Drills and activities

Rondos: going round in circles

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A drill for futsal or football made fashionable by Barcelona. By Mary Pacitti MORE

Build, control and create – Practice 2

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This second practice encourages players to use different patterns of play to bypass the press. By Rangers U19 assistant coach Niamh Russell MORE

Build, control and create – Practice 1

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Train players to build through, around or over the press, with the emphasis on movement off the ball. By Rangers U19 assistant coach Niamh Russell MORE

Transition to attack – Practice

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This three-part session develops players’ ability to react quickly when winning possession, countering and switching the point of attack. By KIM DeCESARE MORE

Overloads in wide areas – Practice

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This three-part session develops players’ awareness and ability to identify and exploit space in wide areas through creating overloads. By CARLY DAVIES MORE

Embracing chaos – Practice

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This practice provides players with a loose structure but also presents opportunities for decision-making, overloads and 1v1s. By CARL WILD MORE

Pressing in middle third – Practice

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This three-part session supports players individually and as a unit to press and win possession in the middle of the pitch. By KRISTI MURPHY MORE

Crosses and high shots drill

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How to keep your goalkeepers on their toes. By NC State’s Justin Bryant MORE

Master the counter attack

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Learn to hit teams on the break in this game-realistic session. By Matthew Mountford MORE

Learn to scan like a pro

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This practice advances the previous warm-up session and places players into a more game-realistic, pressurised environment, with more decisions to make. MORE

Receiving to play forwards

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Give players the chance to work on receiving skills in a game-realistic environment MORE

Receiving to play forwards

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This practice allows players to try out the receiving skills learned in the last activity in a setting with greater interference and, eventually, opposition. By Phoebe Webb MORE

Lessons at the driving school

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Develop confidence on the ball in this foundation practice. By MEGAN ABBOTT MORE

Movement off the ball

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This three-part session develops players’ awareness of moving off the ball to support play, create angles and make intelligent runs. By PAUL WANDLESS MORE