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Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Building from the Back

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Steve Tsafkopoulos
Name: Steve Tsafkopoulos
City: Burlington
Country: Canada
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Chealse Y-Pass

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Chealse Y-Pass
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Chealse Y-Pass (10 mins)

ORGANIZATION/Setup: 

  • Set up as shown
  • 2 poles, 3 cones

Instructions:

· Player 1 passes toPlayer 2 and takes their position

· Player 2 needs to start at yellow cone and move toward red cone to receive  pass

· Player 2 passes toPlayer 3 and takes their position

· Player 3 runs receives ball and moves to shoot on net and retrieves ball and returns to line

· Circuit repeats movingto the other side – P1 to P2 to P4

Coaching Points/KeyFactors:

  • Moveto ball – don’t wait
  • Correctbody positioning when receiving
  • Accuracyof pass and proper passing Technique

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Intro to 433

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Intro to 433
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Intro to 433 (10 mins)

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 433 Build from Back - Technical

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 433 Build from Back - Technical
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433 Build from Back - Technical (20 mins)

Equipment

  • 30 x 20 area
  • 10 Cones (5 Red, 5 Blue)
  • 6 players - 5 outfield, 1 keeper
  • 2 small nets
  • 1 large net
Set up:

Goal: Techincal passing with player building from the back in creating "diamonds"  within the a 433 formation with the positions numbers
  • 1. Play starts with keeper and all players on the blue cones.
    • Players move to the red cones to receive ball to encourage movement
    • Ball moves through the rotation as indicated above as player combine passes using the 4 player
  • 2. Once ball has made a full cycle, goal keeper varies distribution and player combine 3 passes through the 4 player ane then to score on one of the mini nets.
  • 3. Cycle starts again with the keeper.
Progression:
  • 1. introduce 2 balls - forcing players to check away from pass and prepare to quickly receive ball
  • 2. attack straight away with goal keeper starting with ball and varying passing sequences and score on one of the mini nets.  Combine for 3 passes minimum creating roatations through Players.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Play out from Back - with Zones

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Play out from Back - with Zones
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Play out from Back - with Zones (20 mins)

Equiptment and Field Setup:

  • Half the field (Between the top of teh 18yrd box and the Center half, 10 yrds in from Touch line.
  • 11 players
  • Cones Set up as show creating channels 

Setup:

  • Session Goal - Play out from back with Possession,- Maintain possession within own half
  • Players in Black move ball staying with in their channels.  Passes can be made through Center Square
  • Players in Red defend, pressing the ball within thier own zone
  • Black gains a point for every 10 passes they make
  • If Red wins the ball, they turn and try and score on goal on a counter attack, Black team can leave their Zones to defend, moving out of thier zones to regain posession
  • If posstion is regained, Black returns to thier position and play continues.
  • If a Shot is taken and saved, Keeper plays to Black and play continues
  • All Restarts and Goals, start with Coach.  Coach can play to Blackteam, Goal Keeper, or Red Team (Counter attachers) 
Progression:
  • 1: One Mid-fielder can enter center zone to support play
  • 2. Add Holding Mid-Fielder in Center Square to support Play
    • Focus on creading Dimonds and angle of support to create overloads on one side.  
Coaching Points:
  • Expansion when in possession of ball
  • Contraction when out of possesion of ball
  • CB should move wide to restart play with CB moving up field to field while othe players provide width and depth
  • CM should be looking for balance with the wide players, looking for and creating passig channels
  • Players should look to move ball up field but come back to play out of danger
  • Open body position when recieving the ball
  • If ball is played out from the Goal Keeper, Player should be aware of transitioning to attack with Full backs moving wide with Central Mid filders (CB) providing Depth
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG
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SSG (5 mins)

SSG - Full Fifa rules
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Cool Down

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Cool Down (25 mins)

Organization and Setup

  • As a group players slow jog and perform dynamic stretching exercises.
  • Static stretching individually after session during team regroup with coach

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