Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Traditional Session
FAW Coach Ed
Meesha Dudley-Jones
Description
Traditional Session approach:
Skilled-
Passing and receiving block lasting maximum 15minutes.
Coaching points focusing on movement away from the mannequin break the line with the touch to pass.
Passing and receiving basics such as checking shoulders and communicating a pass.
Technical & Tactical-
General practice, breaking lines in possession.
Rule is that stay in zones, until progresses to allowed in any zone.
Coaching points focusing on movement to get on the ball in your zone, body shape when receiving the ball, can it break a line?
SSG-
Keeping same zones into small sided game, no conditions, players can go anywhere on the pitch.
Reiterate points from earlier sessions to break lines in the game.
Encourage the opposition to defend narrow and centrally, see how the focus attacking team can they try and play to get up the pitch.
See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.
See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.
20 mins
Technical Practice- Breaking the lines(in possession) 20minutes long.
Traditional (Tech/Skill/SSG)
Key Coaching messages - Technical & Tactical information (The mechanics of moving into space receiving the ball and breaking a line with the pass. Tactical information of when to break lines)
- Players will be split into two teams, two players from each team in a zone. 12 players in total, 4 in each zone all together.
- Aim of the game is to get the ball played through every channel and back to get a goal.
- The middle zone players are key to this success as the ball has to be passed through every channel.
- Movement of the every player is important, how can the players position themselves to break a line and play forward.
- The passing and receiving which took place in the skilled based session will be reiterated in this.
Conditions and progressions:
- Limit touches in the middle zone, to two touches, limits time spent on the ball to turn and play forward.
- Progresses to players being allowed to move into all zones.
Organisation
- 50 yards by 30 yards width.
- Rectangled shape box outlined with cones.
- Middle zone, use flats to highlight the zone.
- 2 lots of bibs. 6 for one team and 6 for the other.
- Balls around the outside of the box incase ball gets out of play, new one in quick. Play from coach.
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30 mins
SSG
Traditional (Tech/Skill/SSG)
Key Coaching messages - Reiterating messages from the technical, tactical and skilled session.
- SSG with no conditions, middle zone is still sectioned out, encourages players to break lines whether that's with touches or with passes.
- Players can go anywhere.
- Work on movements between units to break lines.
- Breaking lines helps cut the opposition out of the game to then create overloads.
- What to do when a line is broke? How can we play forward and find good options? How can players on your team be an option? Depth, width and height.
- Encourage the opposition to defend centrally see how the focus team can now break down the opposition.
Organisation
- Can keep organisation of pitch from the Technical & Tactical session.
- Add two keepers to the SSG.
- Balls in either goals, ready to keep flow of the SSG going.
- Cones still highlighting the middle zone.
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15 mins
Skill Practice- Passing and Receiving 15 Minutes long.
Traditional (Tech/Skill/SSG)
Key Coaching messages - Technical information (The mechanics of passing and receiving)
Organisation
Challenge:
Have players try and play on two touch or one whenever they can.