Organization:
30x20 yard area
2 teams
1 ball
Instructions:
- Upon arrival to the session, players pick up pinnies and play
- Game lasts for 8 minutes
Coaching Points:
- Self organise
- Self officiate
- Keep score
Organization:
40x30 yard area
12 players
6 balls
Instructions:
- Half of the players have a ball, the other half do not (receiving players)
- Receiving players can only have 1 touch
- Passing players look to combine with receiving players and have the ball returned into space
Coaching Points:
- Dribble wth head up
- Look to make connection with receiving player - Are they ready?
- Pass towards the back foot of receiving player
- Return the ball ahead of the passing player, using back foot
- Switch roles after set period of time
Progressions:
See following sceens
Organization:
40x30 yard area
12 players
6 balls
Instructions:
- Passing and receiving practice
- Players without the ball must move around one of the outside cones and then enter the field
- Make eye contact with a player who has a ball
- Complete pass and maintain possession
- Look to make a pass to someone else who has moved around a cone
- Play for set period of time
Coaching Points:
- Movement off the ball
- Move so you can see the field as you run around the cone - do not turn your back
- Look for a player with a ball as you enter the field
- Use verbal/non verbal communication to complete pass - Call name / point to where you want ball
- Movement with the ball
- Messi touches, keep head to observe position of players without a ball
- Make eye contact with receving player
- Play pass using the inside of your foot
Progressions:
- Enforce receiving to feet or receiving in space as a rule so every pass follows that
- Have players wear pinnies, have to pass to a player in a different coloured pinnie
Organization:
30x20 yard area with defensive areas set at 10 & 20 yards (shaded area)
12 players (Play in pairs)
6 balls
Instructions:
- Objective for the attackers (white) is to score once inside the final third
- Defenders can only steal the ball inside of the 'defending zone'
- After a goal or if the ball goes out, attackers become the next defenders
Coaching Points:
- Judge distance of attacker - Dribble or pass?
- Be positive and try to get forward - Messi or Ronaldo?
- Can you get into the final third and score quickly - Do I need to pass?
Progressions:
Free Play (3v3)