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For this week we have prepared an exercise for you to finish with a shot on goal. Materials needed: cones, soccer balls. Number of players: 6 - 8 players + 1 goalkeeper. Description of the exercise: Materials placed as in the picture, each player A will have a ball in his possession. Player A passes the ball to player B (1), player B passes the ball to player A (2). Player A comes running towards the ball (I) and passes... Read more

Materials needed: cones, soccer balls. Number of players: 12 - 14 players + 2 goalkeepers. Description of the exercise: Materials placed as in the picture, each player A will have a ball. The exercise will be carried out simultaneously from both directions. Each player A will have a ball in his possession, player A passes the ball to player B (1). Player B passes the ball to player C (2), player C passes the ball... Read more

For this week we have prepared a game on a small pitch. Materials needed : cones, goals, soccer balls. Number of players : 10 + 2 goalkeepers. Description of the exercise: There will be three working zones, the middle zone (possession zone) and the lateral zones (finishing zones). In the middle zone the possession play will take place, when the coach will call the number 1 or 2, the team in possession will try to finish... Read more

We continue the exercise of the week project with an exercise that can be done in the training process to train soccer specific physical preparation. Materials needed: hoops, spiked goalposts, agility ladder, fences, soccer balls Number of players: lot of players. Exercise description: Materials set up as in the picture, four workstations + four squares where 4 vs 1 games will be played. Players will perform: - players A - variations... Read more

Players' trust in their own coach is a very important thing in the good functioning of a team. If the player will feel that he is in "good hands", that he is being coached by a professional in every respect, he will always prepare well and will respect the decisions taken by the coach even if they are not always in his favor. We believe that if you want to gain the trust of your players it is essential that you do not ask them for things that... Read more

The coach of the moment in world football has made a statement about the mistake that new generation coaches make. "The mistake the new generation of coaches is making is to give too much information to the players in the ball game. This takes away creativity. One thing is to indicate to the player the positioning without the ball, there you have to give a lot of information, because without the ball there is concentration, sacrifice and collective... Read more

We propose a training tool made by Xavi Hernandez in the training process of FC Barcelona to train the game in numerical superiority and transition training. Players who are out numbered when they recover the ball try to score as quickly as possible in the side-goals. Those who have lost possession try to block them as quickly as possible. Read more

We believe that the presence of a defensive central midfielder is very important in a team regardless of the system you play in or the style your team has. But compared to football in the past the role of this defensive midfielder has changed a lot, less and less teams use a defensive midfielder in the style of Gennaro Gattuso or Claude Makélélé who had the main task of recovering the ball. In today's... Read more

For a football-specific workout to be successful, it is important that it meets a few conditions. Here are the most important ones: Stimulate intelligence and creativity; To be as varied as possible; Be motivational in order to get players 100% involved in the training process; Have simple rules that are clearly explained; Not to be routine in the training process; The difficulty of the exercises should increase progressively; Be dynamic;... Read more

Next we have prepared a technical test specific to the game of football. Applied regularly to your players you can check their progress. Materials needed: - cones, a gym bench, two balls. Exercise description: Draw a 5 m / 10 m rectangle. On the 10 m side place an overturned gym bench. The player has to send the ball for 30 seconds successively with his back to the gym bench. A net goal is placed behind... Read more

Here's a fun game played by Deportivo de La Coruña in the warm-up part of training. The game is made under the command of coach Borja Jiménez. Read more

Here's a simple exercise from Wolfsburg in the training process for goal kicking training. The exercise is conducted under the direction of trainer Oliver Glasner. Starting from the version in the video above, different variations of the exercise can be performed. Read more

Here's a goal-kicking training exercise Everton did in training. The player who kicks the first ball into the goal receives another ball from the coach or one of the goalkeepers and kicks it into the goal. Read more

For this week we have prepared an exercise that can be used in training sessions to train the goal kick. Materials needed: cones, footballs Number of players: 5 - 7 players + 1 goalkeeper. Description of the exercise: Materials placed as in the picture, players A and C will have balls in their possession. Player A passes the ball to player B (1), player B before receiving the ball runs around the cones (I).... Read more

For this week we propose an exercise for football-specific physical training. Materials needed: - hurdles, speed ladders, fences, hoops. Description of the exercise: Materials laid out as in the figure, the players will perform passing exchanges after which they will work in turns: - jumping over fences; - variations of exercises on the speed ladder; - jumping in circles; - running with added steps between the spiked hurdles.... Read more

For this week a physical training exercise combined with goal kicking. Materials needed - fences, spiked hoops, hoops, speed ladder, soccer balls. Exercise description: Materials laid out as in the picture, player B will have in his possession 4 balls. Player A takes turns running: - jumping over the hoops (I); - variations of speed ladder exercises (II); - running with added steps between the spiked hurdles (III);... Read more

For this week we have prepared an exercise for training the goal kick. Materials needed: - cones, three goals, footballs. Description of the exercise: Each player will have a ball in their possession. The player drives the ball towards the goalposts (1,2,3) and then finishes with a kick at goal (4). The goalkeeper in the first goal where the player has kicked, throws the player a ball from his hand to the next... Read more

This week's exercise of the week is dedicated to physical training, it is performed on half the field. Materials needed: - cones, footballs. Description of the exercise: The exercise consists of two parts. Part I (Lap I) Players will take turns performing: - 3/4 pace running (I); - 2/4 pace running (II); - 3/4 pace running (III); - 2/4 rhythm run (IV); Continuing after the players have... Read more

For this week we have prepared an exercise that can be done in the warm-up part of the training process. Materials needed: - heads, cones, a goal, many balls. Description of the exercise: Materials laid out as in the picture, each player A will have a ball in their possession. Player A passes the ball to player B (1). Player B passes the ball to player C (2). Player C passes the ball to player... Read more

This week's exercise is dedicated to the warm-up part specific to football training. Materials needed: - heads, two speed skates, balls. Description of the exercise: A square will be made out of heads, on two sides of the rhombus a stirrup will be placed on each side. Player A passes the ball to player B (1), then performs variations of exercises from the running school (I). Player B passes the ball... Read more