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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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Emma Hayes

Play around to play through

This session has a focus on attacking strategy and we used it prior to a Champion’s League game. It allows the team to execute our build ...

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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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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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Gary Caldwell

PASSING AND RECEIVING

In this session, technical, physical and social elements combine into a passing and receiving practice that works on all elements of pass...

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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 g...

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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, r...

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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 help...

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Frankie McAvoy

Wide attacking in a 3-5-2 formation

This session is based on attacking at pace with wing backs in the wide areas of the pitch. It’s all about getting the wing backs into goo...

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Tony Morton

Receiving and combining in crowded areas

This session is all about encouraging players to play with their heads up and to make the most of their opportunities to both pass and ...

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Mitch Whitty

CONTINUOUS COUNTER-ATTACKING

This is an extremely high tempo session that focuses purely on counter-attacking to create overloads and fast transitions to set up as many ...

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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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Alan Keeling

Getting into the 'Big W' to score

This training session is all about coaching players to understand how and why they need to get into the correct area – the ‘Big W’, as I ...

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Dan Abrahams

Improving the cognitive cycle

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Dan Abrahams

Building player confidence

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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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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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Christopher Evans

Attacking in pockets

Due to personnel, the way my teams have played doesn’t support many attempts on target from crosses, so this session encourages creativity, ...

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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 goal-...

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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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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 ...

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Simon Hodge

Possession with opportunities to attack

This session is focused on maintaining positive possession within an overload situation and leading towards directional penetrative ...

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Kofi Hagan

Quick play through central midfield

This is a small unit session that works on passing aspects of a midfielder’s play in the central area of the pitch, including changing ...

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John Carver

Transition to attack from a low block

This session is all about turning defence into attack from the edge of our own box in a controlled and effective manner.

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Steve Cotterill

Crossing and finishing

This session is primarily about good quality crossing and finishing, but it also works on players making well-timed runs and improving the ...

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