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Football: Short Play

Very good interactive coaching drills.

Matt

DESCRIPTION

Station a target player inside the semi-circle at each end of the area. No outfield player is allowed in this area. Position 4 players on the outside of the area.

Play 3 v 3 inside the area. The team in possession must attempt to get the ball to their target player inside the semi-circle. Once a target player receives the ball, the team on the outside of the area replaces the team whose target player received the ball. All passes must be under head height. The shorter, narrow field ensures players must support at wide angles.

Progressions:
1. The team in possession may play the ball to any of the players on the outside of the area to receive a return pass.
2. All attacking players now have 1 touch only.

COACHING POINTS

Position at a good angle and distance to receive the ball.

Can a player be in a position which makes a forward pass possible?

Pass, then move to another support position.

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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.

Possession

Passing through area:

This is nice variation on your regualr circle passing warm up - and gets large groups of players working at the same time (no waiting in queues).

Players on the outside have to keep moving around the outside (not allowed to stand still)

While running around they have to try and score as many points as possible against the player in the middle by passing the ball through the area to their other players.

player losing the ball goes in the middle and the game starts again.

Possession

Minefield Passing:

In both the wide channels put one defender and two attackers.

Both attackers in the same rectangle must touch the ball before trying to pass to the other attackers.

However the ball is not allowed to touch the floor in the minefield area (middle box).

If the pass doesn't find its intended recipient because it falls short or is intercepted the player who passed the ball swaps over with the defender in their area.

Possession

Through Ball in the Triangle:

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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