Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): U12 Girls - Switching the point of attack in defensive/middle third

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Matt Anderson

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Name:	Matt Anderson
City:	Brooklyn
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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

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Warm up (15 mins)

Organization:

- As much space as needed, each player with a ball.

Instructions:

- Before the start of session inividual juggling arrival activity

- Ball mastery warmup, focusing on dribbling using different parts of the foot, changing speed, direction, and allowing the players to incorporate different skills and movements with their dribbling

- Challenge the players with added pressure of time or # of touches

- Incorporate tag games in to warm up E.g. Freeze tag, hospital tag

Coaching Points:

- Preparing ourselves physically and mentally for the session

- What are the different areas of the foot we would use and why?

- Head up as we are looking for open space, instead of going in a circle or a line can we change our direction and try and cover as much of the pitch as possible.

- Close control, one step in between every touch, how is our body position? Position of our foot?

- When taking bigger touches and exploding into space, what changes with our body position?

- Turning to find new space, identifying where the space is and moving into it.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 3v0 into 3v1

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3v0 into 3v1 (20 mins)

Organization:

- As many grids as needed, 5x5 yard grids or adjusted as needed

- 3v0 in each grid, can then progress into 3v1 or 4v1

Instructions:

- Players are working on passing, receiving, and moving in the space.

- The first attacker always needs support to their left and right, so movement off the ball will come from the player who is "inactive" for the passing interaction.

- Allow for players to understand who is moving, why they are moving, and begin to layer in pressure (in the form of passing or time constraints)

Coaching Points:

- Receiving across our body, opening up our hips to play both ways. HOW? WHY?

- Strong weight of pass, targeting our teammates backfoot to allow them to open up and play either way. WHY? HOW?

- Communication off the ball, verbal and nonverbal to instruct the passer or receiver.

- Movement off of the ball to support the first attacker. WHERE? WHY?

- What kind of touch are we taking to receive and set up our next pass?

- How can we disguise our next pass?

- Defensive principles for the player in the middle.

- Progress into a 3v1 or 4v1 depending on numbers.

- Can allow for one defender to remain in the middle and tally score for 90 seconds, or actively switch every time the defender wins possession and is able to dribble out of the grid successfully.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 5v5+3

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5v5+3 (20 mins)

Organization:

- Space adjusted as needed

- Two teams of 5, 3 jokers in the middle

Instructions:

- In possession, team organizes itself on the edge of the grid with two CB's, a RB, LB, and forward. Three jokers in the middle acting as DM, CM, CAM. Team out of possession is defending inside the grid trying to win the ball.

- Attacking team is trying to play the ball from CB's to Fwd

- When a team loses the ball, they get compact and move into the field to squeeze the space

- When a team wins possession, they quickly open up and take their shape as shown above.

Coaching Points:

- Two most basic concepts, especially when playing out from the back and in the transition moments: When we have the ball, what do we want to make the field?(Bigger) When we don't have the ball, what do we want to make the field?(Smaller)

- Body shape in receiving and playing, can we give ourselves more options with how we receive

- Communication off the ball to indicate the next pass, where it should go, how it should be delivered, and what should happen next

- Verbal and nonverbal cues that will initiate sequences. I.E. when CB passes into DM, body shape is initiating movement from one outside back vs the other outside back

- Can we attract the defenders into the middle by finding our DM or CM to then open up space for our outside backs

- Creating passing lanes and ensuring that we are maximizing our space. Rotation in the middle to create space inside and out

- In transition, when we win possession, when to reset to get our shape vs when to quickly play forwards to break through the lines

- How to reset and give ourselves time to open up

- Being proactive and reading the situation to realize when a transition moment is going to occur

- In transition, when we lose possession, when to step and win back immediately vs when to re-organize and recover behind the ball

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Switching Play Game

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Switching Play Game (20 mins)

Organization:

- Space adjusted as needed.

- Two small goals in the middle, a gate at each corner of the field as shown

- 6v6 or numbers adjusted as needed

Instructions:

- Teams score two points by scoring in the goal, one point for penetrating out wide by dribbling through the gates

Coaching Points:

- Reinforcing the points made earlier in the session.

- Using the numbers and the space to now work on balance as well as veritcal and horizontal compactness

- How do we transition from our compact defensive shape to either maintain possession or attack quickly