Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Mid-Block and Pressing (Start Time: 2023-09-02 11:00:00)

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Surya Kalasa

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Name:	Surya Kalasa
City:	London
Country:	United Kingdom
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Organisation (Practice Layout & Transition): We begin with a basic possessing drill but focused on the defensive principle of pressing and working in small units and then transition to working in a bigger unit. The final transition is into a game based scenario where the players can apply the concepts worked on earlier and markers and goals have been laid out to help them identify the desired outcomes.

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Basics of pressing in small units

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Basics of pressing in small units (10 mins)

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions) [5-7 minutes]: This is a Basic pressing drill aimed to help players understand the requirements of pressing such as Positioning, communication,

angles, triggers and speed.

It involves 2 parallel & identical practices where the Reds have possession and the Greens try to regain possession utilising an effective press.

Pressing triggers: Loose touch, when the ball is with a wide player near the touchline (this leads to playing in a mid-block with a press only in the wide areas).

Progression: The boundary between the 2 practices is removed and it turns into one practice where all the greens can move freely but the reds cannot leave their respective

halves.

Challenges, Conditions or Targets:

1. The pressing team have the objective to win the ball back within 8 passes to gain a point (the target can be amended as per the ability of the group).

2. An extra point is awarded for good communication and recognising key pressing triggers (at the coach's discretion).

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Block and press

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Block and press (15 mins)

Adaptations (Progressions & Regressions) [15 minutes]: A practice reflecting a game-like scenario, the shaded area marked with the red flat markers are the 'pressing zones'. The team in possession tries

to break down the opposition with forward passes and the team out of possession will stay compact and force the opposition wide and try to win it back in the wide areas, hence the mid-block and

pressing in the wide areas.

Progression/regressions: 1. The size of the area is changed to progress or regress the session with how well the teams are doing defensively.

2. The neutral players can be moved to the team performing poorer of the two and the other team would have a new challenge of how to play with a player less.