Football/Soccer Session (Advanced): Training Top 6 Movement in Quadrants 3 and 4 (Start Time: 2021-08-05 21:00:00)

Screen 1 (15 mins)

Set up:

• 6 players each line
• Cone at starting point
• 1st hurdle 10 yards from starting cone
• Hurdles 1 yard apart

Description:

• Light jog at 50% to end of hurdles and back 3 times
• Light Jog to hurdles, bounce over hurdles; hold and pause for a count of 3 seconds and then proceed to the next hurdle repeat with the same foot then jog out
• Repeat previous action with other foot
• Repeat 2x each leg
• Dynamic lunges from cone to end hurdle and jog back 2x
• Front toe touch same side from starting point to last hurdle 2x
• Quick shuttle runs at 75% to each hurdle and back to starting cone
• Grass cutters 2x each leg
• Hamstring scoops 2x
• Lunge opening up groin to side 2x
• Side to side movement in a zigzag pattern through hurdles 2x
• Lunge movement twisting to opposite side of knee up 2x
• Explosive runs 3x at 75%
• Explosive runs 3x at 90%

Screen 3 (30 mins)

OBJECTIVE:

Working on the movement patterns of the 7, 9, 11 in attack and the 6, 8, 10 in support in quadrants 3 and 4.

SET UP:

Full Width x 45 yards in length

GK + 7 Defenders playing to small pug nets

8 Attackers playing to large goal with GK (If GK is not available then to pug nets in the large goal in the corners)

Balls at the coach (in Black) with balls at Center Circle

WHAT IS TO HAPPEN: 

Coach plays the ball into 6 or 8 looking to move the ball from quadrant 3 to the quadrant 4 finding the 7, 9, or 11.

Movement of the 7, 9, 11 to open space and create the attack towards the goal. Pulling defenders away from the area with the ball through their movement

Strikers recognize where the space is, (or is going to be), and use it to their advantage to unsettle the defensive block

COACHING POINTS:

Recognizing space

Movement off the ball 

Movement that is not north-south or east-west

Recognizing How to move off the ball

Recognizing and putting into action Why movement off the ball is important.