Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Transitional Principles

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Steve Rocha
Name: Steve Rocha
City: Oshawa
Country: Canada
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Organisation (Practice Layout & Transition)


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm Up

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Warm Up (10 mins)

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical warmup: Rondo in two grids and gate

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Technical warmup: Rondo in two grids and gate (10 mins)

6v3 rondo in two grids plus gate. Aerobic power session.

Setup: Two rondo grids that are roughly 12x12 or 15x15 each. A gate of cones in the middle. The grid should be large enough that it forces the middle three to be constantly moving, but not so big that they don't have any success.

Description: The work:rest ratio is two minutes work to four minutes rest. The middle three players (Yellow) are in for the two minutes. Orange scores a point by passing through the middle gate. Blue wins a point by intercepting and dribbling outside the grid. 

Coaching points:

Focus on intensity (especially when switching sides)

Focus on closing space quickly

Focus on body shape

Focus on first and second defender roles

How can you organize to make it easier to play through gate? (Use space, pass quickly, minimal touches)


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Transition

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Transition (20 mins)

Drill size half a pitch with a line of cones from the edge of the box to the half way line. 

2 small sized boxes 15 by 10 yards the other side of the cone line 


This drill is a technical Transition drill. How it works 4 players from the red team will be in a small coned off square 2 blues will also be in that square. The red team must try to keep the ball from the blue team. The blue team must try to win the ball back as quickly as possible. 

Once the blue team wins back possession they can find one of the 4 blue players making a forward run and must transition the ball into attack and try and score in the goal in a 4v2. 


Tips:

- Winning the ball back as quickly as they can. 

- finding a free player and getting the ball to them. 

- transitioning as fast as possible and going and scoring as fast as possible 

- once the ball has been won back fast thinking and forward runs towards the goal to try and score quickly. 


After 10 minutes swap the red team and blue team around. 


Challenges, Conditions or Targets:


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Final Game

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Final Game (25 mins)

Set Up: 4v4-8v8. Min 24x36 Adjust for number of players. Use GKs whenever possible

Conditions:

:: Normal Rules Of The Game (Throw In's, Corners, Offsides etc...)

:: Coach may choose to reward teams for creating chances from wide areas

:: Coaches should observe and coach over the top. Minimal coaching stoppages, focus on giving individual challenges to players 1 to 1.

:: Encourage players to try the things that they learned during the session


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Cool Down

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Cool Down (10 mins)

Cool Down Phase:

Players will finish the training session with a cool down, by jogging the full width of the field 2 times while performing some dynamic movements.

-50% jog

-Skipping

After they finish, players will then perform static stretching, working from the top of the body and down. Players will hold each stretch for 20-30 seconds.

-Quad stretches

-Hamstring stretches

-Groin/Adductor stretches

-Lower&Upper back stretches

-Calf stretches


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