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Coaching Technique With a Conditioning Element
By Keith Scarlett This activity works on technique, first-touch, passing, receiving, turning and fitness. Set-up: The players break into groups of three. Two players start 40 metres apart with the...
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Critical Technique Training
By Keith Scarlett This activity works on technique of playing and receiving long balls both in the air and on the ground, first-touch, passing, receiving and striking a driven ball approximately 30...
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Develop Competitiveness In Training
By Keith Scarlett These activities help to begin bringing out the competitiveness of all the players and their drive to win. Four 5 X 5 boxes are set up with balls piled up in between the 4 boxes. The...
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How to Defend Against Potent Attacking Teams
By Stevie Grieve In the Copa Del Rey final, Real Madrid went into the game against Barcelona confident of a win, even without Cristiano Ronaldo who mass missing due to injury, but with Bale and Benzema...
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Small-Sided Game For Flank Play
By Keith Scarlett This activity is a 4 v 4 game plus 2 flank players plus 2 neutral players to regulation goals. Two goals should be set up about 25 metres apart. The field is 30 metres wide. A channel...
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A Complete Training Session for Build Up Play
By Sean Pearson This session is purposely detailed to give you, the coach, as much information on why, where and how specific things should happen. Session Length: 1hr 30mins Warm-Up Time: 10mins In...
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Defending Opponents with their Back to Goal
By Sean Pearson Session Length: 90 mins A lot of sessions focus on defending when players are dribbling the ball towards the defenders. I can’t remember seeing a session that focuses on defending...
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Moving the Ball Away from Pressure
By Sean Pearson Session Length: 90 mins This session focuses on players recognizing when, where are how to move the ball away from pressure on one side of the field to a point on the other side of the...
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Applying Combination Play to the Game
By Sean Pearson Session Length: 90 mins During my days as a trainer, a lot of head coaches were (and still are) obsessed with the give and go, as if it’s the lifeblood of being a good team. While it is...
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Defensive Organization Against the Counter Attack
This article is an excerpt from our new best-selling book, Coaching the 4-2-3-1 by Stevie Grieve. The Blacks play 4-2-3-1 v the Yellow 4-2-3 formation. The Yellows play 9 v 10 and when they win...
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Defending from different angles
By George Kee 1v1 defending occurs numerous times throughout a match. This exercise teaches players to defend from different angles. Players gain experience defending when approaching from the front,...
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Double Goal
By Steven Smith Setup: This activity is designed to convert possession to shooting in a quick sequence. The teams must focus on proper and skillful possession of the ball in a tight space and then...
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Speed Dribble
By Steven Smith Setup: This activity is designed to encourage dribble penetration through the field when space is given. Teams who recognize space for speed dribbling will force defenses to make...
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Brazilian Triangle Series
By Steven Smith Setup: Three to four sets of the triangles are set up as shown in the first diagram. Three players are in each triangle and set up on the cone in each location. Distance between cones...
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Crossing Free Zones
By Steven Smith Setup: Two free zones are set up outside a 36 by 30-yard field. Zones are free from defenders. Grid size can be up to half field depending on age of players and functional desire of...
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Endless 4v4
By Steven Smith Setup: One grid is set up in the front third of the field using a full half field. The grid is set with the width of the 18 yard box making the width of the grid 44 yards. Execution:...
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How to Warm Up For a Training Session
By Mike Saif Question – How do you warm up for a training session? Does it change depending on what the training session topic is? One of the most important things for me with training sessions is to...
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Individual Ball Control Session
By Steven Smith One vs. one skill development is essential to winning games. The teams that can efficiently dismantle other teams in one vs. one challenges all over the field will have better chances...
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Penetration Targets with Dummies
By Steven Smith Area Size: A grid that is 20 X 20 is set up with three dummies (or poles) in the middle as shown. Three groups of three are divided into color groups. Teams: At least two teams but...
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7v7 plus 7 wingers
By Steven Smith Area Size: Set up a 30 x 35 yard grid as shown. Place 7 black vs. 7 yellow inside grid. Seven red players each possess a ball on the outside of the grid ready to cross. Teams: Three...
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