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1 Attacking and Reading Defensive Situations

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter.  Today’s featured activity works on attacking and reading the defensive situation.

Start with an attacker with the ball around 30 yards from ball.  There are 5 defenders spread out and a keeper in goal.

The coach calls a number and as soon as the number is called the attacker tries to get to goal and that number defender sprints to defend.

0 Adding Defensive Pressure to Shooting Activities

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter.  Today’s topic deals with adding defensive pressure to shooting activities to make it more realistic.  There are some excellent examples of this in the book Modern Attacking & Goalscoring by Liverpool Academy coach, Phil Roscoe and Mike Vincent.

This can best be demonstrated using an activity I wrote about a few years ago (and is a nice little passing/shooting activity). This is a simple three person combination using the D as the work area.  One player starts at each corner of the D and one player is at the top of the D.  There are other players behind the first player in one line and they all have balls.

4 2v1 and 3v2 Attacking and Defending

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter.  Today’s featured activity works on 2 v 1 and 3 v 2 attacking and defending.  Attacking activities such as this one can be found in the book Training Creative Goalscorers. Start with a grid that is 50 x 40 with a midfield line.  There are full sized goals on

3 Don't Be Static When Attacking

One  of the problems with many teams attacks is players become static.  Midfielders stay behind the forwards, forwards stand and wait for the ball to be passed etc. This activity works on movement, penetration, anticipation and combination in getting to goal.  Start with three gates, each 3 yards apart around 25 yards from goal.  There

2 Moves and Fakes

We had a discussion in the office the other day about the difference between fakes and moves. The discussion revolved around how you can use a move that doesn't fake the defender and whether we should be teaching young players moves or how to fake. This is an interesting subject because there's no shortage of

0 1v1 and 2v1 Situations

So much of soccer can be broken down to 1 v 1 and 2 v 1 yet we tend to want to over-complicate matters by thinking bigger numbers.  Here is a fun game to work on 1 v 1 and 2 v 1 situations. The grid is 30 x 15 with a 3 yard wide

0 Coaching Everything At Once

Many activities work on attacking and defending.  Many activities work on possession.  Not many work on both.  This activity, and many like it can be seen in the book Full Season Training Program - Elite Team by Terry Michler This activity is a 6 v 5 plus a keeper in the penalty area.  5 attacking