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Position Specific – No.10
Overloads Process: The yellows always attack. The whites always defend. The game starts with the keeper releasing an aerial ball to the yellow for a 1v1. Once the 1v1 has finished another yellow plays in to create a 2v1. Once the 2v1 has finished another yellow...
Position Specific – No.4
Movement Process: The yellows attack up the pitch. The whites attack down the pitch. To start with each team must go through the purple player (your no.4) The no.4 must look to always be available within their channel. Progressions: Add a man marker to encourage the...
Position Specific – Wide Players
Transition Process: The yellow winger releases a pass to white player. The white player is effectively a full back. The wingers role is to work back to prevent the white player scoring. Not only can he prevent them scoring, can he regain possession and attack the goal...
Position Specific – Forwards
1v1's Process: The coach plays the ball in to the area. The blue and yellow compete for the ball and try to score. They can score in either goal. That ball is dead once someone scores, the ball leaves the pitch or a player protects/shields the ball. Players are not...
Position Specific – Centre Midfield
Key Passes Process: The yellows play against the whites in the square 3v2. By all means change the numbers to suit your formation. It is important that the yellows always have players in front and behind the whites. At the right time the yellows must try to break the...
Position Specific – Centre Back
Marking Process: The two white players in front of the small goal pass the ball back and fourth to each other. Whilst the ball is moving the yellow defenders must move laterally and mark the mannequin on the correct shoulder. At any time the two whites can hit the...
Position Specific – Full Back
Crossing Process: The FB starts by having 10 quick touches of the ball from the pole to the mannequin. They must move the ball outside the line of their body, like moving in a zig zag. They then play a one two around the mannequin. The delivery must go over the first...
Three former football stars who have made it big in business
When an ex-England and Man Utd defender closed the doors to the Manchester hotel in which he’d allowed homeless people to live free of charge for over three months, it was a timely reminder that, for all his charitable activity, Gary Neville is a businessman at heart....
Random Games With a Twist
Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: Players spend 3 minutes at each pitch. As you can see each pitch is different. On any pitch whoever kicks the ball off the pitch must go and collect the ball....
Forwards Showing In / Out
IN Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: -The whites pass the ball laterally. -As the ball is moving the two defenders also move preventing the whites playing forward into goals. -The blues try to...
In defence of Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool’s Virtuoso Can Turn Things Around
Normal service was gradually beginning to resume at Liverpool for the first few weeks of Jurgen Klopp’s tenure. A sense of excitement had begun to bubble as he arrived into town, and there was a heady air of optimism that this extraordinary, ordinary man could usher...
Every Training Session of 2015
To view or download 'Every Coaching Session of 2015' in a single document - Click Here, or click the image below. 2015 has been another year when we've been able to provide high quality training sessions for grassroots coaches. All free of charge. Louis Lancaster is...
Crackers
Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: You can have free play or condition the games. All players are numbered 1-8. During play a number leaves the pitch on the coaches command. The number...
Christmas Session
Preparing the Advent calendar Leave all the doors unopened. Slide the chocolate tray out. Remove one chocolate and replace it with a token. Slide the chocolate tray back into the calendar. Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the...
Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City should dream of glory despite “tough” festive calendar
Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Isriya Paireepairit It’s not every day that Leicester City find themselves top of the Premier League table, although it has happened quite a few times already this season. Manager Claudio Ranieri has masterminded a phenomenal ascent to...