Soccer-Laduma, August 6 2008
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LESSON
54 Possession Football
Brett Evans Ajax Cape Town left back
Organizing the drill:
Diagram A
• Place eight attacking players on the
field as shown in Diagram A.
• Place four defending players at one
of the corners of the practice area
as shown in Diagram A.
• Place a ball at the feet of one of the
attacking players in the practice
area.
Practising the drill:
Diagram B
• The drill starts off with the coach
blowing the whistle to allow the
attacking players to start passing
the ball around in the practice area.
• The four defending players at the
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This week Ajax Cape Town’s Craig Rosslee O
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your players in passing and moving off the ball. It
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same time run into the practice area four. (Some players will get a
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to try and gain possession of the chance to rest at this point.)
ball from the attacking players.
• The object of the drill is to see how Variation of the drill: X X
long the attacking team can keep • Allow the players only two touches X
possession of the ball. The coach to increase the speed of the drill.
must time the drill. • Reduce the size of the playing area X
• The drill restarts when the attacking to increase the difficulty for the X
team loses possession or the ball is attacking team. X
kicked out of the field of play.
• The attacking team will have five Coach’s Note X
restarts before swapping positions O O
The coach must time how long the X
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with the defending team. attacking team keeps possession C
over the five restarts. It becomes a
Diagram C competition between the two teams. DIAGRAM KEY:
• The teams now swap roles, the Speed, accuracy and movement off Ball
defending team must increase their the ball are critical in keeping posses- Movement of ball
numbers to eight and the attacking sion.
Movement of player
team must reduce their numbers to
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Cones