Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Pitch Scanning, Passing and Breaking Lines

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Mike Leyshon

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Mike Leyshon
Name: Mike Leyshon
City: Bridgend
Country: United Kingdom
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Organisation (Practice Layout & Transition)

Cones, bibs, balls.

2x 20m wide by 15 to 18m depth boxes, separated by a 5m channel, containing taller cones.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Active Warm Up

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Learning Objectives

Technical Technical
Heads up passing and quality of receiving touch
Technical Tactical
Movement
Technical Physical
On toes, maintain movement
Technical Psychological
Don't go to long on this bit
Technical Social
Communication, teamwork to avoid having to run the around the cone forfeit

Active Warm Up

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

Warm up with short passing and short movements

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

Ball to stay in box, if it's lost all that team have to jog around a cone in the central channel and return to zone to start passing again.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Technical

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Learning Objectives

Technical Technical
Quality of pass, weight and direction. Control of longer passes.
Technical Tactical
Scanning across the pitch to identify a receiver. Movement into spaces between cones. Switch of play.
Technical Physical
Up the intensity
Technical Psychological
Add a bit of competition on which team can complete the switch of play quickest
Technical Social
Communication, call who the switch pass is intended for

Technical

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

Continue as warm up, but on the whistle/shout player in possession in each group must play a pass to the other group, with the balls on the ground, passing through the central channel. 

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

If a cone is struct, the passer must run and touch that cone and return to their zone.

If ball lost out of zone, all players in that zone to run around the cones in the channel and return.


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Skill Practice

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Learning Objectives

Technical Technical
As before for attackers. Defenders, side to side movement and checking over shoulders.
Technical Tactical
Breaking lines with quick lateral passes, scanning and decisive/ quality through ball. Off the ball movement into space between defenders
Technical Physical
Further increase of effort. Switch players around if tiring
Technical Psychological
Switch defenders on 90 seconds to avoid drop off/ boredom
Technical Social
Commincation as before for attackers. Organisation from defenders.

Skill Practice

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions):

Drop to one ball.

3 players are bibbed and work in the central zone to intercept switch of play passes.

90 second reps, then change defenders.

Progress to one defender pressing the ball and can tackle, whilst 2 remain in the centre channel.

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

Could use max number of passes, or a time restriction before having to switch play, but we don't want players to force bad passes, so need to be careful with using this.


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