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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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Paul Mcguinness

Win the ball and break

This session is about winning the ball back and breaking quickly to score – it’s based in the middle third of the pitch but the skills le...

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Alan Pardew

Defending crosses with a back three

This session is all about setting a team up in a 3-5-2 formation and coaching them to defend against crosses from wide areas. It initiall...

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Stephen Constantine

Switching play

In this session we focus on switching play and trying to create numerical advantages all over the pitch. The objective is to exploit the ...

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Jack Cassidy

Full backs defending in wide areas

This is a position-specific session aimed at making full backs better at defending in wide areas of the pitch.

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Daniel Farke

Building up through the centre against a low block

The session is about creating chances through the centre against teams that defend zonal orientated in a lower block.

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Mark Bowen

Defending 1v1 and against overloads

This training session is aimed at educating defenders in the skillsets, communication ability and decision making needed when they are go...

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Keith Boanas

Wide dribbling and crossing

This session was designed through an analysis of player needs and it helps to create more positivity in attacking areas. It is aimed at e...

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Javi Gracia

Post-match training

This is a session we actually ran after a pre-season game at Valencia this year. For the players that played more than 60 minutes of the ...

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Adam Barradell

Sustaining and finishing attacks

This session is made up of a series of practices that work on the abilities of individuals and the team to sustain attacks and ultimately ...

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Clinton Lancaster

Transition Play

The main focus of this session is on transitional play, where we aim to hit the wide areas of the pitch as quickly as possible. We then ...

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Yasar Latif

Rondo 2.0

This practice can be used to achieve various outcomes relating to passing and receiving. The primary outcome is to support players with ...

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Tony Morton

Encouraging combination play

This session is all about finding support positions to encourage combination play and to change the point of attack. In the modern game ...

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Dave Clarke

The ultimate development project

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Kevin O'Grady

Transition principles

I use this session to make our players fully understand our transition principles – both the transition from attack to defence and the ...

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Neil Lennon

Build up and attack with overloads

This training session allows us to focus on attacking play with overloads. It also helps us to work on positional play and how to progress ...

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Chris Wilder

Pressing to win the ball

In a lot of the sessions we run at Sheffield United, we want the players to press and win the ball back as quickly as possible. It’s a big ...

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Paul Simpson

Position-specific coaching

This is a session that we have used in the past with the England U20s. We use a specialist coaching model at the Football Association, with ...

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Riteesh Mishra

Play forward and support

This training session is about creating opportunities to play forward passes into the feet of forward players, or into attacking space. It ...

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Malky Mackay

Striker combinations and link play

This session is about striker combinations and link-up play in the final third. It’s important to practise these because we’re frequently ...

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Kevin Thelwell

Developing build-up play through quick passing

This session is specifically about build-up play and providing players with the opportunity to understand specific patterns of play. It’s ...

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David Flitcroft

Playing through the thirds with your number 10 as a playmaker

This session looks at retaining possession in aiming to find the number 10 (the attacking midfielder) in between the lines.

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Rene Meulensteen

Build up into strikers

This session deals with creating overloads whilst playing out from the back, through midfield and into attack, creating 1v1, 2v1, 2v2 and 3...

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Phil Brown

Winning the midfield battle

This session is about competing against opposition players in the middle of the park, and subsequently taking control of the game. It’s a ...

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Gary Rowett

Defending the danger zone

This session is designed to work on defending in the ‘danger zone’, but it also works on attacking in the danger zone too. Studies have ...

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