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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

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Four day build up to playing 3-4-3
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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Counter-attacking on transitions
Liam Bramley

Counter-attacking on transitions

This session focuses on the transitional moment of regaining possession of the ball.
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Create chances and score goals with attacking transitions
Mark Robins

Create chances and score goals with attacking transitions

This session creates opportunities for attacking transitions. Every aspect of play will be challenged, including the reaction of the play...
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Go deep
Gabriele Cioffi

Go deep

This session is all about how and when to go deep, attacking the room behind the shoulders of the opposition’s defensive line.
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Defensive transition into effective possession
Cameron Toshack

Defensive transition into effective possession

This session is focused on two main themes: defensive transition (against the ball) and regaining to build effective possession (with the...
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Emergency defending
Matthew Etherington

Emergency defending

This training session is a based around a 4v2 possession scenario that progresses into a 5v4 overloaded transition for the defenders.
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Improving transitions
Mark Hudson

Improving transitions

This training session is designed to create multiple opportunities for players to instantly switch from an attacking moment to a defensiv...
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Play around to play through
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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Win the ball and break
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 ...
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Transitioning to defence
Gus Poyet

Transitioning to defence

This is a session we use to train our players to transition to defence after losing the ball. In doing so, we encourage them to react ...
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COUNTER-ATTACKING WITH SPEED
Michael Beale

COUNTER-ATTACKING WITH SPEED

This session focuses on fast counter-attacking football when winning the ball. The moment a team regains possession, regardless of where on ...
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Building up
Bruno Lage

Building up

This session is about building up play from the goalkeeper and the centre backs and it is intended to develop and improve circulation and ...
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Channel, press and counter
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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Wide attacking in a 3-5-2 formation
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 good ...
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Improving the central diamond
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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Playing into the strikers
Micky Mellon

Playing into the strikers

This session is all about working an overload to create opportunities to play directly into the feet of the strikers. It also encourages ...
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Possession and ball movement
Aaron Callaghan

Possession and ball movement

This session is all about maintaining possession and encouraging ball movement within a team’s offensive organisation.
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Attacking transitions
Thomas Frank

Attacking transitions

This session is all about the principles behind offensive transitions, specifically the 3v2 offensive transition.
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Improving the defence
Jack Ross

Improving the defence

This training session gives your players the opportunity to rehearse different kinds of defending, setting up situations where they are: ...
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Front to back
André Villas-Boas

Front to back

I will have an idea in my head of what I want to achieve in every single session. This can be done by designating key factors, which we ...
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Pressing to win the ball
Chris Wilder

Pressing to win the ball

In a lot of the sessions we run at Sheffield United, we want the players to press and win the ball back as quickly as possible. It’s a big ...
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Building an attack from the back
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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Passing and effective possession play
Carlos Carvalhal

Passing and effective possession play

The aim of this session is to get players to use effective possession play as a tool to move and disorganise the opposition’s defence and ...
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Defending set plays
Graham Westley

Defending set plays

A high percentage of goals are scored from set plays. For that reason, it is vitally important to create a skill set in players which ...

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