Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Stop -Starts-Tempo, Fast and Slow

RBNY Academy Inc

Chad Edwards

Profile Summary

Name:	Chad Edwards
City:	Morris
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

Interface Language

Share this Session

Link Session

Build 3D sessions in seconds

Access to 1000’s of sessions

Professionalise and modernise your coaching

Used by the world’s best coaches

US$

per year

Join today

Description

What: Using stop and start actions to unbalance defense and managing tempo of game

Where: Middle to final 3rd

Who: Attacking player

When: Moments of the game when getting forward

Why: To create an element of surprise, unbalance defense, create time for supporting players to get forward, change tempo of game.

Get comfortable with ball at the feet, improve touches, explosiveness, and improve lateral movements.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Intro 1

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Intro 1

Organization:

Two or more lanes with cones separated into boxed areas, with endpoints.
To fuel the competitive nature of the participants, you can separate into teams and award points for the first player to cross the line.
Set up can also be colored cones where players are cued eg, stop, or run backwards etc.

Instructions:

You can start the activity with no ball and then progress to a ball.
Players are asked to perform an activity at a particular distance ahead.
They may be asked to run backwards, come to complete stops, or increase speed at intervals.

Techinical Coaching Points:

Focus
positioning of foot and body
creativity
eye to foot coordination

Progressions & Regressions:

Move to ball
minimize task depending on the participants age and skill level

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Introduction 2

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Introduction 2

Organization:

- shaded and cones represent interconnected space

- 2 teams

- cones set up forming boxed areas forming 8x8 or 10 x10 spaces running in a series

Instructions:

- 2 players from each team stand facing each other (no ball)

- 1 player stands directly (centrally)between the 2 cones, the other stands directly in front.

- player standing on the line (imaginary line between the 2 cones) must move laterally (side-to-side) towards left or right cone

- oppositely, defensive player must move quick enough to keep up with the movement. Also, player as marker is exercising restraint not to lunge forward or touch opposite player.

- player may get a point if they are able to outwit marker either by going through end zone, moving between double cones, or getting to L or R (see next image)

Coaching Points/Questions:

- positioning- is players facing forwards? Are they standing flat footed?

- Is marker able to keep up with movement of lined player?

- Are they acknowledging stops and starts as they go along?

Progressions:

-view slides for breakdown

Regressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ex. 1

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Ex. 1

Example 1

Instructions:

- Yellow team is attempting to unbalance mirror or marker by moving L or R in order to get to a cone

- Red team (marker or tracker) is trying to keep up with movement

Coaching Points/Questions:

- is there eye contact?

- Where is each player standing?

-Body mechanics-faint, deceptive runs are being executed to ensure success.

Progressions:

Regressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Main Activity

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Main Activity

Instructions/Main Activity:

-Introducing ball to the action

Coaching Points/Questions:

- stops and starts on the line

-What parts of the foot is being used to stop and move ball-bottom-inside or outside (big toe , little toe)

Regressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Main Activity-Animation 4

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Main Activity-Animation 4

Instructions:

- Ball is introduced to player on the ball

- Defense task is to block ball with foot before it touches cone as depicted in the animation

- Point system can be awarded for successful attempts vs blocks

-It is important to note that, depending on the # of players, this is happening simultaneously in other groups

- Please note (its only two players to a line) action is showing movement of two players along a line

- Extra player is showing when a block has occured

- PLAY ANIMATION !

Coaching Points/Questions:

- noting areas of the foot used to move ball laterally (L to R)

- Mechanics in stepping forward to block passage of ball, without lunging or crossing over ball handler's line

- ball -eye-coordination

Progressions:

Regressions:

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Progression 1

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Progression 1

Progressions/Instructions:

-players are now broken into 4 lines

- Moving from top to bottom

- team has ball, other (defensive) is keeping up with the movement of play

- The player with the ball must move into each box from a starting position and come to a complete stop

- then stand and face each other

-Player on ball can move back and forth between boxes but must stop completely before moving again

- The player will then end with a pass to player standing next in line, in the direction they started

- SEE ANIMATION from screen through 5

Coaching Points/Questions:

-SAQ on the ball -same lateral direction covering greater area

-Ability to unearth defense, force defense to make a mistake

- Head and foot-movemet in transcending up or down field

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ex. 2

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Ex. 2

Example 2

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Prog. 2

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Prog. 2

Progression 2:

- At each squared space, defense can challenge for the ball and kick out of bounds

-Point system can be implemented for either team for successful execution

- Note this is just a image of part of the activity, 4 lines of a group of players are still in effect

- one team with ball and another defending

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

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Conditioned game

Instructions:

- You can have 4 small sided or two larger fields

- The condition is player can receive points for every stop-start across a designated line or area (eg. half line)

Coaching Points/Questions:

- What is the players decision after the action - pass, run with ball

- Head placement-look up for vision of teammate, awareness of space, scanning

- First touch after the stop, part of the foot used for that intial touch of the ball

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Match

See the guidance at the top of this page to understand why you are not seeing interactive Football/Soccer images.

Save Image:

Create Video:

Match

Organization:

3v3 or more depending on STEP- space, task, equipment, players

Instructions:

Coaching Points/Questions:

Progressions:

Regressions:

Build 3D sessions in seconds

Access to 1000’s of sessions

Professionalise and modernise your coaching

Used by the world’s best coaches

US$

per year

Join today