Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): AW8.2 - In Possession

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The Coaches' Voice SSP Sessions
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United Kingdom
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Sport:
Football/Soccer
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Emphasis on Passing & Receiving

These sessions focus on improving technical precision, combination play, and transitional awareness. Coaches should prioritize quick ball circulation and movement off the ball in tight passing rotations, encourage wide-area creativity and timing of attacking runs in unopposed finishing scenarios, and develop decision-making and forward support through realistic attacking transition moments with numbers-up advantages.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Passing Circuit 6

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Passing Circuit 6
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Passing Circuit 620 mins

Adapt to Need: 

  • Area Size: Small square ~3 x 3 in center of a larger circle ~10 yards wide.
  • Player Numbers: Three players start ~5 yards outside 3 sides of the central square.

Practice Setup: 

  • Player A passes across the central square to B and player A moves to the empty space on the right. 
  • Player B bump passes to the side to player C and follows their pass. 
  • Player C passes across to the central square to player A and moves to the right. 
  • Start with two touches for each pass. 

Coaching Points:

  • One touch passing rotation requires players to be on their toes and ready to anticipate each player's next movement. 
  • Focus and setting up body position as quickly as possible between each pass will help make the rotation move more smoothly. 

Progressions:

  • Reverse the direction of the passing.

  • Progress to 1 touch passing rotation.
  • Introduce competition between groups of 3 to see how many rotations can be successfully completed. 
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Finishing from Wide Unopposed

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Finishing from Wide Unopposed
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Finishing from Wide Unopposed20 mins

Adapt to Need: 

  • Area Size: Set 6 mannequins (or cones) to mark defenders laid out in the animation in the 18 yard box . 3 cones arcing around the bottom for each positions starting position
  • Player Numbers: Players split into 3 lines behidn the cones with one player at he top of the box. 

Practice Setup:

  • The ball will start with the 11 on the left. 
  • The 10 will check off their mannequin and play a 1-2 with the 9. 
  • The 10 will then play the 7 out wide and the 7 will then drive towards the mannequin, beat the mannequin and deliver a cross into the box. 
  • The 11, 10, and 9 should make different runs into the box to try and finish.
  • After the shot, have the next group of players in red start the play from the right side going towards the left and repeat the process for ten minutes.

Coaching Points:

  • Quality Passes/Crosses - When players are executing passes and crosses from wide areas, there must be quality and encourage players to play with quality with every pass they make.
  • Combination Play - Players should try to play on one or two touches to link up quickly on both feet and combine.
  • Movement - Players should try out to in and in to out movements as well working on timing their runs in the box.

Progressions:

  • Players to think of their own patterns.
  • Add defender(s).
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG 7v7 Transitions

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): SSG 7v7 Transitions
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SSG 7v7 Transitions20 mins

Adapt to Need:

  • Area Size: Full Sized with 2 scoring zones.
  • Player Numbers: 6(+1) v 6(+1).

Practice Setup: 

  • 1 middle zone (no defending team allowed to cross or be in there until the ball is in the opposition half.
  • 4 defenders to press in the oppositions half.
  • Transition = 6(+1) v 4.
  • Team who scores keeps possession.
  • Forwards on 2 touch finish.

Coaching Points: 

  • Priority on the accuracy, weight and timing of each pass. 
  • Movement of support players.
  • Vision of team in possession to play into forward.

Progression:

  • Change the number of passes before playing into the forward in the scoring zone
  • Teams to go to 2 touch max.
  • Forwards on 1 touch finish.
  • 1 defender allowed in scoring zone.
  • 1 player allowed to support forward in scoring zone (2v1).

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