IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
TOTTENHAMHOTSPUR
Anthony Hudson
Technical training session
This is a broad training session that enables players to practise a range of skills across multiple exercises.
It rehearses ball skills in terms of tidy, quick and intelligent passing, plus finishing in and around the box. It’s also excellent for movement, closing down and positional awareness.
These ranges of skills are essential for any footballer. It is important to practise these because the scenarios in which players will need to display these skills occur regularly during games.
TECHNICAL TRAINING SESSION
SET-UP AREA
Training pitch EQUIPMENT
Ball, cones, poles NUMBER OF PLAYERS Full squad
What do I get the players to do?
We practise a range of short drills…
Box Passing We mark out a 6x6 yard area using four cones. Playing 4v1, we rotate the defending player, who must chase and close down, looking to win possession.
Technical Warm-Up In a larger 20x20 yard area, we arrange five players to construct a technical passing move. Cones are placed on two diagonal corners, with a further three positioned just in from one of the other corners. Players construct a passing pattern in and around the box – yellow passes to blue and follows his pass, blue performs consecutive one-two passes with red before passing to grey and taking up red’s position.
“This is a broad training session that enables players to practise a range of skills across multiple exercises.”
Grey plays one-twos with red, and those two players switch positions before the move is reversed and played back in the other direction. A white player assumes yellow’s original start position to complete the move.
Clever Turns We use five players and a passing diamond measuring 10x10yards. An initial one-two pass along the side is made before the ball is set outside the cone for the
50 Elite Soccer: The Collectors’ Series Volume 1 KEY
Ball movement
Player movement
Dribble
Box Passing The defender looks to win possession in a simple passing square
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Ball movement
Player movement
Dribble
Technical Warm-up Yellow, blue and red players pass and move around the playing area
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Ball movement
Player movement
Dribble
Red and grey players complete the move before the routine is reversed
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