Intercepting soccer drills
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Tactics
Simplified game with three teams: 5 vs 5 and 5 neutral players
25 January, 2023Ball possession - Simplified game 5 vs 5 for ball possession and finishing in numerical superiority -
Tactics
2 vs 1: Pass, losing your marker and positioning
25 January, 20232 versus 1 - Useful drill to train passes, losing your marker and positioning for young soccer players. -
Tactics
Double rectangle: Exit build-up zone for a 1 vs 1 inside finishing zone
19 January, 2023Individual defensive tactical principles - Drill to train the tactical movement of building from the back followed by 1 vs 1 situation inside finishing zone -
Tactics
Themed game: 3 vs 3 with end zones
11 January, 2023Dribbling - Youth Academy game 3 vs 3 with the objective of driving the ball to the end zone -
Technique
2 vs 2 in a square: Training dribbling and ball possession
9 January, 2023Ball possession - Train ball possession and technical gestures (dribbling, pass and oriented control) under pressure -
Technique
3 vs 2: midfielders' decision - Marking up in anticipation and psychokinetic
1 December, 2022Intercepting - Themed game to train defenders' intervention, anticipation and interception capacities against opposing forwards -
Tactics
Threaded pass - Exercise to train movement in depth
28 November, 2022Threaded pass, defense splitting pass - Train in depth attack to finish on goal during a 3 vs 2 situation -
Tactics
Immediate Transition to the Goal
23 November, 2022Transitions - Useful drill to train ball possession during power play and to encourage positive transitions -
Tactics
5 vs 5 match + 4 neutral players with finishing zones
18 October, 2022Switching the attack - 5 vs 5 conditioned game with the support of two neutral players inside a central zone and two finishing zones on the sides -
Tactics
3 vs 1 + 2: put pressure when outnumbered
17 October, 2022Pressure - Train players to defend outnumbered in order to improve pressure