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Transitional Possession Game
This is my favorite possession game because it includes so many aspects of the game as well as a great fitness component. It’s also very scalable to the number of players you have as well as the...
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Working the Ball Out Of the Back
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on working the ball out of the back. This type of activity is an excellent way to work on specific parts of the game of...
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Possession Games
With only two practices per week with my teams I’ve found that it works best to focus on a technical topic (Running with the Ball, Dribbling, Control, Shooting) during our first practice of the week...
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Forward Passes and Runs
As I’ve discussed in earlier posts, I think that most coaches agree that our players don’t watch the game being played at the highest level enough. Kids in countries where soccer is part of their...
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Switching Flanks and Quick Attacks
Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on possession, changing fields and quick attacks. Start with a 5 v 4 situation in a 35 x 35 area in the corner of half the...
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Encouraging Combination Play
For me, the beginning of the season revolves around getting a group of players to work together within a framework of a system. Lately that system has been the 4-3-3. This involves teaching each player...
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Increasing Confidence in Possession
Teaching players how to protect the ball until the option to shoot or pass is available is extremely important if you want your team to keep possession and learn to build an attack. There will be times...
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How Do You Play 5 v 2
If there’s one standard possession game that just about every coach uses it must be 5 v 2. It’s a great introduction to possession play because the intensity of the defending is easily controlled by...
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Balancing Creativity and Decision Making
This is an area that I’m constantly thinking about. Especially with players that are moving from one developmental stage to the next. My focus currently is on my U10 that plays in a U11 division. We...
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Stats Don’t Win Games
As an American I’m drawn to statistics to evaluate players and teams. The mainstream American sports of Baseball and Football are often viewed through the stats of the players. They are evaluated and...
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Transitioning From Indoor to Outdoor Soccer
While much of what I do during the Futsal season is intended relate to soccer in general and not just Futsal, there is still an adjustment period that my teams go through when we move from indoor to...
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Build Up Play Through Quick Passing
This weeks posts is from the May edition of WORLD CLASS COACHING magazine that is available exclusively to Member Drills Database subscribers. The training session was contributed by Kevin Thelwell who...
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5 v 2 Progression
I feel confident in saying that most coaches use a 5 v 2 possession game in their training plan. It’s a great exercise that is a technical challenge but also requires the players to make good decisions...
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Teaching Build Up Play Progressively Part 1
I’ve written before about our club’s philosophy that encourages teams of all ages to play out of the back as often as possible. The key to implementing this with your team is to teach the players what...
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Teaching Pressing to Increase Effort Level
Occasionally a team will play a game when the effort level is just not there. There can be many reasons (or excuses) for it but when this happens with one of my teams I use it as an opportunity to...
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Teaching Possession Play
Telling a team that they need to, ‘Keep possession’ is such an abstract and nonspecific concept for so many young players. Teaching them what it takes to keep the ball gives them specific things that...
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Training Indoors for Outdoor Games
As the winter indoor season comes to an end coaches start to look at transitioning to the outdoor game while we’re still forced to do most of our training indoor. This is a challenge as they prepare...
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Improving Possession Play
Getting our players to make runs off the ball is difficult if they don’t know where or how to run. Giving the players options to choose from will take some of the decision making out of the process....
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Train Midfielders and Defenders to Pass to Feet or Space
With only two practices per week with my teams I’ve found that it works best to focus on a technical topic (Running with the Ball, Dribbling, Control, Shooting) during our first practice of the week...
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3 v 1 Instead of 5 v 2
Most coaches I know use some variation of a 5 v 2 keep away game in a limited area. I’ve never liked 5 v 2 as a teaching tool because I have always felt that it was too static. Anson Dorrance did a...
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