Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Controlling Possession- Interchanging and occupying space

Dick Bate Technical Activity (5 mins)

Instructions:

- 8 cone passing activity that provides a variety of scenarios that recreate ways to create a small amount of separation and catch/play. Cones are 14 yards distances and there is 5 yard distances from the corner to the middle cone. Players rotate only with the player nearest them.  

2 to 3 min reps. 

Types of movement and receiving:

• Check to the ball, let it run across your body, shift body weight to your back foot to pop ball around the corner
• Check away to move to the ball and combine with your teammate who is in the middle cone to play a give and go around the cone. 
• Player on outside clears space by showing to the ball but spins out of the way so teammate receives, then a give and go around the cone

Directional Possesion

Instructions:

- Directional possession game, 5v5+5. Red team are trying to possess in each of the 3rds, ball must be touched by a yellow in each of the areas. 

- The blues are pressing with a max of 3 players per grid so in a 3-2 (positionally like a 7,8,9,10,11). If the blues win it they can score in either goal. 

- The reds are fixed in their areas (positionally like 4,5,6,8.10) when they have the ball but the yellows can move and create overloads.

- The central yellow (6/8) can go where he likes, the wide yellows (positionally like 2,3,7,11) work together where if one shows into the deep grid then other one moves into the center (similar to a inverted full back).

- Teams rotate role 

3 mins work / 1 min rest