eBook Download: Fast Transition 3 v 3 Plus Keeper Game and Developments - Training Center Exclusive

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eBook Download: Fast Transition 3 v 3 Plus Keeper Game and Developments - Training Center Exclusive

This is a dynamic small-sided game that players love to do and at the same can be done to help educate them in many important areas of the game. We build the numbers up as we go to include more detailed information on particular plays they can learn. Quick play, fast decisions, quick transitions, tactical rotation and combination plays and use of imagination in tight areas finishing with many shots on goal; we get it all in this game.

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Defensive Pressing to Push Up Without Touching the Ball

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Defensive Pressing to Push Up Without Touching the Ball

This is a great session to teach the players and shows how they can push opponents back even when THE OPPONENTS have the ball. We will try to push them back without even touching the ball ourselves. We start on the edge of our box we try to get our back three up to the half way line. Set Conditions will help us do this to start the process off.

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Pressing in the Attacking Third - Training Center Exclusive

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Pressing in the Attacking Third - Training Center Exclusive

Practice regaining possession in the attacking third of the field using the press. As a last resort we can kick the ball long as opponents prevent us building out the back. We can turn this into an advantage but the correct positioning of the players around where the ball is going must be addressed. Position all around the receiving player and try to out number the opposition in the immediate area. Teams often think if they have possession of the ball through the keeper they must spread out but in this case it is the opposite which should happen and they must condense around where the ball is being delivered.

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How to Teach Freedom of Movement for the 4-2-3-1

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How to Teach Freedom of Movement for the 4-2-3-1

Attacking and Defensive Positioning; and Covering for Each Other in Brief

To play such a fluid and imaginative style of play as we do; where players are offered such freedom offensively all over the field; there is always a "weakness" to this we need to address. In this case we look at the defensive consequences for which we need to cover and correct. 

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3 Best Striker Movements to Get Free - Training Center Exclusive

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3 Best Striker Movements to Get Free - Training Center Exclusive

This is a very good but also a very simple exercise to practice the opposite move.

Strikers usually stand with their back to defenders waiting for the ball, so the defender is in charge, this way a very small movement means they end up facing forward and are then at an advantage.

I believe this is a good way of simplifying movements by the striker in this position and giving them a framework to play from, they may develop their own variations of these three moves but it is a good planning tool to use in training so the players making the delivery at least have an idea what the striker may attempt in terms of his or her movement based on the position of the defender.

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Switching Play as a Team - Training Center Exclusive

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Switching Play as a Team - Training Center Exclusive

Teams play through each other and must have awareness of where their own players are and where the other team is as they pass through them. Emphasize a good first touch out their feet to set up the next pass or passing first time to a teammate. Always having players realize they must look before they receive the ball.

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