Training session: 6 February 2018

First training session of the week (Tuesday, February 6th), with my team of U14 (21 available players).

This new training is again dedicated to the main soccer/football duel: the 1 v 1.

The session is organized as follows:

Technical warm-up with alternated dribble and passings inside a three areas space

1 v 1 center duels possession game

10 v 10 + 1 guided match

Final free match

Main objectives of the session are:

Keep the possession; maximum intensity after a first warm-up phase

Speed of play with the ball

Effective 1 v 1 duels

Pressure on the midfielders during the opposition possession phases

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This training session is focused on the effective 1 v 1 duels to keep the team possession of the ball.

The goals of the 1 v 1 of this session are:

to keep the possession against the opposing pressure

to pass toward a teammate

to keep the build up or possession phase.

The 21 available players are divided into 2 groups of 10 and 11 during the two first phases of the session, which are carried out inside the same set-up.

The final guided match has the goal to make the midfielders playing all around 1 v 1 .

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