Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): 4/8 Passing wide

Main theme 1

Organization:

Goal + gk

3cones

Instructions:

Players at each cone

Play starts when player 1 passes the ball to 2 who receives the ball than plays it to the player 3 and sprints down the line to receive the bal back

Player 3 passes to 2 and runs into the box to finish on goal

2 receives the ball dribbles down the line and crosses(high or low) into the box.

Players move up the cones.

Coaching Points:

Weight and accuracy of the pass

inside of the foot

time your run

Progressions:

Main theme 2

Organization:

25x30 area

4 mini goals

2 cone gates as shown

Instructions:

play 3v3 or 4v4. Red or blue get 1 point scoring any of two goals, also get a point by dribbling through any of the gates get extra point. So if dribble through the gate + score a goal get 2 points total! Play for 3 min switch teams.

Coaching Points:

encourage players to run into space by dribbling through gates

switch points of attack by going to a different goal

accuracy and weight of pass

take the defender on 1v1 situations

Progressions:

Put mini goals together for one of the team(for example red team`s goals put together and leave blue team`s as it is on diagram) this way your switching the point of attack of blue team, now they have to attack forward instead of the sideways and also red team will try to stay compact!