Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Playing out from the back,

Warm-up (10 mins)

Set - up

Area can be adjusted to suit numbers.

Inside area 5 x 5 yards

Half of squad on outside with a ball, half on inside.

Players work in 1 min repertitions.

Players on inside must return through central area and exit at 90 degress. NO striaght runs.

Players move round area, avoiding the red area, and perform dynamic stretches of all muscle groups.

Players work for one minute then swap,

- Players perform side foot volleys

- laces volleys

- contol on relevent part of body (chest, thigh etc) as dictated by server, and volley back.

- Headers, attacking & defending

Servers now pass the ball in,

- Players pass back, two touch. Control with one foot, pass with other.

- First time pass

- Recieve ball on back foot, turn, dribble through central area and pass to a free player to recieve back.

- Repreat as above but players swap positions one a pass is done.

SSG (30 mins)

Set - up

Teams play a 9 v 9

Blue team play in a 4-2-1-1

Yellow team in a 3-3-2

Blue team must look to play from the back using CB, HM or FB

Yellow team play direct, and have 10 seconds to have a shot on goal.

Key Points

- Do CB split on GK reciving the ball

- FB to push high & wide

- HM to engage and look to recieve off CB

- If HM are marked, can they create a passing line for #10

- How do the opposite FB & CB react when ball is played out to opposite CB? Do they took round as cover.

- Does GK look to recieve the ball of CB if a forward pass isnt available.

- If CB cannot be played can he create an option for ball to be played to FB by dragging CF away.