukan Position of a winger has primary importance in the attacking strategy of many teams. Initially, their responsibilities were based around winning duels on the wings as well as delivering crosses into the box. However, that has evolved over the last years and now being a winger requires more versatile abilities and intelligence
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By Alex Trukan This practice is designed to improve Anaerobic energy system which is responsible for short-duration, high intensity actions during a match. Therefore, players will develop their ability to produce high quality explosive bursts, which may be useful when applying pressure on the ball or doubling up to win the possession back. From the
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By Sean Reed - Objective These sessions will focus on some individual movement work that can be carried out within the warm-up. They can also be linked in with any specific work you are focusing on within the session. They are there to provide some ideas, but like with every session can be developed and progressed.
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By Josh Jones-Keen - David De Gea has just won Man United’s player of the year for the 3rd time in a row. This is a great achievement and one that might not be beaten for some time. Some will say this is indicative of how poor Man Utd are currently however let’s put this in
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This week's Animated Drill Video shows a fast paced and functional shooting competition that puts your players in situations that they will face in the game. The competitive aspect puts pressure on the players to perform. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through the Member Drills Database.
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By Alex Trukan This practice is focused on improving players’ explosiveness and anaerobic power. It is crucial conditioning component which is for example used when losing the ball and making transition to defence and during recovery runs. In addition to that, combination play element is incorporated to make the practice more realistic and add technical
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By Sean Pearson Area Size: 30 x 34 yards Teams: 5 v 5 +1 Time: 20 Minutes Objectives: To maintain possession To transition quickly This possession focuses on the transition of your players from being condensed when defending to open when in possession and the reverse. You can choose to focus on one specific transition
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By Josh Jones-Keen - This is a fun but competitive drill recently seen performed by Burnley FC. The aim of this game is to keep the ball out of the net by any means possible. After all that’s what we’re paid to do. This can be done 1 on 1 or with multiple Keepers by rotating
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By Alex Trukan Recent years has seen a rise in formations and styles of play overloading midfield areas and getting away from the traditional role of number ‘9’, replacing it with a ‘false 9’ and formations like 1-4-6-0. That has pointed many coaches’ attention to possible alternative roles strikers can have. One of the more
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This week's Animated Drill Video looks at a great environment for training goalscoring because there are so many different variations and progressions you can use. [wpsharely id="6889"][wpsharely][/wpsharely] The diagram is being created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through the Member Drills Database. Please share your ideas for variations of this exercise in the comments
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By Sean Reed - Objective These sessions can used as part of the warm-up and they aimed to engage the players leading into the session. They will focus on their awareness, decision-making, and movement to create an option, along with specific types of football movements. These types of sessions can be used with any age, any
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This week's Animated Drill Video is about a small-sided game that can be scaled to fit the number of players you're training and focus on a number of topics. You can train quick passing and support to penetrate through the lines of pressure or focus on the defense and work on the shape and movement
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By Alex Trukan This game is focused on improving aerobic endurance as well as 1v1 duels. From the physical point of view, it helps players to maintain many actions throughout the whole game, what will enable them to be more involved and affect the game more even towards the end of it. From the technical
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By Chris Kouns USSF A License (USSF Coaching Education Instructor) – NSCAA Premier Diploma (NSCAA Coaching Education Associate Staff Coach) – Head Women’s Soccer Coach – Georgia Gwinnett College In these activities we are working on players recognizing and exploiting numbers up situations. Set Up: There are two 10 x 10 grids placed back to
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By Josh Jones-Keen - This is another topic and drill that was discussed at the recent FA Keepers Conference. As players get faster and the game changes dealing with 1:1’s is becoming more & more important. 40x40 yard box with two small boxes in side for the Keepers. [wpsharely id="821"][/wpsharely] 6v 3 with a Keeper in
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By Sean Reed - Objective This is a finish session focuses on players finishing from different angles and crosses from wide areas. In addition it can be used as a physical session combining the finishing with the fitness. It will encourage players to make decisions whilst working under pressure. Acceleration and deceleration through movement from one
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By Alex Trukan Playing with a midfield four when out of possession is arguably the most popular way of setting up your midfield unit to defend. It is also relatively the simplest way of defending to coach and play based around several roles and responsibilities. If executed correctly, it is also one of the most
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