Attacking Sessions

Wayne Rooney is no doubt one of England's best strikers. His games to goals ratio during his career is fantastic - 661 games - 295 goals at an average of 0.45 goals per game. But in the 2009 - 10 season, he scored 40 goals in 53 games at an average of 0.75 goals per game. Why the dramatic increase?

How can you simply improve your strikers goal scoring skills? Diego Costa hasn't become a goal scorer by accident, he has had thousands of different types of shots and game related finishing situations to hone his skills. Strikers need specific games and sessions that give them lots and lots of opportunities to create and take shots and finishes at goals.

Leicester City's Jamie Vardy is one of the best strikers in the Premier League at running into space for longer passes. This football coaching session would have been perfect to improve his pace, desire and determination to make the best of any long passes. But, this football coaching session would have also worked on his team mates improving their technique and vision to make a long pass for him to run onto or compete for.

Strikers need specific games and sessions that give them lots and lots of opportunities to create and take shots and finishes at goals.

UEFA B Coaching - This is a phase of play practice to work on attack v defence with a focus on coaching forwards to play in the hole between the defence and midfield.

Switching play is a very effective way of dragging and pulling an organised defence around the pitch and creating holes and space that your team can exploit to create goalscoring opportunities.

Running with the ball is an extremely effective attacking skill. Defenders hate it. It commits the defenders to have to do something. It gets the attack quickly up the pitch and into dangerous areas and it takes players out of the game and causes havoc.

A fun and exciting run with the ball, dribbling and ball manipulation game aimed at improving young players ability to dribble with their head up, manipulate the ball and change direction and speed, whilst keeping control of the ball. It's simple to organise and has nice challenges and progressions.