Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Pull Push

Warm up

Organization:

Set up as shown.

Instructions:

• Player A starts the game by leaving the end zone, player A is the attacker.

• Player B is the defending player and is trying to stop in either endzone next to player A

• Player A wins if he/she can stop in an end zone without the opposition player by their side.

Coaching Points:

1) Speed of movement

2) Quality of movement

3) Decision based on defender's positioning

Progressions:

Semi to Fully Opposed

Organization:

Same organization as the previous activities.

Instructions:

• Both blue team and red team have a ball but the blue team are the attacking players first

• Both players must stay on their half of the area neither player can cross the cone line in the middle

• Blue wins by stopping the ball in an end zone before the opposition can stop in the area

• Defender is live on blue's first touch.

• If defender wins the ball they try to score in the pug between the two lines

• Each team gets 1:30 to take the role of the attacker

Coaching Points:

- Quality of first touch (Direction - towards goal, Weight)

- Awareness of defender's position

- Be positive, attack goal if possible

- Decision, Turn or Stop start to lose the defender (Scenarios from warm up)

- Protect the ball with your body

- Finish!

Progressions:

P. Use pugg goals to paint the picture of getting behind the defender (end product)

R. Use cone line in the middle to allow-Defender cannot cross-(Attacker trying to dribble through gates)

P-Attacking player can score from either half, if they score from their own half they get 1 point however if they can penetrate and score from the defenders half they get 2 points--(Defenders must stay in their half, if they win the ball they