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Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Session 8: Running With the Ball (Start Time: 2023-12-05 18:00:00)

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Nile Abraham

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Nile Abraham
Name: Nile Abraham
City: Cardiff
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

Session Duration: 1 hour ( 55 minutes of practice with 5 minutes rest)

Players involved: 10

Ability: Mixed

Overall Area Size: 35 x 25 Yards

Session Aims:

1. Run with the ball over a long distance

2. Run with the ball with pressure under a time restricion

3. Apply running with the ball into a match situation.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical Practice

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Technical Practice

Technical Practice - 15 minutes

Players invlolved: 8

Area size - 32 x 16 Yards

Set-up 

  • Split group into 2 groups of 4

Each Group:

  • 2 Lanes, created by cones
  • 2 players in each lane
  • 1 player from each lane has the ball at feet
Execution:
  • The first players run with the ball down the lane, before passing the ball to the player at the end.
  • The player at the end, once recieving the ball will to the same. 
  • Players will run down each lane in a counter-clockwise pattern.
Rest: 2 minutes

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

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Skill Practice

Technical Practice - 15 minutes

Players invlolved: 8

Area size - 32 x 16 Yards

Set-up

  • Split group into 2 groups of 4

Each Group:

  • 2 Lanes, created by cones
  • 2 players in each lane
  • 1 player from each lane has the ball at feet
Execution:

  • The first players run with the ball down the lane, before passing the ball to the player at the end.
  • The player at the end, once recieving the ball will to the same.
  • Players will run down each lane in a counter-clockwise pattern.

Skill Element: 

  • Players have a time restraint of 5 seconds to get the ball from one end of the lane to the other
  • To progress this, the time can be decreased to 3 seconds
  • To regress, the time can be increased to 7 seconds or more.
Rest: 3 minutes

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

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Small Sided Game

Small Sided Game - 15 minutes

Area Size - 28 x 20 yards + 2 zones of 28 x 6 Yards

Players involved: 8

Game

  • 1 point is scored if a player can run with the ball up the pitch
  • 2 points can be scored if a player takes the ball into the wide channels before scoring by passing it or crossing to a teammate 
Progression - Teams can only score if they use the wide channels, Only 3 touches allowed when running in channels.

Regression - When in channels, player on the ball can't be tackled. 

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