Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Speed endurance (fullback) (Start Time: 06-Jan-2017 14:40h)

15mins (15 mins)

Organisation

Players: 2

Area: 2 lanes that are 10 meter’s long

Time: 15 minutes

Equipment: ball, cone and flag

Work to rest ratio: 1:1

Time line of session

- The player is to be set and ready and the red cones with a football.

- The player is then expected to sprint to the orange cones with the football

- He will then stop the ball on the line and sprint around the flag and back to the ball

- The player will then pass the ball to the other player who will be on their toes and ready to receive the ball

- The next player will now do this.

They will continue to take in turns of doing this drill with a 1 minute rest after 6 minutes of doing so and will continue after the rest up until 15 minutes.

The players are to do the reputations to the fastest and best of their ability

This drill is like a game scenario of when the fullback or the team lose the ball after attacking and the full back would have to sprint back into position.

Condition - make lane longer to run in.

Progression - make time longer.

rationale

Rationale:

I set my session out as I did for the participants to work on just speed endurance throughout the session, while improving the technical ability and tactical awareness aspects of a football player playing in the role of a fullback. To be able to train speed endurance it is important to know exactly what it is. According to Athlepedia (2017) “The purpose of speed endurance is to prolong the amount of time where a near maximal speed can be maintained.” This is something that is really important in football for all players but especially for a full back in the modern game, as the full back is expected to support attacks but to be back in position when losing the ball as shown in a clip-on YouTube by Angelo DiBenedetto. He explains how the fullback in the modern game will push on beyond the wingers to get in an attacking position. This makes their role in the team a very high intense one. As seen from my session I work on these aspects as compared to a game scenario, the player would run with the ball to a certain point as if the team/player is attacking and then would leave the ball on the line and sprint up and around the flag as if he is running to get back into position in an actual game. For the second part of the session the players where expected to run down the line through the cones with a ball and cross it into the box and then sprint back to the nest of balls, they were to repeat this 9 times at the maximum of their ability and to be able to do it in 20 seconds for each ball. This drill really tests and works on the speed endurance of a player as you will notice the more they fatigue the worse the quality of the crosses become and the less time they give themselves for the recovery run back. I did the session with 2 players and for the time that I did as I felt it allowed me to be more specific with what I could train and keep it a good work to rest ratio.

Angelo DiBenedetto (2013), Best Practices - Attacking Full Backs. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM2D6po1rpE (accessed: 06/01/17)

Athlepedia (2017), Speed Endurance.

Available at: http://athletics.wikia.com/wiki/Speed-endurance (accessed: 06/01/17)