- Topic
- Focus
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- Coach
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- Ball Control and Footwork
- Compactness
- Control & Restraint
- Counter Attacking
- Cover & Balance
- Creating Space
- Creativity
- Crossing & Finishing
- Delay
- Goalkeeping
- Heading
- Low Block
- Movement
- Overloads
- Passing
- Penetration
- Playing out from the back
- Possession
- Pressing
- Shooting
- Skills
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- Support Play
- Turning
Possession Soccer Drills
Knowing what to do with the ball once you have it is a vital skill when developing players. Different situations require different abilities and decisions to not only hold the ball but progress the play. All your players should be comfortable with the ball at their feet and understand how to get the ball back when it is lost.
Use the possession drills on Cupello to give your players the confidence to hold the ball and use it in ways that will help the team. Coach them vital skills for controlling the ball, distributing it, and understanding how to efficiently win it back.
Effective possession will turn your side into a feared, well-organised team.
Soccer Coaching Tips
Four Zones With A Switch
This activity is a possession game with switches of play through the zones inclu...
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Transition Rondo
This is all about the decision making of the players when the team is in possess...
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Develop Possession With Build-up Play
This activity is all about building up play from the goalkeeper and the centre b...
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Stop And Score
Players must learn to move so they are open for pass – here players pass and r...
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Free
Switching Play Away From Pressure
This drill allows players to identify and move the ball away from pressure, rewa...
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5v5 Structured Play
This is a high intensity game with a simple object – get the ball from the goa...
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Scanning and Awareness SSG
Frank O'Brien, Academy Player Development Officer at Chelsea Football Club says:...
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Scanning and Awareness
Players have to keep their heads up to check the colours of the player that they...
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5v5+3 Turn Defence Into Attack
In this drill teams can turn defence into attack by winning the ball in the cent...
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Free
Combination Play: Through Midfield
BY CHARLIE POMROY The space in midfield is usually limited and players are press...
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Playing forward – Team battles
It is important players find ways to keep possession and look for opportunities ...
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Pass, Pass, Score
When teams are in possession, they need to have good support around the ball so ...
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Keep the Ball
To maintain possession players need to be comfortable on the ball and aware of s...
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Know When and How to Press
In this pressing session players aggressively press to win the ball back quickly...
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Build and Create the Attack
Creating practices which replicate what players will face on game day will help ...
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Pass or Dribble in End Zones
Creating drills which allow for lots of touches on the ball and provide decision...
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7v7 to 9v9: 3v2+1 into 5v5+2
In this 7v7 to 9v9 transition players work in Rondo games to keep possession und...
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Split the Opposition
Finding ways to split the opposition and break lines, is a way to break down the...
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7v7 to 9v9: 4v4 +4
Working in overloads this is a great possession game which gets teams to keep po...
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7v7 to 9v9: 3v3 +3 in Boxes
This drill works on players receiving the ball and having to make quick decision...
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