https://sites.google.com/site/youthsoccerlessonplans/executive-docs

Ajax Drlll 7. Passing and Shooting

THis works brilliantly. It is an extension to others I've done.

When I start it, I simply have the players doing the lay offs stationed there permanently. Then I change them to be a dribbler, receiver,, passer, attacker, after 5 minutes, changing with three other players.

If any player is standing in a line waiting ask them to do stationary ball dribbling techniques, whilst trying to keep their head up and observe other players going doing the exercise. If you have really advanced players, ask them to juggle whilst watching the play. It is very difficult. I've never had a player who can do it yet.

This Passing and Shooting drill also encourages both footedness. It is an excellent fitness exercise too, incorporating a lot of touches and ball carrying. Have players change to the other group each time they finish a shot.

https://sites.google.com/site/youthsoccerlessonplans/executive-docs


Ajax/Dutch drill 10. Ball Movement Passing Sequence

This drill works well.

It can also be done with 4v4 in the middle with a 1-2-1.

Try and create triangles, or even better diamonds, when the team is in possession. This should open passing lanes.






Edited by Decentric: 17/5/2012 02:03:37 PM

I will alter my judgement of the sites I've seen so far.


Ajax (in particular), Chelsea and Arsenal are outstanding. Every one I've tried on the training track has been a resounding success, or has been a better modification of other drills I've tried. The only problem is explaining them to people who speak English as a second language.

PSV pretty good, but not good enough diagrammatic detail.

The Manchester United ones and Mineiro Atletico are very average. Having said that, the Atletico one has a few useful start of training drills that I've suggested on Kiwi Chick's thread on Player/coach.

I have also read Rene Meulensteen's Man U youth programme and it sounds good in principle.

http://training-wissen.dfb.de/index.php?id=508042

Training exercises from the German Football Federation (DFB). They're in German but easily translatable by Google.

Dutch AJax Drill 1. Warm Up


Did this one last night. It worked brilliantly with the better teenage and adult players. There was some really rapid one and two touch passing after a while.

Players outside the grid running the boundary at each end, said they struggled to do it with just one touch like it suggests in the drill instructions. They said they often needed to take two touches.

I was coaching more explicitly in another area after I started them on it. The ball movement looked rapid from afar with the best group.

https://sites.google.com/site/youthsoccerlessonplans/executive-docs



The Dutch (Ajax) drills are the real deal. Professional footballers do them.

Number 16. Accurate Passing were demonstrated in a workshop with Phil Moss, CCM assistant coach.

Moss said that Arnold learnt the Accurate Passing drill from Hiddink and Verbeek. Apparently, CCM do it a lot.

Moss did this for about 20 minutes with Tasmanian NTC players for about 25 Tassie coaches to observe.







Edited by Decentric: 31/5/2012 02:04:30 PM

+100

just been looking for some new drills, these come in really handy

cheers=d>

The question you should ask yourself when designing your session what is the problem I need to solve. Some of those drills will help, however ask yourself when and how should I use them.









A significant entity in the FFA hierarchy has thanked me for sending him the European academy sessions as a very useful resource. The aforementioned is a reworded response to me in what to consider when using the excellent academy sessions for any coach. I thought it could be useful for any coach, or prospective coach, reading this thread.

The apparatchik FFA author of the above reworded bold print looks at the Performance section of 442 too.


I've used them in response to match weaknesses identified in comprehensive match analysis for teams I've coached.

This is different for the Community Football Programme with such diversity of playing personnel.


When I reread a lot of comments from Dirk Van Adidas over the last year, he has posed the same sorts of questions about the how and when. I probably haven't responded adequately to some excellent questions from Dirk.

Sorry mate.:oops:

There are hundreds of hits on this thread.

I wonder how other people have found whatever they've tried on the training track? Generally apart from being great for technical development, players have usually really enjoyed them, plus they have been excellent for fitness.

I am in a very small minority in this state, but vociferous on my part, who advocate players should follow KNVB and FFA NC suggestions that ball work should be used throughout every training session. Lots of unrelated running without the ball is standard practice.

I've essentially used Arsenal, Ajax and Chelsea sessions.

I was already using a few things on Atletico Meneiro's site for warm ups on page 6 and 8.







Edited by Decentric: 20/6/2012 07:45:19 AM

Tried this at CFP with four goals/gates in a diagonal shape, and a goal in the middle.

It would have worked well with a 4v4 game. We had 6v6. I stopped it because players weren't getting enough touches.

It is a great exercise for accurate passing, switching play and fitness.





Edited by Decentric: 4/7/2012 12:50:21 AM

Yep!

Great resource guys.=d> ............. I'll start my boys on a lot of this stuff.

just like to add a link to the gubog small sided games booklet and a big respect for Paul.

http://www.bifc.net/doclib/smallsidedgames.pdf

Good resource, Dirk.=d>


The part, "Why Small Sided Games?" seems straight out of the KNVB.

Probably already down but just in case we missed something from Jed Davies website.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rveaq01l9n7sli0/hG-UvGumEB

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gvtgmlekgl0tenp/VOG26HGVQS

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t2q8kyubni3b14q/gZXAMWa_bg

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dlblr2uhj7oh9bn/ESE_Jrkr5E

http://jeddavies.com/home/

Hey Arthur, thanks for that stuff up, hadn't had a chance to see it.

I've just found a fourth club site on here, similar in quality to the Arsenal, Chelsea and Dutch Ajax sites.:)


https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx5b3V0aHNvY2Nlcmxlc3NvbnBsYW5zfGd4OjIzYzYwM2E4MGUxNDQxNGM


The PSV Eindhoven section has some good Warm Up exercises. This is part of the FFA NC, or KNVB, Warm Up/Passing Practice,/Technique Practice Stage 1 of training sessions. I haven't really had a look at the Positioning Games yet, for Stage 2 of a training ground session.

There is a lot of passing with movement, which also incorporates a lot of touches, but not as many touches when players are stationery with a ball.

I've certainly found with 13 and 14 year old rep boys, they don't seem to perceive technique work without movement to be as important. The movement, with players being puffed out, seems to improve training intensity, and, hence, behaviour on the pitch. This is particularly apparent with players who have come back from playing at the higher SAP, Skilleroo or NTC level.

Edited by Decentric: 21/8/2013 10:35:54 AM

Unfortunately, this site has disappeared from the internet.

If anybody downloaded the Ajax/Dutch sessions, the Chelsea sessions and the PSV sessions, I'd love to receive a download via email. I've used quite a number of them on the training track, but it is useful having them to disseminate to other people.

I still have an Arsenal one, but it is a bit blurry.

Some sessions from a random Spanish coach

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lu20cm2lp1e0i5d/Football%20-%20fcbarcelonasessions.pdf

Anyone have the original doco?

One of the docs in that link is the inaugural(outdated) volume of the FFA NC, so if it's okay I'll put up the link to the updated edition:

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/site/_content/document/FFA_National_Curriculum.pdf

Edited by BA81: 22/4/2014 05:19:56 PM

Some I found on SlideShare:

http://www.slideshare.net/valeriyfomenkov/coaching-exercises-josemourinho
http://www.slideshare.net/kgangelov/ajax-15809464

http://www.dakotacc.com/docs/soccer-50-small-sided-games.pdf

Edited by BA81: 16/7/2014 06:33:23 PM

http://www.coaching.3four3.com/

http://coaching.3four3.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Possession-out-of-the-Back.pdf