Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Attack vs Defense

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David VanHeeswijk

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Name:	David VanHeeswijk
City:	Calverton
Country:	United States of America
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Warmup

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Warmup (20 mins)

2 v 2 Zonal

Description:

- Blue team attacks, white team defends

- Only one white player is allow in each zone to defend

- If blue team advance into second zone, they play 2 v 1 to try and stop the ball on the goal line

- If white win the ball, they counter 2 v 2 towards the other line and only must cross to get a point.

- Switch roles every round (attack and defense)

Coaching Points:

Attack

- Decision making on when to pass or dribble

- Movement to create better space and angles of support or to get in behind the first defender

- Effective communication to increase speed of play

- Skilled attacking play to beat the two defenders (Not just "brute force")

Defense

- Getting pressure on the ball quickly to close as much space as possible

- Communication from the second defender to help first defender

- Angle of cover from second defender to make it more difficult to get in behind

- Aggressive, hard tackling to win the ball

- Quick, explosive transition from both players to get across the line.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Decision Making Corridor

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Decision Making Corridor (25 mins)

Decision Making Corridor (Modification)

Description: (5 v 5 - 7 v 7)

- 3 Zones as marked

- Attacking team (blue) tries to play forward to eventually dribble through one of the three gates on the far side

- Defending team is only allowed to defend their zone and cannot leave the back line of their zone until the ball enters the zone

- Attacking players are able to move anywhere within their own zone

- Attacking team can send 1 extra player into an advanced zone when the ball crosses into the zone

- Defending team counters on the other team through the other gates when winning the ball (no restriction to space when ball transfers possession)

- If ball goes out, restarts in first zone and attacking team tries to attack again

- Switch roles after a few minutes, adding score all along

Progressions:

- Allow defenders to leave the line, but must stay in their zone

- Allow attackers to dribble across zones

- Allow attackers to move backwards a zone to create even more overload

- Remove zonal restrictions to defending team, but not attacking team

Coaching Points:

Attack

- Movement off the ball to create opportunities to move the ball forward

- Patient play to find the right opportunity to penetrate into the next zone

- Quick ball movement to find the late run coming from the extra attacker joining the zone

- Creative ball movement to get into the attacking zone

Defense

- Discipline to not allow the ball to move forward

- Communication with the advanced zone to assist them in defending their area

- Effective pressure/cover to limit the attacks ability to penetrate

- Explosive counter attack when ball is won to get it forward

- Strong challenges to make attackers heads go down.