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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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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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Paul Heckingbottom

Forward runs to break a defensive line

This session promotes forward runs from all positions on the pitch: runs off the ball, third man runs, one-twos to break the defensive li...

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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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Chris Coleman

Shooting practice

This is a straightforward three-station shooting drill, constructed in blocks of four sequences that have multiple actions per player in ...

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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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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 pr...

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Veljko Paunović

General possession and tactical concepts

This session is about having possession in the opposition’s half of the pitch. It’s about looking to move the ball from side-to-side to get ...

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Gary Rowett

Defending and the transition to counter-attack

These activities are designed to move the ball with speed and quality along with getting players to transition quickly into counter-attacks....

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Nathan Jones

Improving counter-attacks

This counter-attacking session is built around our own counter-attacking principles. It progresses from a simple wave practice and ...

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Tony Docherty

Channel, press and counter

This session is designed to prepare the team to channel opponents into an area where we have an advantage or an overload, then intensely ...

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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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Ross Embleton

Creating and finishing centrally

This session is focused on creating opportunities to score and finishing under pressure centrally in and around the penalty area. It helps ...

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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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Finish the attack

This session is all about link-up play in the final third of the pitch and it focuses on attacking crosses and finishing, whilst ...

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Paul Barry

Rapid fire

This activity is about executing a variety of different shooting and finishing techniques. Players will have opportunities to try and score ...

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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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Miguel Llera

Attacking and defending transitions

This session is focused on attacking and defending transitions. Transitions are one of the crucial moments in the game and the best teams ...

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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 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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Darren Ferguson

Defending and attacking when overloaded

A progressive, multi-directional drill, this session is based around players attacking quickly whilst recognising and exploiting the space ...

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Pep Guardiola

Creating and finishing

This session is all about creating and finishing from a variety of distances and positions in and around the box. The majority of chances ...

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