Attacking Sessions
15 May 2016
Football skills – develop the timing of runs for passes
Football skills - develop the timing of runs for passes. Whilst pace is important as a striker, Chelsea's Diego Costa demonstrates the timing and the angle of runs into the box are also vitally important football skills for forwards, in particular, to work on and develop.
11 May 2016
Grassroots football coaches – Counter attacking tactics
Grassroots football coaches - Counter attacking tactics. Counter attacking is a very effective attacking football tactic. Once the ball is won, the counter attack has to be positive and quick, to advance down the pitch and attack the opposition, whilst the opposition team still have players forward and are caught out of position and briefly the wrong side of the ball and out of the play.
05 May 2016
Football coaching drills – quick feet
Football coaching drills. Strikers need to work on and develop "quick feet". These football skills will allow them to receive the ball so they are facing defenders, manipulate and shift the ball quickly to create space, trick defenders and then shoot in a crowded penalty area.
04 May 2016
Improve your players football shooting skills
Improve your players shooting football skills with this fast moving, dynamic game that is all about positive attitudes to creating and taking game related shooting opportunities and mastering the power shooting technique. This is a session that could be used on an FA Coaching course.
18 Apr 2016
Coach counter attack from the goalkeeper
There are three phases of football, when a team has the ball, when they don’t have the ball and when the ball changes hands from one team to another, the transition in play.
14 Apr 2016
Football Training Drill to help players understand how to create space
This is a football coaching drill to coach players on how to create space. The ball is passed quickly and accurately between the players within the square. Players look to make timed runs, outside of the square to receive a pass. Encourage more than one player to make a run, as in a game players will sometimes need to create space not just for themselves, but for others. After receiving the ball outside the square, the ball is played immediately back into the square to a supporting player and the practice is repeated. To progress, add a second and third ball.
12 Apr 2016
Coaching to improve strikers predatory instincts
Strikers are primarily judged on the goals they score. There are lots of skills that strikers need to possess, both from a goal scoring perspective and in general play and over the course of this series of blogs we will look at those skills and how coaches can improve and develop them.
09 Apr 2016
Improve the technique of turning with the ball
Improve the technique of turning with the ball. How does Harry Kane drop into space, turn with the ball and unleash a shot or a key pass? Why do players like Ces Fabregas seem to always play in their own space and have so much time on the ball?