This training activity focuses on both teams being able to maintain possession in their respective boundaries. The starting set up looks like this: Team Blue had 1 player along each side of the playing area (30x30m or so adjusting as needed) and then another 2 players in the middle of the playing area. Team Orange...
Defensive 50 Intercept Marks are a huge part of football these days so it makes sense to instill some tactics/strategies to help make this happen so you’re not hoping someone takes a pack mark from out of nowhere which is not really controllable. What is controllable though is creating a defensive formation when out of...
Once you’ve (hopefully) moved your coaching away from cone to cone drills to something closer to a games-based approach, then it’s time to really start making those games work for what you want to see on game day. A game is general is not the worst idea in that it consists of much of the...
The more bridges you can find to connect training idea’s the better for your players ability to learn, retain and consolidate whatever tactic/strategies you’re trying to implement on game day. Usually it’s the designated play against no one like cone to cone drills that have players run through the perfect example of that play over...
This training activity focuses heavily on maintaining possession by utilising wide and/or central options. Start by creating 3 teams of 4 in different colors and make sure they know the focus of the activity. The scoring system is what will drive the behaviors in this activity of which I mention in the training video and...
Not much to this but it’s a bloody effective activity as it gives you, the coach, a chance to have your players attempt to interpret and put into play your specific strategies/tactics that you’re aiming to use in games. By having your players focus on using just 1 strategy/tactic at a time, it gives them...
Rondo’s are used all the time in soccer, albeit in smaller areas but the Bombers have modified this to a bigger area. I’ve posted various Rondo activities before but they focus on maintaining possession against aggressive defense, making 1 second decisions and being clean with your skills under moderate-to-high pressure, depending on how you design...
This is a continuous training activity that has 3 layers for each team with each layer starting immediately after the one preceding it. Players must be quick to transition through roles, positioning and mindset while maintaining communication and concentration through 6 different phases of play Each layer has 2 phases of play as each team...
Football is full of transition plays from offense to defense and from congestion to space. If you train in only open spaces then you’ll be subpar in congestion. If you only train in congestion you’ll struggle to spread and find space once you win the ball. This game adds all these elements into the 1...
This is a possession based game with built-in mechanisms to implicitly direct players to hold the ball after a mark and also to wait for free options to become available. It uses 3 connected playing area’s and multiple balls to keep psychological and physical requirements high, such as in a game. Feel free to alter...