Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Practice Plan Week 1 Block 2 Marking & Intercepting (Unopposed & Opposed)

Tzeachten Chilliwack United

Kevin Raffle

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Name:	Kevin Raffle
City:	Chilliwack
Country:	Canada
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ability/Skills/Ball Mastery Warmup

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Ability/Skills/Ball Mastery Warmup (15 mins)

SET UP: 2 Lines 20-25 yards apart from each other. Enough balls for each player.

The player will have a ball at their feet and they will line up beside each other on the far line facing the coach. On the coaches command, the players will perform a skill the coach calls out. Skills can include: Stationary toe taps. Stationary or forward moving Tic Tocs, Forward pushes (going forward), Toe Drags (going backward) Sole Roles with the left foot, Sole Rolls with the right foot.

Progressions: Have players facing each other at 20 yards, and hand or pass off a ball after they complete the move called out by the coach.

Have players dribble towards each other and cut in opposite directions by performing a move such as a sole role.

Focus: The main goal of this part is introducing, practicing and developing their ball control.
Creativity is important, having contact with different parts of their body, footwork, make them think, solve game
situations, increase the communication between each other and gain confidence on their skills.
Increase difficulty of the variations progressively.
Push players to work with both feet, moment to also focus on their weak foot.
Players con work individually, pairs or groups.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Unopposed Marking & Intercepting

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Unopposed Marking & Intercepting (15 mins)

SET UP: 3 Cones roughly 5 yards apart from each other. 1 Ball, (3) players. 1 at each cone and the third player behind the blocking player.

INSTRUCTIONS: Player A will make a pass in the direction the stationary player B. Player C will come off the back cone in behind the stationary player to mark up and get touch tight. Player C will intercept the pass, and play the ball back to the server player A. The process will repeat itself with player C intercepting the ball on the opposite side. Players will switch roles every few minutes.

FOCUS: Quick movement to get touch tight. Do not try to win the ball from behind with toes. Advance on an angle and not square to the opponents shoulders. Knees bent keeping a lower stance on the balls of the players feet.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Opposed Marking & Intercepting

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Opposed Marking & Intercepting (20 mins)

SET UP: Play this 1v1 marking game yard grid split into 3rds (3) 5x10 yard zones (For a group of 12 make 3 grids with 4 players each.

INSTRUCTIONS: The players on the outside act as servers and targets. The players on the inside start in the middle third. One player receives from his partner and the objective is to turn and pass to the target player at the other end. The soccer drill is then reversed. Players are rotated so they all get to practice marking.

PROGRESSION: Have defenders close down from the corner of the middle grid.

Bring two grids together and increase the numbers to 2v2 in the middle and two targets at each end. Increase this again by allowing one of the outsiders to join in after the first pass to make 3v3 in the middle. Now they will develop marking and covering.

Combine grids and add players to go to a 2v2, 3v3, eventually to a 5v5. Then Increase the pitch size to allow for a 5v5 game with end zones. There are no goals or keepers so the team in possession must try to achieve penetration into the opponents’ end zone.

Focus: * Quick movement to get touch tight., No toe checking and no diving in. Come in on an angle. Don’t let them turn”.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Marking & Intercepting with Soccer Tennis

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Marking & Intercepting with Soccer Tennis (20 mins)

SET UP: 15x25 yard grid with two end zones of 10 yards and a 5 yard zone in the middle. (3) even teams of players each wearing different color bibs. Each team will take up a zone.

INSTRUCTIONS: The coach will serve ball to one team in an end zone, and the team in the middle will send in one player into the end zone try to win the ball from the team in possession. The team in possession will try to complete 3 passes before sending the ball through the middle to the other end zone. Each team gets a point for every successful ball put into the other zone. If the defender or the team in the middle wins the ball, then the team in the middle will switch with the team in the end zone and the process will repeat itself.

CONSTRAINTS: Make the grid, bigger or smaller depending on the ability level, or how much success the teams are having in possession. Create two touch limit, or have everyone touch the ball before it is put into the other zone.

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