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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

Crossing

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Paul Robinson

Crossing, finishing and defending

The balls start from the central area of the exercise with the coach. Players who are working start in the centre, alongside the coach, w...

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Graham Coughlan

Attacking phases incorporating wing backs

This session encourages the wing backs to make decisions in different types of attacking situations, whether in the build-up phase, a swi...

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Rob Edwards

Combination play in the final third

This training session is all about encouraging combination play in the final third and it provides the attacking players in our team with...

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Stephen Clemence

Attacking patterns against a deep block

This session helps to break down opponents who set up in a deep block against us.

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David Artell

Creating scoring opportunities from wide areas

This session is all about building relationships in wide areas. The players are given guidelines but they also have lots of freedom to br...

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Ange Postecoglou

Penetrating the final third

This session is all about penetration and it is focused on movement off the ball and on passing to penetrate. It begins with a passing dr...

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Willie Kirk

Individual positional training within a group

We want to expose every player to as many position specific technical actions as possible within a team session that has tactical element...

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Alex Bruce

Attacking and defending in wide and central areas

In this session two teams work on attacking and defending in wide and central areas of the pitch

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Aaron Callaghan

Efficient finishing

These exercises will help the midfield players to recognise space and encourage them to exploit it when in possession, as well as looking ...

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Luke Webb

INDIRECT MOVES IN THE FINAL THIRD

This session is all about possession solutions and it teaches players how to perform indirect moves and movements in the final third of the ...

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Nigel Pearson

Creating scoring opportunities

This session is about attacking with purpose and quality. It focuses on developing good combination play between attacking players and ...

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Mick McCarthy

Forward play

This session is all about understanding forward patterns of play. It’s a session that encourages team play in order to create plenty of ...

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James Marrs

Wide play

This session is all about exploiting the opposition in wide areas in order to gain the opportunity to either cross or shoot at goal. Our ...

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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 initially ...

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Mark Hudson

Attacking transition from a fight zone

This session is all about rehearsing players to make the transition from defence to attack. It is made up of two parts: the first part is a ...

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Gavin Skelton

Counter-attacking

This session is all about counter-attacking at pace. It teaches players to quickly turn defence into attack while opponents are out of ...

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Arsène Wenger

Arsène Wenger is one of the most successful managers in the game and has twice been a winner of the LMA manager of the Year award. In a 22-...

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Jürgen Klopp

Klopp arrived at Liverpool with a track record of managerial success and a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking coaches in the ...

Mikel Arteta

After beginning his playing career with Barcelona, Arteta went onto represent PSG before arriving in British football in 2002 when he ...

Pep Guardiola

In his debut season as manager, he guided Barcelona to the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the ...

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Dan Abrahams

Building player confidence

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Steven Gerrard

Creativity in the final third

This session is designed to help a team’s creativity in the final third. It looks to provide opportunities for the players to create goal-...

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Lee Johnson

Decision making in the final third

This session is all about recognising the best opportunities for playing through, over or around the opposition’s defence. For example, ...

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Dean Smith

Defending the box

This session is all about the back four and the real basics of defending. It teaches players that if one player goes for a header, the ...

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Phil Brown

Finishing with realism

This is a shooting and crossing session for a front three, generating shots from the edge of the penalty box, just inside the box and from ...

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Gabriele Cioffi

Building up and transition to defend a cross

This session is about how we get our centre backs to build up play against two or three opponents (two strikers, or two strikers and one ...

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Mark Robins

Angled runs in the final third to finish

This session is designed to encourage players to finish from angles in and around the box. It also brings into play the concept of ...

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Mark Warburton

Defending the penalty area

This is a session designed to focus on defending our own penalty area, primarily from crossed deliveries, but as the session develops we ...

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