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Michael Beale

Michael Beale

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Solid defensive core

Solid defensive core

Soccer Drills
Give your back line a good work-out and ensure they can block any move from wide.
Counter at speed

Counter at speed

Soccer Drills
Teach your team to break at pace and catch opposition players on the back foot.
Practice: Stopping the attacker

Practice: Stopping the attacker

Small-sided games
A simple and continuous game to improve players in 1v1 situations and develop their tackling
Line-breaking passes

Line-breaking passes

Soccer Drills
Use defence-splitting passes to break the defensive line and put attackers through on goal. By MICHAEL BEALE
Follow my leader

Follow my leader

Soccer Drills
Help your players improve their first-touch technique and dribbling skills in this practice. By MICHAEL BEALE
Covering your back

Covering your back

Soccer Drills
Deal with aerial balls pumped into the box and encourage your players to defend as a unit. By MICHAEL BEALE
Practice: Be the fox in the box

Practice: Be the fox in the box

Soccer Drills
Give your attackers that killer instinct in front of goal with this drill to convert low crosses
Hit them on the break

Hit them on the break

Soccer Drills
Your defence has stayed strong - now it is time to launch a counter-attack from the back. By MICHAEL BEALE
Let's stick together

Let's stick together

Soccer Drills
The defending team is coached how to get into formation in a match when they have lost the ball and how to quickly assemble a zonal defence. After using our first session, run this and allow players to make decisions on where to defend at the corner.
Line chase

Line chase

Soccer Drills
Simple to set up and simple to do, but this does need accurate passing and good player movement. Good for match days when you want a quick warm up for movement and technique
Free Your Team Mate

Free Your Team Mate

Small-sided games
Free Your Team Mate is from Michael Beale’s 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games manual
Possession Game

Possession Game

Small-sided games
Possession Game is from Michael Beale’s 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games manual
1v1 duel

1v1 duel

Small-sided games
The 1v1 duel pitches two players in a tight situation where there can only be one winner. Who has got the determination and skill to claim the ball and dribble past their opponent to score a goal?
Ball watching

Ball watching

Soccer Drills
This session helps defenders to use an overload to their advantage when attackers run centrally at them – they must press their opponents into making a mistake and win possession back.
Bounce and go

Bounce and go

Soccer Warm Ups
A simple warm-up to get your players thinking about speed – both when running without the ball and when dribbling with the ball.
Secure the box

Secure the box

Soccer Drills
This session helps defenders understand the importance of marking tightly in the penalty area and not losing their man.
Movers and shakers

Movers and shakers

Soccer Drills
Use this session to teach your young players how to use movement in order to disrupt a defence and create passing opportunities.
Cover your back

Cover your back

Soccer Drills
In every match there will be moments when the team us under a lot of aerial pressure. Defenders must be organised and put up a united front. Successful teams are often the most organised defensively.
Double attacker

Double attacker

Soccer Drills
If you want to encourage your players to attack from the wings, try using this useful activity.
Full team pressure

Full team pressure

Small-sided games
If you haven’t got the ball you won’t be able to win, so this game teaches teams how to move together to press the opposition all over the pitch and force a mistake that wins the ball.

Biography

Michael Beale is a world-renowned coach and author of the best-selling 64 Small-Sided Soccer Games coaching manual. A career that has taken in coaching roles at Chelsea, Liverpool, Sao Paolo, Rangers and Aston Villa sees Michael currently in charge of a Championship club.

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