Attacking

When I was a young kid in London, the first professional game I ever saw was Fulham v Man Utd at Craven cottage. In those days the kids got passed down to the front of the crowd and I ended up pressed against the perimeter fence, literally  a yard from the pitch. That was the first time I fell in love. The object of my love, was a skinny lad playing for Man Utd, he had unbelievable dribbling skills. could turn on a sixpence, beat players for fun. Stop in a second and then accelerate like a Ferrari. He was the best dribbler I have ever seen. His name - George Best.

When I was a young kid in London, the first professional game I ever saw was Fulham v Man Utd at Craven cottage. In those days the kids got passed down to the front of the crowd and I ended up pressed against the perimeter fence, literally  a yard from the pitch. That was the first time I fell in love. The object of my love, was a skinny lad playing for Man Utd, he had unbelievable dribbling skills. could turn on a sixpence, beat players for fun. Stop in a second and then accelerate like a Ferrari. He was the best dribbler I have ever seen. His name - George Best.

As we have recently posted about encouraging creativity within your youth team, it’s only right we talk about dribbling. - a very important tool in a creative player’s repertoire.  How do you players feel about beating an opponent one-on-one? Let’s go through some ways in which we can coach our players to be more confident and forward-thinking when on the ball.

Fourth in the series of progressive waves, shooting, pass, support and finishing games. In this game we look at switching play quickly and how the potential chaos of two teams playing in different directions at the same time, can be massively beneficial to the head up development and spatial awareness of players.

Second in the series of the waves - rotating shooting and finishing games. In this game the focus is on first time shooting and finishing and turning to shoot.

Improve and develop your players crossing and finishing from crossing skills with this game related training session

In this session on the skill of creating space, we add defenders to the session so the players are tested, not only on their technique of creating space, but with their awareness of how the defenders influence their decision making - the skill of creating space.