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FA level 2 Rotating shooting game 1

This is a rotating UEFA B football coaching game designed to help midfield players combine with their strikers in the attacking third. The midfield have to work together for an agreed number of passes, before they can break out and look to combine with and support their forward and try and score. If the opposition win it, they can immediately break out and counter attack by playing through their midfield.

When coaching soccer try and apply the following basic principles of play in whatever coaching session you do.

Pool Soccer is a different, fun, enjoyable and competitive game designed to improve players’ spatial awareness, passing and support skills and how to defend as a team whilst outnumbered.

So what is in your Free Football Coaching e book of creating space? A technique is a basic building block of football. For example the technique of creating space relates to the ability of players to time their movement so that they can create and find time and space on a football pitch. The more time and space a player has, the less pressure there is on them, which results in more time for the player to get their heads up and make good choices and decisions. The more opportunities the player has to practice this technique in a game related practice, then the better the player will be at mastering these basic techniques of the game, which will improve the players confidence and the more chance they will have of improving as a player.

UEFA B Functional game - improve attacking overloads. This session is from the series of functional games, designed to isolate and improve units within the team. In this functional game we focus on developing and improving attacking central play.

8 simple steps on how Grassroots football coaches can help their players to effectively defend as a team