Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): OA3 Final - Ged Quinn - Defending Breaking Lines

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Ged Quinn
Name: Ged Quinn
City: Arizona
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 4v4+3 Defend Breaking Lines

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4v4+3 Defend Breaking Lines (10 mins)

Welsh Principles:

General Session - Defend Breaking Lines - Understand when and how to stop the opposition playing through, around or over. 


 Organization:

20 X 25 yard grid with a line splitting the field into 2

4 small goals in each corner as shown

Line splitting the middle of the field.

Balls placed behind each of the two end neutral players

4v4+3 exercise 

3x3 minute Blocks


Explanation:

4v4+3 Exercise

Team in Blue (managed) - score points by connecting from one end white neutral to the opposite side.

Team in Red (Coached) - must prevent balls being played through, around or over. Score points by recovering possession and scoring on one of the 4 counter goals. 

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

Team in blue score points by connecting from end neutral to end neutral.

Double points if they connect by using the central white neutral or split two blues during the possession moments

Team in red score points by recovering possession and scoring on one of the 4 counter goals. Double points is they score in the same half that the recover the ball from. 

Possession will always restart with the blue team after a gola or point to help bring out the topic more regularly for the coached red team. 

Coaching Points

Recovery moments:

Fast Pressure to the ball

Protect the middle

Stay narrow and compact

Stop split passes

Possession moments:

Stretch the field

look to play through, around and over

quick ball movement to exploit the overloads

Interventions

Frame/walk through

Concurrent

Terminal


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): 9v9 SSG - Defending Breaking Lines

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9v9 SSG - Defending Breaking Lines (10 mins)

Welsh Principles:

General Session - Defend Breaking Lines - Understand when and how to stop the opposition playing through, around or over.

 

Organization:

Half field Set up as shown.

9v9 game

Red Team (Coached) in a a 1-4-3-1 formation

Blue Team (Managed) in a 1-2-3-3 formation

Tapered field towards half way line with 2 small goals as shown for red team to work towards in possession

2 poles 25 yards from the goal line represent offside line for Blues

Shaded area - one blue player must remain in shaded area when team is in possession and behind the offside line space. 

3X3 minute blocks

Explanation:
9v9 Game
Red Team can score in small goals (1 points) or big goal (2 points)
Blue Team can score on big goal

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

Red Team - If reds can score with everyone above the line when they recover the ball this is worth double points.
Blue Team - one player remains in shaded area when in possession ahead of the offside line. Goals count as double if it comes from a pass that splits the red team

Coaching Points

Recovery moments:

Fast Pressure to the ball

Protect the middle

Stay narrow and compact

Stop split passes

Interventions

Frame/walk through

Concurrent

Terminal

Coaching Process

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