Performance Orientated Football Coaching Sessions
These football coaching sessions are designed to improve a player’s ability to perform in a match situation by placing them in increasingly realistic situations. The player’s performance is the focus and coaching points are made as and when errors occur.
Technical: Football coaching drills that focus on a players technical ability in an unopposed or passively pressurised situation. View Football Sessions
Skill: Football training sessions that place the coached player’s in a pressurised situation so they can gain experience facing some opposition. View Football Sessions
Functional: Football training drills that operate in a designated area of the pitch to increase realism and positional knowledge. View Football Sessions
Small Sided Games: The number of players per team can vary from 6 v 6 to 9 v 9 (but the fundamental factors remain consistent). Small sided games provide both teams with a direction to play in and allows the realism and the positional requirements to increase. View Football Sessions
Phase of Play: Football coaching sessions performed using the full width and 2/3 of a pitch. Complete units can be worked upon. View Football Sessions
11 v 11: A full sided game. Most realistic coaching drills to a competitive football match. View Football Sessions
Patterns of Play: Predetermined movements and sequences that can be employed to retain possession or penetrate through the opposition. All the players know exactly where they should be and where the next pass will go. View Football Sessions
N.B: All the areas suggested within the football coaching drills can be adapted to be appropriate to the number of players and their ability levels.
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