This session is designed to improve your players’ ability to receive the ball while under pressure and then be able to use disguise in order to turn away from the opponent while retaining possession.
What this session is about
- Improving your receiving skills.
- The ability to turn your opponent.
- Ability to demonstrate disguised clever play.
What to think about
The aim of all young players is to become a top footballer. Such players are ones who can change a game with a moment of brilliance to score or create a goal.
However, the best players are also the ones who attract the most attention from the opposition defenders, who try to mark the player closely to stop him receiving passes or creating space.
This means those players must be able to find a way to remain elusive to their opponent to create space to receive the ball and then to show a disguised turn or movement to beat their opponent.
This session aims to recreate this scenario for the players in your team.
Set-up
Warm up | Session | Development | Game Situation | Warm Down |
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10 minutes | 15 minutes | 15 minutes | 15 minutes | 5 minutes |
What you get your players to do
Mark out an area with servers at opposite corners and receivers next to mannequins/flags.
The serving player passes to a receiver, who is close to the mannequin/flag.
The receiver must have a good controlling contact with the ball then quickly perform a turn to spin into space and to pass out to the waiting server on the opposite side.
After serving, the player runs into the area to become a new receiver. On passing out, the receiver joins the queue of servers. Have two receivers/servers working at the same time.
Encourage your players to take a touch away from where they receive the ball. Encourage players to show an explosion of speed after turning to run away from their opponent.