Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): U14 Week 9- Attacking combinations & creativity, Playing out from the back, balance

Passing pattern #1 (5 mins)

Organisation

- Two players in each square

- Two players in one corner and one player on every other corner

- Ball starts from the corner with two players in it. The ball is passed to the furthest player in the square who bounces it back to the 2nd player to then play into the corner of the next square.

- Player who passes into the square moves into it, the player who passes to the corner follows their pass.

Coaching points

- Distance and angles to receive

- Play on different lines

- Body shape to receive

- Movement as the ball moves- rotation

Passing pattern #3 (5 mins)

Organisation

- Two players in each square

- Two players in one corner and one player on every other corner

- Player moves short to play a bounce pass to then play a longer pass to the 2nd player in the square, 2nd player then bounces it into the space for the 1st player to play out

Coaching points

- Distance and angles to receive

- Play on different lines

- Body shape to receive

- Movement as the ball moves- rotation

Rondo (20 mins)

Organisation

- 5v3

- Transfer the ball from the 5 to the 8 and vise versa for a goal

- #5 and #8 always stay in their positions

- Other players transition to attack/defence

- Play 4 minutes

Coaching points

- Body shape to receive and combine/playforward

- Movement to create passing lines

- #6 play inside the 'triangle' of defenders

- #5 dribble out to attract pressure and free up team mates

- Communication to Bounce or turn

- Always scanning

- Defend in a 1-2 and stay compact to protect the middle

Game (30 mins)

- No conditions

- No coaching