Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Switching The Point of Attack - RSA Red Bulls.

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Ayodeji Ogunlade

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Name:	Ayodeji Ogunlade
City:	Hamilton, New Jersey
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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The main goal of the session is to look to draw-in opponent to one side of the field and then quickly look to play to opposite side of the field to penetrate and finish on goal.

The session is setup to imimitate pressure situation in which the players will have to recognize when to get out of pressure situation by switching play or switching the point of attack. This will help them to improve thier skills on how to switch play and also switching the point of attack effectively.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Rondo - Arrival Activity

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Rondo - Arrival Activity

Organization:

- Set up two playing areas as shown.

- 3v1 transitional keepaway.

- The attacking team have to keep the ball awayfrom the defender.

- Defender has to try and break up play and win back possession.

- Upon winning the ball, the defender have to try and pass the ball back quickly into his grid.

- Upon playing the ball across, 1 player from the team that gave up possession now move across to win the ball back as they are now the defending team.

Progression:

- Completion of 5 successive passes equals to a point.

- Defending team can send a second defender in when attacking team complete 5 passes.

Coaching points:

- Quick transitioning from attacking to defending and from defending to attacking.

- Quality and weight of pass.

- Angles and distance of support.

- Quick pressing to win the ball back when defending.

- Quick pressing from team who lost ball to stop ball going forward.

- Speed of movement to support the player on the ball.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Player Development

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Player Development

Organization:

- Set up as shown.

Instructions:

- Players are divided into two groups to work across the park simultaneously. Activity start with Player A playing a short pass to Player B who set the ball for Player A back on first touch, Player A then play a long diagonal pass to switch play to Player C. Upon receiving the ball, Player C quickly take a touch to get the ball under control passes to the "wide man" Player D who opens his body up to receive the ball and dribble at pace to join the starting point of the second group to repeat the activity. Players follow their passes as rotation the following; A-B-C-D-A.

Coaching Points:

- Quality of short and long range passing i.e push pass, driven, lofted e.t.c.

- Movement before receiving the ball i.e. checking away quickly before calling for the ball.

- Passing accuracy.

- Speed of play.

- Open body shape to receive.

Progressions:

- Progress to group development.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Group Development

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Group Development

Organization:

- 6 Goal Game: 6v6.

- The playing area is divided into (3) Vertical ZONES as reference point for changing Point of Attack (POA).

Instructions:

- Attacking team can score in any of the (3) goals and are free to occupy all the 3 vertical zones when in possession. Attacking team (in possession) is looking to create a point of attack by DRAWING in opponent to one side of the field and then looking to quickly play to switch the point of attack by playing into the other side.

- Defending team can only occupy 2 vertical zones when the ball is inside one of the outside channel but they are free to occupy all three channels whenever the ball is in the central channel but must stay in a compact shape.

Scoring:

- One point if team scores in SAME channel that they have possession.

- Two points if team plays to adjacent channel and uses MAX of (1) pass before scoring.

- Three points if team plays to an opposite WIDE channel channel and uses MAX of (1) pass before scoring.

Coaching points when attacking:

- Atttacking team should maintain possession by moving the ball quickly.

- Attacking team should maintain possession, draw in opponent and change POA to exploit the weak side. Short-short-long.

- In order to change POA, players must have an open body shape (face forward / side-on to receive and to be able to LOOK forward and PASS forward).

- Passes MUST be sharp to feet to allow the receiver to pass forward quickly...sharp passing to feet allows for Time & Space for receiver.

- SWITCHED ball must be driven, firm, in air or on the ground to expliot defending team being drawn in and exploit weak side.

- Vision: Play with HEAD up and recognize when switch is on.

- Communication: verbal to encourage players to change POA.

Coaching points when defending:

- Proper technique of closing down.

- Always press in the identified situations.

- Speed of approach.

- Pressure the player with the ball, cover and balance.

- Make it compact both vertically and horzontally.

- Prevent the opponent from switching the point of attack or playing forward.

- Stay compact i.e. both vertically and horizontally.

Guided question:

- What do we do if there is no pressure on the ball?

- When opponent switch the point of attack, how do we react and recover back into defensive shape.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Conditioned Game

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Conditioned Game

Organization:

- Game: 6v5+GK.

Instructions:

- Attacking team (Reds) are looking to create a point of attack and then quickly looking to switch the point of attack before heading for the large goal to score while the defending team (Reds) are looking to win back possession to score in the counter goals.

- The ball starts with the attacking team having possession of the ball.

- Defending team has counter goals to score on but they first need to play into the coach and receive a return pass before scoring in the counter goals.

- Attacking team does PRESS to get ball back if they lose it. Once ball is out of play or a goal is scored, a new ball is played in by the coach with the defending team pushing up their lines.

- Yellow cones represent restraining line for the defending team during restarts.

- The coach also add different variations to the starting positions.

Coaching Points - Attacking Team:

- Create a point of attack by drawing opposition team to one side to unbalance them and them quickly switch the point of attack to the opposite side to penetrate.

- Speed of Play: By playing 1-2 touch and moving ball fast from side to side attacking team can exploit on weak side.

- (#9) with back to goal > Look to play him to draw opponent centrally and #9 plays back quickly.

- Passing: Firm passes to feet / combinations to draw in defenders and quality of switched pass weighted on the run of the player receiving pass.

- WIDE players: Recognizing when to play back to CMF to be able to switch sides and when receiving pass > accelerate into space behind the defending backline to destabilize.

- CMF: receiving passes from wide players > with an open body position to be able to switch sides & receiving the pass with a good first touch break pressure that would allow to switch quickly.

- Decision making of wide players upon receiving the "switched ball" i.e. driving at defender, early cross, driving in to shoot on goal, finding a runner in behind e.t.c.

Coaching Points - Defending Team:

- Previous coaching points when applicable.

- Quick counter attack upon winning possession to score.

Progression:

- Touch limitation if Speed of Play is too slow to Switch POA.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Game

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Game

Organization:

Set up as shown.

Instructions:

5v5+GKs.

Coaching Points:

1. Previous coaching points whenever applicable.

2. THINK ABOUT: How do we draw in opponents? Where do we draw in opponent? Why do we draw in opponent? How do we UNBALANCE? ...Speed of play / draw in.

Movement

Pass

Dribble