Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Team Tactics - Attacking - Playing out of the back (U13 Boys)

UNOPPOSED DRIBBLING/PASSING

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• This is a dribbling practice in which players move with the ball through a chaotic central area of the grid, negotiating heavy ‘traffic’.
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• The 12 players are divided into three groups of four – A, B and C – with each group then further split into two sets of three and stationed by a cone on the outside of the playing area.
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• On the coach’s command, a player from each cone enters the middle of the grid with a ball. They dribble through the central area, populated by three Cones, before playing to a teammate in the opposite Cone. As they do so, they follow their pass out of the grid.

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WEIGHT OF PASS

• Players should focus on ensuring that their passes in and out of the grid in each practice are appropriately weighted.
  

• The player receiving the ball on the outside of the grid should ‘step into the game’, taking a positive first touch.
  

EYES UP

• Players should constantly scan the area so that they are aware of central traffic.
• The information this provides them with will dictate which passing lines they take up, where they dribble and how they receive the ball.

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• In this progression, players pass in and out of the grid rather than dribbling.
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• One player representing each group of 3 or 4 is in the middle of the grid at all times. Player A passes into Player B, who receives before playing a pass to Player C.
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• Having played the first pass, Player A moves into the middle of the grid, opening a new passing line to receive the ball from Player C. Player B leaves the grid.
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SMALL-SIDED GAME

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