Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Yonkers-Cardinals-Week-8-Combination-Play

Main-Theme(Unopposed-Semi-opposed) (20 mins)

Organization:

-15 x 20 yard area set up as shown

Instructions:

Player A starts with the ball and attacks the center of the area, player A passes to player B who plays a wall pass back to Player A. Player A then recieves the ball and dribbles through the Blue gate at the end of the area. The rotation is as follows Player B performs 2 wall passes then goes to line A .Player A after dribbling through the gate goes to the end of Line B.

Coaching Points:

1) Best played with the outside of the foot to disguise the pass

2) Angle and Distance of supporting player

3) Reduce distance for quicker combination

Progressions:

P-Add pug goal to perform wall pass around

P-Add passive or full defender

Conditional Game (15 mins)

Organization:

Set up a 30v45 area.

Instructions:

Play 4+2 v3 attacking against 3 defenders. game starts with the center mid every time.

every 3 balls played rotate attackers.

attacker score 2 points if goal after combination play; deffender score 2 points if the ball can be passed to coach after winning the ball. Neutral players play on the outside of thearea

Coaching Points:

Speed of Play

Pro-Active Runs

Third Player Runs

Support in front of the ball

Back to goal play

Decision Making

Progressions:

P- Add moe defenders