Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Low Dives (Start Time: 2024-12-03 19:00:00)

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Gareth Evans

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Name:	Gareth Evans
City:	Newport
Country:	United Kingdom
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Windsor and Eton. Preparation for FA Vase game on Saturday 07 Dec. Analysis of oppsition goals see's a high conversion rate from low shots. An introduction session for First Choice Goalkeeper returning from a 2 month injury spell to get him back up to speed and ready for saturday game. This session is looking at the goalkeepers' movement around the goal and their ability to perform a low diving save.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warm Up

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Warm Up

Footwork with Low Dive

In this exercise GK's will be moving across the goal and be divingto save the ball. Working on footwork, set positon, the dive andhandling technique. Low to Mid Dives

Key Learning Points:

Footwork
Set position
Eyes remaining fixed on Ball.
Power Dive
Dive foward to attack the ball
Handling technique

Practice: GK will move through the cones working on theirfootwork keeping eyes on the deliverer standing 8-10 yards awayfrom 6 yard line and moving into the keepers set position justbefore the deliverer strikes the ball with his foot, GK will dive tosave the ball hopefullykeeping it out of the goals using correct handling technique. GK will then get up of the floor and jogback tothe start and will repeated this practice 6 times in total.

Organisation:

4 x Cones (3 cones used for footwork, 1 xcone place out the length of keepers extension of dive)
Footballs
Set of Goals

Notes:

Repeat practice on opposite side.
You can have up to 3 GK's lined up to conduct this exercise to make it continous.
Deliverer of ball can be GK/Outfield Player/Coach balls at low to mid height.
If the ball is traveling along the floor it is difficult to get W’s as 1 hand will be under the ball, so technique stays as W’s but with 1hand behind the ball and 1on top of the ball.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical 1

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Technical 1

Technical

In this exercise GK's will be moving across the goal and be divingto save the ball. Working on handling, set positon, the dive andhandling technique. Low to Mid Dives

Key Learning Points:

Set position

Eyes remaining fixed on Ball.
Power Dive
Dive foward to attack the ball
Handling technique (Catching ball with same technique as ingeneral handling)
Hands/head in direction of the ball

Practice: The GK will start opposite server 1 who will receive a strikefrom the floor around their body. Once they have caught this ball theywill throw it back and deal with a pre-scripted low dive in line with server 2.The goalkeeper will reset in front of server 1 and this will happen 4 timeseach before rotating round GK's. Once every GK has completed practice they will switch sides so the GK can practice diving onboth sides. As this is pre-scripted delivery it is a good place to start toensure the technical detail is correct before moving on to moreinvolved practices.

Organisation:

3 x Cones (evenly spaced apart)
Footballs
Set of Goals

Notes:

Desire high intensity from the GK's as they are all familiar with thetechnique, there will be very limited coaching, unless necessary.
Try and make thiscompetitive whether through time constraints and lowest time wins or number of clean catches/saves.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical 2

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Technical 2

Technical

This is then progressed to a more realistic situation with the ball. GK's will be moving across the goal and be divingto save the ball. Working on handling, set positon, the dive andhandling technique. Low to Mid Dives

Key Learning Points:

Set position
Eyes remaining fixed on Ball.
Power Dive
Dive foward to attack the ball
Handling technique (Catching ball with same technique as ingeneral handling)
Hands/head in direction of the ball

Practice: Starting with server 1 who will shoot the ball one side (prescribed) the Gk will make the low dive before re-adjusting their position inline with server 2 for a dead ball strike across goal. This will happen 4xeach before switching.

Progressions:

Deliveryfrom sever1/2 can be anywhere low across the goal.
Server 2 will strike from the opposite side.
Server 2 will take a touch out of their feet before striking at goal.
Server 2 will start centrally behind server 1, server 1 will set the ball back one side or theother where server 2 will take a touch out their feet and strike

Organisation:

2 x Cones (evenly spaced apart)
Footballs
Set of Goals

Notes:

Desire high intensity from the GK's as they are all familiar with thetechnique, there will be very limited coaching, unless necessary.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Small Sided Game

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Small Sided Game

Goalie Wars

This small sided game will be high intensity for both GK's.

The GK's will play 4 games of 90 seconds blocks, looking to strike the ball past the opposition GK with a maximum of 2 touches. If thegoal has scored in the bottom half of the goal, it will be worth 2 points toencourage GK's to keep the ball low and get the low divingsaves that we have been worked on in this session. The coach can step in and pause the time whererelevant to give any technical detail to the GK's where necessary. The thirdgoalkeeper will be hovering around the middle of the practice causingobstructions and open to score any rebounds this will ensure the GK's secure the ball where they can or deflect the ball into a safe area.

Organisation:

Footballs
2 x Set of Goals

Notes:

Desire high intensity from the GK's as they are all familiar with thetechnique, there will be very limited coaching, unless necessary.

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