Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): RDP Week 5

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Objective: Passing, receiving, and movements to beat opponent on overlap.

Equipment: Cones, latter, hurdles, and balls.

Organization: Grid size 8 - 15 yards wide X 12 - 20 yards long (depending on objetctive). Set up into each channel with groups of 4 - 6 players. Players dribble to outside cone and makes a turn/ move, then passes to teammate (after checking away and checking back), communicate hold, teammate draws defender inside with dribble and over lap combination is completed. Players return through latter and agility s tations .

Progres s ion:

Progression 1: Cut pass with inside foot.

Progression 2: Cut pass with outside foot.

Progression 3: Fake initial over lap pass by making predictable

and taking space to create through ball.

Progression 5: Finish to goal.

Coaching Points:

- Dribble slowly in diagonal to draw a defender.

- Hide the ball.

- Change of speed to beat player after pass.

- Change direction to beat a player after pass.

- Play pass across teammates body (so they can return pass with far/ front foot.

- Player checking to initial pass moves opposite first and times checking run back in diagonally. - Player checking to initial pass, checks shoulder.

- Posture when dribbling, then passing and when changing speed.

- Dribbling with head up.

- Communication "hold"

- Be unpredictable

- After pass to overlapping player, join the attack to get back in an advanced support position.