Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Session 2 FAW C Portfolio Extensive Session (Start Time: 2024-12-30 12:15:00)

Warmup (15 mins)

2 Parts of Warmup: -

Initially start with dynamic stretching and 

PART 1: - PASSING PATTERN

Description: -

Players need to pass the ball as shown above but over bigger distances compared to usual. 

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

Players can only use weak foot to pass, receive and dribble. 

Time: -  2 min blocks x 3

Coaching Points: - 

• Weight of Pass i.e., slow for layoff and hard for player to receive and pass or dribble

• Central Player's timing of movement to drop to layoff, (Check forward and then drop when possessor looks up)
• Accuracy of pass, on the foot which helps next action
• Touch tight receive, receive which allows to perform next action immediately

5 m for jog, 10 m to accelerate and remaining to sprint at 80% max. 

Then players need to jog back to starting point and go again for a total of 4 times

Perform part 1 and 2 continuously without break for 3 times

SSG (15 mins)

Description: - 2 v 2 with the coach serving the ball inside and both players sprinting into the shaded area shown in the center. Area acts as the offside line for both teams. One team scores in the big goal and the other in target goals (only 1 GK available). 

Coach plays 2 balls, if blue team scores or takes a shot then ball played to red team whilst creating more transition situations and 1 v 2 situations. This is to force players to be involved for around 12 to 14 secs (average is 8 secs)

Blocks: - 2 min work and 2 mins rest x 4 (1:1 ratio)

Coaching Points: -

• Runs into space and timing of runs
• Body shape of the runner to see both ball and defender
• Dealing with numerical inferiority in defense i.e., delay the action as much as possible and force play to player with less angle at goal

Other Details

TRAINING SESSION: - BOTH MATCHDAY + 4 and MATCHDAY - 4, HENCE EXTENSIVE

Planned Interventions: -

• Team Meeting:  At the beginning of the session to explain
• Walkthrough: - Players will walk through the practice before playing time
• Freeze: - Pause practice to rectify common errors (Very little freezes needed as it is an extensive session)
• Concurrent: - Feedback to players on the go to avoid decrease in ball rolling time
• Bullseye: - Individual feedback to a certain player by pausing practice for him/her only. Others keep playing

• Conditions/Targets/Challenges: -  To challenge certain players who may find the drill easy or to encourage them to find different solutions.