Football/Soccer Session (Moderate): Pressing Session

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Renato Bustamante
Name: Renato Bustamante
City: Los Angeles
Country: United States of America
Membership: Adult Member
Sport: Football/Soccer
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Description

Team will develop their pressing as a team.  There will be individual coaching points through the warm up and first segment correcting individual techniques to be more efficiently pressing technically and physically.  Team will work together to press from zone 2 and zone 1.  Team will know how to position themselves, the distances they should have in each moment and what are the potential dangers based on the rotation.  Team will not only know how to press from zone 2 and zone 1 but they will also start developing collective ideas on how to transition towards goal.  


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

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Warm Up (25 mins)

Warm Up 
- Physically warm up with some agility, footwork and plyometrics incorporating deceleration, pressing angle, and body positioning of pressing. 

Each station will have 6 players including Goalkeepers
Each station will work for 3 minutes x 2 

Station 1
Hop over the three hurdles (double leg and 2nd round single leg) and press the mannequin forcing it to the left first round and right second round. 

Station 2
Use the agility ladder (speed footwork first round and coordination second round) and press the mannequin left first round and right second round. 

Station 3
Run and get low and cut to change direction while focusing on exploding after finding the right angle in the deceleration followed by a conscoius approach to force the mannequin left the first round and right the second round.  


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Reaction Pressing

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Reaction Pressing (15 mins)

Players will line up in 3 lines of 6 players in each line. They will line up across four different color mannequins.  This is an exercise of pressure, cover balance. The coach for 20 seconds will call different colors and the players need to adjust accordingly to the shape.  

After 20 seconds the players who worked will go to the back of the line and the players next in line will jog up to the cones and press the mannequins for 20 seconds.  

Each Team will do it 5 times.  


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Zone 3 Pressing

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Zone 3 Pressing (25 mins)

Goalkeepers will rotate in goal to get reps building out of the back and shot stopping.  

Green team: Back 4 + a Holding Midfielder will line up in Zone 1 and attempt to build up from goal kicks and throw ins in zone one into the mini goals.  There will be 3 subs to rotate every 4minutes.  

Red Team: Front 3 and + attacking midfielders will line up in zone 3 and press the team building out preventing them to find the mini goal and attempting to steal the ball and go to goal.  
Red team will have 3 subs to rotate every 4 minutes

5 segments of 4 minutes. 

Coaching points:
Red team - Focusing on the cues (when green team passes the ball to the outside backs or plays the ball backwards) pressing the ball and eliminating the nearby options on a man to man press.  Players further away from the ball should be eliminating outlets while being aware of space.  When winning the ball being aggressive and vertical towards goal. 


Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Shift, Press, transition

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Shift, Press, transition (25 mins)

Reactive pressing rotations in zone 2 and zone 1

Team will position itself in zone 2 in a 4-3-3 shape and will react to the coaches signal to different mannequins on the field and based on the mannequin that hypothetically would have the ball the team has to have a certain shape and players need to have certain body positioning and attention towards certain dangers.  

Round 1
The team will start in zone 2 and react to the coaches instructions and after 20-30 seconds of shifting.. the coach will throw.a ball on the field and the team in possession will transition towards goal against no opposition.  If the team scores they can walk back to starting positions, if they miss the must transition with urgency to starting position.  Team will attempt 10 shifts and transition towards goal from zone 2.  
Subs must be rotated accordingly based on feel by the coach. 

Round 2
The team will start in zone one and shift accordingly to the different mannequins on the field. After 20-30 seconds the team will transition into the goal after a coach throws a ball into the field.  If the team misses they must return to starting shape in zone 1 with urgency.  They will perform this 6 times.   


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