Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): U14-Week 3+4 (Friday)-Passing and possession, support play and creating space, balance

Physical (10 mins)

Coaching points

- Focus on the ball and your balance

- Keep your body in line, dont lean back or foreward too much

- Squat on oneleg to lift off with more power

Organisation

- 1, player hops on to the first disc with their right foot and volleys back to the server with their left

- 2, Players hops on to the second disc with their left foot and volleys back with their right

- 3, Player must hop off that leg into ajumping header back to the server

- Change servers after 1 minute

#2Passing pattern (10 mins)

Coaching points

- Type of turn, be creative

- Angles and distance to receive

- Be on different vertical and horizontal lines

- Communication and triggers for positioning- if i see my teamamte move deep then i need to keep the length

Organisation

- 2 players start inside the square with 2/3 players in each of the corners

- Ball starts with A who plays a square ball into B

- B looks to play to the closest player inside the box (C) while the other play looks to create distance, C turns with the ball and looks to make a quick combination with D and then play out to one of the corners.

- The player who passes inside (B) moves inside, the player who passes to the outside (C) moves outside

Conditioned game (25 mins)

Coaching points

Attacking

Body shape to be able to receive and play in all directions

- Pass to the back foot

- Draw defenders in to create space behind

- N player always scanning and making movements to support players

- Speed of play

Defending

- Pressure and cover

- Protect the middle

- Communication

- Tackling triggers

- Quick transition

Organisation

- 5v5+5

- One N player who palys centrally and a team of 4 who play on the outside of the pitch and are limited to 2 touches

- If you conceed a goal then your team moves to the outside and the outside team come into the middle