Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): moving the ball forward at speed

Football rounders beginer (10 mins)

After 10 minute warm up

Football rounders

2 teams 

1. start with 1 player on each base and the other 4 in the home pen. 

2. 1st player dribbles through the gate and qyickly passes off to the first player and follows their pass.

3. they pass and follow around the time until the ball come s back to the pen and they start again.

4. switch the teams over so they pass both directions.

adapt by increasing the balls so the players have to follow their pass and then become set to receive the next pass.

Finally a race to the end when all players get back to their pen then that team wins

Possesion and switch (20 mins)

Breaking lines passing through / over the top. (15 mins)

Passing and moving (Breaking Lines)

set up

GKs to go and do catching practise with assistant coach.

• The area in to a 3 grid area using cones
• 40 yards by 30 yard- outer grids 15 x 25 yards. Middle area 10 x 25 yard
• Red cones to set up the perimeter of the activity with blues cones splitting the 3 grids. The 2 out grids are bigger than the middle grid.
• 2/3 bibs required for players in the middle depending on numbers
• Extra balls placed on outside areas to get the game going again

The grid can be made bigger with more player. If you have more players for the session then this can be done over two grids and in the small sided the teams can be rotated.

The coach can regress the session by reducing the number of passes before the final ball, or they can extend the pith size to suit the abilities.

The coach can progress this by allowing thr players in the middle to intercept the final pass.

Coach interventions

• Coach to make sure the players are making a firm pass to each other, and looking to pass to their outside foot
• Receivers to be on their toes to and with the shoulder dropped to receive the pass.
• Coach to remind all players to pass and move
• Receive the ball on the back foot, open up your body
• Talk about breaking lines, playing though and over the top to get the ball to the other team.

The coach may feel a step in and demo is needed if the pass through is not being completed. The coach will demonstrate the pass and move around the grid.

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

• The target is to get the ball across and and controlled by the blue team. If the ball is successfully played across the team scores 1 point
• Conditions are put in place on this that 4 passes must be made before the ball goes across.
• The challenge and to receive a bonus point, every player has to touch the ball at least once in the 4 passes, with the yellow allowed to tackle and intercept not every player may be involved to achieve the target. To achieve the challenge and bonus point the players must get the ball across to the other team.

Add in a challenge for the grey team to score by setting up cones goals and they must get the ball between the cones as soon as they win the ball back.