Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): DWB basic

Dribbling thru the Gates (10 mins)

Organization: Have different colors cones inside a grid. All players will have a ball at thier feet. Depending on the numbers you could have 1 or 2 teams

Instructions: All players have a ball. All players will run through the different gates and score points. This exercise will go for 2 minutes with different progressions. Such as dribbling with the outside/inside and lace.

Coaching Points:

-close dribbling

-every step will be a touch on the ball

-touch the ball with any part of the foot (inside, outside, laces)

-field awareness such as vision of opponents, open spaces.

Technical Fully Opposed (15 mins)

Organization:

15x30 channel, use cones to make two small corner gates on either side. Players line up across each other in channel, balls on one side.

Instructions:

Player with ball serves to player across then runs to middle to defend. Receiving player's objective is to dribble through the Left or Right gates using Rolls to beat the defender. Defender can win the ball back and dribble through one of his two gates to score a point. Keep individual scores.

Coaching Points:

-Use fakes and moves to deceive the defender.

-Accelerate after passing defender

Progressions:

Regression: Defender must stay on the middle line (see blue cones), i.e. can't move forward or backward, just laterally along the blue line.

Small Sided Game (25 mins)

Organization:

3v3 with 4 teams.

Two corner goals or goals at center

Coaching Points:

- Three lines of attack (Width, Depth, Length)

- Penetration as option one (Shot, pass, dribble)

- Possession as option two

- Angles of support (Can you make a triangle?)

- Distance of support (Can you make the triangle as big as possible?)

- Timing of support (as ball travels)

- Speed of thought and movement in transition

- Correct moment to apply the session topic