Category: Drills

  • Conditioning

    Picked up from the world of Futsal. Ball goes out of play the team in possession has to bring the ball back into play within 4 second or they have to hand over possession. Encourages quick thinking and impact oppositions ability to regroup and organise.

  • A Poll

    Should Adam Johnson be allowed to play again? — Gillen (@gillenreid) March 6, 2016

  • Maximum Intensity

      Layout – Usually works as a preseason routine, layout markers (yellow) in a triangle shape. Get your players to line up at one corner of the triangle. (blue) Action/Result/Purpose Very simple, one after another flatout for two of the three sided triangle. The third is a slow jog back to where you started, very straightforward…

  • It used to be about pigs…

    As you well know the layout of this routine, set your group out in a circle (red) decent distance beetween each other. 1 ball of course ask the group to start moving the ball beetween each other, gradually picking up the pace to where the players are sharpened up enough to be able to use…

  • Triangular shapes

    A wonderful little routine which covers so many aspects of what you are looking for in a exercise, improving concentration, accuracy of pass under pressure, weight and angle of pass. Select Coerver Passing so view it in all its wonder.

  • SAQ

    Evolution of coaching these days has introduced more and more terminology, a new one is SAQ. Speed agility and quickness. A standardized layout is an ideal option, three channel and split your team into three groups. Use one of the channels for ladders, another of zigzags and last simply quick feet. When time expires everyone…

  • Goalkeeper Footwork

    Coaching Point – An important factor to a goalkeepers development is his footwork, should be second nature to a goalkeeper to have a stable movement. Set out a row of markers (black) Action – Ensure the GK is always looking towards the players (blue), using the channel space to do as each player wishes. Add or…

  • Fun and games…

    A friend from twitter has something lined up for us. Players line up outside 18yd box, 1 player goes in goal, coach plays ball in & 1st player in line shoots first time. If they miss or saved, they go in goal and MUST save next players shot to stay in. If GK saved or scored on…

  • The Dome

      Some thing that would be an interesting idea, Borrusia created something called the robonaut. The way it works is you are given a crisp pass by an automated ball passing machine (if that’s a thing) The pass is direct and authoritative. Your task is to hit one of 64 available panels in the dome…

  • Playlisting

      The classic playlist option from youtube. Which is nice. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpq29-kBzuINJyZf3udQT7r-5sH5Lz4tc