Football/Soccer Session (Difficult): Finding the seams and gaps.

Discovery game3 channel possesson (20 mins)

Across the pond emphasis on playig through gaps and seams...defensive players are locked into thier grid. no set number of passes to play across. finding any of the 3 illustrated entry passes will enable a succesful transfer...Black team is neutrals. Playes cannot play to nearest wide neutral player, all passes must be angled to find wide players

1. Red team must succesfully transfer the ball on the ground into the green teams zone by playing through the 2 lines created by the blues.

2. Blue team can send 2 defenders into the zone where possession is being held, the remaining 3 must each pick a channel to defend in, they may not exit the channel and must be higher than the pk spot while defending.

3. once the team has won the ball, the team that lost possesiion then transitions into the defending roles.

Coaching details.

1. read visual cues, eye contact, defensive unbalance, and identifying seams as they open up.

2. Disguise entry pass.

3. No set pass number is needed to transfer ball, whenever the entry pass is presented exploit immediately.

4. Best time to transition the ball is in the defending teams transition phase.

Point Criteria

2 points anytime a seam is exploited splitting 2 players

1 point anytime ball is transitioned to other grid

6 minute blocks as many as needed until mastery of exercise.

Dont confuse movement and success with actually mastery of exercise.

Small sided defending in 3 lines

Final game... can go to big goals as well dependig on numbers (

Players in the central channels are locked into their zones, the blue team must break the red midfield line and fin their mids in behind their line of 3, once this happens the blue player can find one of his 2 attacking players or break lines again and find their point player who can help facilitate the play.

Once the midfield line is broken one player can chase into the blue zone to ensure they are taking their first touch forward and into the attacking zone. Working on body shape is critical so having the defender chase from behind will help bring that out.Defender cannot chase into final scoring zone.