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Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Back four covering 1

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Robert Terry
Name: Robert Terry
City: Concord
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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basics of the defenders moving together providing pressure and cover

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): basic back four covering

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Set up:  Mark four spaces about 8 to 10 yards above the penalty area label them as 2, 4, 5 and 3.  Set up four stations to serve the ball from near midfield.  You can label them A, B, C and D.

Exercise:  Aplayer from A, B, C or D serves a ball towards the back line.  The proper player from the back line steps up to intercept the ball while the other three players take up appropriate covering positions.  In this case the ball is served from D with the #4 stepping forward to intercept.  2, 5, and 3 are moving into covering positions.

Coaching points: make sure the players start with the proper body shape once they know where the ball will be served from. Decision making on who should stepand why.  You want to avoid two players challenging the same ball. Make sure the covering players are moving to the proper areas.

Variations:  start by playing balls that are not difficult to handle just so the players get their movements in sync.  Add one touch clearances.  Add targets to clear towards. Add the goal keeper behind.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): back four covering

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Set up:  Mark four spaces about 8 to 10 yards above the penalty area label them as 2, 4, 5 and 3.  Set up four stations to serve the ball from near midfield.  You can label them A, B, C and D.

Exercise: Same as the first exercise but in this case stations A and D are in high wide positions. The ball will start with players B or C.  They have the option to try and beat the back line or play to A or D forcing the wide backs to shift out and defend

Coaching points: make sure the players start with the proper body shape once they know where the ball will be served from. Decision making on who should stepand why.  You want to avoid two players challenging the same ball. Make sure the covering players are moving to the proper areas.  If the ball is played to A or D make sure the other defenders dont over shift and leave the middle open.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): pressure, cover exercise.

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Set up:  Make two lines of cones about ten yards apart.  Cones spaced about 8 yards from each other.

Exercise:  The coach will call out a letter or color, the corresponding position steps to apply pressure while the others take up covering positions.

Variations:  Start slowly. add players to the stations and have them pass side to side.

Coaching points:  speed and footwork when closing down.  angle of covering players.  maintaining distance and balance.  angl of recovery run.  Dont get caught flat.

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