Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Gem Session

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Gareth Owen

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Name:	Gareth Owen
City:	Wrexham
Country:	United Kingdom
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Defending Central

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Defending Central

Primary Focus

Attacking the Final Third

Organisation:

Balls, two mini goals, fixed goal, server, cones, flat discs

Area Size:

2/3rds pitch, full width

Player No's:

8 reds, 8 blues, GK on the red team. Reds are in a GK-4-3-1 (missing their wide players from the 11v11) Blues are in a 2x CDM, Front 3 (missing one the back 4 and GK from the 11v11)

Timings:

25 mins in total, 3x blocks X minutes work with 2 minutes rest

Explanation:

The ball starts with the server. The team I am working with are coached to penetrate through central areas in the first block and will get double goals if they score through the central zone.

The red team are the managed to deal with the opposition trying to penetrate centrally in the first block by playing through the two attacking MF players and #9.

If the reds win possession, they counter attack into the mini goals with a managed countdown

Ideally here there will be a number of natural transitions where the coach can effect the players when the red team are unorganised

Scoring/competition:

The blues will get a goal if they score naturally through the wide are but double goals for penetrating centrally

The reds will get a goal if they score on the counter attack within the managed countdo

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Defend Wide

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Defend Wide

Primary Focus:

Attacking the Final Third

Explanation:

The ball starts with the server and the team I am working with are now encouraged to create in wide areas to cause the problems for the opposition red team to solve.

This will then allow the coach to work on providing solutions to my team, and now the opposition has to defend wide.

This allows the coach to work on the timings of runs, body position etc and work with the individual / untis / team on their shape when working on this particular defensive strategy

Scoring/competition

The blues will get a goal if the score naturally by scoring through the central area and double goals if they score after being creative and scoring from a wide area. The reds will get a goal if they can score within the managed countdown on the counter attacks.