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Creative Passing Drills Video
Watch Chelsea Academy Coach, Ben Mitchell in action and gain a blueprint for creating your own progressive passing drills Get your players passing like champions! Creative Passing Drills is a...
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Aerobic and Anaerobic Capacity Through Dribbling and Passing
by Gabriel Celante This drill helps to improve anaerobic and aerobic capacity, speed with and without the ball as well as accuracy passing, timing, first touch, and dribbling with all parts of the...
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Coach Your Team to Pass Like Barcelona
We have a great new video series called Attacking the Barcelona Way. These are new style “Tactical Analysis” videos. You won’t see usual “old school” type footage with players demonstrating drills and...
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Passing Exercise to Train the False 9
This post is an excerpt from our new book, “The False 9“, by James Lambert. The excerpt is from the Training Sessions chapter and the section focusing on the passing drills part. Passing Exercise –...
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1v1s For Finishing and Goalkeeping
By Keith Scarlett This activity works on technical and tactical aspects of finishing, passing, attacking in a 1v1 situation and goalkeeping. Set-up: Field length is 44 yards (length of the penalty...
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Coaching Technique With a Conditioning Element
By Keith Scarlett This activity works on technique, first-touch, passing, receiving, turning and fitness. Set-up: The players break into groups of three. Two players start 40 metres apart with the...
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A Complete Training Session for Build Up Play
By Sean Pearson This session is purposely detailed to give you, the coach, as much information on why, where and how specific things should happen. Session Length: 1hr 30mins Warm-Up Time: 10mins In...
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Moving the Ball Away from Pressure
By Sean Pearson Session Length: 90 mins This session focuses on players recognizing when, where are how to move the ball away from pressure on one side of the field to a point on the other side of the...
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Applying Combination Play to the Game
By Sean Pearson Session Length: 90 mins During my days as a trainer, a lot of head coaches were (and still are) obsessed with the give and go, as if it’s the lifeblood of being a good team. While it is...
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Fake the Combo
By Sean PearsonArea Size: 36 x 42 yards (wide zones 3 x 42, striker zones 30 x 12, midfield zone 30 x 18)Teams: 2 teams (6 v 6 +2)Time: 15 MinutesObjectives:To know when & how to execute the...
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Getting Forward and Negative Passes
By Sean Pearson Area Size: Half a Field Teams: 2 teams (7 v 7) Time: 15 Minutes Objectives Aim to get as far forward as possible by either runs or passes from deep To understand when and where to pass...
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Finding the Forward
By Sean Pearson Area Size: 18 yard area + 15 yards Teams: 15-20mins Players: 4 v 3 Time: 15-20 Minutes Objectives To combine with the striker through different combinations To use the position of the...
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Wingers Attacking Off the Line
By Sean Pearson Area Size: 18 yard area + 5 yards Teams: 20 mins Players: 6 v 7 (Underload) Objectives To drive inside, off the line, at every opportunity For other players to make supporting runs off...
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Decision Making on the Ball
By Sean Pearson Area Size: 18 yard area x 2 Teams: 15 mins Players: 6 v 7 (Underload) Objectives To realize 1v1 dribbling opportunities To be positive in decision making Set-Up The area is separated...
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4 v 4 + 2
By Sean Pearson Area Size: 35 x 26 yard Teams: 15 mins Players: 7 v 7 Objectives To Shoot directly off of a pass To understand when and when not to shoot depending on the scenario Set-Up Two teams...
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7 v 7 Blackjack
By Sean Pearson Area Size: 36 x 42 Yards Teams: 15 mins Players: 6 v 6 Objectives To understand when and where to improvise and be creative For players to feel encouraged to try different ways of...
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Transition to Defense
By Steven Smith Over the River Objectives: Increase possession skills while training fitness and transition. Increase the ability to defend in small groups. Set-Up This activity is designed to increase...
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Passing to Penetrate
By Steven Smith Three Squares Area Size: For groups of six’s or seven’s a square grid of 44X44 (progressively smaller sized grids inside of larger grid) Teams: Three groups of six or seven (or other...
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