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Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Jostling,Defending and running

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Cary Young
Name: Cary Young
City: Swansea
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

Defensive work on battling for the ball. 

Based on 2 players jostling and fighting for the ball and aiming for a target. 

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

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Warm up (10 mins)

Warm up 

1 pitch 20x30 mtrs with pairs of cones to meet required numbers

Technique 10 mins

Equipment needed

12 cones of one colour, 6 of another

Bibs 1 colour, 6-8

 

Set up

Give players bibs to start, even amount of reds, greens

Set cones opposite each other in pairs about 15M apart. and a blue cone 1 meters away to one side.

Put 1 of green and 1 of red either side of the single red cones, facing each other like shown.


Instruction

Coach plays a Simon says type of game,calls Head/Shoulders/Knees/Toes/Turn (or what ever instructions you like) , then when the coach says a cone colour, the players react and race to the cone of that colour.  

Progression/Regression

Progression: Players start facing backwards, sitting down.

Progression : Colours are opposite of coaches shout. ( Coach shouts blue- red cone is the target)

Challenges, Conditions and Targets

Pair up players evenly on size and speed as best as possible.

Keep a score of which colour wins the most battles.

Good reaction times

Observation - e.g. going to correct cone

Works as warm up but also bit of fun. Can also be hard work! If move blue cone further away it can be running drill.

Players should show some physicality when trying to get to cones, i.e. use body to keep other player away or get in front

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical

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Technical (10 mins)

Skill

1 pitch 20x30 mtrs with pairs of cones to meet required numbers

Technique 10 mins

Equipment needed

12 cones of one colour, 6 of another

Bibs 1 colour, 6-8 

 

Set up

Give players bibs to start, even amount of reds, greens 

Set cones opposite each other in pairs about 15M apart. and a blue cone 1 meters away to one side.(creating a gate, wide enough for just one player) 

Put 3 of green and 3 of red either side of the single red cones, facing the red and blue cones like shown. 


Instruction

Coach plays a Simon says type of game, when the coach says a key word ("Run", "Now" or anything of your choosing)the players race and jostle to be the first through the Red and blue gate. 

 

Progression/Regression

Progression: Players start facing backwards, sitting down. 

Challenges, Conditions and Targets

Pair up players evenly on size and speed as best as possible. 

Keep a score of which colour wins the most battles. 

Players should show some physicality when trying to get through gates, i.e. use body to keep other player away or get in front







Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Skill

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Skill (10 mins)

Skill 

1 pitch 20x30 mtrs with pairs of cones to meet required numbers

Technique 10 mins

Equipment needed

12 cones of one colour, 6 of another

Bibs 1 colour, 6-8

 

Set up

Set cones opposite each other in pairs about 15M apart. and a blue cone 1 meters away to one side.(creating a gate, wide enough for just one player)

Put 3 of green and 3 of red either side of the single red cones, facing the red and blue cones like shown.


Instruction

Players face towards the gate, the coach is standing in the middle of the groups and behind the players. Coach throws the ball in and the players must react, then compete for the ball and dribble the ball through the gate.  

Progression/Regression

Progression: Players start facing backwards, sitting down.

Progression : alternate ways in which the ball is served. 

Progression : Allow ball to be be passed through the cones. 

Challenges, Conditions and Targets

Pair up players evenly on size and speed as best as possible.

Keep a score of which colour wins the most battles.

Players should show some physicality when trying to dribble through cones, i.e. use body to keep other player away or get in front, same for trying to win the ball back. 


Mechanics

Defending

Eye on ball

Close the space

Adjust body to jockey, or to get body across the player.

Try to win the ball

Running with the ball.

Look ahead for direction

look down and push the ball a few meters ahead with the outside, laces of boot.

Look up

Stride fast to the ball, with pace

look down

kick the ball with laces ahead a few meters.

Dribbling

Keep ball close

vary surface of foot

head up

change of pace

change of direction

Turning

Eye on the ball

decision - change direction

contact with surface (if required) or feint

head up

low centre of gravity

change of direction

Acceleration

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Skill Animation

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Small Sided game

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Small Sided game (20 mins)

Small sided game

20 x 30 meter pitch.

goals either end.


Conditions

have flat discs creating narrow Gates

if you run the ball through a gate its a point, goals are a point.

Run the ball through a gate and go onto score 3 points.  

Mechanics

Defending

Eye on ball

Close the space

Adjust body to jockey, or to get body across the player.

Try to win the ball

Running with the ball.

Look ahead for direction

look down and push the ball a few meters ahead with the outside, laces of boot.

Look up

Stride fast to the ball, with pace

look down

kick the ball with laces ahead a few meters.

Dribbling

Keep ball close

vary surface of foot

head up

change of pace

change of direction

Turning

Eye on the ball

decision - change direction

contact with surface (if required) or feint

head up

low centre of gravity

change of direction

Acceleration



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