Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Line Breaking Passing

Technical Block - Passing, Receiving and Retaining

Gameplay:

8 vs 4

One team defends for a minute whilst the other two teams aim to keep the ball. At each time the ball is intercepted or the ball goes dead, the ball is returned to the two teams keeping possession. The amount of times the defending team win possession is recorded. The team with the least amount of interceptions does a forfeit. 

Core Theme: Playing Forward Through Overloads

Gameplay:

Play starts from the coach feeding the ball into one of the defenders. The ball can only travel through the thirds through passing into the next third. The player that made the pass can progress into the next third to create an overload in that zone. The blue team can move freely around all three zones, whereas the oranges are limited to their own zones, unless they pass up through the thirds.

Adaptations:

Add channels with wingers in to recreate the 3-5-2, this will get the players more familiar with their positional play and create wide 1 v 1/ 2 v 1 scenarios. The wide players must be restricted to just passing within the third that they have received the ball and the ball cannot just go straight to them. 

Put pass restrictions in place, so that the oranges can't progress a third without making a certain amount of passes, or they can't play out to the wide players without making a certain number of passes.