Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Individualised Session working with Left Winger

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Set Up:

Players, pitch mannequins and balls as pictures. 

Coaches in black as a target player to play forward from and for the second phase of the finishing element for the strikers to attack and score in the goal vs the GK.

The GK will play out from the back through any of the front 4 players (worked in blocks of work per player) who will then work the ball forward into the coach past the halfway line. At this point the practice will begin and the coach will play into the RCB who will step forward with the ball and play a forward pass into the DCM, 10 and 9 (again worked in blocks of work). There will be three patterns played within the practice.

When the ball is worked through to completion (shot off at goal from 9, 7 or 11) a second ball will be served in by the coach from the edge of the box, which will be sent into play at a difficult height and weight for the strikers to deal with two touch to get another shot off at goal (2ns phase of an attack - reactions).

Timings will be worked 4x5 minute blocks of work with framing and terminal feedback provided within 90 seconds between the blocks.

Lots of walk throughs and coaching process interventions used as this is a lower load, Individualised session so repetition is good but ball rolling can be compromised to get the level of detail in to the player required to improve his development in line with his IDP.

The individual player that I will be working with is the LW (No 11).

Coaching points: Types of movement and angles created to receive the ball, out to in, in to out, double movements, etc

Timing of runs; forward, back, sideways/arched

Triggers for the above, who, what, when,  why and what if.

Adaptations:

Change the shape of the mannequins into a back 3/5 to illustrate different movements and pockets of space needed to be occupied depending upon the oppositions shape.

Balls delivered in the second phase can be moved to the other side of the pitch, wide or from behind the goal for a one touch finish.

Change shape of winger so rather than being in a 4-3-3 it could change to a 4-4-2 flat.