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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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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, wit...

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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 coach...

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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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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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Joe Edwards

Using overloads to bear pressure

The main purpose of these exercises is to improve the basic habits of the players in possession of the ball.

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Sergio Ferreira

Beat the press, unlock the block

This is a specific training session that we use to prepare our players in a week when we’re due to face a team that tries to press really...

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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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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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Liam Manning

Beating a block

This session is focused on teaching players to beat a block. It’s about dominating possession and identifying when to attack down the side, ...

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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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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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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 ...

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Michael Beale

Improving the central diamond

This session is designed to improve team movement and rotations when in possession of the ball. The session shows the example of working ...

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Tom McStravick

Building an attack from the back

This session is all about building the attack from the goalkeeper and breaking through a high press. In this activity we see the goalkeeper ...

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Stuart Pearce

Attacking team shape

This session offers the opportunity to rehearse the shape of a team while attacking from the middle third of the pitch to the opposition’s ...

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Steve Eyre

The 100 passes game

This session looks at transitioning between attack and defence. It’s useful for us because it examines all the elements of pressure, ...

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Gary Megson

Blind side running

At any level, a huge number of goals come about through players making intelligent, measured blind side runs. These runs work when balls ...

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Neil Ardley

Transitions with an overload

This session is about managing moments in games when you’re on top or under pressure, and is designed to show that, if your transitions are ...

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Andy Scott

Adopting a high back four

This session is about defending as a group or unit. It looks at the relationships between players and teaches them how to use recovery ...

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Ricky Sbragia

Link-up combination play

Movement, support and running off the ball is essential in the modern game, and fine-tuning these abilities in players can really enhance ...

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Different speeds of attack

This session is about developing the ability to attack at speed with immediate forward passing and forward running, combined with the ...

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Gabriele Cioffi

Match preparation

This session is focussed on preparing players for an upcoming opponent, specifically with regard to getting them to understand their ...

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