Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Attacking - passing, movement, decision making, make the pitch big (Start Time: 2024-03-17 11:15:00)

Warm-Up - Rondos (10 mins)

Method: 3v1 Rondos - pass and move, 3 passes scores 1, swap in/out defender, add more rondo areas if/when players arrive

Blues v Reds, defenders score if steal possession, keep intensity high, time box for 2 minutes, against each other

Static stretching between rounds - upper body, middle and quads and hamstrings

Coaching Points:

Passing and Moving, receive with open body, aware, on the toes, move as ball is moving, move yourself, move the ball, move again

Attacking 3 v 2 (15 mins)

Method: 

Blue defenders working in pairs, pass to central Red attacker, central  Red attacker  plays first pass to 1 of the wide Red attackers, defenders can score through in Blue gates if win possession, Game stops once GK has possession, transition to attack if loose possession

Coaching Points: 

Attackers - make the pitch big to create space,  decide quickly as the ball is moving, pass right or left,  open stance to receive the ball

Wide Red attacker receiving the ball, open body, back foot  

Aware of defender, decide - can move forward wide if space in front and behind the defender, red passer supports play behind to create 2v1

OR Red attacks inside shoulder of defender to create space outside and central Red crosses over to move into the space created outside - 2v1

Shoot or Cross to 3rd Red attacker

Finishing - composure, aware the GK , dummy or shoot, don't need to beat the defenderx2 to score

ball moving, standing foot in front of the ball, body position over the ball, use laces for power, 

direct to either post away from GK, low

3rd attacker movement for the rebound

Transition to defend if Reds loose possession in play, Blues can score through the blue gates

Attackers v Defenders (20 mins)

Method:

5v5 plus 2 neutrals that can't be challenged and stay in the narrow wide zones, transition to defending, back in your own half behind the ball,

limit touches on the ball, if team doesn't defend in own half then scores count double

3 x 6 minute games

Coaching Points:

attacking shape, make the pitch big, movement without the ball, forward runs without the ball

Opposition, drop off to occupy space in own half, don't get caught behind support to create 2v1s when attacking

switch the play 

Defending - when lose possession get back behind the ball as a team, quickly, get compact