Soccer Tactics; Speed of play
Turning technical training into tactics.
Decision making is important in possesion and speed of play. Skill, specifically the first touch in another important ingredient. First touch can either be used to settle a ball in one owns space away from pressure or to initiate an attack, or it can be a one toch pass from transition or as part of a string of passes that create and are part of the rythmn of play.
Vision becomes a part of speeding up or dictating speed of play. Seeing the field a knowing what you are going to do with the ball before you recieve it is key. Playing a ball to a teamate who has vision of the part of the field that you want to attack or escape to is essential to team play and ball pssesion.
Know when to switch the point of attack and doing it quickly with one long ball or several short 1 touch passes is effective in possesion, attacking and dictating play.
It all comes down to skill and team play/chemistry.
Possesion exercises are great for developing speed of play, learning how to switch fields and working on 1 or two touch play. Another thought is limiting players to 3 seconds with the ball so as not to inhibit creativity of individual skills.
Or in a 40 x 40 grid put put 3v3 in the middle with teamates on the "walls" outside the grid. Make the game 7v7 or 8 v8 with the 3v3 in the middle. Play keep-away or possesion putting restictions on both the outside and the inside players. Essentially when the ball handling becomes adept the game tuns into a 3v7 or 8 as the players in the middle realize and find ways to use the walls to their advantage. It is a brilliant exercise for thinking and executing "give & go's" "third man' and targeting players checking back to the ball or skip passes thet allow plaers to recieve the ball with vision to the field they want to play i.e. a fullback skipping the midfield to target a forward so the midielder can recieve a drop pass and play forward.
The idea is to work toward 1 touch on all accounts. Make it success oriented moving from A to Z in incremental steps. ex 2 touch on the out side and 2 touch on the inside (or 3 seconds with the ball). Then move to 1 touch on the outside and 2 touch inside the grid. Then 1 touch inside with 2 touch outside, giving the inside players time to find space. Then 1 touch all the way around. Spend 5 or 6 sessions getting there. You will see your team develop a thought behind possesion and attack, changing fields and speeding and slowing play as needed.
Decision making is important in possesion and speed of play. Skill, specifically the first touch in another important ingredient. First touch can either be used to settle a ball in one owns space away from pressure or to initiate an attack, or it can be a one toch pass from transition or as part of a string of passes that create and are part of the rythmn of play.
Vision becomes a part of speeding up or dictating speed of play. Seeing the field a knowing what you are going to do with the ball before you recieve it is key. Playing a ball to a teamate who has vision of the part of the field that you want to attack or escape to is essential to team play and ball pssesion.
Know when to switch the point of attack and doing it quickly with one long ball or several short 1 touch passes is effective in possesion, attacking and dictating play.
It all comes down to skill and team play/chemistry.
Possesion exercises are great for developing speed of play, learning how to switch fields and working on 1 or two touch play. Another thought is limiting players to 3 seconds with the ball so as not to inhibit creativity of individual skills.
Or in a 40 x 40 grid put put 3v3 in the middle with teamates on the "walls" outside the grid. Make the game 7v7 or 8 v8 with the 3v3 in the middle. Play keep-away or possesion putting restictions on both the outside and the inside players. Essentially when the ball handling becomes adept the game tuns into a 3v7 or 8 as the players in the middle realize and find ways to use the walls to their advantage. It is a brilliant exercise for thinking and executing "give & go's" "third man' and targeting players checking back to the ball or skip passes thet allow plaers to recieve the ball with vision to the field they want to play i.e. a fullback skipping the midfield to target a forward so the midielder can recieve a drop pass and play forward.
The idea is to work toward 1 touch on all accounts. Make it success oriented moving from A to Z in incremental steps. ex 2 touch on the out side and 2 touch on the inside (or 3 seconds with the ball). Then move to 1 touch on the outside and 2 touch inside the grid. Then 1 touch inside with 2 touch outside, giving the inside players time to find space. Then 1 touch all the way around. Spend 5 or 6 sessions getting there. You will see your team develop a thought behind possesion and attack, changing fields and speeding and slowing play as needed.
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Monday, September 17, 2007.
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