Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): TEMPLATE

Screen 5 (15 mins)

Set Up: 40 x 30 (5v5) plus 1

Organisation: A 5v5 with 1 additional player from each team on the end outside the grid. Play starts from feeder at side.

Reds keep possession and their goal is to play the ball into their player in the end zone. When that player receives they can either bounce the ball back into play or control and run the ball back into play (depending on the situation).

Once they score by playing their own player on the end line, the reds now attack the opposite end and look to play the blue player on the end line. That blue player must bounce them fairly but does not have the option to come in. Only end line players of the same colour as the player that passed to them can drive into the grid. 

Coaching Points: Keep the ball moving and good ball speed. But be patient in possession and don't give it away. Move the ball the move the players and open passing spaces. Use bounce passes to move players around to open space. Look for the early forward pass to hit the end player

A good decision about when to bounce as an end player and when to drive into the grid. Scanning and good directional touches. Movement up and down the line for end line players

Progressions:

Change the space for the end line player and make it diagonal from corner to corner (between cones) to make it harder for them and easier to press.