Soccer drills

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Variation 1:

Variation 2:

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Goal:
Improve switching moment by putting direct pressure on the ball

content:

we start 1 vs 1
1 defender against 1 attacker
the attacker tries to score in the small goalmouth, and immediately switches to the other side and becomes a defender

Coaching:

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Keeping ball on foot.
Player plays in on inside of pawn, accepts with one touch and allows her/him to turn around pawn.
Plays across, again inside etc.
Last player in the 16 meters takes over and dribbles with the ball through the exercise and runs back to start.

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Game principle.

Switching gears as quickly as possible is the focus of this exercise.
As a coach you can of course always choose where you put the emphasis in this exercise: switching to ball possession or switching after ball loss.

The exercise form

The red side plays in the red square a positional game 7 vs 5.
When yellow captures the ball, the player of the yellow side plays a fellow player in the yellow square.
The 5 yellow players from the red square plus 5 random red players move to the yellow square.
Switching, in other words. In the yellow square the positional play then continues 7 against 5, until red captures the ball and plays it back to the red square.
Then the players switch back to the red square.

Coaching
Apart from whether the positional play goes well, the main issue is of course the switching. Therefore:

Switchover to ball possession: is the game actually moved to the other square as soon as possible?
Switchover after ball loss: can the pass to the other square still be prevented? By putting immediate pressure on the ball
Switching after ball loss: if the game cannot be prevented, do 2 players switch to the other square a.s.a.p.?

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Stand in a square per 4
Pass the ball around with the following commands

Pass to player on your left
Pass to player on your right
Pass in turn to player next to you and diagonally (Next to - Diagonal - Next to - Diagonal - ...)
Pass to player next to you. A player may return the ball max 1 time per turn.

Variations

Note on numbers
Combine with pass exercise where 2 or 3 players face 2 or 3 players: pass, follow ball and join others

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Dribbling exercises: circuit

1.1 Dribbling around the pawns:
- Inside foot right take two passes and inside foot left take two passes back and forth start with left and proceed to exercise 1.2.
1.2 Dribbling around the pawns:
- Outside foot on right take two passes and outside foot on left take two passes, etc.
1.3 Dribble around the pawns with oblique movement:
- Bring outside right side with you 1 touch of the ball per step.