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Soccer Drills, Games and Session Plans

Two-touch

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Creating space in midfield
Steve Foley

Creating space in midfield

These exercises will help the midfield players to recognise space and encourage them to exploit it when in possession, as well as looking...
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PASSING AND RECEIVING
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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Principles of play
Patrick Vieira

Principles of play

With our tactical periodisation, we will aim to emphasise all phases of the game on a weekly basis.
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Defending and the transition to counter-attack
Gary Rowett

Defending and the transition to counter-attack

These activities are designed to move the ball with speed and quality along with getting players to transition quickly into counter-attac...
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Decision making in the final third
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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Switching play
Steve Morison

Switching play

This session is all about switching play, particularly when we are trying to encourage players to use the switch to get beyond the last l...
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Switching play
Stephen Constantine

Switching play

In this session we focus on switching play and trying to create numerical advantages all over the pitch. The objective is to exploit the ...
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Pressing to regain possession
Jonathan Morgan

Pressing to regain possession

This is a pressing session and it works on encouraging players to aggressively press and regain the ball quickly.
It focuses on an ag...

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Playing forwards through midfield
Mark Bonner

Playing forwards through midfield

This session is all about the movement of midfield players and their receiving skills to pass forward.
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Rapid fire
Paul Barry

Rapid fire

This activity is about executing a variety of different shooting and finishing techniques. Players will have opportunities to try and score ...
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Possession play to build attacks
Ralph Hasenhüttl

Possession play to build attacks

The purpose of this training session is to encourage the team to retain possession and build play from the back. The players enjoy this ...
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Wide attacking runs and crosses
Chris Hughton

Wide attacking runs and crosses

This training session encourages players to make attacking runs in wide areas of the pitch leading to crosses into the penalty area.
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Defending against a narrow attack
Mick McCarthy

Defending against a narrow attack

This session is focused on finding a solution for the defensive problems caused by playing against a narrow attacking front four.
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Post-match training
Javi Gracia

Post-match training

This is a session we actually ran after a pre-season game at Valencia this year. For the players that played more than 60 minutes of the ...
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Possession drills with players in position
Stuart Gray

Possession drills with players in position

The aim of the session is for players to try and keep possession in order to dominate the game. It’s also designed to encourage players to ...
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Attacking movement in a 4-3-2-1 formation
Carlo Ancelotti

Attacking movement in a 4-3-2-1 formation

This session is based on tactical work, movement and patterns of play in the middle and attacking thirds of the field.
It uses a 4-3-2-1 ...
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Use of space and switching play
Darren Kelly

Use of space and switching play

Every session that I do I try to make it realistic to the game. This is a multi-directional session designed to work on the use of space ...
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Defensive transition
Slaven Bilic

Defensive transition

A defensive transition session. It helps to get players into the habit of reacting immediately after losing possession and works on ...
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Attacking team shape
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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Possession and transition
Paul Hurst

Possession and transition

This session involves two teams playing against each other but each team has a different objective.
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Possession and scoring
Graham Taylor OBE

Possession and scoring

My players tend to run out of ideas in the final third. How can I get them to take better advantage of the opportunities around them?
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Making the right choice
Nigel Clough

Making the right choice

This session is about players moving and reacting to different situations in tight spaces – by that, we mean making the right choice ...
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Rotational play in midfield
Martin Allen

Rotational play in midfield

This session is about rotational play in the centre of the park, specifically when using a midfield diamond. The set-up enables us to ...
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Rotation and movement
Darren Ferguson

Rotation and movement

This session is about rotation and movement between players. Central to this is finding the spare man, with players knowing what to do with ...

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