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4 #148 Focus on Technique Before Speed

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1 Open Up After Passing Back

This week's Animated Drills Video shows a great exercise to train your players to open up and receive a pass after playing the ball backward. The diagram is created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. Have a great week! Tom

0 Move to Support

By Mike Smith Lesson 1 Get, Give and Go Set-Up Set up 6 passing stations ( as shown .) 3 should be 10yds and 3 should be 15 – 20yds in width. Make sure 3 stations run lateral and 3 run vertical. Groups of 2 pass to each other between the cones at each station. An

0 Creating Speed of Play and Support

By Anthony Hazelwood The following activity is a long intensive and non-directional possession exercise aimed to train the speediness of play on a mental, physical, technical, and tactical level. On a tactical level, coaching emphasis should be on ball circulation and player movement. Although players are initially placed in a particular formation (2-1-2 or 1-3-1),

0 Cogi Receiving Pattern

This week's Animated Drills Video shows a great way to organize an activity to work on receiving the ball out of the air while also challenging the players to run through the pattern. The video also shows some of the progressions you can use as well. The diagrams are created with the session planner on Planet Training

3 4 v 2 Rondo Through Gates

This week's Animated Drills Video is a variation of a 4 v 2 Rondo that helps players understand the importance of keeping possessing until they can find a way to penetrate through one of two gates on the wings. This rondo is from our new Tactical Series eBook focused on Mauricio Pochettino's tactics at Tottenham. The diagrams

3 Cogi Change of Direction and Opening Up

This week's Animated Drills Video shows a functional passing and support pattern that will encourage players to create passing options for their players after passing the ball backward. The diagrams are created with the session planner on Planet Training that is available through from Planet.Training. How would you progress this activity? Share your ideas in the

0 Three Square Passing Game

By Steven Smith Three Squares Area Size: For groups of six’s or seven’s a square grid of 44X44 (progressively smaller sized grids inside of larger grid) Teams: Three groups of six or seven (or other numbers as coach chooses) Time: 10-12 minutes Objective: Increase passing skills in teams of all developmental levels Narrative Taking risks and

0 Defensive Covering – Man and Ball

By Mike Smith Good defense has several aspects. The most common is just getting back to clog space, and I will take that all the time. However, a team that wishes to play complete defense should also have good marking, players attempting to deny penetrating passes and players focused on winning long services of the ball.

0 Diagonals Create Space

By Mike Smith I constantly catch myself reminding my team, “it’s” not always about what you are doing, it’s about what you are doing to the other team. Many times, the player in possession of the ball doesn’t look for or see the space that is created by team movement, but IF you have players who

0 Vertical and Lateral Support

By Mike Smith In most aspects of life, having a Plan B or even a Plan C is accepted as clever, solid planning. In soccer, often times we put ourselves in positions where it is “ all or nothing “ and don’t think about a Plan B or C should our initial efforts not succeed. The

0 3v3 + 3 Rondo

By Sean Reed - Objective This session will involve a 3v3 + 3 Ronda practice. Focusing on the movement to support the ball, playing on angles and tempo of play. Encouraging the players to play in the future and prepare for the 2nd movement and phase. Session 1 Diagram 1 Set Up 9 Players 3

0 Training Movement Without the Ball

By Mike Smith This session is focused on small groups of players working together to defend the space behind them. The fact is most of a soccer game is played off the ball. Because of this, great technical skill is needed to take advantage of the short time a player does have the ball. However, there is

0 Timing Movements to Receive the Ball

By Alex Trukan The following practice is focused on improving capacity of the aerobic energy system. This will help players to sustain the quantity of their actions throughout the whole game. In other words, players will be more likely to make a sprint or win 1v1 duel even towards the end of the match. The

0 Playing Beyond the Obvious

By Alex Trukan Playing football is based on constant decision making. Players on the ball and off the ball have to decide which option to choose from a number of those available. This is based on cues and triggers – a player sees a certain picture and reacts to it in a certain, trained way.

0 Midfielders’ Movement

By Alex Trukan When building up from the back through the centre backs, the spaces as well as options in front of them are crucial to progress the ball forwards. The key players involved in that are central midfielders. As the centre backs are in possession, they have to make a choice on their starting

0 Regaining Possession

By Alex Trukan The throw-in is an element of the game which is often neglected and not focused on. This is evident across most of the age groups and levels. At the same time, we can observe that if executed correctly, especially in the opposition’s half, it can be used as an important attacking strategy.

0 Attacking Support

By Alex Trukan Having options to pass is an essential requirement of the effective football. It is basis for not only possession style but also for more direct approaches. Attacking ‘connections’ help the team to play away from pressure, circulate the ball as well as penetrate. The type of support available will determine what the attack will

0 Corner Flagging

By Sean Reed - Objective This session focuses on the player’s awareness and movement. This is a session that can be used within the warm – up, as part of the session and / or when working with individual players. The cones and areas used in the exercises represent the 4-corners of the pitch (hence the

0 6 v 3 Possession

By Sean Reed - Objective These sessions are based on 6 v 3 possession overloads. It's a great session to get players working, engaging them and challenging them on a number of areas, depending on the coach’s objective. For the purposes of these session we are going to focus the coaching points on the ‘in possession’

0 Movement Work - Mirroring

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

0 Individual Movement Work

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.

3 Striker's Movements to Support Midfield Play

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

0 Individual Finishing - Shooting Quickly

By Sean Reed - Objective This is a finishing session for individual players working on quick finishing in around the area. 1st Ball – Receiving ball from Player (1) to finish Diagram 1 Set Up Set up please see diagram 1: one player working, receiving three different types of passes. Player (1) and (2) 5

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