4 WEEKS TRAINING – PART 5

Part 1  – Introduction

Part 2 – Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense

Part 3 – Line Work (Midfielders/Forwards/Backs)

The last portion of training is now the games portion which allows to playeres to put into a competitve situation all the different information they’ve taken in and processed during the session so far.

If you’ve designed your training sessions properly it will also add representation to the activities you’ve done leading up to know as well.

I’ve got 7 more of these sessions made up in my folder all consisting of completely different drills with each week building on the next so let me know your interest and if there’s a groundswell then I’ll release them them into a package for purchase.

GAMES DRILL – MIXED SQUARES

Players Required: Entire training group but break up into 3 groups of top senior, bottom senior/top reserve and bottom reserve/thirds groups so everyone is challenged as close as possible to their edge range.

Balls Required: 4

Space Required: Half of the Ground

Drill Level: Moderate to Hard

The numbers and area sizes I’ve gone with in the video aren’t set in stone as it will depend on your training group size but the idea is to use a big/kick, medium/hybrid and small/handball sized game.

BIG/KICK GAME

I would look at using a possession football game counting each kick that is marked by a teammate. If the ball hits the ground then play on but if it gets in dispute then it’s a turnover so the ball can hit the ground if a teammate can gather it and play on.

The ball hits-the-ground-turnover rule makes no sense in local/amateur football considering it spends most of the time there during our games – train what does happen not what you want to happen.

So if team A gets 8 possessions then turns the ball, over then they start from 8 next time they get it and so on for time.

MEDIUM/HYBRID GAME

Give each team a ratio they have to play by such as 3 kicks + 1 handball v 4 kicks + 1 groundball + 1 handball.

Teams score a point when they complete their ratio but if there is a turnover mid ratio then they start again.

To make it even harder you could have teams follow the ratio in order.

SMALL/HANDBALL GAME

4 Goal Game is a solid handball game to play in congestion a small to medium sized area but you could easily use 1 set 2 sets of goals in a smaller area.

You could roll with a Progressive Pressure Rondo Drill, a keepings off game like the kicking game but for handball or a ratio game with groundballs like the medium game.

Go silly.

How you score these games are also up to you depending on if you use a game based on scoring with goals or goal players or a game based on possession count (possessions in a row, time with ball etc).

As you’ve got 3 groups/6 teams you can also have the bottom team/s play less time as they will probably have less fitness than the top group/s and thus won’t be able to tolerate the same workload before fatigue sets in causing nothing but skill errors and potential injury now or later down the track.

PART 6