Football Printable Templates, Football Templates Football

Passing, Games and Basic Team-Play Principles

In this end of season session we review your players' static and moving passing and introduce them to some basic team-play principles to improve their footballing fundamentals (perfect for teams preparing for summer tournaments).

What's in the Session?

To ensure passing practice is lively and fun we get your players working in small groups, starting with a through the gates consistency exercise before building up towards some fun exciting conditioned games.

To ensure everyone gets as much ball time as possible in the final game we get everyone playing small-sided matches, the only difference here though is that you're going to introduce your players to some basic game principles, for instance:

• Don't all chase the ball,
• Build up play from the back and
• Always keep one defender back to prevent the opposition playing the long ball/ counter-attack!

1v1 Defending and Build up Play from the Back

This week we've got two defending sessions for your team, with one working on winning the ball back and the other improving build up play from the back. Check them out below:

Session 1: Defending 1v1: Press, Contain and Deny
Improve how your defenders contain the attacking threat in a 1v1 with this challenges and games defending session

Session 2: Play the ball out from the back
Don't hoof the ball and play route one football. Dribble, pass and look forward for options to start the new attack

Read on to learn more!