Offensive transitions

Offensive transitions

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  Vítor Marreco GouveiaTRAINING SESSION 1 Week 14 Training 68 Date 31/10/2014 Dominant Specific speed Material Markers; 10 orange vests; 6 green vests; 2 portable mini-goals; 18 balls; 1 portable goal; 2 stakes. 4 3 vmarreco@hotmail.com Objectives To create routines in offensive transitions, trying to explore as fast as possible in depth game. To work on zonal defending and conditioning to the ball carrier. 1) Warm-up– 21 min. 6 min. of general activation: groups of 5/6 must keep the ball on the air; 2 touches are mandatory and they can’t use the tight or the head. 3 min. General mobilization – shoulders and trunk rotation movements, displacements (backwards, sideways, etc.). 4 min. Specific warm-up: skipping; skipping + sprint and sprints with changes of direction + dynamic stretching + coordination ladder. 8 min. Transition rondos: ball possession and search for vertical passing lines + coordination ladder Coaching points. Offensively: to work on ball possession in small spaces: positional issues (oriented with the ball carrier and open options by the orientation of the feet); to create space to play in depth: fast ball circulation, orientation to the depth, fast vertical pass when there is an open in the opponents defense. Defensively, we want to work on the role of 1st defender: aggressive reacting to the ball movement, change of behavior (defensive cover) when the other colleague is nearer the ball; and the role of 2nd defender in defensive cover and closing spaces between them. 2) Offensive transition, exploring the speed of the wingers – 8 min Coaching points Offensively – To improve offensive transition trying to play in depth after gain ball possession: look far to search possible offensive passing lines to explore opponent’s temporary disorganization or to play wide when they don’t have a progression passing line. To create in the central area by the midfielders, to link the 1st and 2nd phase of build up play: interchange between movements of supports, progression or rupture to create space to progression; use preferably diagonal passes to progress, create space with a high speed of ball transmission to make a vertical pass. Defensively – To work on group behaviors of a defensive line with 3/4 men’s: the nearest defender to the ball reduces space, reacting aggressively to the ball displacement; positional adjustment of the other defenders to cover the “strong side” and the central corridor (2nd defender provides defensive cover and 3rd defender provides balance. The block stays low, but is sharp to understand the right moment of pressure: back pass, player with ball with his “back turned” away from the game, ball of difficult reception. Vítor Marreco Gouveia UEFA A soccer coach: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=233884435&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile Portugal 1 RULES - Players organized in groups of 2 with 1 or 2 jokers, divided by the 2 squares. The ball starts in one square with a situation of 4+1x2, the goal of the attacker is to complete 8 passes (playing with 1 touch) and perform the transition of the ball to the other square. The team in the middle must win the ball possession and when they do that, the team which lost the ball enters defending in the other square. The game starts in the middle with 3 reds (midfielders+ forwards) vs. 4 blue (defenders). The red teams search opportunities to score in the mini-goals and reds must get the ball and perform a fast transition to the free space where the greens (wingers and forwards) create a finalization situation of 2x0.
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  Vítor Marreco GouveiaTRAINING SESSION 2 The game takes place in the last 3rd of the pitch. The blue team can put 3 men on the restricted area (CD’s + DM) to work on the 1st stage of the build-up play. The red team can explore the space in the back and create a situation of 3x2. vmarreco@hotmail.com 3) Offensive transition, exploring the speed of the wingers – 10 min This is progression of the previous drill, where the reds and the blue players switch sides. We also include a striker (ST) in the middle to the transition. The transition pass will be performed by the reds and they will have one more passing option to the ST. After the ball enters the space in the back of the defense, 2 blue players can defend the goal and so we create a situation of 3x2 Coaching points Offensively – To work on the role of the ST on offensive transitions: to act as frontal support when the pass is directed to him or to contribute to the occupation of the 3 game corridors. 4) GR+10x10+GR plus frontal support of the ST with offensive transition– 25min. Coaching points Offensively – To explore the wideness of the CD’s in the 1st stage of build-up play, the depth of the full-back’s (FB). At the same time the wingers appear in the central corridor to create internal passing lines and to get free space to the FB’s. To work on the above mentioned issues on offensive transitions. Defensively – To work on zonal defending: fast action of the player near the ball to reduce space and time of execution to the ball carrier; successive defensive cover actions to reduce the space between lines; to adapt constantly to the ball position, keeping the defensive organization. To pressure in a high-block: conditioning of the ball carrier, make difficult the pass to the back of the last defensive line; to work on defensive recovery, as a mean to gain ball possession. Load: 4x4min. Before the beginning of each repetition, the team which plays like the team in blue, work on free-kicks and corners. The goals scored will be the starting result in each match Vítor Marreco Gouveia UEFA A soccer coach: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=233884435&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile Portugal VOLUME = 64MINUTES COMMENTS