Tag Archives for " Possession "

8 v 5 Formation Possession Game

In this week’s Animated Drills Video I’ll show you a video of an activities that I first shared in episode 252 of the CoachingSoccerWeekly.com podcast. It focused on different ways to train

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Building From the Back Through Goal Kicks

This week’s video shows some game footage from my 2010 girls team. I want to focus on the way we try to build from the back as well as how the other team did this. The video was recorded with the

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Progression to Teach Building from the Back

This week’s Animated Drills Video looks at activities that you can use to teach your team to confidently build from the back. The adjustments to the Laws of the Game that went into effect this summer

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5 v 4 Building from the Back

This week’s Animated Drills Video is being created with the ‘Female Player’ template of Academy Soccer Coach. If you’re training female players why not have them in your diagrams.

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3 v 1 with Transition Activity

This week’s Animated Drills Video is a look at a small-sided game that I observed the SPORTING KC first team perform during a recent Affiliate Observation day. The 5 v 5 + 5 game provided the players

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Adjusting to Pressure

This week’s Animated Drills Video shows how you can adjust the formations you use when building from the back in order to deal with the type of pressure the opponent is putting you under. The diagram

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Rondo with Goals

This week’s Animated Drills Video shows a series of ways that you can add a transitional moment for the defenders in your rondo activities in training. Just winning the ball and swapping defenders

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6 v 2 + 2 Breakout

This week’s Animated Drills Video is a great progression to Rondo or other possession games because it give the activity direction and purpose. The diagram is created with the session planner on

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Three Team Possession Game

This week’s Animated Drills Video is of a possession activity you may have seen before but I don’t want to assume that. It’s not a very functional possession game but it will force your

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