Sesión de Fútbol (Sesiones de Academia): Traditional Session

Skill - Passing & Receiving (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)

• Players will work the ball around the mannequins square and change direction every time whistle is blown.
• Players work with one ball per group (more than one group set up if more players)
• Focus on players body position when receiving the ball, open stance to play forward on pass.
• The footballing basics may need to get reiterated such as checking shoulders and communicating a pass.
• Player moves away from mannequin in order to create a better passing line and move away from the defender before getting the ball.

Organisation

• 4 Mannequins needed. 20x20 boxes. Groups depends on amount of players.
• Balls outside area incase play gets broken down, quick start again

 Challenge:

Have players try and play on two touch or one whenever they can.

SSG (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.