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Soccer Coaches Holiday Coaching Booklet

Sessions and Activities from Across the World

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About the Booklet!

This book contains sessions and activities from soccer coaches and trainers from across the world. The intent is to compile sessions and activities for coaches to share, adapt, and implement.!

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I encourage you to follow all of these contributors as they all add value to the game. Thank you to all of these coaches for allowing us to share their sessions and activities.! Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me to continue developing as a coach. Shout out to our club, Cincinnati United Soccer Club/CUP (@cincyunited), and all of our players, trainers, coaches, directors, parents, referees, and volunteers.! As we tell our players, Every day is another day to get better. Same goes with coaching. Lets keep making players better together!! Happy Holidays!! - Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup!

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! ! Questions? Email me: [email protected]! ! ! Contributors:! !

Jed Davies -- @TPiMBW! Ian Barker @barkernscaa! Tony Mee -- @coachtonymee! Jamie Edwards -- @SoccerResource! Louis Lancaster -- @LouisLancs! Matt Mueller -- @mjmueller0303! David Robertson -- @cincysoccer2307! Wayne Harrison -- @WayneHarrison9!

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Page 4! Page 5-6! Page 7! Page 8-9 ! Page 10! Page 11! Page 12! Page 13! Page 14! Page 15! Page 16! Page 17! Page 20! Page 23! Page 24! Page 25 ! Page 26 ! Page 27 ! Page 28!

Gary Curneen -- @GaryCurneen! ! Zac Crawford -- @zaccraw4d! Jed Davies -- @TPiMBW! ! Tony Mee -- @coachtonymee! Tony Mee -- @coachtonymee! ! ! ! ! Louis Lancaster -- @LouisLancs! !

Topic: Passing Awareness Warm-up! Topic: Passing - Teaching Peeling off Movements! Topic: Playing out of the Back! Topic: Two Small Sided Pressing Games! Topic: Mideld Rotation and Dispersal! Topic: Transition from Mideld to Attack! Topic: 2+2 vs 2+2 SSG; 4v4 + 4 SSG! Topic: Individual and Small Group Attacking! Topic: 3v3+1 and 2v1 Break Away! Topic: 3-Ball Crossing and Finishing Activity! Topic: Transition - Numbers up/numbers down! Topic: Possession, Creating a Rhythm! Topic: Defending 1v1! Topic: Passing Patterns - Flank 1 and 2! Topic: Positional Rotational! Topic: Small Sided Games! Topic: Virginia Passing Pattern! Topic: Juventus FC Warm-Up!

David C. Smith -- @BeastModeSoccer! Topic: Playing Through the Mideld!

Rob Parker -- @goaliecoach00! ! Jose Figueira -- @JoseCoaching! ! Jose Figueira -- @JoseCoaching! ! Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! ! Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! ! ! Jamie Edwards -- @SoccerResource!

Page 18-19! Adrian Parrish -- @as_parrish!

Page 21-22! Matt Mueller -- @mjmueller0303! ! Stevie Grieve -- @Steviegrieve! ! Ian Barker @barkernscaa! !

David Robertson -- @cincysoccer2307! Topic: Adapted Mourinho Pattern to Goal! Wayne Harrison -- @WayneHarrison9! Topic: Possession Game/Movement Away from Ball! Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! ! Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! !

Gary Curneen -- @garycurneen! Assistant Womens Soccer Coach, University of Cincinnati! Topic: Passing Awareness Warm-up!

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Zac Crawford -- @zaccraw4d! Technical Director, Alabama Soccer Association! Topic: Passing Warm-up - Teaching Peeling off Movements!

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Louis Lancaster -- @LouisLancs! Coach and 1 of 16 to be the rst to achieve the Elite Coaching License! Topic: Playing out of the Back!

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Jed Davies -- @TPiMBW! Assistant Manager and Head of Analysis for OUAFC Centaurs! Topic:!

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Two small-sided pressing games to encourage high pressure and set triggers

SSG 1
This small-sided game looks to encourage players to apply high pressure and prevent the opposition any space to pick out a controlled long pass. The concept of applying high pressure to prevent a long forward controlled pass fits in nicely with the idea of pressing high for the first four-six seconds while the rest of your team falls back into their defensive block. In the example given below there are two teams. The goalkeeper for each team must stand at the opposite end of the field to normal and look to catch the long controlled pass that should float into his 6 yard box to collect. For every time you manage to pass the ball into your goalkeepers hands, you get a goal. The rules of the game can be adapted to meet whatever pressing objective you wish to meet that exists within your playing philosophy. If your playing philosophy is: upon losing the ball, your team should drop into their medium block as soon as possible, then the players must understand that the nearest few players must look to prevent the forward pass whilst your team is unorganised, before falling back themselves. If the sentence above fits within your game plan, then you can introduce rules such as the opposition has four seconds to play a long ball and during this time, you must block off all controlled passes forward before dropping off to the agreed line of engagement (the line of engagement may be ten yards inside the opposition half or as part of a low block inside your own half) - there are hundreds of rule-alterations that can be made to bring out different objectives in this game, but the starting point is generally as the game details below. Once the goalkeeper collects the ball in his hands, he must look to play out to the opponent who has found most space - leading to the team intelligently setting traps - anticipating the pass before applying pressure.

The pressing team is given simple instructions that fit within the wider-parameters of pressing during a full-sized game: 1. dont let them turn when they have their back to you, 2. stop crossing coming in and 3. dont give them space to find control.

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This pressing game brings about many facets of the high pressure, lots of possession style of play. The first thing to do is to select two captains who know the names of all the players on the field and to then divide the teams up into two equal teams (outfield).

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The rules are simple and govern the objectives of the game as a result. Once a team makes ten passes of the ball, the captain of that team can call out one of the opposition who must leave the field of play until his team has made contact with the ball (contact not control) - this same rules continues onto the 20th pass and 30th pass and so on. This rule alone forces those without the ball to apply lots of high pressure and those with the ball to try and get lots of passes in with clever movement to create space. The winner is the team that scores more goals over a set period of time (long enough for a team to get tired). Therefore, when youve won possession you have a choice to make do you (a) counter attack to take advantage of winning the ball up high or to take advantage of a unorganised opposition OR do you (b) look to retain possession and build and probe (to rest with the ball). The rules of this game can be altered to meet your own individual objectives within a set playing philosophy. New rules and conditions can be bought in after time to encourage the defending team to drop after a set period of time and not be penalised - to allow the team to act on set triggers you wish to practice as well; alternatively, you can change the rules of the game so that the team that has the ball steals an opponent rather than sends him off the field of play - but understand that this method is more complex than the default method shown in the diagram below.

David Copeland Smith -- @BeastModeSoccer! Director, Beast Mode Soccer -- www.beastmodesoccer.com! Topic: Playing Through the Mideld!

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Tony Mee -- @coachtonymee! Academy Manager, York City Football Club!

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Tony Mee -- @coachtonymee! Academy Manager, York City Football Club!

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Rob Parker -- @goaliecoach00! Goalkeeper Coach, College Coach, NSCAA 30 Under 30 Mentor! Topic: 2+2 vs 2+2 SSG; 4v4 + 4 SSG!

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Jose Figueira -- @JoseCoaching! Coach, New York Red Bulls Academy! Topic: Individual and Small Group Attacking!

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Jose Figueira -- @JoseCoaching! Coach, New York Red Bulls Academy! Topic: 3v3+1 and 2v1 Break Away!

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Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! CUP Youth Director of Coaching, Cincinnati United Soccer Club -- @cincyunited! Topic: 3-Ball Crossing and Finishing Activity!

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Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! CUP Youth Director of Coaching, Cincinnati United Soccer Club -- @cincyunited! Topic: Attacking and Defending in Numbers Up/Down -- Transitions!

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Adrian Parrish -- @as_parrish! Technical Director, Kentucky Youth Soccer Association! Topic: Possession, Creating a Rhythm!

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Jamie Edwards -- @SoccerResource! Creator of Players Eye/Coach at New York Red Bulls Academy! Topic: Defending 1v1!

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Matt Mueller -- @mjmueller0303! St. Louis Scott Gallagher Girls Youth Director U11-U12! Topic: Passing Patterns - Flank 1 and 2!

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David Robertson -- @cincysoccer2307! Staff Coach, Cincinnati United Soccer Club/CUP -- @cincyunited! Topic: Adapted Mourinho Pattern to Goal!

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Stevie Grieve -- @Steviegrieve! Head of Coach Education for BBFS (India)2424 " " ! Topic: Positional Rotation!

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Wayne Harrison -- @WayneHarrison9! San Diego Surf Soccer, Boys Academy Director! Topic: Possession Game and Movement Away from Ball!

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Ian Barker @barkernscaa! Director of Coaching Education, NSCAA @nscaa! Topic: Small Sided Games!

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Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! CUP Youth Director of Coaching, Cincinnati United Soccer Club -- @cincyunited! Topic: Virginia Passing Pattern (Developed by University of Virginia Women)!

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Bobby Puppione -- @bobbypup! CUP Youth Director of Coaching, Cincinnati United Soccer Club -- @cincyunited! Topic: Juventus FC Warm-Up (As seen prior to a Summer 2013 Match)!

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Thank you for downloading the book and for sharing ! with others. Be sure to follow all of the ! contributors from this book.!

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Happy Holidays and Best Wishes in 2014!!

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