Position Specific – No.10
Overloads Process: The yellows always attack. The whites always defend. The game starts with the keeper releasing an aerial ball to the yellow for a 1v1. Once the 1v1 has finished another yellow plays in to create a 2v1. Once the 2v1 has finished another yellow...
Position Specific – No.4
Movement Process: The yellows attack up the pitch. The whites attack down the pitch. To start with each team must go through the purple player (your no.4) The no.4 must look to always be available within their channel. Progressions: Add a man marker to encourage the...
Position Specific – Wide Players
Transition Process: The yellow winger releases a pass to white player. The white player is effectively a full back. The wingers role is to work back to prevent the white player scoring. Not only can he prevent them scoring, can he regain possession and attack the goal...
Position Specific – Forwards
1v1's Process: The coach plays the ball in to the area. The blue and yellow compete for the ball and try to score. They can score in either goal. That ball is dead once someone scores, the ball leaves the pitch or a player protects/shields the ball. Players are not...
Position Specific – Centre Midfield
Key Passes Process: The yellows play against the whites in the square 3v2. By all means change the numbers to suit your formation. It is important that the yellows always have players in front and behind the whites. At the right time the yellows must try to break the...
Position Specific – Centre Back
Marking Process: The two white players in front of the small goal pass the ball back and fourth to each other. Whilst the ball is moving the yellow defenders must move laterally and mark the mannequin on the correct shoulder. At any time the two whites can hit the...
Position Specific – Full Back
Crossing Process: The FB starts by having 10 quick touches of the ball from the pole to the mannequin. They must move the ball outside the line of their body, like moving in a zig zag. They then play a one two around the mannequin. The delivery must go over the first...
Three former football stars who have made it big in business
When an ex-England and Man Utd defender closed the doors to the Manchester hotel in which he’d allowed homeless people to live free of charge for over three months, it was a timely reminder that, for all his charitable activity, Gary Neville is a businessman at heart....
Random Games With a Twist
Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: Players spend 3 minutes at each pitch. As you can see each pitch is different. On any pitch whoever kicks the ball off the pitch must go and collect the ball....
Forwards Showing In / Out
IN Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: -The whites pass the ball laterally. -As the ball is moving the two defenders also move preventing the whites playing forward into goals. -The blues try to...
In defence of Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool’s Virtuoso Can Turn Things Around
Normal service was gradually beginning to resume at Liverpool for the first few weeks of Jurgen Klopp’s tenure. A sense of excitement had begun to bubble as he arrived into town, and there was a heady air of optimism that this extraordinary, ordinary man could usher...
Every Training Session of 2015
To view or download 'Every Coaching Session of 2015' in a single document - Click Here, or click the image below. 2015 has been another year when we've been able to provide high quality training sessions for grassroots coaches. All free of charge. Louis Lancaster is...
Crackers
Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. Rules: You can have free play or condition the games. All players are numbered 1-8. During play a number leaves the pitch on the coaches command. The number...
Christmas Session
Preparing the Advent calendar Leave all the doors unopened. Slide the chocolate tray out. Remove one chocolate and replace it with a token. Slide the chocolate tray back into the calendar. Individual Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the...
Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City should dream of glory despite “tough” festive calendar
Credit: Flickr Creative Commons/Isriya Paireepairit It’s not every day that Leicester City find themselves top of the Premier League table, although it has happened quite a few times already this season. Manager Claudio Ranieri has masterminded a phenomenal ascent to...
6 Talented Starlets to Watch Out For in 2016
Who is going to be the next big thing in world football? That’s the big question so many people continue to ask year in, year out. With scouts continuing to scour the market for teenage prodigies to shape and mould into professional superstars, there is no short...
Danger – Extremely High Tempo
Set up the three stations as shown in the diagrams suiting the needs of your players. Split all players into two teams. Number all of the players on each team 1-9 etc. Station 1 Numbers 3-9 play in the game . This can be a conditioned game depending on your...
Pre-season Belters
Session 1 Equipment: Set up the area as above suiting the needs of your players. You will need slalom poles. Rules: Divide players into 3 teams. Yellows and whites fight in the middle for 5 minutes. By all means condition the game to maximise the work load. During the...
Express Football Kits – New Delivery Service
Thinking about your club's new kit but worried you won’t receive it in time for the start of the season, or a specific tournament/ event? Here at Discount Football Kits we want your club to receive the lowest possible processing and delivery interval, so you...
1v1 Circuits
Session 1 Equipment: Set up the area as shown on the diagram making sure it suits the needs of your players. You will need football mannequins and football cones. Rules: The player starts the circuit by having 30 touches of the ball in between the red cones trying to...
Jamie Vardy: Striker once deemed too small earning the chance to dwarf his peers
The last time and Englishman nabbed the golden boot, the millennium had just hit, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was the big smash-hit film of the summer, the internet was still really slow and, well, rubbish and this writer had lots of boring homework to get through –...
4 Goals
Session 1 Structure: Adapt size to suit the needs of your players. You can use our football bibs to mark the teams. Rules: Yellows and reds play left to right. Blues and whites play up and down. On the coaches command/whistle the match score in the other goals....
3 Goals
Session 1 Structure: Adapt size to suit the needs of your players . Rules: Whites and blues fight in the middle. Normal football rules apply (offside, corners etc.). To win the game a team must score in the central goal in the usual position. To gain control of the...
2 Goals
Finishing Structure: Set up the area as above, suiting the needs of your players. You can view our range of goalkeeper kits for your keepers. Rules: The blues go through a pass and follow sequence as shown in the diagram. When the last player receives the ball they...
1 Goal
Towards Goal Structure: -Set up the area as above, I usually use the 18 yard box. Rules: -Blues and whites fight in the middle. -Whoever has possession of the ball must lend the ball to the yellows and receive it back. This must be completed every time they regain...
5 Rising Stars to Watch Across Europe this Season
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New Football Mannequins Available
We're pleased to announce that we're now selling football mannequins. To buy these mannequins just click: https://www.discountfootballkits.com/Mannequin Manufactured by Diamond they're robust, durable and easy to transport. They come in junior and senior sizes. Junior...
Misfiring Kane has ability to emulate awe-inspiring 31-goal season
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand, you’ll have noticed that Harry Kane hasn’t exactly enjoyed the best start to the season. In fact, it has been pretty poor by his short-term standards, but it would be naive for anyone to suggest that he doesn’t have the...
No Goals
Session 1 Structure: -Set up the area suiting the needs of the group. Pattern -Blues and whites fight in the middle for possession. -To score a goal the team in possession must get one of their players to drive in to the end zone and attack the defender. They must...
Louis Van Gaal: ‘The Man behind the ‘Philosophy’
Aloysius Paulus Maria Van Gaal. The former Ajax B team player, who enjoyed successful spells in Holland with Sparta Rotterdam and AZ Alkmaar, is now manager of one of the world’s biggest clubs, Manchester United. Van Gaal is a man who has divided opinions with a...