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first season with offsides, any drills i could use?

first season with offsides, any drills i could use to explain to them how it all works??

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If you are working with younger players, there is almost no use in training to use or recognise offside. If you are coaching from an attacking point of view (i.e. not being offside), then you'd only be focussing on a handful of players, those who are liable to wander offside. If you are coaching from a defending point of view, you'd be looking at either springing the offside trap or making sure the back line pays attention to the centre back (or whoever is in charge of the back line). To make offside work in your advantage is difficult enough for professional teams, let alone junior sides; besides, you need a good dose of luck and good eyes on behalf of the ref to make it work. A lot of junior games are not refereed by assistants anyway (or slightly biased ones) so there's little point to it. If you want to make the defenders work as a unit and hold the line, you could provide them with a piece of string so during a defensive drill. While they are carrying out the drill they must hold on to the piece of string (or a bib).