Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Fitness

Screen 1

Warm Up:                             Duration: 15 min.                

Set up:

·     Team runs 2 full laps jogging around soccerfield

·     Teams performs drills on speed

·     Teams performs drills on acceleration

·     Team performs “changing direction” agility drills

Activity 1:     1v1Drill                     Duration: 15 min.

Set up:

·     Area: 60x40

·     2 teams: Blue team vs. Red team

Activity 1: 1v1 attacking and defending

·     Player #10 blue passes to opponent #7 red

·     #7 red is attacking and trying to pass to #1red, while #10 blue defends

·     The process continues after the pass iscompleted or the ball is out of bound

·     If defender #10 blue recovers the ball, hepasses to teammate #8 blue

·     The same procedure repeats with the verticalplayers  

Key Points of Counter Attacks:

·     Transitioning speed between attacking anddefending

·     Communication between transitions

·     Aggressive attacking style

Animation 3

Activity 3: 2v1 Overload game                       Duration: 15 min.                

Set up:

·     Half field

·     2 goal keepers

·     5v5 (Blue vs Red) 

Exercise:

• Blue Player #4 runs with the ball to pass to Player #7 for 2v1  
• Red player on top of the arc defends against #4 blue and #7 blue
• If Red player recovers the ball, he runs with ball alone to go score
• Then, the game continues with red running down to defend against blue player on top of arc. 

Key Points of Counter Attacks

·     Transitioning speed between attacking anddefending

·     Communication between transitions

·     Aggressive attacking style