CONTROL SHOOTING PASSING DRIBBLING TURNING HEADING CREATE SPACE INDIVIDUAL DEFENDING SUPPORT PLAY GOALKEEPING CROSSING TACKLING THE THROW IN ATTACKING SET PLAYS DEFENDING SET PLAYS THE FREE KICK

CREATING SPACE

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A basic introduction   Cross over runs  The Overlap   Creating Space 1 and 2    Creating Space 3    Creating Space 4    Creating Space 5    Creating Space 6    Creating Space 7   Creating Space 8   Creating Space 9   Creating Space for Junior Players    Creating Space for Junior Players 2    Creating Space for Junior Players 3

CREATING SPACE FOR JUNIOR PLAYERS

Junior players who may have problems with earlier practices will need something more basic.

In this exercise 3 teams of 3 players, playing in an area approximately 15x20 metres (coaches can vary numbers and size of the area).

Each team has a football and they manoeuvre around the area trying to pass the ball between each other, without colliding into any other player or any other football.

Coaches can insist on two-touch only, i.e. first touch to either pass on first time or to control but the second touch must be a pass on to a colleague.

Coaches should also insist that players are not too close to colleagues and that all the area is used.

To make it competitive, the first team to make 10 passes wins – of course all three players must be involved in the sequence.

Senior players do use this practice in professional clubs mainly at a high technical rate, and it can be used as a ‘warm up’ drill as well.