Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Overload

Warm up

This will be a standard rondo where the player in the middle has to win the ball back from the players on the outside. Players will only be allowed to take two touches. Once the player in the middle wins the ball back or an outside player performs a poor pass/touch, the middle player will go to the outside and switch with the player that lost the ball. If the player in the middle is struggling to win the ball back, the players will only be able to take one touch and they will be closer together so there is less space.

Technical practice

This drill will create more three vs two scenarios which are around the 18yard box. Each team will have a goalkeeper however if there is only one keeper, the defensive team would have this and there would be mini goals in the position of the wide players resembling a counter attack. This drill will have the red team starting with the ball and three of these players will come out from behind the line. During this time, two blue players will also come out from beside the goal. This game will be a three vs two with a goalkeeper but if the tempo is low, another player from both teams can be involved. The red team will have to exploit the overload and try to score a goal. The blue team will have to try to win the ball back and when they do they can score in the other goal.