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Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): 1V1 Dribbling VS Diagonal Frontal Pressure (Start Time: 2024-09-09 16:00:00)

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Roberto Guzman
Name: Roberto Guzman
City: JACKSON HEIGHTS
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

What:

  • Inorder to improve the players ability to guide their first touch in order to escape the 1st defenders  pressure from frontal diagonal pressure (left/right)

Who:

  • Focus Team #7, #9, #11 vs Opponent: #2, #4, #5, #3

Where:

  • Middle 1/3 to Attacking 1/3

When:

  • The attacker receives the ball in the middle 1/3 wide and the pressuring trigger from the opponent is forcing the 1st attacker into the central zone by the attacking 1/3

Why:

Due to the 1st attacker inability to execute a guided first touch inorder to maximize their speed when attempting to dribble forward and not being able to absorb the pressure initiated by the 1st defenders from angles (left/right).

What if: 

Theres space ahead by the wide areas in order to escape pressure from the 1st defender? Continue to drive forward wide and exploit the space in order to finish the attack.

How: Look up before and after you receive the ball and identify where the space is available and guide the first touch to the desired space in order to espcae with speed

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Introduction

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Introduction
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Introduction (10 mins)

Organization:

  • Two independent grids of 15x15
  • 4 players per grid (or adjust numbers accordingly)
  • 1 ball per player
  • Work: 30 seconds Rest: 30 second 3 sets 
  • Water Break 1-minute and 30 seconds and transition to main activity

Instructions:

  • Players are dribbling around freely focusing on short/long clean sharp touches to change direction and/or drive forward.
  • When coach shouts "Escape", players have 3 seconds to dribble to a safe zone on the end of each grid

Techinical Coaching Points:

  • Keep your head up as you take a touch going forward
  • Pinky toe technique to maximize momentum driving forward

Tactical Coaching Points:

  • Why is it important to look up as you dribble forward and/or around ? (in order to recognize the space available to drive forward to)
  • What type of touches are more efficient when attempting to escape with speed into space? (big touches vs small touches)

Progressions & Regressions:

  • add 1 defender
  • add 2 defenders
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Main Activity

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Main Activity (20 mins)

Organization:

  • 2 teams of 4 players
  • 1 end zone placed by the Middle 1/3, and another placed by the attacking third.
  • Full 7v7 width and length of half the field
  • Work: 30 seconds Rest: 30 seconds 1:30 minute water break after 3 sets. 6 sets in total

Instructions:

  • Defenders initiate the scenario on the left side of the field by passing the ball to the attacker and initiates to pressure the ball.
  • The attackers main objective is to eliminate the defenders diagonal pressure and attempt to dribble to the end zone
  • If the defender wins the ball, they can score by dribbling to the end zone placed in the Middle 1/3

Techinical Coaching Points:

  • What type of touch and which surface of the foot can help you guide your touch to desired location of the field?
  • Maximize momentum by using outside of the foot to accelerate top speed

Tactical Coaching Points:

  • Why is it important to scan the space ahead before you receive the ball and dribble forward?
  • Where is the pressure arriving from? 

Progressions & Regressions:

  • 1v2 Progression
  • 2v2 Progression
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Conditional Game

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Conditional Game (25 mins)

Organization:

  • 2 teams of 4 players 
  • 2 counter mini goals placed by the Middle 1/3
  • Full 7v7 width and length of half the field 
  • Work: 30  seconds Rest: 30 seconds 1:30 minute water break after 3 sets. 6 sets in total

Instructions:

  • Defenders initiate the scenario on the left side of the field by passing the ball to the  attacker and initiates to pressure the ball. 
  • The attackers main objective is to eliminate the defenders diagonal pressure and attempt to score on goal
  • If the defender wins the ball, they can score on one of the counter mini goals placed in the Middle 1/3
  • Swtich roles attacking and defender

Techinical Coaching Points:

  • How can we guide our touch in to space in order to maximize our tempo with the ball?
  • Can we take a big touch into space in order to begin to accelerate at full speed?And Why?

Tactical Coaching Points:

  • Why is it important to understand where I want to guide my first touch into space?
  • Think forward play Forward

Progressions & Regressions:

  • 1v2 Progression
  • 2v2 Progression
Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): The Match

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The Match (35 mins)

Organization:

  • 4v4+GK

Instructions:

  • Red team goes to the big goal 
  • Alternate sides after a Work: 5 minutes Rest :1 minute and 30 seconds 4 sets

Techinical Coaching Points:

  • Think about the type of touches you need in order to escape with speed going forward
  • What type of touches can you take as the defender is arriving to initiate pressure on the ball

Tactical Coaching Points:

  • Think about the space available ahead of you
  • Where is the defender arriving from? 
  • What if there's no space ahead to drive forward? What other options can you find in order to secure possession of the ball as a team?

Progressions & Regressions:

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