20 May 2011

THE NEED FOR PROGRESSIONS AND CHALLENGES WHEN COACHING FOOTBALL – PART TWO

This is the second part of the topic that I presented at the recent Football Coaching in Porto, Portugal. This involves progressions and challenges when coaching players.

In these examples, again taken from legacy.grassrootscoaching.com, the coach has organised a rotating close range shooting game. The objective is to provide the players with lots of opportunities to have realistic, match like scenarios to practice close range shooting and finishing opportunities.

1. Diamonds start  – Initially, the players are allowed to practice and develop the pattern of the session. Once they understand the pattern of the practice and have achieved a degree of success, the initial progression and challenge is to make the game a competition to see which pair of strikers can score the most goals in a set period of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7iiktx1E
Download PDF – Diamonds Shooting Game – Start