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0 Get Your Midfielders Working Together

By Danny Carvalho This session was planned and designed to get players to work together as beautifully and effective as Modric and Kroos during their golden years at Madrid. Warm Up In this first drill, have the team split into groups of five if possible. It’s all about receiving, turning and passing. One player does

0 Transitioning and Sprinting Drills

By Danny Carvalho - This transition and sprinting drill is awesome to increase your players speed in a realistic game situation activity which is much more motivating than perform a number of sprints out of context. Set up In a small-sided field of about 65x40 yards, set cones side to side in a line at

0 Wide Players and Their Defensive Responsibilities

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We play with two very good wingers who create a lot of our attacking chances.  But they don't help back much when we are defending and we tend to get overrun sometimes.  What responsibilities should my wingers have when we are defending and how can I coach them to understand

1 Switching Points of Attack

By Danny Carvalho Warm Up (10 – 15 minutes) Working in groups of three being one starting central with the ball and two starting wide. Players pass and overlap the player they passed the ball to. This goes all the way up the field and ends with a shot on goal. Have the players rotate

0 Rondo for Defensive Pressing

By Danny Carvalho - When talking about pressing, we must consider a lot of intensity and effort to apply good pressure on your opponent. And it comes without saying that your players must be grinding remarkably on their physicality. This rondo was totally designed to work on your players capacity to endure the defensive demand.

0 New and Innovative Shooting Drills

By Danny Carvalho Question - “My players love shooting drills, but I keep doing the same drills.  Do you have some good and new shooting drills that will keep my players interested?" One of my favourite topics! It can be very challenging to set up shooting drills that won’t bore players after a while waiting

0 Fun Olympic Style Training Session

By Danny Carvalho It is hard to find someone who doesn’t get excited about the Olympics! And if you work with kids, it is your job to talk about it and introduce some different sports to your kids knowledge. So how about mix soccer with some other sports? Warm Up – Activity 1 This is

0 High Intensity Shooting and Conditioning Drill

By Danny Carvalho - This small sided game was designed to make players keep a very high intensity throughout the rounds playing. Set up In an approximately 35x25 yards field, have one regular size goal in one end and two mini-goals at the other end, with as many balls as possible outside the mini goals

0 How to Get the Best Out of Twin Strikers

By Danny Carvalho Question - “Our team plays with two strikers. One is really good with his back to goal and the other is pretty quick and makes great runs into space. How can I best utilize both strikers?" Many teams throughout history made the best out of playing with two men forward. Digging up

0 Correct Spacing to Build Out of the Back

By Danny Carvalho Warm up – Activity 1 Start with small-sided scrimmages (3v3 or 4v4) to get them enthusiastic and excited about the practice. This is a great format to get loads of touches and build from the back a lot of times. As they get on fire, you move on to the next activity.

0 Small-Sided Transition Game For Conditioning

By Danny Carvalho - This Small Sided-game was applied to a group of seven players aged 15 to 23 and two coaches. Have a player be a Goalkeeper and split the rest into two teams of three. Have them sort out which team starts attacking and which team starts defending. The game is going to

0 How to Build Out of the Back and Be Successful

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We are not having much success building out of the back. The players tend to panic and either hit a long ball when not needed. Do you have any exercises I can try in training that will help this? " To confidently build from the back, the players involved must

0 Making the Most of 1v1 Opportunities

By Danny Carvalho These drills will help you make the most of your 1v1 opportunities. Warm up – Activity 1 This one is called “The electric fence”. Set up a square with cones side by side in the middle (the electric fence) and a gate on each side. Starting without the ball as tag 1v1,

0 Getting the Best Out of Your Wide Players

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We have two very good wingers, but we don't seem to get the best out of them. Can you share some training sessions or games that I can use to improve our wing play?" I’m a huge fan of some good plays down the wings. And I have two drills

0 Center Midfielder Distribution

By Danny Carvalho Warm up – Activity 1 In groups of three, one player on each sideline and one player centralized. Every central player will perform for 30 to 45 seconds a pattern of passing and receiving, turning and switching. Activity 2 On a GK+3v2 game situation, the team defending the big goal starts with

0 Triangle Midfield - One or Two Holding Midfielders

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We play with a 4-3-3, but not sure whether to play with a diamond midfield with one holding midfielder or the triangle the opposite way round with two holding midfielders. Do you have any suggestions?" The answer to that question is 100% connected to: 1- What does your squad offers

0 2v1 Shooting Drills With Throw-Ins in the Attacking Third

By Danny Carvalho Warm up – Activity 1 Important to give everyone the chance to shoot on goal without a direct opposition except from the GK, to give them successful repetitions and confidence to confront opponents later on. In this first activity the players will perform a 1vGK, dibbling the ball as much as they

1 Invite Pressure - Defend Patiently - Attack Quickly

By Danny Carvalho Warm Up This session was applied to a u-12 advanced team but I’m sure you can adapt it to many other age groups and group levels. If you’re a youth soccer coach you know how insane a u-12 game can get with all the kick and run and play forward at all

0 Coaching Shot Stopping the Uncomplicated Way

By Danny Carvalho,  This session was designed to minimize “mad scientists” invention when it comes to train your goalies. Simple, straight to the point, technical guided and quite efficient. Warm Up Simply have the coach take four shots on goal to get the goalie to stop the shot in the air. Perform four to six

0 How to Defend When Attacking

By Danny Carvalho Question - “In a recent game, the opposition would leave three forwards near the half line when we were attacking and near goal. I told my players that we needed four players back to cover them, but this left us short of numbers when attacking. How would you deal with that?" This

0 When and How to Come Off the Line

By Danny Carvalho,  This session was designed to get the goalkeepers to push further their knowledge and ability regarding when and how to come out the line to stop an opponent. Warm Up Have five balls aligned at the penalty mark height, about three yards apart. The balls will be numbered. The GK starts facing

0 30 Activities For a Possession Based Game Model – eBook

1 Organizing Your Center Midfielders

By Danny Carvalho Question - “We play with a 4-4-2, but I'm struggling with the two center mids. I give them freedom to move where they want and interchange with each other. However, there are lots of times where both of them move forward to join the attack which leaves a big hole in the

1 Playing in the Final Third – eBook