Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): PDP 2: Football Action Warm Up

Passing/Receiving Angles

1. Team Function - Football action warm-up

2. Team Task - A coaching practice designed to improve players football actions including passing, control, receiving, dribbling, combination play, heading, volleying

3. Organisation of Coaching Practice

• Area: 20x20 metres (dependant on age and ability).
• Yellows start outside the grid and act as servers.
• Blues start inside the small blue grid and are receiving from the Yellows.
• Players perform different football actions: passing, receiving, dribbling.
• When they have completed the football action they must return through the blue grid and look for a free Yellow server.
• Teams switch after a minute or two.
• Make this practice fun and enjoyable for the players.

4. Football actions and principles of play

• Focus on quality football actions: passing, receiving, dribbling, combination play, heading.
• Communication between players.
• Angle and distance of receiving, control and body shape.
• Awareness of spaces and other players.
• Increase tempo as warm-up progresses.
• Clear focus on the football action, weight, accuracy, timing of delivery.

Server: volleys/heads/one touch passes