Gaining positional advantage using passing feints (TU 10)

Gaining positional advantage using passing feints (TU 10)

Description:

The key topics of this training unit are passing feints and how to combine them with a breakthrough or a return pass to a teammate. Following a warm-up running exercise, the players already learn how to pass the ball cleverly in a short game; this will be further developed in the ball familiarization phase. In the goalkeeper warm-up shooting exercise, the players practice passing feints in combination with a 1-on-1 breakthrough; in the subsequent series of shots, they combine the passing feint with a return pass to their teammate. Both variants will be implemented twice in the subsequent 1-on-1, 3-on-2, and 4-on-4 games.

The training unit consists of the following key exercises:

- Warm-up/Stretching (individual exercise: 10 minutes/total time: 10 minutes)

- Short game (10/20)

- Ball familiarization (15/35)

- Goalkeeper warm-up shooting (10/45)

- Offense/Series of shots (10/55)

- Offense/Individual (10/65)

- Offense/Small groups (15/80)

- Closing game (10/90)

Training unit total time: 90 min.

Training unit requirements:

Low level (all youth and adult teams)

Publishing information

1st English edition released on 18 Oct 2018

German original edition released on 22 Sep 2014

Published by DV Concept

Editors, design, and layout: Jörg Madinger, Elke Lackner

Proofreading and English translation: Nina-Maria Nahlenz

ISBN: 978-3-95641-276-9

This publication is listed in the catalogue of the German National Library. Please refer to http://dnb.de for bibliographic data.

The work and its components are protected by copyright. No reprinting, photomechanical reproduction, storing or processing in electronic systems without the publisher's written permission.

Key

Cone

Attacking player

Defense player

Ball box

Pole

Equipment required:

- 12 cones (of different color)

- 2 poles

- 2 ball boxes with sufficient number of handballs

TU 10-1 Warm-up/Stretching (10/10)

Setting:

- Position cones of different color outside of the 9-meter zone.

Course:

- Each player has a handball. The players do different exercises with a ball within the 9-meter zone (see below).

- At any point in time, the coach calls out a color (e.g. “blue”).

- This is the sign for the players to dribble around one of the blue cones and then move back into the 9-meter zone.

- The last players must do a short extra task (e.g. jumping jacks, sit-ups, or similar).

Exercises in the 9-meter zone:

- Dribbling with the left/right hand alternately.

- Hopping and dribbling simultaneously.

- Throwing the ball in the air and catch it.

- Hand over the ball through the legs from one side to the other alternately.

Extension:

- Assign words to the individual cones (apple, pear, plum, banana) and call out one of these words instead of a color.