Soccer drill: center cover
Suitable for the following techniques: defense positional play
Center cover
Objective:
- Center (cover dangerous zone) during opponent buildup
Exercise:
- 1 attacking team (red)
- 1 defending team (blue)
- 1 neutral player (white)
- Red is in overtime and play the ball around.
- They try to get the ball to the white player standing in a defined zone.
- Red and blue are not allowed in.
- Blue tries to prevent the stabbing ball through the center from being played.
- When blue conquers the ball they try to score in the goals as quickly as possible.
- Red gets a point if they give ball to the white player, blue gets a point if they can intercept the stabbing ball and also a point if they score.
Coaching:
- Cover the center
- Stay close to each other
- Switch sides
