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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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Matthew Layton

Creating and finishing

In this session we are looking at creating, both individually (1v1) and putting together collective combinations to create finishing oppo...

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Rob Page

Attacking patterns

This session is about attacking patterns, reinforcing messages to the players. It is unopposed to start with to make sure that the sessio...

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Carlos Corberán

Breaking the press

This session is about developing a team to build play successfully against a variety of pressing strategies, looking at goal kicks and op...

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Philippe Clement

Finding space behind opponents' defence

During this session, we’re looking for coordinated, opposite runs between players to create the space behind the defence without being of...

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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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Gregory Vignal

Shooting and movement

This session prepared my Versailles team for a match against Nimes Olympique – where we scored six goals, with amazing finishing in the f...

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Scott Lindsey

Attacking combinations

This session looks at three major attacking actions: first, the underlap, second, the overlap and third, what I call a stick pass.

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Jonas Eidevall

Playing a high line

This is a session used to develop the team to suffocate the opponent in the final third.

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Robbie Fowler

Third-player runs

This session is about third-player runs to break high lines and low blocks. It’s all about creating relationships, creating, understanding, ...

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Gerard Nash

Quick but careful

This training session is all about retaining possession to build.

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Hassan Sulaiman

Playing out from the back

This session is based on playing out from the back against a high press. The session will be split into three practices.

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Slaven Bilic

The road to Wembley

This session is very general, but not in a negative way. It’s very useful because it helps in all game situations. It’s technical and ...

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Stevie Grieve

Passing and running in behind

With this training session we are looking to improve the habits of our players in terms of encouraging them to make that killer pass, with ...

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Neill Collins

Unlocking the wing backs

This session is designed to teach teams to utilise the wing backs in build-up play and attack.

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Julen Lopetegui

Coaching masterclass

This is less a training session and more a collection of exercises that emphasise my football DNA. I selected these to represent my ...

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Chris Hughton

Four day build up to playing 3-4-3

This session was taken from the four day period between games in our recent international week. In my time as Ghana coach, we have always ...

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Melanie Reay

Creativity in the final third

This session has been designed to make players think about making better decisions and it encourages them to be more ruthless in the final ...

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James Brayne

Utilising the full back in build-up play

This session is designed around using our full backs in build-up play. It is split into two activities, with the first technical practice ...

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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 ...

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Joao Nuno Fonseca

Playing behind pressing lines

This session focuses on creating the opportunity to have the ball at our disposal to move or drag the opponent and find the proper spaces ...

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Adam Thorley

Attacking movement and combination play in the final third

This session is designed to improve the ability to create and exploit space in the final third.

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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 Robinson

Transitions

This session is a combination of our midfield press transitioning into regaining possession and our forward combination play.

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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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