Play back time
Try using this training game to encourage your team to build up patiently until an opportunity for a lightning fast attack presents itself. Players learn to work the ball from the back four to the front players. MORE
Support patterns
in Attacking, Ball Control and Footwork
If you want your team to have more creative options in the final third, use this session to encourage players to support team-mates and improve first-touch and accurate passing. MORE
Get in behind
Use this session to show your players how to attack with accurate through ball behind the defence and what they can do once they get the ball with that much space around them MORE
Argentina midfield support
When a team is on the attack it is vital midfield support is quick and the passes are the correct weight and into space. MORE
Simply Spain
When a team is on the attack it is vital midfield support is quick and the passes are the correct weight and into space MORE
Passing technique
Passing sequences are fun ways to get your team used to linking play and using the ball with good direction and weight. MORE
Attack in numbers
in Attacking
The objective of this game is to practise attacking and defending skills in a variety of different situations – for instance, 2v1s, 3v2s, 4v1s, and so on. MORE
Keep ball or shoot
In this session lose possession and the team faces a 4v1 attack – keep the ball though and they have a 7 v 4 in their favour. MORE
Pass or dribble
in Attacking, Small Sided Games
This session is designed to help coaches look at the decision-making of the players. Can they take on the defender 1v1? Or is the right decision to keep possession by passing to a team-mate? MORE
But who got the assist?
in Attacking, Email newsletters
It brought it home to me last Saturday when one of my Under 9s had played a fantastic match creating three goals and generally running the game... "but I didn't score!" he said with a face fighting back the tears. Kids don't appreciate the importance of an assist. MORE
