Soccer-Laduma, August 6 2008 Celebrating 11 years of passion

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45m
LESSON

54 Possession Football O
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This week Ajax Cape Town’s Craig Rosslee O

shows us a possession drill to beef up the skill of O
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your players in passing and moving off the ball. It
will be a high intensity drill and is a great way to O

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