Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): UEFA A - Creating wide overloads - Team training and individual 4

2v2 function (15 mins)

Session Title, principles & objective: Principle: Creating wide overloads Sub principle: working on full back and wide forward relationship

Learning Objectives:

1. Create overloads or isolation (Especially in wide areas)

2. Create and complete quick switches of play to create overloads or isolation in wide areas

3. Improve relationship between full back and winger

This is a generic practice - This is team training and individual based session. This is a loading day speed session match day - 3

Area Size: 15X15 / 1/2 PITCH / 3/4 PITCH Block/reps 4 x 90sec (90 sec rest) 3 minute rest then repeat (so 8 in total) Players Required: 20

Organisation:

Players get into pairs (important that full back and wide forward are paired together) each area is 15x15 and teams are playing 2 v2 in the middle. Players aim to transfer the ball from one side. The outside players must pass the ball once across to each other before passing into the middle or direct to the other side if open (This ensures defenders in the middle defend realistically).

Progressions:

1: Touch limit on both inside and outside players to speed up play and ensure quick decision making is being tested.

2: Add competition - 2 succesful transfers = 1 goal

Coaching points: Team and Individual Wide Players:

- Create space for themselves & teammate, get wide, stay distanced apart, make it hard for defenders

- Recieve on the half turn and back foot to play forward quickly

- Reserve energy by making clever, late and/or delayed movements to create space and time

- Link up play - once ball is in central area can you create good angles of support

- Decision making - do you need to go close to link up or stay away to create space for a split pass

Game Model:

In possession - Movement and rotation to create overloads, Quick switch of play to create wide overloads

Attacking Transition - Counter attack on regain of possession, Switching play to opposite side

Out of possession - Desire to regain ball, Prevent split passes between players

Defensive transition - React quickly, Press immediately or protect on loss of ball

Coaching Interventions:

Concurrent feedback, Direct Instruction, conditions, challneges, Q&A, Terminal feedback

Four Corners:

Technical: Speed of pass, Weight of pass, Link up play, dribbling, variety of crossing

Tactical - Maintain possession, understanding when/where and how to overload, patience in possession to create space, overloads and option to switch play, intelegient movement.

Physical - Acceleration, changes of direction, agility - movement to recieve, speed of play, aerobic and anaerobic work

Psychological - concentration, intelligence and awareness, composure, patience, cleverness to escape defenders, postive play (belief

SSG (20 mins)

Organisation:

The SSG will be a 10 v 10 and full pitch dynamics.

Conditions will be added such as:

1 goal for a normal goal

3 goals for a goal scored within 3 touches of the delivery from the wide area

Block /Reps:

3 x 5 minutes (3 minute rest)

Coaching points:

These remain the same but with a bigger pitch and more space more emphasis will be on the key coaching points such as movement, rotations, delivery, link up play.