Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Playing the ball out of the back into our middle third

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Art Hernandez
Name: Art Hernandez
City: King of Prussia
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Goal: To work on playing out of the back with our center backs. Improve our movement and decision making when playing the ball from the center backs.


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

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm-up/Rondo
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Warm-up/Rondo (15 mins)

1st Phase, Dynamic Warm-up and rondo.

Objective: To welcome the players and create routine. Encourage the players to take initiative for the activity.

Organization: As shown, set up the SAQ activity, try to limit lines and use a ball with the activity. The player start by dribbling to the cone and then passing the ball back to the start. Be creative with the turns or passes you ask the players to do. For the rondo, play 4v0, with a player sitting out. If a player on the inside makes a mistake, sub that player out. In the 5v1, switch the middle player every time there's a mistake.

Key words: Open your hips, take your touch away from pressure and use both feet. Keep your feet moving.

Guided questions: 1.Where do I take my next touch? 2.Why do we get wide? 3. Why do we let the ball go across our body?

Answers: 1.Into space or away from pressure. 2. In order to support the player on the ball and spread the defense. 3. As the ball goes across our body and we use our back-foot, we can take a much better touch into space or away from pressure.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): (Un)opposed technique

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(Un)opposed technique (20 mins)

2nd Phase, ball mastery/technical work

Objective: To work on 4v4's that build into 5v4 and 5v5 in order to learn how to play into our holding mid.

Organization: As shown, play 4v4, w/ keepers. The defending team plays a long ball to the keeper and the keeper decides where to play. Within a pass or two, the designated #6, must get the ball. The wide player can play once a pass has been completed to them. Game ends on a goal or when the ball goes out of bounds.

Key words: Make diagonal passes, move the ball to move the opponent, Get Behind, forward and to the sides of the ball, Be available to receive a pass.

Guided questions: 1.When should the players pass backwards? 2.Why do we want to move the ball and the opponents?

Answers: 1.The player with the ball has defenders in front and can't penetrate but has a supporting player behind them. 2.To create openings in their defense and pass or dribble forward.


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

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Game Application (20 mins)

3rd Phase, game application

Objective: Playing the ball out of the back into our holding

Organization: In a reduced 11v11 field play 8v8. The Blue team will play in a 1-3-1-3 formation and the Red team will play in a 0-3-3-2 formation. Balls start from the GK. Red score on the big goal, blue can score on the counter goals.

Key words: Make diagonal passes, move the ball to move the opponent, Get Behind, forward and to the sides of the ball, Be available to receive a pass.

Guided questions: 1.When should the players pass backwards? 2.Why do we want to move the ball and the opponents?

Answers: 1.The player with the ball has defenders in front and can't penetrate but has a supporting player behind them. 2.To create openings in their defense and pass or dribble forward.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Game

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Game (35 mins)

4th Phase, game (This is not free play, coach in the flow of the game)

Objective: Playing the ball out of the back into our middle third

Organization: In a 11v11 field play 9v9. The Blue team will play in a 1-2-3-3 formation and the Red team will play in a 1-3-4-1formation.

Key words: Make diagonal passes, move the ball to move the opponent, Get Behind, forward and to the sides of the ball, Be available to receive a pass.

Guided questions: 1.When should the players pass backwards? 2.Why do we want to move the ball and the opponents?

Answers: 1.The player with the ball has defenders in front and can't penetrate but has a supporting player behind them. 2.To create openings in their defense and pass or dribble forward.


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