Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Attacking - 1v1 Dribbling and Wall Pass

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Norman Noonan
Name: Norman Noonan
City: DunLaoghaire
Country: Ireland
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Attacking - 1v1 dribbling and wall pass

Objective - coach players 1v1 dribbling and progress to combination play and wall pass

Organisation: half pitch, 1v1 areas progressing to 2v2 and into 20 min Game

Warm-Up - passing and movement, open body stance, receiving on back foot

Practice - 1v1

Squad Practice - 3v2plus1

Game - 7v7


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): WarmUp

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WarmUp (5 mins)

Warm-Up 

Players dribble ball to centre area,

Practice a trick or turn in the centre area and pass quickly to other end

Points - small touches, keeping ball close with little toe

Receive open body back foot and dribble out


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 1v1 Attacking - dribbling

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1v1 Attacking - dribbling (15 mins)

Method:

Red player passes to Blue who takes it and tries to dribble past Red and 

make a pass to next Red Player and game Restarts

Coaching Points:

Move to get into the flight of the pass, receive ball open body position on back foot

good positive first touch, out from feet in direction want to go

assess defender  - look up when dribbling

attack defender as pace with close control  - small touches

slow down to make manoeuvres to beat opponent  - skill, trick speed

timing & execution of manoeuvre 

accelerate away in the space created behind the defender

Progression to wall pass  


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 2 v 1 Combination play- wall pass

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2 v 1 Combination play- wall pass (20 mins)

Organisation: remove middle line of cones, drop in 2 small goals

Method: 3 v 2 plus 1, 2 x GKs, team out of possession must keep defender semi-active in their own final 3rd.

Score through small goals

Blue GKs passes out to start attack, Game restarts with either GK playing out, defending team defender stays in zone nearest their goal

  (could start without GKs to encourage finishing with shots)

Coaching Points:

Dribbling - look to engage defender, feint pass to create individual space, change of direction

Wall Pass

Receiver awareness to create space 

Quality of first pass 

Quality of touch to face the defender 

Commit Defender 

Timing of pass and the timing of run 

Angle  and speed of pass 

Quality of return pass  - ba-bam (double click) - one touch

Receive behind defender 

Accelerate away in the space behind defender

Progression by removing zone constraint, adapt with constraint of 2 (or 3)  touch constraint to encourage wall pass


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Game - 7v7 ( or 9v9)

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Game - 7v7 ( or 9v9) (20 mins)

Method: 

7v7 on half pitch - 20 mins

Coaching Points.

Communication - passer and receiver calling to each other

Opposition Team - defending as a unit ?

Play 3 x 6 min games

Observe and Reflect


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