Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Receiving with back foot on defensive third

Introduction (15 mins)

Organization:

- 30x40 grid or adjust accordingly to space and age group.

- 3 teams of 4 players, or adjust according to numbers (teams of 3).

- We can adjust to one ball per player, or less.

Instructions:

- Red team: each with a ball inside grid. Each player has to pass to a player outside grid (player on white team), but receive from a different player of who they just passed to. Every time they receive a ball, it's a point.

White Team: target players outside rectangle. White team players receive from red and pass back to a different player other than who they just received from. Each player gets a point for every pass they give.

- Blue Team: they combine with one ball and try to break the lines formed by red and white. A regression here would be to each start with a ball and break the lines by dribbling.

Coaching Points:

- COMMUNICATION 'feet!'

- Adjust body to receive and see three remaining targets. One shoulder pointing at who we just received from and other shoulder to the rest of the field.

- First touch control and catch. Then decide.

- Open body to rest of the field (hips).

- Crisp passing.

Progressions/Regressions:

- Take away or add soccer balls.

- Force a chip shot, one time, etc.

Conditioned (15 mins)

Organization:

- Expand prior field. Add two targets on each side.

- 4v4, blue team scores west, red team east.

Instructions:

- 4v4, teams score by playing to target. Directional.

Coaching Points/Questions:

- Can we get wide as soon as a target on possession has the ball?

- Can we break a line directly to target?