The goal of this week's Animated Drills Video is to give players ideas for how they can combine to breakdown an organized defense. The diagram is being created with the Academy Soccer Coach software. See more at www.academysoccercoach.co.uk Have a great week! Tom
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By Anthony Hazelwood - The ability to successfully control a ball during a receiving or dribbling action is crucial to meet individual and team tactical agendas. This activity aids the player to practice a first touch into a vacant space action and to follow it up with a dribbling change of direction activity. Technical Activity:
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This week's Animated Drills Video shows a passing activity that involves decision making and movement. You can make it competitive by counting the number of passes completed in a minute or you can have two groups of players compete against each other to make the most passes in a given period of time. The diagram
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By Anthony Hazelwood - Passing and receiving a soccer ball during a match is a penetrative or possession-based action between a pair of soccer players. The ability to perform these actions will be dictated by a decision-making process guided by the presented on-field scenarios. To solve these on-field situations, these two points should be considered:
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This week's Animated Drills Video shows a series of ways that you can add a transitional moment for the defenders in your rondo activities in training. Just winning the ball and swapping defenders doesn't create a realistic game situation that will result in the transfer of training you're looking for. The diagram is being created
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This week's Animated Drills Video shows you a classic Dutch passing activity. This is an activity that you can find in the Member Drills Database section of the WCC Training Center. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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This week's Animated Drills Video highlights a possession game from the Man City Youth Academy that was published in the WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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By Gregg Gillies - Warm Up Set Up: Space can vary depending on number of players and how difficult you want it to be. Set up a variety of cone "goals" randomly throughout a space and pair up your players in teams of two, each team has one ball. Use at least 5 cone "goals." The
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This week's Animated Drills Video highlights a passing and moving pattern that you can use a warm-up or technical practice to focus on quality one-touch passes. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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This week's Animated Drills Video presents a different way to set up a 1 v 1 continuous flow game that focuses on lateral movement to beat the defender and keeping your head up to find the target. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have
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This week's Animated Drills Video shows an activity that combines passing and dribbling in order to put passive pressure on the group that is passing. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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By Mike Smith This session contains several simple patterns of passing and movement, based on a diamond shape, which are especially good for training midfield and attacking movement in the offensive third. Lesson 1 Two Ball Pass and Move Set Up Groups of 4 players set up in a diamond made of 8 cones spaced 7-10
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This week's Animated Drills Video shows a great way that you can take the simple triangle passing activity that you're already doing and make it more challenging. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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This week's Animated Drills Video is a simple way to work on turning and awareness that gives the players a lot of repetitions in a short period of time. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom
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By David Johnson Objective This session will focus on players thinking before the ball is passed and moving without the ball to open space. Following a color sequence predetermines the passing but movement is player driven. The players should open up to the passer as well as be in a position to pass immediately the
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By George Kee Many teams find themselves looking for a quick goal during a match which can lead to repeated direct balls from the back line to the strikers. While this option may seem quicker, it is not typically the most effective way to create scoring chances. This exercise aims to increase the ability to move
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By Mike Smith This session focuses on passing accuracy first, movement second and combined vision and timing third. This is a great session to sharpen up passing accuracy while building into a 4 man combination attack. Lesson 1 Three Passing Stations Set Up Set up three stations as shown on the diagram. The bottom station is
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