Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): 3v3 Small Sided Game, Awareness, Positioning, Reacting

Screen 1 (25 mins)

Key Factors

3V3 Small sided game, quick turnaround and getting in position.

Organisation

Cone up a pitch 60 yards long by 40 yards across and place 2 mini goals at either end equal distance apart, select 4 teams of 3 and bib them up, a team at either end behind each goal line ready to play and 2 teams on the pitch ready to play.

Aim

There are no goalkeepers and the aim is to have lots of 3v3 games with players reacting quickly and being able to reposition and play continuously, In this demo I have set the condition that all players in your team must touch the ball before you are able to score in any of the 2 goals, In this case the Blue team are playing up the pitch and have scored a goal so they will now quickly leave the pitch and be replaced by the Yellow team who will restart straight away with the ball from the goal line, the Red team need to now quickly react, turn and get in position as they are now defending against the Yellows (Shown with the Red lines), if the Red team can win the ball back and score a goal they will then go off the pitch to be replaced by the Blues, but if the Yellows score they will leave to be replaced by the Greens and the Reds will once again have to react and react accordingly, quick fire games with fast reactions and awareness, can be done with lots of variations and conditions, can be progressed by adding players to teams within the same playing area or regressed by making the area bigger and adding more goals.