Aerobic training - Match and race between cones
Goal
Equipment
- 2 goals
- 6 cones
- 3 vests
- Balls
Preparation
- Playing area: 45x25 meters / 49x27 yards
- Players: 6 + goalkeepers
- Duration: 14 minutes
- Series: 3 series of 90 seconds each (with 2 minutes of recovery inbetween)
| Summary | Secondary Objectives |
|---|---|
|
3 vs 3 match to train aerobic endurance |
Losing your marker, Pass, Finishing, 3 versus 3, Ball possession |
Organization
Inside a 45x25 meters field place two goals in the middle of short sides. Along each long side place three cones. Goalkeepers defend the goals. Divide six players into two teams.
Description
- Both teams play a regular 3 vs 3 match, trying to keep ball possession and score
- At any time, coach will pronounce a command to indicate that players have to run around a cone and then go back to the game
- Each player turns around a different cone
- The game resumes once players go back to the pitch
- The game lasts 90 seconds, followed by a 2 minutes break
Rules
- Free ball touches
- Team that scores most goals wins
Variations
- Impose man marking (fixed pairs)
- Identify at the beginning the cone for each player
- Introduce a maximum number of ball touches
Coaching Points
- In order to improve aerobic capacity, this drill provides wide race spaces. The game must be properly executed to make sure players work hard to keep possession and score goals under physical stress and with little energy.
- The combination of passes and finishing together with the aerobic part create an exercise that will provide many benefits to players
- Ask players to shoot from far away
- Players have to help eachother, using the goalkeeper to keep ball possession
- Pay attention to acoustic and visual signals
- Goalkeepers can work on stopping techniques
- Goalkeepers help teammates keep ball possession
- Passes must be fast, accurate and on the ground
- Keep intensity high
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