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Football: Cobi Jones Speedstar

Very good interactive coaching drills.

Matt

DESCRIPTION

Station small goals (2 yards wide) in each corner of the area facing in towards the field of play with no goalkeepers. Play a 4 v 4 or a 6 v 6.

The teams must try to keep possession and dribble the ball through the cones in order to score.

COACHING POINTS

To begin with players can score in any of the 4 goals. However, you can change the direction of the play so that teams can now attack only diagonally opposed goals. This will encourages players to switch the point of attack.

Players should be creating space in the area so that team mates can exploit the space on the flanks.

Get the ball wide. Look to steal as much ground before switching the ball back to the centre of the field.

Try to switch the point of attack.

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Set up a rectangle, 15x10m, with a player on each corner plus two defending players inside the grid with bibs on.

The outside players must try to stretch the two defenders in order to make space for the diagonal pass. In order to do this they can pass laterally and use dummy passes to send the defenders.

Players keep count of how many diagonal passes they have completed.

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Each teams has 3 players and one goal to defend and one to attack.

The ball is not allowed to stop or go over head height.

By passing and dribbling the ball players must try to score three goals - first to three wins!

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Passing and Receiving:

Split your players into three equal sized teams, with two teams starting inside the area and the third spread around the outside of the grid.

The team on the outside of the grid are neutral players. When they receive the ball they must pass back to a player on the same team that originally passed to them.

The two teams inside the area play a possession game. The challenge for each team is to score 10 (or more) consecutive passes to score a goal.

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