Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Connecting and supporting play

Pro-Club: HKFC Junior Soccer

Alison Kei Suet Tang

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Name:	Alison Kei Suet Tang
City:	hong kong
Country:	Hong Kong
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Description

Session Theme:

Free Play

Put players into teams and let them play

This allows coaches to set up the grids for the activities

Guidelines (These are maximum team size - smaller is not a problem):

U7/U8 - 5-a-side

U9/U10 - 6-a-side

U11/12 - 7 or 8-a-side

U13+ - 7-9-a-side

Ball Mastery:

Target/Possession/Tactical Activity:

Small Sided Game:

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

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Set Up:

2 grids next to each other (10x10) x 2 groups

How to Play:

3 blues (attacks) in one grid with 1 blue in the end of the other grid. Red (defence) will be in one grin to start a 3v1 rondo.
Blues try to play around red without red gets the ball and red tries to win the ball
As soon as blues makes 5 passes, they then can pass the ball to the blue on the other grid, 2 of the blues will need to move and create another 3v1 rondo there.
If red wins the ball, pass back to coach and they can then be blues. Whoever loses the ball will become defender.
They don’t need to transit the ball if they want to, they can wait for the right moment to progress
Progression - a) one touch; b) 3v2 *could be 4v1 progress to 4v2

Coaching Points:

In possession:

Make the pitch big
Be an option - when you don’t have ball you need to move and be on passing line
Passing quality - soft or hard pass / angle of the passes
First touch
Patient

Out of possession :

Anticipation

Patient

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' Set Up:

Set a pitch with 3 grids, the middle grid is bigger than the 2 end grids.
3 mini goals in both end grids

How to Play:

2 teams of 7 + 1 neutral player OR 2 teams of 5/6 + 1 neutral player (depending on the numbers)
2v2 or 1v1 in both end grids(striker vs defender), middle grid will be 3v3+1 or 2v2 +1 (midfielders)
One team(defender) starts with the ball to build up play.
Ball has to arrive to all of the grids before scoring(ideally).
When the ball arrive to the middle grid will become 4v3 with the neutral player, can we take advantage to try to create chance to play forward.
Once we play the ball to striker - striker can then decide to turn (if space allows) or hold the ball and wait for support, one of the midfielders from the middle grid can join the last grid to create 3v2 to score in one of the 3 mini goals. Repeat.
If the defending team gets the ball, they will do the same thing.

Coaching Points:

Patient
Positive first touch
Off ball movement and support
Can we connect (passing quality)
Make the pitch big
Be available (passing line)
Out of possession - make pitch small and stay compact
Out of possession - how fast can you attack after transition

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Set Up:

8v8 small sided game

How to Play:

Can we apply what we learn into SSG

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