Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Positional Possession w Tommy
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| Name: | Pete Peterson |
|---|---|
| City: | Eugene |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Membership: | Adult Member |
| Sport: | Football/Soccer |
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Tommy is in the final days of returning to play from ACL reconstruction and 10 months of rehabilitation.
As he has transitioned from solo sport-specific movement into non-contact group activity, our small-sided games incorporated him first as a target player (outside the grid). As medical practitioners approved higher levels of play, we used him as a neutral player within the exercise with a clearly identifiable neon training bib. The rest of the team was instructed to not tackle or bump him. He was off-limits, no contact. Over some days, he progressed from unlimited touches to a touch restriction that began to help him speed up his decision-making and technical before he transitioned fully to contact activity.
In the activity above, the exercise is a positional transition game 7v7+ neutral (Tommy in yellow) to targets. The space is 35y L x 25y W.